Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
PITH AND POINT.

Ladies who never owned one, now
60 into crowded drug stores and say
"Please give me twenty-five cents
worth of camphor to pack away my
sealskin sacque in. "-Philadelphaa Call.
Glass shingles are soon to SUPER
sede the old wooden kind, and parents
can then see Just when to leave. off
spanking, without having to let up three
or four times during the operation.-|
Burlington Free Press. !
Charles Montague de Poorville-i
Will you tell your sister I am hereP|
Maud-Well, I'd like to o5lige you. only
she's in the back parlor with Mr.. Back4
elor Crpsus, andmamma says if l inter4
rupt them [ must go to bed without my
supper.-LJe. !
-sDo you suppose eating angel cake
will make an angel of &c? 2" asked a
seraphic young lady of the worldly
young man. sI've no doubt it will, Il.
he answered, 'if you will only eat
enough of it." Then she giegled, and
said, ''Why?"-LoweU Cassen. :
1t win hold in check the rush of
lecturers to our Shores. let the idea COM
tinue to prevail in England that outside
the city limits of New York and Boston
the people live by hunting the wild
beasts OF the forests, and that among
them the coonskipS and wolf scalpa
are used for currently Chicago Is1nesj
-"How, poorly you look, Octave.
men OF to-day are feeble. Look at rae;
L am thirty or forty years older than
you, and 1 am as solid as an oak.
obol1 1.-Two 100 1-oo,r1 - tk(N ,,o1o1 L.,A
can you speak so to your heir:9 You
find only disagreeable things to say to
me!"-FrencA paper.
There is a dreadful rumor abroad
that Barnum has purchased the Bar
tholdi statue, and will place it on q
chariot drawn by thirty-five elephants!
To what chase" uses may a statue
come at last, a ter being unable to Sc:
cure a base! But we don't believe
Barnum would take such liberties with
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Herald.
Plantation Philosophy: Oar am
nuthin' much sadder dan de acks oh a
a coward what is tryin' ter make folks
think dat he is a fighter. Nuthin'
pleases a ole niger oman so much as
fur a pusson ter tell her dat de rem,
edies what she has recommended hah
helped him. Use looked eroun' ober
dis lam a heap, an eff Use eber foun'
any use fur de grasshopper I doan
know it, but den l doan know dat de
grasshopper hab eber foun' any use fur
.me.-ArxansaW 1raUetler.
In the midst of the loud hum and
buzz OF a sol al gathering uptown ono
day t"is week, an mpudent fellow sud
denly called Out, "-.ow let's al StOD,
catch our breaths, and go ahead for the
rest of the evening telling nothing but
truthful stories and t ings." One of
those present, in describing it after
wards, said: son count Of this un-
seemly interruption the conversation
entirely stopped, a silence fell on the
company AID the party soon dis
persed." IN Y. Commercial AdUer-.
taser.
Important to smokers: An Austin
tohacconist complained bitterly to Gil,
hooley about a box O. cigars tn t had
been stolen from the establishment.
81 don t see what you ase SO distressed
about. If it was anything else but
cigars you might go on that way. but
the cigars are all right" How are
they all rignt3" "Well, you see those
cigars are found to come to light.
sooner or later and ten all you will
have to do will be to come Onward and
claim your property" The disguised
tobacconist said he could not sec it IN
that light-Ie11s S!itiings.