Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-05
BRIGHT BITs.

"To Avoid Seasickness" Is a headline IN an
exchange One good way Is to avoid the sea.
AN Iowa girl has an album in which she
keeps pictures of AL the young men who have
hirted with her without coming To the point.
She calls it her rogues' gallery
A sHBEwD Louisville girl hurried up things
wonderfully by assuring her young mau that
she despised those females who continue TO
eat ice cream after they have married.
CouyjeT-J0UrndI
"WHo goes there?" asks sentinel at
Peekskil. "O0cer of the day" is the reply.
"Well," asks the sentinel, with fatherly in
dlgnatiOn, 'what are you doing out at this
time OF nght?-6raDhic.
If THE whipping post is to be set up in
American small boy. Whist HIS mamma
doesn't give him now, the sheriff will deal
him by-and- by.-L0uis0tte Courier-Jouna1
40 you know man by the name OF Lee
glon"' inquired Dunley Of friend. lie
gion2 No, never heard Of him." jenkins
told me last night that had been called the
biggest fool-jacSass on earth, and when de-
manded the mans name he said it was Lee
gion. I'm looking for hun. '-Puct.
ABooK on etiquette advises; "Never inter
rUpt any conversation, but wait patiently
until your turn comes to speak" The book
agent who handles this book has the bulge on
the world. She can come into your Office un-
announced, take a seat unlimited. and talk
you to death under the ruies.-Ne10 orleans
Picdl1tHe.
pa aaid Johnny Caution, "do lawyers
wear armor2n mo; of course not. What
put such an idea into your hesds" 'Why, ]
see in the papers every dav that LAWYERS file
their suits. and f." The reader viii appre-
Ciate the delioacy which impes to change
the conversation and not 50 out into the
wOodshed with the rest of the party.-PtttS-
burg CbrONtcle.
Poor young artist displaying a picture)-
That 10 an exact copy, madame, of Raphael 8
Madonna which. you will remem her, sold
for sl25,00O Madame-"Andsh how much do
YOU ask for this plcture2" Poor Young artist
Two dollars and a quarter" Madame
what is the cause Of such a wide difference
/ in price," Poor young artist-"COmpe petition,
madame. The business is not what IL used TO
/ be- EScbdn0e.
/ OLD MRS. BENNINGTON--Did ye find out how
/ Mrs. Brown IS gittlN' on? heerd she's very
/ sick. OLD Mr. BenEing on-I saw the doctor
| as he was dr.vin along to day, an he said she
/ shuhied of mortal coil last night. I s'pose
/ i'm do her good to get rid Of It,. Old Mrs.
! Bennmgton-Drat these new tangled doctors,
! they can't talk noJhln' but Latin. The poor
! soul may be worse. III try an git over there
myseN this atternOOn.-ETcAdage.
THE little breeze at Concord, Mass. over the
alleged immortality in Mark Twain's latest
! book has swollen into Il blast IN Boston, and
/ has Wept from the Public Library the work
of Fielding, SmOllett, Sterne aud Balzac
| This Is too sweeping altogether. Fielding Waf
/ the admitted master and model Of Thackerav
though he buided largely upon Balzac, and
| the " Orks of SmOllett and Sterne are English
| classics without which M library, public OF
| private, is complete. Boston boys and girls
who have been properly brought up. and who
are old enough to read the best literature in
their own language, will be benefited rather
| than harmed by the books which the fastidi.
| GUS library trustees have taboOed. The com
mittee, by the by, must know considerabl,
less of human nature than they 90 OF the ia.
booed hooks. If they do not know that theii
prOhibt0ry action will wonderfully stimulate
the reading Of the same, aud the Boston book
sellers no doubt VIII duly appreciate the samt
| prohibition.