Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-15
BRIGHT BITS.
AS the warm weather strengthens, the
Numbers face lengthens.

AS the warm weather strengthens, the
plumbers face lengthens.
AN AWKWARD COMPLIMENT: Lieutenant to
elderly lady Mevrouw madam really to-
day YOU look as fresh and blooming as rose
of twenty years. "-ReSt0cerb0ssche C0Wrdnt
I'm on the sea. I'm on the scar roared a
bad singer. YOU'RE not" cried musical
punster IN the company. ~ on would be on
the { if you sang in tune, but you are on the
Hat"
THERE are said to be 10000 roller skating
Kinks in the United states. We don't see
what this country needs OF any more matrl-
monial agencies, then. Young people OF both
sexes fall together so easily in skating rlnhs,
YOU know.-Lo1ceU CtftzeA.
A CONNECTICUT FARMER lost an eye and
had his Jaw broken in recent encounter with
a COW, and what hurts MS ieeIlnGs worse imam
an was the fact that his neighbOrs wouldn't
believe that it wasn't the result OF being hen
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
A SCOTCH FARMER determined, in spite Of
the bad times, to pay his rent If 1t were his
last shilling, and saying to the landlord who
received it, at is my last shilling" he threw
down roll of notes. The landlord counted
them and said: ''There is ESQ too much"
"Odds, man." said the farmer, "Iput my hand
on the wrong pouch. N-Netcdrk Ne1cs.
OK FREEDOM
ssWhen freedom from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard 10 the breeze"
She knew not TennysOn would write
such miserable lines as these,
And send them out INTO the world,
or she'd have kept her standard furled.
Boston Courier.
A s1ERGyMAN in Durham. England, some
short time since taught an old man in his
parish 10 read, and found MIN an apt pupil.
After his lessons were finished he was not
able to call for some time. and when he did
only found the wife at home. ''How is john"
said he. "Iew does he get on with his read
ingS1 .sOh. nicely, sir" "Ah, | suppose
he'll read his Bible very comfortably now?"
"Biblc, sir. Bless you, he was out OF the
Bible and into the newspapers long ago.
FIRST MANUFACTURER-s'I hear that you
are going to start your wooden mills again. 1t
can't be true. is it," Second Manufacturer
"Indeed it is. l expect to run them night and
day right along w he s on must t nave
exactly. But there is going to be an enormous
demand for wooden fabrics, and / want to be
prepared" "YOu don't say SOL Why, on
what do you base your belef:" Ear NUNS
have become popular in St. Louis. "-PhiIa-
delphid Gail.
AN old Texan. being asked to describe
norther. said; ssI'H tell you what it is,
stranger norther puts in the quickest work
of anything you ever saw. L GU see that iake
down there pointing TO DeauthuI Lake
about a mile Distant last spring, IN the lat
ter part of March, ] was fishing IN tne AFTER
noon. The sun was shining, ana II was az
warm almost as the middle of summer. Inc
usn were JUN ping up All over tno AahO, az
they were biting splendidly. a shade came
suddenly over the lake, and L Thought L smelt
a strange smell that often preeedes norther.
| Immediately turned away from the lake and
looked toward the northwest, and l saw
small, dark cloud passing like lightning, and
/ knew / must hurry home. After looking
short time at the cloud. turned and looked
at the lake, when, to my astonisment, the lake
was frozen over, and many fish were lying on
top of the ice. The fish had jumped up, and
the lake had frozen ever SO quick they could
not get back. Stranger, may be you think