Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-01
BRIGHT BITS.

WELL, how were the ladies dressed?" was
asked at one of the clubs of q member who
had Just come in from very fashionable
dinner party. "My dear fellow" he replied,
81 really don't know. The fact is. didn't
think OF looking under the abe."-E5chdnge.
BEG your pardon, SIR" said the gentle
manly usher at the theatre. "but your seat is
in the front row." Glow did you know that"
asked the astonished bald headed man, with
out seeing my check?' "YOu forget" replied
the usher, that you have your hat of!'-B0s-
ton Transcript.
EIGHTY FIVE able-bodied men passed
bricklayers on the way to points South, but
the Riel reason of their escapade from
Canada may possibly be their anxiety to get
out of the cbilhness Of Northwest draft
50. AbGqaS { tJ Messenger.
Col. HORN, the Mississippi editor who
asked for the pardon OF Jefferson Davis. ex-
plains, under the Indictment of singing re-
Dukes from both South and North, that the idea
OF the petition 'came as mesmerc influence
comes such influences sometimes come
when there is more than four fingers in a
hOrn.-St. Louis Republican.
A THEATRICAL MANAGER saws about the
proper pronunciation Of the word drama:
ut depends upon what part of the country
one Is in. In Boston ] call it drawmah, in
New Ork drahma, in Philadelphia DRAMA in
Chicago drammer, but in ST. Louis. in order
to make myself solid with the citizens, have
to talk about the draymy. LINN Bee.
81 TELL YOU shall do as pleasew shouted
Mrs. Milf ''Weu well, nv dear. didn'tsav
you couldn't" replied Mr.. Milf. "And you
can't stop mel 81 didn't say I could. my
dear" you'd better not try!!n Indeed
indeed. my dear, WON'T That's Just all
such brute cares about his Wife!!!I" And
Mrs. Milf prepared to cry her eyes out.
A LITTLE girl, aged 4, was sitting with
doll in her lap and basin of water by her
side. ''What are you gong to do with the
dOlyP' said the mother. 'Christen her."
II - 4
at christening returned the mother, sit is a
sacred subject" ''Then IN vaccinate her
mamma; that is not a sacred subject. "-L0H-
don Truth.
YOUNG DoCTOR-'Well, I am lust about
discouraged. was NOT fit for this profession,
anyway" Old doctor-''I am sorry to hear
that. You have evidently had some bad
luck" ~ should say go. How | am to win
back confidence | don't know" made a
wrong diagnosis, suppOseg' Yes; | SAID a
rich patient Of mine could not live. and he's
gone and got well. -PAilGdeyDhia CAL.
A MARSHAL gallant. grand and tall
A figure fit to move a stole
About to meet the fatal ball,
Unblenchng barred his breast heroic.
But why that elder day recall?
We surely haven't retrograded.
FAR woman now for every ball
UnfInChing bares-aye, more than Ney did.
-Ne1o York SIN.
THE editor of the New Orleans State is
grleyed at a picture of himself which ap-
peared in a recent number of the Graphic
and says it looks ''like a first-cass IDIOT" In
asmUch as the picture IS reproduction, line
for line, wrinkle for wrinkle and hair for hair,
Of photograph of the gentleman, it seems to
us that the fault lies not at all with the
Graphic, but with the gentleman himself, or,
perhaps, to be strictly just, with the AL
mighty. Let us suggest one thing to our as
thetic friend-the next time he wants hand
some picture let him get some other man to
tit for him.-Neto York Graphic.
MAMMA" said little girl, "alnt Fannie
Jones papa a Knight Templar, and doesn't he
go to the lodge sOmCtimes"
ayes. Mary"
And doesn't my papa 50 to the lodge good
deal. tOO?"
"Ycs."
"Is he Knight Templar, too?"
"No dear"
why, mamma. that's funny. Isn't he some
kind of a kniehtP'
Yes. dear"
"What kind. mammal"
every night. dear"
That was all there was, but when the little
girl told her little girl companions. and they
told their mammas, there was a greal deal
more to it.-AercRdnt TrdDeIier.