Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-07
BRIGHT BITS.

THE revised version will, no doubt, have a
great effect on modern sheology.-Puc6.
SIT is really wonderful to see how well the
men keep STEP He-Bah, that is nothing !!
When | was a soldier | used to keep step bet
ter than all the rest put together"-Ld Vs-
dettg.
FRIEND-'You don't mean osay you under
stand French, Tommy" Tommy-"Oh, yes,
| do; for when pa and ma speak French at
tea | know I'm to have powder. "-E1-
change.
"Is land high in Vermont" asked a specu-
latOr of an old Green Mountain farmer
"You just bet il ISL was the reply. ''If the
trees wasn't so stunted the clouds couldn't
get by at all"
AN up-couutry editor in Pennsylvania.
writing about Victor RUgO, said he was the
author of Lees Miserabes, ''a very graphic
description of the surrender at Appomattox. :"
Chicago Herald.
ELLEN TERRY, the actress, has had three
eX-husbands, ana expects to marry again.
ms ought 10 set forever at rest the state
ment that men are not appreciated as much
as they used to be.-Pucb.
AN Arizona man has stopped taking an
agricultural paper. He wrote to the editor
asking how to get rid of gnats The answer
came IN the next issue of the paper, "Kill
em."-Neeo York Tribune.
SULLIVAN COUNTY MAN caught a nine
pound trout and while ID mida1r it was seized
by hawk and carried OFF with the fly AID
nttY teet OF line. such little difficulty as
fixing the weight of a fish before it i landed
can't swerve II Sullivan county liar from ms
duty.-Bin0AGn Record.
THE Riverside Parallel Biblen is an
nounced, the old and new versions being
printed side by side in parallel columns. Que
might suppooe that the execution wrought
last fall during the campaign by the ''deadIy
parallel columns would deter publisher
from engaging in such an enterprise. Norris
tOlcR Herald.
80, say; MA"' exclaimed bright little girl
at the Hoffman House while at dinner. ''hasn t
that man over there got awful big ears?"
Hush, child! the gentleman gnt hear
you" cautioned the mother.
well, ma" TetOrted the precocious young
ster, IF he couldn't hear me with those ears
he ought to haul EN- down "-NeL0 York
journal.
FULL many a flower is born to blush I'M
SEEM" oh, no, Ariadne, not much 1t isn't,
unless the flower is quite conscious that some
body is looking at il, IL does not waste ITS
time in idle blusnes. 1t attends strictly to
business, holds up its head and briskly asks
the next bee that comes along to step in and
examine its new stock of domestics and i'm
ported pollen before purchasing else where
BWrdett.
Mrs. Mlnks-There it is again. Tobacco,
always tobacco. What will you do when you
get to heaven, where there are no spittO0ns?
Mr.. MInks-Perhaps there will be some
Mrs. Minks-Indeed there won't. The idea!
What will you do then, MIR. Minks? Just an
swer that.
Mr.. Minks-I really don't know, my dear,
unless we can get seats near the edgc.-Phila-
detDAid CAL.
IN the Bernese Oberiand a parrot one day
made Is escape and perched on the rain
trough OF farm house in the neghbOrhood.
The farmer, who had probably never been out
Of his native village, brought lauder to cap
EtF0llUn h.an hn no a
reached the Top and was reaching out his
hand, the parrot called out: what do you
want? What DO you wantf" The astonlshed
peasant at once took of his cap and SAID: 30,
| beg your pardon, thought you were a
birdW -Nitsethsitt.
"WHY, am 30 delighted to see YOU" was
the cordial welcome. And You have your
new brocadeG mantle" Yes, Cicely, dear.
thought might as well. on haven't yours
yet, believe Miner No, indeed. | read
they were going out OF style As rapidly as au-
tumr leaves" "Then | should think you
would have one. You know you always buy
ON a falling market" Thus il is that femi-
ninity has Its little ''set-to aud they arc
really enjoy able-tO the one that gets the best
OF it.-Hartf0rd Post.