The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-01-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

| Brother Peters-'I sawyo at church, dis mawn-
| in, uucle Rastus.n
| Brother Peters-"What does yo' think OBJ de
1 new minister?'
not a berry profoun' man. His eloquenshal efforts
| wah pow'ful huff, an his salmon wah forpibul,
| but he am not a profoun man. His disclose
seemed ter be permeated wifi saggerated liberul-
| ism, so to speak, an though it wah not neider
atheisticul nor immitsticul, de null tone wan m
| imicul ter de underneath doctrines OBJ 'lgion,
or wo'ds ter dat effeek. He am not very pro-
| foun man, Brudder Peters"
Women with pale, colorless faces who feel weak
ana discouraged will receive both mental and bod
| lily vgor by using Carriers Iron Pills, which are
made for the blood, nerves and complexion.
A peculiar black paper of Siam and Burmah,
made from the bark OF certain trees, is used very
| much as are states in Europe and America. The
writing upon it may be rubbed out by the applica-
ton of betal leaves, Just as the slate writing is
| erased by means of sponge.
Railway men are beginning to condemn the To-
| connective headlight which, by the. way, is not in
use in Europe. They say that it is OF little or no
utility and its powerful illumination tends TO rem
| tracks ahead.
Clipped from Canada PfeS6yteTid1s, under sig
nature of c. Blaekett Robinson, Propr.: I was
dock Blood Bitters.
For the comfort of children who know what it
is to be clustered, this is the laughable reply of
a very bright and accomplished lady teacher who
was passing purely formal examination in phys
iology. Where is the amentary canal?" was
Really was the pleasant reply, II forget
whether it is in Indianapolis or Illinois,
EJohnny Dust after Sunday SCHOOL, "Say, Jack,
what is a sockdolager?"
Jack-"Why don't you know? It's what they
singin church when they get ready to go home.
The minister gets up and says; Let us now sing
thesockdolager.'
The medicinal and pharmaceutical professions
indorse Cogan's Taffy Tolu and use it freely in
their families. They know it to be healthful.
Afflicted husband lin the editorial room)-
tThere, that's a beautiful story about my wife.
Oh it's so kind of you, sir and 1 shan't forget it
soon. 1t reads just like poem. Er-er, say-er,
can't you change it a little-the second line
"Editor-"oh yes. I'll put anything you want
in there"
Helen Louise, and so FORTH and so forth, wife of
Thomas Wrench-who keeps the dandy bakery of
this town, and where fresh yeast can be had each
hour-passed into rest,' and so forth-you under
stand. You'll do it? All right! Good-by'
Pain from Indigestion dyspepsia, and too hearty
eating is relieved at by taking one of Carters
Little Liver Pills Immediately after dinner Don't
forget this.
Young aIligators are raised and tanned for North
ern visitors by Sanford (Fla.) man, who finds it
quite a lucrative business. He has now hundred
of the animals under training, and reports that
his sales last season would have been five times
thatnumber could he have procured the algators.
We are continually making excuses about the
inheritance of vices When is the time to fright
about face" if not the golden now? If one has a
weedy garden, mourning over the unregenerate
mother earth won't mend the matter. We must
out with the weeds--Esther I. Housh.
was in a very bad condition with rheumatic
pains and was constantly growing worse. After
taking Athlophoros was free from pain in TWEEN
ty-four hours and seven bottles cured me. think
Your medicine an infallible remedy. ID. G. STRAIT
ton, New London, CT.
Men OF gift are to be admired. Senator Malone
of Virginia is one of them. Grit has won him all
his victories. He weighs only 100 pounds, but 90
of that is solid backbone, Ii there is anything IN
God Almghty's world that despise it is man
with little old cotton string for a backbone with
a couple of ribs sewed to it. Judas Iscariot be-