The Dawson journal., 1886-04-08
OVERHEARD


The maiden was his daughter
He overheard their soft good by,
And said, GIVE caught a Ia ia"
They kissed. Then said the prying pa:
at is no serious matter;
They're lovers and their kisses are
OF course the cream of Ia ta."
Johnny stole one pancake, and
got six spank aches without steal
ing.
Nine times out of ten, the wo-
mln who is worth her weight in
gold marries a man who is not
worth his weight in scrap iron.
A fashion paper says that wo-
men are going to wear their hair
the same rs they did three centu-
ries ago. That was, if we recol-
lect, on their heads.
A Philadelphia girl declined to
'kiss the book" before a Phila-
delpnia magistrate, saying: EThe
witness who kissed it before me
had sore lips and the one who
came before him chewed tobacco.
l will not kiss the book"
A Kansas boy carmel a nice Bi-
bic by committing ten hundred
verses to memory, and then he
traded his Bible for a shot gun
and he accidentally shot his aunt
in the leg.
When he was young man he
rushed into a burning building
and gallantly dragged her out by
the hair of her head. They were
marie ] the next winter and now
she rushes in and drags him out
by the hair of his head whenever
she feels like it. Such is true
love.
"Where do you expect to 90
when you die?" asked the deacon
of the newspaper reporter, who
had been carrying on just awful.
81 don't know where l shall put
up" replied the young man, "hut
as | suppose [ shall have compli-
mentary tickets to both places, l
may alternate according to the
weather"
An audacious young man put
his arm around a young woman
who sat in the same pew with him
during service In the United
Brethren church at Fort Wayne
on Sunday night, and kissed her.
She was SO pleased that she
laughed right out in meeting, and
Others joined with her. These
young people are to be indicted
for disturbing a religious meet
ing.
Bobby was awake when his
mother returned home from the
theatre at midnight. "Did you
say your prayers to nurse, Bob
by?,' she asked, obs fore you went
to bed?' "No," he said sleepily,
81 forgot it" "Well, you had
better come and say them to me
now." "What," said Bobby, in
drowsy astonishment, "does God
stay up all night?"
Judge Clark, on his way to Ok
ford court, was conveyed from his
place through the country in q
light hack, driven by. a colored
man. The driver drew the Judge
into conversation, in which the
latter got off good thing, so we
are informed. The driver, not
knowing the Judge, inquired:
"Is you a drummerY Some
what in that line," replied his
Honor. "What is your line?'
persisted the oolored individual.
Drumming for the State peni-
tentlary,' was the reply.-North
Carolina Gold Leaf.
a negro girl about IA years Of
age fell in a ditch at Render
mill, about one mile from Green.
vile. Friday evening and broke
her neck. A singular thing abour
the accident is that the ditch il
only about two feet deep.
Salvation Oil does not simpl,
assaage pain; but, by quiokl,
finding its way to the seat Of tn,
disease allays the swelling and in
fammation, and, by removing th,
cause Of the disease effects a per
manent cure. Price twenty-fy,
cents a bottle.
la Alpharetta the other day
mule fell in an old we'll WheI