The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-12
PITH AND POINT.

PITH AND POINT.
The flower of the family you often
find becomes college bred.-Yoskers
Statesman.
Il think I'll give this country the
shake" remarked the malaria as it pre-
pared for business. - Washington Critic.
The bachelor may lead life full of
~. but you can't convince any old
maid of it.-Boston Journal Of EducG-
tion.
The umbrella that would protect the
modern hustle should have sugar.
scoop attachment Richmond Dis
patch
The more the administration forces
the treasury surplus down the more
the Cleveland stock goes up.-NeUars
Neys.
A baby-carriage on the pavement
takes up more room than a blackboard
wagon on the prairie. Macon TeLe-
graph.
The best mixer in the world is n
| calf What is needed is patent to get
the milk out of the caif.-AkG Cali
fornia.
No good man can be expected to
stand quietly by and hear his grand
fathers clock run down.-Neso Orleans
Rcayune.
The man who wants the earth is in
no hurry about the six feet of it that
he is most likely to inherit.-Sprtng-
field Union.
Belle Boyd is lecturing out west on
the civil war. 1t was rather uncivil to
Belle. if we remember rightly. y.---Bos-
| ton Herald.
Women folks who are turning bald
or gray will wear their big hats at the
theater this season, as usuaL-Rbila-
delphia Press.
Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee,
used to be fiddler, but now that he is
governor he is also a violinist.-St.
Joseph Gazette.
That gifted South Carolina boy who
feeds upon gravel will be a man of a
good deal of sand if he grows up
New York sam.
| The labor and money expended in
hanging the Chicago anarchists will be
invested with profit to the country
Lafayette Journal.
The happiest men in the world just
now are those who are getting ready
to play star parts in autumn weddings.
baltimore american.
The Kansas druggist who has been
fined several thousand dollars will re-
move his soda-fountain TO Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Jour,aak.
| The new umbrella has a matchbox
in the handle. Many nice parasols are
mere matchmaking devices them.
selves. Detroit Free Press
Jay Gould has only been across the
ocean once in his tempestuous life.
When he wanted water he put it into
his stocks. ttsburgh Post.
The onion crop has failed in New
England. They who have tears to
shed should wait until next year.-Cin-
cia'aati Commercial Gazette.
The reason why old King Kalakaua is
unlike the flowers that bloom in the
spring is because he has something to
do with the k's.-Peoria Press.
This being progressive age, in time
accomplishment than robbing a rail-
|
The visitor to Chicago whose pocket
was picked of 1000 in theater there
may have had his gaze fixed on the bal
let.-LonisUilie Coftrier-sJournaL
The man who can buy the most with
20 cents is likely to come out ahead in
the race of life. He gains on the quar-.
ter stretch. Washington Critic
If Shakespeare could have foreseen
what an everlasting racket those PLAYS
would kick up he would never have
written them. Times.
| Since the duke of Argyll refused to
come up to the scratch on the Irish
question the Scotchmen have stopped
blessing the duke of Argyll. Detroit
Free Press.
Some people do not seem to care to
make the neighborhood in which they
live picturesque. If they did they
would go away.-Boston Journal of
Education.
1t is our humble opinion that man
who has to hustle around and support
wife and eleven children ought to be
excused from kissing them. m.-Burling.
ton Free Press.
Senator Hawley is to marry q pro-
fessional nurse. 1t will make no differ
ence then whether the native wooden
nutmeg agrees with him or not.-Nena-
phis Avalanche.
The news that an Oregon man has
been shot in mistake for bear indi-
Gates that the hunting season in the
webfoot state is still in its prime San
Francisco Post.
| If Henry George had bought few
acres in Omaha when he was young
his theory about s'unearned in
crement' would never have been for
mulated.- Omaha World.
A gentleman engaged in the rubber
overshoe business recently remarked
that two qualities of goods are now
manufactured-''thc bad and the d-n
bad. "-Hartford Coarant.
| The French princes have been so
often expelled from France that il
would seem they could save money bv
making themselves permanently sell
dom. Menaphis Avalanche.
| A critic. Mary Ann, is party who
reads your book. your story, or your
poem, and then kindly sits down and
tolls you how he would have written it
If he had been you.-NashCilla An,eri.
can.
| Cut rates for the transportation OF
dressed beef are announced. Our
eastern friends may be able to indulge
in steak again without mortgaging
all their property to obtain it, On,aha
Bee.
>D-s-
| Encouraging the Lad.
| The wealthy and penurious old gen.