The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08
She stood beside the summer sea
AZ radiant - the morn;
read In her enraptured eyes
That love was born.
She crouehed beside the winter seA
As though all hope had ned;
saw within her haggcred eyss
That love was dead.
-WINjmm H. HeunG

-" Have a smoke, Simpson," said bis
friend, az he passed out fragrant Ha-
| vana.
"No. thank you, I've sworn Off
well, pat one in your pocket TO smoke
to-morrow."-Hartford Post.
=" How is this, my son? You write
and tell me you're up and dressed every
morning in time to see the sun rise, while
the president Informs me that you lie in
bed till nine O'Clock, and after''
Well, You see, father, the sun rises
till noon out here"
,.-General Bragg. who left for Mexico
last week, carried with him o., 900 worth
of supplies, etc. This is the maximum
amount Of minister's property sdmissa-
bic without duty. Flour is said to be
$40 barrel in Mexico, and other things
are proportionately high, and the General
thinks it is economy to buy in this coun-
try.
! Omaha mother-Where is Mr.. Nice
fellow?
Lovely daughter (sitting alone) Gone
home.
Home? It's only O'Clock"
I" Yes. He asked me TOTO marry him.
and-and l said No. and-and he went
right off-boo booi boo Omaha
World
-Jones-Hello, Bill hear you have
position with my friends, Skinner d
Co.?
Bill-Oh, yes have position as COL
lector there.
Jones-That's first-rate. Who recon-
mended you?
BiIl-Oh, nobody. told them that I
once collected bill from you, and they
Instantly gave me the place.-J,Aqe.
-"GIadys, DEAR" he uurmured, at
love you madly, devotedly. Will you be
mine p
"Oh, George" she stammered, "this is
sudden, so unexpected. IL"
"Chestnuts |" he muttered under his
breath, but she heard him.
Yes, 1t is" she said, "and you may
give the bell ring" as she held out her
hand
He did. 1t was a solitaire.
81 don't see why you should sneer AZ
my engagement rlng," said the fair girl
with flush of indignation on her cheek,
as she faced the belle of the opposition
town; its great deal prettier than the
one you wore three years ago, and haven't
worn sincei"
No, DEAR" replied her friend, with q
cool, far-away look in her voice "not
Prettier, but quite as pretty. 1t is the
same ring" PUCK.
Smith Where is that promising SON
of yours?
Brown-Joe is at home.
Smith-He was studying at Yale. was
he not?
Brownies, and he is stadying yet.
Smith, What is he studying?
Brown-The want column in the news
papers. He is looking out for position
as Janltor or porter in q store Texas
SJtings.
Burt was IL ye.rs old. He came
home from Sunday school one day, and
said he had taught a class of little boys.
What possessed you to do such a
thing ?" asked his mother.
"Oh, | got along first rate. They be-
didn't quitit would lick every Last one
OF them when Sunday school went out.
The superintendent said it was the stillest
class there as."-DstroI Free Press
When Sidney Smith saw Daniel Web
ster in England he remarked: Heav-
ens he is walking cathedral" The
same thought seems to have been sug-
gested to William III. Seward. He was
one day discussing the relative merits of
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, and
said: "They could no more be impaired
than a Grecian temple to q Gothic
church." Seward is said to have had q
great objection to equestrian statues, on
the ground that the horse was more promI-
nent than the man.-Nep York Press.
=" No, George, you know am not So
very extravagant."
81 know, but haven't you got bonne,s
enough ?"
"They're all out of style, want fash
ionable bonnet, that's all. don't want
the earth, George dear, merely fashion
able bonnet"
"Well, if can't afford 10 buy fash
ionabls bonnet from your milliner, would
you Try and be conteuted with the earth.
Merchant TraUeler.
They were in the midst of an anim.-
ted discussion upon the new code, and Tn
debate was plentifully bespnnkled wi
those flowers of rhetoric which usually
characterize pothouse oratory.
I'll lay twenty to one Pm right"
raved the chief spouter, "and can prov
it. What did Judge Duffy say the other
day?"
There was momentary pause, and
then there arose q one-eyed man in the
corner, who replied simply yet forcibly:
&c don't know what he said the other
day. The last time l saw him he said
Two months,
-"Joseph," said the merchant to the
bright young man with the best of refer
ences, the book-keeper tells me you
have lost the key of the safe, and he can
not get at his books" ayes, sir, on,. of
them; you gave me two, you remember"
A" Yes, L had duplicates made in case oi
accident. And the other oue?" "Oh,
sir, l took good care of that l was
afraid might lose one of them, you
know" "And is the other all right %
" Yes, sir, put it where there Is no
danger Of its being lost. 1t IL in the safe,
sir."-Boston Transcript.
-"And so Tom has got home from
college, Mr.. Bigbee? understand he is
quite linguistr'
" He's the bose linguist,' remarked old
Bigbee, but not proudly; ~he fingers
down town till two o'clock In the morn
ing. and he linges in bed till noon, aud
he hnDere ut the tabla lono after avery