The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-17
Current Wit.

| current W.T.
Next to having her young man
Come to see her Thursday evening, a
| girl likes best to stand on the side
walk and look at the engagement
rings shown in a first-class jewelers.
window,
She was doing the driving about
the parks, and her husband was taxi
ing his ease, when she sweetly obs
served: 'Ilike to drive YOU around"
But she started d little and gave HIM
an ominoiis glance when he cody re-
sponded: Yes. | know you do:''
Il know we are poor, dear papa,"
said Evelyn, Nesting her head against
his shoulders, ''but Ethalstane Il
brave and hopeful, and he says that
love will make a way" 81 know it
WILL" said old Hyson, grimly; it's
made away with six tons of parlor
coal and $22 worth of gas since
Christmas, and it's next winter that's
worrying me. "-Burdette.
Hon. fgnatius Donnelly has con-
sented to ruin for Govern or of Mime,
sofa on the Labor ticket: The next
great work to which his able cryptic
gram will be applied will be to show
by the returns that he is elected
Lowell Courier:
Doctor: "Well, my dear sir, what
seems to be the seat ofyour disease?"
Patient: at doesn't seem to have
any seat. doctor. cts jumping up
and down all the while"
4 handsome Profit.-Aunt Emily:
"Why do do you think you will be a
doctor, Bobby, when you grow up?"
Bobby: Because | swallowed a ten
cent piece the other day aud the
doctor charged pa two dollars for
curing me. That's good business"
Epoch.
Arthur [ who had been listening
with breathless interest to one of
grandpapa's bible stories-"And were
you in the Ark, grandpa, along with
Noah and all the rest of emp;
Grandpa Indignantly - "No, sir:
certainly mott" Arthur "Then how
is it you wasn't drowned?" - New
York Tribune.
Jinks was a young man who had
been married year, and he was tell
ing a friend how different he was
when single. "Were you much en-
barrassed when yon popped the
barassed? Well, I should say l was
I owed 81, 500 for board and clothes
and one thing or other, and didn't
have a darned cent to pay it with"
Texas Siftings.
Young Lady, to cigar dealer)-
"Have you the Fragrant brand of
cigars, .sir?" Dealer-"Yes, miss"
Young Lady-"How much are theya
box?" Dealer-"One dollar and a
half a box, miss; 100 in a box"
Young Lady-"You may give me
box, please. They are a present for
my-my cousin; I've often heard him
say how fond he is of q fragrant
Havana. New York Sun.
A lot of calves careering in a past
ure do not fulfill the idea ofthe poetry
of motion, but they give q man an
opportunity to "see the veals go
round"
We notice that a waterspout burst
in Kentucky the other day. A water
spout that would go into business in
Kentucky might expect to burst
with no assets.
Probably the reason why women's
teeth decay sooner than mems is not
the perpetual friction of their
tongues upon the pearl, but rather
the intense sweetness of their lips.
Husband ION his way to church,
"I'll just skip on ahead my dear, and
get some change. I've nothing less
than one dollar, and that's too much
to give" Wife Ton his overtaking
her)-"Did youget the bill changed?"
Husband-"Yes. Wife" You will
contribute half a dollar, John?"
Husband-''I can't very well now,
happened to meet three or four friends,
and I've only got quarter left.,'