Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-09-07
HUM0R OF THE DAY.
Over the range-Thc cook.

over the range Inc COOK.
A good deal-A pat hand.
High rent-A hole in the top of your
hat.
a slow match-Four years of court
ship.
How to cut a person-Look daggcrs at
him.
A tragedienne's hair is composed of
actresses.
A pin can generally be relied upon to
carry its point.
1t is no easy thing to put a full stop to
the girl of the period.
1t is the counterfeiter who always
"pays a man in his own COIN
y very poor oil, and one that should
never be used at home, is turmoil
The dearest oh ect to man should be
his wife, but it is not unfrequently her
clothes.
The baker, strange to say, more than
any other man kneads bread. b nghan-
ton Republican.
A man who is hung IS usually cool. 1t
is the fellow that is guillotined that
loses his head.
We are all creatures of habit, especially
the girls who are out horseback riding.
--ROchester Post.
Mrs. Hammersly is not a peerless
beauty since she married her duke
PittSJurg Chronicle.
There is something of the vegetable
about an epitaph. 1t is tomb motto
Pitts6urg Chronicle.
There is some similarity between the
burglar and the negro minstrel. The
c%o Of 10 Of led
ment Of gags.
A young lady attending balls and par
ties should have female chaperon until
she Is able to call some other chap her
own.-ToLedo Blade.
NJ. Floquct is a much smarter man than
Boulanger. He contrived not only to
steal march on the General but to
steel his neck also. -Siftings.
There is only the difference of an $50
between woman's weakness and mans
weakness. One is gossip and the other
is go sip Washington critic.
An Anatomical Match. THAT is what
the Harvard boys called it, when DR..
Thomas Mason had become engaged to
Miss Anna Lathrop.-4AaU and brpresS-
Editor Swift was a man of thrift
And married his proofreader Nellie;
Now he does up the current news
And she the currant Jelly.
-Sprtnqfeld Union.
GLOW do you suppose Mr.. Poorcase
manages to get diamonds for his WIFE"
asked lady Of her husband. "Oh, buys
them by the quartz, | presume"
Thrift Highlander de had struck
his foot against ''stane'D -''rhew-ts
-E-eh what a ding ma puir butt wad a
getten if ID had it on! '-PuHch.
In the summer when we get a taste OF equa-
torial weather,
Ice cream saloons are places where the girls
delight to gather.
-Boston Courier.
The man who says he will welcome
death as a release from life made up
of sorrow, generally SENDS for four doc
tors when he has the collie. -NebraskG
State J0u9nai
A young girl in Ty Ty, Ga, seized an
axe and pat two tramps to flight. Our
suffering contributor thinks she would
be "a gug-good girl to Ty-Ty to-
Norristolcn HrIid.
There are no flies on me-" he cried,
In tones of confident warning.
But he pitched his tune in different key
At five o clock in the morning.
-Udshia!ton Critic.
Swinburne is indignant because Of the
current story to the effect that he is so
intensely literary that when he goes fish
ing he declines to use anything but book
worms for bait-Nelo J 0rk Sun.
Ragged Urchin TO druggists clerk)-
''Pa has TOKEN a dose of that linny-
munt you gin him, an he's cortn' and
sneeZin 1T to bust hissclf, an he says
he's coming to knock merry blazes out
y you; so gimme a nickel an run fer
your life "-Lite.
The bodies of sixteen Chinese
Are homeward bound over the seas;
If the live ones would skip
On a similar trip,
New y DIRK would be more at its
--Siftings.
Omaha Man - "Think Mountain
County is going to be rich section