Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-04-26
PUNGENT POINTS.

There is considerable d Inference be-
tween II punny poem and funny po-
EN-. One is and the other ism t-NeW
York Graphic.
There is so much chin music among
the pugilists nowadays that it would he
good idea to settle all future prize
tights by arbitration. p ttSbnrgb Post
If liquor should be sold at the com.
ing dog show would the dispenser of
guilds be called whine clerk or "a
bark keeperP- Boston Commercial Bat'-
ieLin.
Don't size up q man by the thickness
of his roll. He may have n 50 bill of
uncertain pedigree wrapped around
section of rag-carpet.-PhtIadeLpht
CAL
DR.. Hammond says that death is not
a necessity. But people will go right
on using it just the same, some as Il
convenience and others as luxury
BufdiO Express.
Utah is knocking loudly for adms-
sion into the union. Nothing should
avail except n ticket inscribed rs were
Artemus Wards free passes to his
lecture on the MormOns-"Adnlitb bear
or and one wife. - Teas SUttRgS.
Johnnie, what business do YOU ex.
pect 10 engage in when you are q
man?" oh. I'll be colonel like pop
and wr te articles about the late war. "
But on won't be able to; you never
saw the late war;" Neither did pop"
-LincOLH Journal.
The campaign song has already be.
gun to make its polka-dot appearance
in the pages Of the American press.
Pretty soon the baleful straw-voto iiend
will break into publicity. and then the
question Of whether life is worth living
will possess new importance. RtIa-
dolphin Press.
III have to ask You for an increase
ia my salary" said Pittsburgh clerk
to his employer this morning. "Why,
YOU had an advance the first OF the
year" Il know; but you see my wifo
is attending some cooking lectures and
cooking according to recipes. PITS.
burgh Chronicle Telegraph
If Sullivan had knocked Mitchell on,
in thrly-eight rounds the American
people could have stood it, as delicate
compliment TO tho thirty-eight states OF
the union; but the ev dcnce goes to
show that it was not until the last mo-
ment Sullivan realized that Dakota was
still out in the cold Peoria TrGHS-
cyipt.
A Washington belle who went west
to teach the Young Indian idea how to
shoot is to marry one of her buck pu-
pills. BY the time she is drawing fire
wood for the fam ~ tepee. with u pa
poosc or two strapped to her back. she
will realize that the noble red man
lives only in Cooper's novels. -!corta
Transcript
A New York ocul'st says that what
is known us the cigarette eye" is be.
coming common. It's symptoms arc
dimncSs caused by fIm-like gathering
over the iris and pupil which appears
and disappears at intervals. Only
igarette-smokers are troubled with it
If not arrested blindness becomes in
evitablc. - Cincinnati Times.
Extract from current novel: "And
when Godfrey discovered the ominous
words Danger! BewareH it seemed
that he would turn TO stone" God.
frey was evidently good man and
tried TO obey the injunction to beware.
1t was easier to be stoneware than any
other kind; though, if he was rs big q
blockhead as most novel heroes, he
might have become woodenware.
Bingbdmton Republican.
MY beloved brethren" announced
n preacher from his pulpit, ION Sab
bath morning next n collection will be
taken up for our blessed FIJI mission"
'Amen!" rang fervently through tho
congregation. "And l would ado"
went on the preacher imprcssivcly.
''that amens, however resonant and
sincere make but little ratio in the
contribution-box. Let MS unite in
prayer. "-NeIO York Sun.