The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-06
BRIGHT BITS.

MINISTER PHELPS has a paper in the Nine
teenh Century on the constitution or the United
State.
HIeGfxs- Spent last evening with Brown Aw-
fully jolly fellow-loves to crack joke.
Wigg1ns-f you'd heard bis yarns as often as
have you'd say he loved TO crack chestnuts.-
Jttdge.
SOME one asks. "Does it pay TO be goods Per
maps our evidence IN the matter VIII not be
taken and so we will not answer the question
directly, but we will say that it is good TO be
paid.-LOlCeu Citizen.
MoTHER-Yo ought TO be kinder TO Mr..
Goodey. Clara. He is very well off, and, as re-
CARDS habits is a model in every way
Clara-That' S just the trouble, mamma. He
hasn't a single redeeming vice.-LUe.
IL doctors office-"I can't exactly explain
my symptoms. doctor. Although there is
general feeling of weakness and WEAKNESS, |
have an unaccountabe itching in my legs, as if
| wanted to be in notion"
Oh l see; you are a bank cashier. Judge.
"AsD so your dear husband has gone to
| heaven -
Well, can't say positively to that. He
| didn't let on where he was going. guess he
! thought it best to keep sort o quiet or some of
| his creditors might get on his tracks. Boston
| Transcript.
Il HEAR that Foreman is going to be married.
| Have you seen the lady? ?"
| oh, yes indeed ] know her very well"
''Do you? And what kind of a looking person
| is she Prepossessing, eh =
| Hardly that. Purse possessing should call
her. boston Transcript
THAT man over yonder is leading support
for Mime Mysteries the tragedienne," said the
| oracle to friend.
you mistake, think, 3" was the reply. 'She
supp rts him" ~
oh, no; he's the husband n'-Detroit Free
| Press
! YOUNG LADY dcily)-You are on my train, sir.
| Can you not see!
Gentleman (humbly)-Pardon me; l was
blinded by your beauty.
Young Lady (sweetlyl-Do not permit me to
incommode you sir 1t is nothing | assure you.
| Moral: Truth may be mighty, but an agree
able lie gets there all the same.-BinghGmtOn
! Republican.
| "YoUNG GENTLEMEN" said her papa, stepping
| to the front door and addressing party of four
| serenaders, II am passionately fond of music,
| but my passion sometimes crystallizes in the
| form of shotgun, especially after midnight.
| So if you will just move around the corner,
| where you will find vacant lot and an echo,
| you will greatly oblige all the members of the
| family, and possibly escape an epidemic of lead
| poisoning. Burlington Free Press.
| II WAS somewhat intoxicated, I confess " said
the prisoner to the Arizona Justice of the Peace
when the officers found me in the store of the
| prosecuting witness at midnight but the only
| whisky had drank some l got at your
| Honor's saloon, and ="
| "Your Honor" hastily said the Prosecuting
| Attorney business partner of the court, there
| seems to be no evidence against the defendant |
| move TO dismiss the case. "-Chtcd0O Tribune.
''WHY is it," asked of the blizzard.
| Your track is so capricious and wild?
Your movements the sage weather prophet
| No more can predict than Child
II am trying TO hunt down the fellow
He screeched with Wild pitiess laughter,
| "Who said this would be a warm winter
| He's the slippery villain I'm after
Chicago Tribune