Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-29
PEPPERMINT DROPS.

Don't praise the physician be fore the bill
comes in.
The railroads are beginning the year with
a bad wreckord.
A man is known great deal nowadays by
his real estate deeds.
The older we grow tho more we see how
little other people know
II is an easy thing to be Il philosopher, but
it is hard to make it pay.
1t requires some nerve to have the courage
of another mans convictions
Nothing vivdly reminds us of the brev-
ity OF life as thirty-day note.
The pen is mighty engine, and it some
times runs away with the engineer.
Some people go to Florida to spend the
winter-and all they can make in summer
The ice crop in the upper part of the state
it is thought, has been touched by the frost.
If low associations corrupt good morals, our
therm ometer has got to elevate itsclfsor
"gitn
There is more difference between cheap
talk and free speech than some people seem
to suppose.
A new industry is making whisky from old
rags. AS whisky makes rags, this is a sort of
reciprocity.
The reason why soC!e people never grow
old is because taey do all their growing when
they are young
When fire in the kitchen stove goes out
it often leaves undone those things which it
should have done.
We don't see what hope Dakota has of get
ting into the union after starting that last
blizzard on its way.
Solomon, when he gave his famous iudg-
mcnt was the first man who ever proposed
| to split the difference.
1t is as dangerous to interfere between
phiianthropist and his philanthropy as be-
tween dog and its bone.
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| is on par with the fellow who refuses to eat
| because his stomach is empty.
a great many inventions are being made to
| kill people easily, but what Is worse wanted
| is something that will enable us all to live
| easily.
We are informed that Russia will not take
| the initiative. 1t is certainly reassuring to
| know that there is something that Russia
does not want.
| ''Too much absorbed in his business, twas
| the comment of Il newspaper on the death of
| II brewer who was found drowned in tank
| of his own beer
| Some people are passionately fond of
| doughnuts. Others never cat any part of the
! doughnut except the hole. These people sell
dom have dyspepsia.
1t is said that Jay Gould enjoyed the novel
| sensation of short balloon trip in Paris.
| He's got the earth, and he probably went up
| to take a look ut the sky.
| ''Do not laugh at the antics of your cat
| said Michel de Moutaigne, the great philo-
sohic essayist 'for aught you can tell, he
| may be laughing at you"
| 1t is a singular fact that when two young
| men meet they address each other, "HoW are
| you, old man"' and that when two old fel-
lows meet they say, "My boy"
| 'You can live within your income if you
try" says the wise man. Yes, but how to
| live without an income IL the puzzle that
| bothers great many good men Just now
tit,, IN, ,ia Il
that they think they can plant handful of
seed in a snowdrift and gather carload of
Strawberries the day after the first thaw
Discretion is defined as that part of valor
| which enables one to keep safe distance be-
| tween oneself ana trouble. Policemen mani
| fest its possession in a most unusual degree.
sportsman is a man who spends all day
| away from his business, - for shot and pow
| der and comes home at night tired, hungry
! and ugly, dragging II cent rabbit by the
| ears.
1t is about an even thing between man and
| tho orange peel Sometimes the man throws
the orange peel into the gutter, and some
times the orange peel throws the man into
| the gutter.
The withdrawal of William Andrew Jack
son Sparks and Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus
Lamar we're inclined to believe must leave
the interior department almost without an
| alphabet.
|. How is that feud between Colonel Blood
and Major bluegrass getting on! Are theS
| as bitter ever.n "Oh, no; the whole thin Z
is happily ended" I'm glad to hear that ,
"Yes, they killed each other"
| The newest entertainment in fashionable
| society in Washington is 'soiree hypno
tique." The host and the guests all mesmer
| ize one another and then imagine that they
| are having the best time on record.
! There are shrewd, careful men in this coun
| try who are bound to crowd the weak to the
! wall. One of them bought Horace Greeley's
autograph at q sale the other day, and within
half an hour bulldozed a Chinese laundrymar
into delivering six shirts and a dozen collars
for it.
Undue exposure To cold winds, rain
bright light or malaria, may bring on
inflammation and soreness Of tic eyes
DR.. j. H. Mclean . strengthening Eye
Salve -ni subdue the inflammation
! cool and soothe the nerves, anC
strengthen weak and failing Eye Sight
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