The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-04
BRIGHT BITS.

A BLIND fortune teller is advertised in one
OF our exchanges, but now can a blind man be
a good seer f-Bost0a Bulletin.
WHILE other sections OF the country have oc
caSonal cold weather at this season, Arkansas
always has Hot Springs -Puck.
MAKE your wife cry once a fortnight" says
a doctor, and she'll be healthy" Yes, exceed
ingly healthy; but the probability is that you
won't.-Jttdge.
WELL, Miss Oldbelle, which part of the ship
do you like best ~
Why: He, he, he The companionway, of
course. OCEAN
FIRST LUNCH FIENn-Wot are you doin' with
that bologna?
Second Ditto-Peelin' the bark often it. Dye
think m going to take any chances of ketchin'
the hydrophoby? Phi'cdelpbiG Call.
DoCToR who finds a tramp grooming by the
roadSde)-What is the matter with you?
Trfinp (dOlefully)- system is all run down
Doctor-By what?
Tramp-By a dog burlington Free Press.
is the proprietor of this hotel profane as
ever" inquired pious patron of the clerk.
"Oh, no; he's sworn off forever"
Indeed! Has he Joined the church,"
tai
Nor 100 miles from Boston lives an energetic
farmer and milk peddler. The day before Fast
day he was married. Fast day morning he car
ried his bride to the railroad station on his milk
wagon, and babe her an affectionate adieu as
she started on her three weeks wedding jour
ney alone.-BOs on TrGUeLer
81 ADOPTED THAT BOY, =" h. sail with the tears
running down his face II took him out of the
workhouse when he was q lad, and kept him
and fed him for nine years, and he's paid me
back by running off with my wife. Gentlemen"
he continued, wipng his face TN stand you q
bottle of wine. You don't often meet with graf
itude in this world. but a kind act is sure to
bring its own reward. I've sent him a check for
S5O0.-ErchGr1ge.
TIE sympathetic editor of a Kentucky paper
writes as follows of a friend I'VE by a
private letter that our old friend and former CO.
laborer, W. T. Finn, has been lynched bya lot
of frolicsome fellows over in Hansen county.
II is putty bad fur Teller to be Snatched off
from his usefulness in this way. Finn was a
gentlemanly fellow, and we are sorry to know
that he fell in such bad company. 1t may be
possible that he stole the horse, but he no doubt
did it In fun. He was great joker, and often
took things just to show that he was in a merry
mood This thing of snatchin' Teller up and
hangin' him is getting TO be serious business.
There was time when it didn't amount to
much but times have changed. The spirit Of
fun is not as broad as it used to be.-ArkarSutC
Traveller.
HE DIDN'T APPRECIATE SCIENCE.-Mr.. Cou-
leur-de Rose enthusiastically Wonderful
period we are living in! wonderful Look at the
progress we are making in the arts and sciences,
everything
Mr. Go slow (doubtfully)-Y
Take electricity, for instance"
81 prefer not to take it. Somebody takes it
nearly every day in New York and elsewhere,
through the electric-light wires, and they never
I take anything afterward, not even their
breath"
See what natural gas is doing for usr'
II see accounts of its doings in the papers. 1t
blows up houses and factories, and doesn't even
spare cathedrals."
What power, too, dynamite has become"
at has, indeed. 1t had enough power to
blow up two trains In collision the other day.
and kill a lot of passengers So If you travel
and miss being blown 10 on a train. Won are
liable to be if you stop in city that uses natural
gas. Escaping that. you may get your quietus
from an electric-light wire that drops on you in
the street. Science and discovery be hanged. :"
Couleur-de-R Rose walked away quite disguised
with Il man who couldn't appreciate the adj
vancement of science-TcrdS SiftingS.