The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
r PARAGRAPHS.

A kno,ty piece of timber must
have smooth wedges.
None but the brave deserve the
fair And even the brave can't live
with some of em.-Life.
1T is proposed to discard the use of
rivets for steam boilers and to weld
them instead by electricity.
District messenger boys grow up
to be good and useful men. They are
never fast.-N. o. Picayune.
1T is one of the distressing anoma-
lies of modern life that the man who
can't sing does sing.-Burlington Free
Press.
Hell wash my hands of you for
ever" She-'.And let me suggest,
George. that you also change your
cuffs. Huntington Free Press.
About the only difference between
boodler and thief is that one holds
public office of trust and the other is
too decent and consistent to push HIM
self in politics Detroit Free Press.
-Deacon-'I was terribly shocked.
my dear, to discover on my way home
from church match game of baseball
being played on the vacant lot near the
park Wife - - Was it that which
makes you so late, deacOn?" -EpOch.
-Cabby (who has received his cor
rect fare) Call Yourself gentleman?
Why, keeps a better looking gentle
man than you to black my boots" Fare
Pity you don't keep another TO wash
your facet" Pick Me Up.
1t has always been observed in
public bodies that married men are in
variably the best debaters. They may
not have chance to talk much al
home, but they have unexampled OPP
portunities to observe and learn.
Somerville journal.
Glass in Physiology-''Will some
member of the class explain how we
hear things?" Bright Sprig- Some
body tells pa something down town,
then pa tells it ma as a profound Sc
cret, then ma tel lis it at the sewing So
ciety meeting, and then we all hear it.
Omaha World.
-Rosalie-.Did you have a nice
time at Mrs. Ferguson's the other ev-
eningP" Mabel-''O, delightful! But
such awfully homely girls as were
therer' Rosalie-.'So Mr.. Symmetry
was telling me; he said there wasn't
decent looking one in the room. Chi
cago News.
SO much reiteratiOn of the time
hOnOred statement that matches are
made in heaven often leads to the sus-
picion, in view of many recent mar
riages. that Lucifer has crept back,
'unbeknowst, into the celestial
sphere, where he is once more setting
matrimonial matters at skies and sew
ems, after his reputed ancient custom.
M. Deauregard, an eminent Egypt
ologist, believes that Egypt at the time
of the Pharaohs exhibited the mixed
condition of combining the use of fir,
implements with acquaintance with IT,
means of extracting copper and blenu-
ing it with other metals.
Why is a negroes skull harder and
thicker than white mans? HerOdO-
tus explained it by attributing it TO the
early exposure of African children to
the heat OF the sun; and Prof. Virchow,
after his trip up the Nile, sides with
the Greek historian.
satisfactory tests have been made
of the new liquid. pyrodene. which
renders wood, textile fabrics, and such
infiammable materials tireproof. The
liquid. which is an English invention, is
made of all cOlOrs, so as to be used as
a substitute for paint, and is claimed
to render houses entirely fireproof.
Doors are now made of two thick
paper boards nodded into panels and
glazed together with glue and potash,
and put through a heavy rolling pro-
cess. Covered with waterproof coat
ing, they are hung like wooden doors,
and are both beautiful and serviceable.