Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-12
PITII AND POINT.

Cut glass--Glaziers.
Live longest in this world-Tall men,
Always raising cane-Cuban planters.
Pays in the long run--A successful
play.
Goes Off mad-The dog with hydro
phobia.
a naval engagement Popping tho
question Mt sea. TIM.
Polish helps man in society, but not
when it is on his oat-Boston Courier.
The tailor who goes sleigh riding al
ways takes cutter. -MercIant TauSeler.
A child is spoiled when he is Young
a fish is spoiled when it is old.-Statcs-
man.
The Germans have great deal of ter.
rltory,. but they want Samoa. -Boston
Foreign visitor-.What is your
national Iower2" Minneapolis Belle
"Wheat"
Patti says plenty of sleep is the secret
OF preserving ones beauty. The hired
girl believes this.
A man convinced (by his wife) against
his VII, is of the some opinion Still
mighty still.-Lifc.
Most of the Americans who settle in
Canada forget to settle here before they
go there. Boston Courier.
Some of the candidates for missions
will get them, while others will get
omissions.-Pi:fs,ury Chronicle.
When some men draw up a note they
have to draw it up as small as possible
before any one will take it.-Si. tings.
Perhaps the most potential letter of
the alphabet is IN" because it can make
man OF ma.-Bin hampson Republican.
-Four hunters fire simultaneously at a
rabbit that keeps on running and they
ask altogether: 81 wonder who missed
that time
Superstition is ridiculous, OF course :;
but what man would not think it luckier
to receive twenty dollars week instead
of thirteen!
Explorer Stanley has evidently found
himself He should now tic a string
around his little finger, SO as to rcmem
Der where he is.-h0chest = PJst.
The man who could ii 70 ould but won';
Bestow on his wife dime,
Is the man who would il he could but can't
Get married n second time.
Time
The man who was caught CARRYING
away the planks of the sidewalk for lire,
wood excus- d himself ON the ground
that his doctor had ordered him to take
walk every day.-BIston Courier.
Oh, to sit by the stove with
~ maiden trim and neat!
Marriage may be failure
But courtship's hours ire sweet,
Boston Courier.
''Poor little boy" she said sympathcti-
you lose your little arm?" "No'm," lie
replied, tearfully. 81 picked it up after
the snash-up. and dad, he had it buried.n
Time.
Aspiring Autho---"Of course YOU are
tond OF poetry, are you not, Miss Whip
perly." Miss Whippcrly-"My maid is,
believe; but let us talk of something
serious; tell me all about the entries for
the dog show. "-L5e.
TREY CONE HIGH
The roses that bloom in the winter
May be within reach of the rich
But they're rather too high for the follow
Who's neither wizard nor witch
-NetD York Journal
a contemporary heads an item sIron
Works Under the Hammer" We would
very much like to see iron work either
under The hammer or out from under
the hammer. Iron never works when il
can help ito hestr Post.
she-''Don't you think YOU had bet
ter get shine? Your shoes are very
dingy." Iie-"Why, they don't need
it; they are patent leather" Shc-"The
patent must have expired; you had let
ter get it renewed. '-L1n,lon TIL Bits.
sFortune knocks once at each mans door.n
III we're inc incl to Doubt.
On il SHE ever Knocked at ours
we certainly were out.
Boston Couri-r.
81 shall be dead at just four o'clock
the afternoon OF July :, 1889, predicted
a young man last January, on tho
strength of dream he had. July . he
married red headed widow with two
children, and July I, just at four o'clock
he was-not dead, but he wished he was.
-Drake's Magasine.
Oh, woman, in our hours OF ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And always in the wrong;
when pain and sickness wiring his brow,
You go to sleep md don't care how
The old man gets along Life.
"Will you have a piece of this nice
mince pie, Tommy., said Tommv,s
aunt, with whom he was taking his din
ner. .Please, ma'am, replied the little
fellow, holding his plate; "but you might
put two pieces on now; mamma has
taught me never to pass my plate back
for the second piece. Salesman
"Your boy would learn faster,D the wise
teacher said.
AS the father left his child
III he had strong and elastic physiuae:n
And the old maa gently smiled,
sorrow;
IA buy :h. host one in Chicago tomnrrnu