The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-05-04
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

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1t is tho man who is neither Just
nor generous, who is most apt in the
use Of the phrasa BE just before you
are generous. Boston Courier.
"A young physician was showing
friend recent purchase that he had
made in the way Of skeleton. Every
interesting" commented his friend.
Zone Of your patients. doctorP''
What does it profit man to get a
modern society novel for twenty-five
cents, if he has to buy. an unabridged
dictionary and an encyclopedia before
he can understand itp - Shoe and
Leather Reporter.
-Skribler- Have you read my new
novel, "A Story Without a Herop'"
Carper-..Yes. think it misnamed,
however. Any man who reads it clear
through proves himself hero" .
Terre Haute Express.
"A lawyer, entering the Office of his
family physician, said, in a hoarse
whisper: Doctor, I've got such cold
this morning that can't speak the
truth ''I'm glad that it isn't any,
thing that will interfere with your
business" responded the doctor in q
tone Of sympathy.
Hobbs II understand that Dob
sons wife is German, and that he
mastered the German language to win
her." Jones ..Well, he must have
expended all his. energies on the Ian
guage, then. He has never mastered
her. Huntington Free Press.
About ninety per cent. of all the
men who start out in business fail be-
fore they get through, and there is q
disheartening suspicion in some quar-
ters that it is about what forty per
cent. of them set out to do.-Somer-
vile Journal.
Familiar Fellow (tapping a digni-
fed old gentleman on the shoulder)-
"Ain't my face familiar to your" Old
Gentleman brushing him of)-'It's
not alone your face that's familiar.
You are altogether the most familiar
man ever Texas Siftings.
/, -'Pshaw," said lady to her hus-
band, who had been criticising her at
tire, "what does a man know about
woman's clothes, anyway ''He knows
the price, my DEAR" he replied, gently,
and she retired. Washington Critic
Mrs. Gibson-.:Ho did your hus-
band make his money, Mrs. BankstockP
remember when you were living-''
''Living in the hall bedroom of a cheap
clearinghouse, as you are living now,
presume you meanp" swell, you
needn't get touchy. Honest people
don't get rich as fast as some folks !
might mention. Chicago Herald.
Men who live by their wits, who
proclaim no definite occupation, but
who are said to speculate" are the
outcasts usually of some profession in
which, had their talents been properly
applied, they might perchance have
won respectable position, or even
fame. They leave the straight and cor
rect path, and with strange ups and
downs try to reach the goal of success
by the insane process of seeking il
through blind and devious ways.
-'.No girl under twenty says a
wise woman, ''has any business tc
think of marriage" Bless you, no. We
know that. At that age no girl thinks
of marriage as a business. She just
tumbles head over heels in love and
marries the dear fellow just because
she would cry her eyes out without
him. It is when she is no longer what
you would exactly call a "girl,'' when
she is rising thirty-eight and has cut
her last new teeth, full set, that she be.
gins to make business" of it.-Buf.
falO Express. ->-s