The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-04-02


Or, ii away,
He'd write each day
AND send sweet, pretty poems to me.
Marie Jansen, in Rochester Herald
-Binghamton Republican: Sparkling
pretty girl naturally kindles enthusiasm.
Merchant Traveller: The girl who has
a beau too many is annoyed by a surplus
Chicago Inter-Ocean: A dog is in
"full dress when he has on his collar
and pants
Boston Post: They are having more
by-elections in England. Last fall there
was buy-eection in this country.
Secretary Blaine can now take up
the guano question at the point he left off
eight years ago.-Albany Argus.
Hartford Times Belva Lockwood
says she is the mother of the Prohibition
party-and we guess she didn't bring it
up on the bottle.
Boston Transcript: The members of
the Cabinet have sworn in and the men
who wanted to be members have in the
mean time sworn out.
=" Beware of widders," repeats an es-
teemed cotemporary. Yes: they have an
unpleasant way OF surviving husbands
even to the third and fourth venture.
Nebraska State Journal: The agricul-
tural poets have been especially favored
by this administration. Rusk rhymes
with husk i'll the best style imaginable.
"A young wife's idea of economy
\ louny husband. :" Flour, see, is going
up again"
Young Wife. "Never mind, George,
We need not buy it, We can buy bak, RS
bread, instead" ."-5oston Courier.
The man Or woman that keens .
sweet spirit, no matter how keenlv the
wrongs of life are felt, will have vastly
more power to correct the evil than those
who fail into sour mood
A stout, elderly lady was banoing
by strap and casting black looks at an
inotfensive but ungalant dude, who sat
sucking the head of his cane; a sudden
lurch OF the car flung the lady upon him
with great force. Say, dash it, don't
you know" exclaimed the youth, you've
crushed my foot to jelly" "It's not
the first tune I've made call's-toot iellv."
retorted the woman severely, as he van
ishel ana she prepared to sit down.
Shoe and Leather Reporter.
TIE chestnut" as a slang phrase.
is done with, fro>t-bitten, quite, and an
equally meaningless word has been sub
sututel. 1t is Insty." DO you admire
anything, from a stylish toilet to dainty
dish, you are privileged to say, There is
nothing dusty about that On the
whole, when one takes time to consider.
there is more sense Ill "dusty" than in
most fashionable slang. y dusty object
suggests one whose freshness is deSpoiled.
just how the ''chestnut was ever sjr
nlticanI, no one has yet clearly Defined
January Tablc-Talk.
=" Pa" she murmurel archy, "rm
engaged"
Engaged, the dev-the dickens you
say To whom?''
''Oh ~ she went on rapturouslv, " lust
think lie never drinks nor smokes, nor
belongs to d dreadful lodge, leads a class
at Sunday school, and"
"Humpth. Member of the Salvation
Army, | suppose" :" ironically.
Z" No, he's lrummer'
" y drummer. Great bcavcns Evelyn.
YOU"
" "From Philadelphia, pap
"Oh ~ said the old man, with a sigh
of relief, "BIess you, my child, bless
you !'-Southern Criterion.
The birth of an affection is always the
birth If a life, and the beginning of for
ever.
"Only think of it, George! the Mag
ara tails are fast wearing away"
g Yes, 50 I've heard"
"George, isn't it at the Niagara Falls
where people-that is, newly married
people-generally 90 on their wedding
tour
" L believe So"
"George, wouldn't it be awful if the
Falls should disappear before somebody
who is dying to go there should-should
be able to 60 there, George?"
\ fond embrace, whispered words and
the customary mpediments-all of which
tend to show that she and George will
get there long before the Falls take their
final departure.-Boston Transcript.
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