Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-03-28
LOTS OF LITTLE LAUGHS.
oN the safe side-The cashier.

OK the safe side-The cashier.
A HEAD gardener-the barber.
A FILLY "buster"-A colt that breaks
q record.
SOME men kick against bill, and
others foot it.
DROP q dollar in the charity slot and
pull out blessing.
IT is the noble Kentuckian who never
misses the water when the well runs
dry.
How GLAD both rich and poor would be,
When frigd are the days,
II men who deal in coal could zee
The error OF their weighs
THE man who "shot at random" not
hitting it, has since lent his rifle to the
youth who aimed at Immortality.
LARGE checks" for ladies' dresses is
an old, old fashion. Ask any man
blessed with wife and daughters.
A PHILADELPHIA has constructed.
house which he calls "a poem in brick.
Should it ignite from defective fue,
would he call it versifier.
WHITE lies may not be so black as
the other kind; but they are most as
wicked. The color line cannot be
drawn successfully in the lying line.
THE inventor of new "waist attach
ment" saws the contrivance is not harm
full. The old waist attachment, ac-
cording to our recollection, is armful.
IT has gotten so that when two soci-
ETY. women vie with one another for the
palm in personal beauty the race for
supremacy must be termed meek and
neck race.
SIsTER-W Were you at the reception
last night Harry? Brother-Yes; for
about an hour. Sister-How were the
ladies dressed? Brother-O, about as
usual. Dresses cut V in the back and
G in front.
Brown (producing his scrapbook and
pointing with Pride to che of his early
effusions)-There, read that Fogg
(after reading)-Can it be possible,
Brown, that you were so old as IL when
Won wrote this?
Mrs. GABB-What sort o. folks are
those new neighbors of yours2 Mrs.
Caldwell, I've been watching their
back yard for two weeks, but as they
send their washing to laundry / can't
tell anything about them.
The man who first suggested the use
of an Y as the signature of person
who could not write was no philoso-
pher. The fitness of things should have
led him to select the cipher, which as a
nautograph is eminently significant in
most cases.
BRIDE of day (to her husband, who
/ is doing his best to entertain her on the
train do stop talking a little while,
John. John (tenderly)-What is the
matter, dear? are you nervous? Bride
No, but / want to hear what the
women are saying in the seat behind
! us.
AFRAID he had 'em again: Mr.. Ram
DO cat dime museum, in great alarm -
Nancy, do you see anything in that
cage next to the monkeys? Mrs. Ram
bo--Yes, there's q lot of snakes. Mr..
Rambo with recovered self-posession)
SO they are. Fine specimens, too,
aren't they?
WIBBLE-Did you attend the anna
teur operatic performance last night ?
Wabble-Yes, 1 had the best seat in
the house, No. S8 u Balcony. Wibble
Why, it's almost impossible to hear
at all in that part of house. Wabble-
just so. That's what made that seat
particularly desirable.
EXCUSE me" said the parcel man,
"but l left package here about an hour
ago which should have been delivered
next door" "Yes, SIR" replied the
girl, "but you can't get it just yet. "
"Why?" Because the lady hasn't had
time to undo it and examine the con-
tents. Please call in about half an
hour"
AT DAYBREAK.
Chanticleer, in accents shrill,
Told that morn peeped DER the hill;
But young Colin debonair
fingered yet with Phillis fair