Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-01-05
PUN0ENr PARAGRAPHS.

The man who said that marriage
resembles lottery laborod under Q
misunderstanding. When you patron
ize a lottery you have come show Of
coming ou! ahead. Journal.
--Dadekin (who had just put on
new suit OF clothes in the shop)--
'Wait minute, I'll go over to the
bank aud get check cashed." Tailor
(goiug out with him)"-Well. I'll fol-
low suit. Washington Post.
The young wife who makes shirt
for her dear hubby not only runs the
risk oi shaking his confidence in her,
but also OF losing all her former admira-
tion for him whom Dhe sees him with 1t
on. -7errs Hamtc Express.
1t is amazing how quick the bakers
find out when -four goes up, and how
awfully deaf and blind they are when
slump in tho market knocks 81 Oh
tho price Of u barrel. They must want
to make some money out OF the busi-
ness.-Deiroit Free Press.
-Dutiful daughter--.'Now, mother,
don't ask me to marry that man. ad-
mire and respect him. but do not love
him." Practical mother-"O, that
don't matter. You won't see him often
enough to grow tired OF him. He's a
politician. Riiadelphia Record.
Its we'll known that there are alb
solutely no genuine chamois skins in
the market; but, notwithstanding. an
ah Evu, 10 eo Ot,,u ~,
cloth In imitation OF the imitation skins.
They will be just as good as the real
skins, 1t is claimed, and will be sold as
limitations.
There ought to be law in this
country provia,ng that none but pretty
women should ever wear wells. Then
all the homely women would break the
law for obvious reasons, while the
pretty women would discard the veil
through vanity-and the eye OF maj
would be gratified. d.-Journol of Educa
tion.
Wife (reprovingly)-"The grea
trouble with you is. John, you buy ,
| good many things you don't need simpl,
because they are cheap. That is falls,
economy Husband-"Her is u LADY,
watch | bought to-day for twenty dol
lars that's worth every cent OF thirt,
dollars" Wife--"O, thank you. John
why, 1t was a real bargain!"--N Y
San.
One OF the latest feats OF endur
nnce is that Of playing the piano 70
thirty-six hours in one inning. It
the player, and not the listener, VIII
Is awarded the prize for endurance
The listener generally becomes ex
hausted and wants to die in the fourtl
hour. .-Drahe's Magazine.
Miss Clara (blushing)-"Do 70,
know, Ethel, that young Mr.. Sampson
proposed to me last night and l accept
ed him." Miss Ethel (heartily)-.'
congratulate you sincerely. Clara. Nh
Sampson is noble young man." Mis-
Clara-"Do youknow him welle' Mis-
Ethel-"O, yes. 1t was only a fe,
months ago that promised to be
; sister to him ~ Time.
Mother, take or send your son {
the barber when his hair needs cutting
70 be sure, he may get his little hea
full of political and meteorological
chatf from the lips Of the loquaciou
knight OF the shears and razor; but o
the other hand, the boy who habitnal
has his hair cut by his mother is likel
to grow up social pariah, If, indeed
he does not develop into rcd-hande
villain. .-Rosion Transcript.
In the course OF diseussior abor
the Holy Writ recently overheard
lady remarked that the Bible was
history of men; that her sex was rarel
and but incidentally mentioned as con-
) pared with the space devoted to me!
II confess she added. 'that It strike
me as being most singular. Their
I might have been more said about us.
: 80. don't know replied her fricnt
''The authors OF the various books ha
. probably studied womankind, an
8 knew they'd be able to speak for thar
, selves. "--Rarper 5 Bd.Gr. :