The Rugby news. (Rugby, Morgan County, Tenn.) 1890-189?, 1890-12-20
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

You do not always get returns from
your wisdom, but you always get big re-
turns from your follies. - Atchison
Globe.
1t is all right for girl to look into
the future, but it is not becoming for
her to look forward. - Yonkers States
man.
Still Youths Won't Take Warning.
Before marriage - ''Why so pensive,
dearest?' After marriage - "Why so
expensive, Mrs Jones?"
Rose De Mascus-"Once and for all,
1 must be plain with you--" Maud
St. Agedore-"Yes, 1 know you must;
you could not change your looks if you
wanted to. st Joseph News.
-"Miss Stuckuppe has some very rare
flowers in her conservatory. That is
her hobby" "H'm! Any one could tell
that she was haughtyculturist from
her manner!''-Boston Traveller.
"A Tempter of Providence. -'How is
it he can't get his life insured?" "He's
poet in the spring, gentleman jockey
in the summer, football player in the
fall and a tobogganist in the winter
N. Y. Tribune.
Fashions of 1890. O.-Teacher-"Cor
rect. Woman is in the feminine gender.
Now the sentence speaks of young
woman in fashionable attire. What
gender is attire?" Bright Boy-"Mas-
culine. Good News.
-She-"Every woman is more or less
of mind-reader." He-"Do you think
you could read mine?" She-"Id rather
not. Mamma is little particular as to
the character of my reading. INDIAN
apolis Journal
-"I was so gratifed, Miss Jones'"
said the young playwright, "to see that
my work moved you to tears last night"
"Yes, Mr.. Bronson" said the young
woman, with sigh; II was so sorry for
you. ."-Harper's Bazaar.
-Temperate-"Psh Talk about
you swearing off, l don't believe you
could do it to save your life!' Fuller
SIS that so? That's all you know about
it! swore off five times last week!'-
Boston Traveller.
johnson -"Does your amateur dra-
matte company seem to be developing
any histrionic talent?" Thompson
80, yes. The leading lady, her under
study and one of the soubrettes have
applied for divorces already. Indian
apolis Journal.
Assurance Doubly Sure. -He-"You
remember you said last night that you
would be sister to me all my life?"
She-"Yes, l did" He-"Well, pro-
posed to your sister Kate this afternoon,
and judging by what she said, I rather
think you will. "-Somerville Journal.
Gifted. $50 your son won't work, "
said one Congressman to another. mo "
was the reply. "I've tried to persuade
him to employ himself at something,
but he won't do it." 'May be he is
what they call gifted" 81 should say
he was. I've given him every thing he
has, and more too. Washington Post.
Art VS.. Nature. what is that,
dear mother?'' 'That is rose, my
child" "But what, dear mother, is
that next to the rose?" "a sunhower,
darling" 'But, oh what is that grow
ing next to the sunfower?" THAT is a
pond lily" "But, oh, dear mother, they
are growing out of the same vine?''
THAT is the way they grow, my child,
on lambreq Upholsterer.
His Mother-'Waldo, why are you
so extraordinarily studious lately?''
Waldo Beacon wealth (of Boston, aged
two and half years)-'T have noticed
that recently vacated college presi
denotes have been filed by comparative
ly Uery young mon, and in view of some
immediate vacancies of the same ma
ture, l have deemed it prudent to be a:
thoroughly prepared as possible. -
Harper's Bazar.