Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-22
SHOOTING STARS.

L ShOOkkNo SAhN9s
TWO CENT sFAnPa
Hail to the latest postage
Stamp of the soft carmine.
Dead is its predecessor
Farewell to the "sickly grsenr'
SIS all over? inquired . weeping friend Of
an undertaken whom he met coming out Of the
house.
"Oh, no" responded the cheerful undertaken,
''the funeral takes place day after tomorrow
"Mawnin', Miss Lightfoot." said one colored
woman to another on Massachusetts, avenue
yesterday, els you gwine to de 'pot'ecary shop?'
mo, Miss Davis, I isn't; 1ss jis gwine ovah
heah to de cawnah drug sto'."
FEBRUARY g.
America to George Washington: "This il
your birthday, illustrious SIRE"
G. W.-caressingly: ''Yes, my child, and IL ID
quite 2, don't you know"
Lent is An appropriate season for celebrating
the anniversary of . little hatch it. P.S.-
Possibly that is no joke, but it seems like il
| ought to be.
THE ENGLISH CHERRY-TREE.
When George chopped that cherry tree,
His Pa was mighty wrathy
And was about to lick the boy,
By methods allopathy.
But George, with manner quite serene,
Put up his hand to stop it:
sits one of them d. English trees,
Why ahouldptt Gaoro;a chor i<2s,
"Come to my arms" his father cried;
Come George, let me crown you,
You'd better tell campaign lie
Than have the English down you"
PREMATURE AND IMMATURE.
Jones-to friend in street car: ''Did under
stand you to say that the Fair question had
been settled?'
Brown: II said something to that effect about
the fare"
Jones: ''who got it fnally?"
Brown: 1.-THE conductor"
P.S. The above was handed in by Chicago
man who asked for a car ticket in payment.
Chicago will hog the Worlds Fair if she gets
the chance.
George Washington is the only politician in
American history who never told lie. p 8.
his is no joke.
Giddy: "Did you notice by the paper that Ex-
Mayor Hewitt Of New York has been elected
President OF the Institute of Mining Engineers?"
Harry-who doesn't like Hewitt: "Well,
he may be successful in mining gold and other
metals, but he doesn't know anything about
mining his own business"
The Pullman porter beats George Washing
ton; he has a berth day three hundred and six
ty-fve times year.
February days: Greedy, Groundhos and
Georgewashington.
Congressman Springer doesn't care to wear
any ten million dollar roswell p-Hower in his
button hole.
"Mer' Ford, who was one Of Michiean's
stellar attractions in the Fiftieth Congress,
brought back large collection Of stories with
him from Florida. One Of these relates to
legislator from the Everglades who voted for
bill making 1t compulsory on election authori-
ties to place the names Of candidates on each
ballot in large Roman capital letters.
i've disfranchised my county" said he to q
friend, Immediately after voting for the prop
osition. Il had to go with the rest of the
Democrats" he went on, but it's Just dis
franchised the whole county"
'How's that" queried the friend.
"Why, I've voted to have candidates. names
and their politics printed on every ballot in
large Roman capital letters and tell you there
amt voter in the entire district that can read,
write or speak the Roman language"
THE HISTORIAN MILLa
There's Roger Q. Mills,
He backs and he fills,
From today clean back to Confucius
With his knowledge Of facts
On American acts
Oh, Roger pull down your YES pucius
Some woman without the fear of the future
before her eyes, and with q charming senti-
ment OF economy which sees enough in a slO
bonnet, writes as follows:
Editor Star; From the Shooting Star in YOUR
issue OF Wednesday. Judge your astronomer
Is = single man, for were he married, he would
know very well, what comes after Lent. His
b
unkind, Ed. should have read
''For forty days well find that piety
Will rhyme quite fairly with society.
And after that"
A brand ne,c Hat,
TO cost about $40. or some body would know the
reason why. And if society does 60 into
Its shell during Lent" the men have to "shell
out" when Lent is over, DO the odds are even.
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ANOTHER WOMAN'S CONVENTION.
The Gathering Next Week Of Women OF
Liberal Views.