The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-18
BRIGHT BITS.
THE men between extremes, they say,
Is always best to hold

TIE men between extremes, they say,
Is always best to hold:
30 neither give yourself away
Nor let yourself be sold. Judge.
THERE'S something 10 the accents OF voice
1hat wakes our natures from their quiet rest
AS sleepy boys who hear their fathers call
And know and feel to get right up is best
Texas SUtin0S.
The people who disagree with you never have
any sense anyway.-AtchiSOa Globe.
Don't fret about what your reputation will be
after death Tombstones are mighty Charitable.
Huntington Free Press
If DISTANCE lends enchautment to the view
what beauty the latest new comet must be
at lb0OOO0t0 miles from the earth Boston
Herald.
WY do speak of the susceptible potato?n
That's the point"
Because The potato is so easily masked ~
HaTDeT's Bdzqr.
onel?"
Two, sir. The fifth and the second. "-Ne,r
York Commercial AdUertiser.
1T is wonderful, said spriggs.
''What?f
THE number of holes porous plaster factory
can use up in year. ''-Rdcket.
Doctor (after the railroad accident)-Are Won
much hurt? ~, s,..
Railroad Official (faintlyl-I must positively
decline TO furnish any information.-JudQe.
Polite PEDESTRIAN (Who has unwittingly
served as stumbling block 70 a gentleman
previously afflicted with intoxication)-Beg
pardon, sir. Didn't know you were loaded, sir
Life.
A.-You are modest don't see how you
ever came To propose to your wife
B.-Jhat was very simple, | said nothing
and she said nothing, and so one word brou hit
on another.-Jerds Siftings
BLooDGooD-Your Uncle Robert is a very CON
sentative man, isn't he?
Miss Travis should say he wasl You ought
to see the stacks of cut flowers he raises every
season. Huntington Free Press.
lie ought to be able to write feeling essay
on 'Woman's Influence''-we mean that youny
Chicago gentleman who was ''held up'' and
robbed n few nights ago in his native city by an
enterprising female footpad.-AeiC York frib-
une.
MATRIMONIAL AGENT lin whose office are
several candidates of both sexes)-Ladies and
at which hour the Office closes. Please engage
yourselves at once. Delays are dangerous.
Siftings
Mr.. FIGG What is the use of putting your
shoes on? You are only going across the Street.
Mrs. Figg-O. couldn't think of wearing my
slippers ont on the street.
Tommy-How wish was a street! -Terre
H1Ute Express.
'CAN you tell me, little girl why we pray for
our daily bread?'' asked a Texas Sunday school
teacher OF one of her pupils.
Because the bread would get stale If we
didn't get it every day, replied the little cherub
T'ecds SiftingS.
In SCHooIe-''Now. Kitty, how many kinds of
poetry are there?'
The lyric, the dramatic and Thee
cpl"
Elsie Coreaking in)-Oh, know! The cpl
demio -Fliegende Biaetter.
CoNTRIBuToR-Wha kind of jokes do you pre-
fer.
Editor-Leap year jokes.
Contributor-Why?
Editor Because it takes them four years to
get around again Keystone.
81 HAVE OBSERVED" remarked a mean old
bachelor, trying to be funny, that when one
has fortune and adds Miss to it he has msfort-
une thereafter"
Then you ought to marry a widow" re-
sponded lady in black, and the funny man
went into his she'll Washington Star