The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-25

A parting word-divorce.-P4oh.
]. A duck Of a bonnet-A woman's aoa
I -7srre Huute Express.
Is marriage a failureP OF course
1 it is not. Marriage is IN assignment.
life.
J A thing of beauty is a joy forever
until it goes out Of ashion.-Ier7e
] Huute Express.
Even the tiger is not without adec-
I ton. He is very much attached to his
paw and maw.-PucE.
There has been no typical cradle OF
liberty since the modern cribs were In
Z vented.-New Orleans Picayuae.
The greatest weather profit of this
/ season is the money saved by young
men who didn't go sleigh-riding.-
8 Puck.
3 Chalmers = Love you? Why, I'd
q Jump off the bridge for you. Miss
Rnmanlique-O, how lovely that wouid
be.-Epoch.
q 1t is one Of the paradoxes of life that
8 the more a wife keeps her husband IN
b hot water the colder he grows toward
n her.-BOStOn Courier.
y She-You were not so dissipated be-
@ fore we were married. He-lndeed l
& was, my dear; but when anybody told
HLye.
q Popinjay-I declare, Blobsdn, that
8 picture of your wife is aspeakin&g like
Eness. Biobson (gloomily)-lt Mould
q MT be nv wife if It Observation-Disclosures
!. Free Press.
Il The doctor-Rogers, derive the word
! s.fnance." Rogers (after a pause)-
: 1t comes from "inis' an end, sir, be-
cause it's the art of making both ends
meet.-Judy.
'.It takes three generations to make
a gentleman" It would sometimes
seem as if the thing most requisite to
accomplish the result we're one gener-
ation.-Puck.
Patient-T'm not afraid to die, doc.
tor, but 1 do dread being buried alive.
Doctor (cheerfully) Don't let that
worry you. I'll see that you ain't-
Boston Courier.
"Bolton told me he had borrowed
some money from you. l was sur
prised. because | heard you say
anything about it." mo; I still hope
to get it back."-LTs.
As the warmer weather comes on
metals will begin to expand. A SO
piece reaches a great deal further when
the eastman and goldman have re-
Taxed their grip.-Puck.
A young physician was showing .
friend a recent purchase that he had
made in the way of a skeleton. Every
interesting commented his friend.
zone of your patients, doctor. Life.
She-There are not SO many elope-
ments now as there have been. He
No; they are out of season. She-Sea-
son! What has that to do with it2
He-Everything. 1t is not fly time
now.-Iime.
Theresa-O, Mabel! Have you heard
that dreadful rumor that Aggie has
been taken to an insane asylum?
Mabel-Well, I rather thought that
last bonnet of hers would do the fatal
work.-Iine.
"How do you get along at school,
Charieyp Do you keep up with xorr
~ciass?" keep up with the Class?
That isn't anything to do. It's now TO.
get ahead of the teacher that Worries
me.n-Burdette.
Mrs. Any husband is beginning
to reform. Mrs. B-IndeedP / saw
him going in a barroom to-day. Mrs.
M.-Yes, 1 know. He went in for q
II glass Of whisky, but he takes water
with it now.-Epoch.
Fond father-What are you going
to be when you groY .upp Son-A
man, sir. Fond faSher-What will
you do when you are a manP Son
Do the same as you do and kiss the
servant girl.-Judge.
who attended Mr. Tilden in his last ILL
ness, was asked, soon after Mr.. Tilden's
death, what his distinguished patient
said just before his death.
II do not know that he said any
thing striking" said the doctor.
Now let me see. MY Tilden satin
his big armchair and / sat on the side
of the bed, SO as to be near him. He
was breathing heavily and as watched
him, he turned his face toward me and
said with some difficulty:
Observation-Disclosures -puA
4-soP'n
These were his last words, added
DR.. Simmons. sadly, deeply affected,
as he recalled the last hours ct his dis.
tinguished patient 81 was watching
him closely, and as he uttered thess
words his head fell fell forward on Iii
breast I seized his wrist, and Ne "a,
&pnlseless. He was dead
Uncle Sam and Miss Canada.