The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-03-13
WIT AND lTUMOR.

learn the briclNmason's trade if you
wish an occupation i'll which you can
lay up somelhing.-Ierre Haute Ec-
press.
The trouble with dancing clubs is
that they have too many round dances
and too few square meals.-Ncw Or
leans FicGuuac.
"My DEAR" said a fashionable young
wife from the head of the stairs, ''have
you seer anything of my white kid
slippers? I have searched everywhere
for them" ''Did you look in the bedP
You came in late last night and 1
think you forgot to take them off,
Epoch.
Mrs. Winks-The paper says a cold
wave has developed in Montana and
is expected here within a week. Mr..
Winks-Well, send word to the plumb
er that u pipes have burst, and then
he and the cold wave will get here
about the anne time. - NeW Yorb
Weekly.
Smith Ito his companion)-Love
Chiefly weather we're havin', Of fell
(hic). Brown-Fine as silk; but (hic)
l see the storm signal is up. Smith
Storm (lic) signal; whereP Brown
Right up (hic) there; that light in M
wife's bedroom. Lecture sure.-WaH-
ham RevicW.
In Boston: Mrs. Berkeley-Have
you seen those e prayer rugs at
Pherr's? Mrs. Claundose-Yes. Aren't
they loyelyp But do you know that
since the Concord school has made the
occult so popular Pm getting to pre-
fer my tiger mat for supplicative pur-
poses?-Iame.
A poet in the Home Journal sings
thus: "What are you to me, my darl-
ing? A shelter from the rain" When
poesy renders a man unable to tell the
difference between a girl and an UNI
brelLa, it is time that poets were re-
quired to take outa high-priced license.
-PiHsburg Bulletin.
.'WMhat q wonderful painter Ruhens
was!" remarked Merritt at the art gal
lery, EYES," asserted Cora, ''it is
said of him that he could change a
laughing face into a sad one by a
single strokc.' Why spoke up little
Johnnie IN disgust, my school teacher
can do that.'-Ha'psr's Bazar.
Friend Ito Kentucky ColoneD--I
hear, Colonel, that you and Major
sevengallons were taken down with
the jim-jams together, sir. the other
night. Colonel 0oftily) = No, sir,
there was not enough liquor between
US for that. I had the jims and he had
the jams, but, sir, we couldn't COM
biDe.-Ltes,
Wife (to her husband, a physician)
-nDid you stop at the Vancouver ball
tonight, William?" Physician-..For
a few minutes, my dear" Wife
''Did it seem to be a successful AFFAIR.""
Physician-sO, yes. While I was
there a young lady fell in a fainting
condition and / prescribed for her.
Here is her fathers card."-Harpe7's
BdgGr,
An English electrician has invented
a material that he calls t'alterion," for
the prevention of c~orrosion in boilers.
The interiorof the boiler is coated with
the material and from time to time
electrical currents are sent through IT..
a boy living neal Abilene, Tex, was
recently bitten by a snake and was
Q taken with commissions, An old
Mexican scraped- out the bowl Of a
briar pipe, applied the scrapings to
the cilild's wounds and The next day
the boy was we'll.
Russian officials have tested and re-
ported fayorably upon . Russian in.
Yention for applying The revolver
principle to the barrels of I'erdan
rifles. It's said that BY this arrange