Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-03
Not a Good Marksman.

Not q Good Marksman.
"Tbe rose is red. the violet's blue"
All, old familiar line,
What recollections you renew
OF sweet st. Valentine.
A spluttering pen. a quiet room.
A sheet of paper fine,
A youth PROSTATE in loves first swoon
Writing valentine.
''Sugar is sweer, and SO are your
Sealed with loves odd sign
Of Cupid shooting arrows through
Hearts on a valentine.
Ah, joys like these can never last,
They are of Aud Lang Syne,
For Cupid shot his arrow past
That heart on Valentine.
THE grounding is cowardly little cuss, and
is scared by his own shadow.
WHEN is a man like telescopes When you
draw him out. of course.
SEALS breed trouble as well as offspring
THE cooking school graduated batch Of
young students the other day, and dyspepsia
will now catch up to typhus.
THE magnates are now talking about elevat-
ing baseball. With all the pugs on the stage
tn task will be a difficult one.
WHY is barrel like a cathedralf Because
both have chimes.
THERE'S a good deal of wind in Chicago, but
hardly enough to run the Worlds Fair and
an air ship combined.
AFTER the farmers become acquainted with
the political FOUNDERS they are liable to forget
the combination.
ATTENTION is about the only thing drawn in
the drawing room.
THERE seems to be more ideas than dollars
in the Worlds Fair project SO far.
THE dead wire cannot be handled without
gloves.
Must Watch the Flies.
The baseball men are striving hard
To elevate the game,
But just so long as brewers brew,
The boys will take fly or two,
And get there just the same.
Now that the force bill Is out of the way all
the Worlds Fair needs is a few millions-and
it needs them, too.
SOME one has hurled silver brick in the
Senatorial poker room, and broken up q nice,
quiet little game.
THE Congressional investigators have white.
washed Raum, but some of them believe his
character should be placed in a refrigerator, as
it is the least bit tainted.
THE only thing miser with family will
give away is his daughter.
THE roosters at the State capitols would
sooner scratch gravel in the back yards of the
city politicians than pick in the litter of the
granger statesman's BARNARD.
SARAH BERNHARDT welded art and raised
a son and heir.
The Surest Way.
In this grand age he who succeeds
Must labor with will,
Treading the path where labor leads
With energy and skill.
Whate'er you strive to do do well,
Nor think your task well done
Until you with the masters dwell,
AFTER Cupid shoots his little arrow Love lies
bleeding.
DoN CAMERON was not the lone fisherman
in the silver pool after all, nor is he the only
Senatorial gambler.
r,fed. to be sure.
Bleached and B1ighted.
She has hair of gold,
And deep blue eye;
But the first, I'm told,
Cost heap to dye.
BIG guns wear jackets. and have breeches
too.
DURING the present session of Congress the
objeotors, unfortunately, are all on the out
side.
PAINELL promises Ireland a Parliament.
If he turns out true prophet all will be for
given.
ling, and seem to know the combinations and
the habits of the police.
Hor-TEMpERED folk flare up on the least
provocation.
POKER and "freeze out" are the Senatorial
and diplomatic games INDUCED in nowadays.
JOHN G. NEW has bobbsd mp as an applicant
| for the Treasury portfolio. Wherever there's