The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-05-11

Some one has written of "Ten Min
utes with Tiger" Five minutes is
long enough.-Pjcayat'ae.
The way of the transgressor is hard;
| but he doesn't realize it until he has
had fall on it.-LJe.
Some people seem to think that talk
ing in a moral way is leading a relig-
ious ife.-S0nacrUille J0atrndl.
Many a boy is frightened out of be-
ing religious by the way religion
makes his friends look.-Rana's Horn.
"The prudent man looketh well to
his going; the other fellows stay and
get jag on.-Btmghanaton Republican.
A woman is never so likely to be
mistaken at any other time as she is
when she is perfectly sure. ."-iSonaer-
Ville Journal.
Baseball clubs have their uses. Some
of them bring forward colleges that
otherwise would not be heard Of
TerGs SJtimgs.
Never borrow trouble if you can
avoid doing so. But in case you must
borrow it, try to get it without inter
est.-Teras Sytimgs.
Miss May Ture is still very hand
some woman. Iwonder why she never
married?" "She used to be a great
firt."-M' Y. Press.
The idea of "heavenly choir" must
have been conceived by some one un-
acquainted with the earthly article
Indianapolis Journal.
Mr.. Tulkinghorn-"Th is very
fine picture of our minister in to-day's
paper" Mrs. Tulkinghorn-"In Indeed!
What has he been cured of?"-BoStom
Nea0s.
She-"Do you know what the mean
ing of 'resurgam' is?" Student of
Pharmacy-"O, yes. That's the label
naaceutical Era.
The fellow who steals fuel from his
neighbor's woodpile and finds some of
the sticks charged with dynamite may
be said to strike responsive cord
oil City Blizzard.
Little Johnnie-"Say, ma, does a
minister really need all the slippers
that are given him?" Mrs. Brown
"Yes, indeed. His son is generally
very bad."-Epoch.
Bagley-"The elephant is the true
bohemian" Brace-"How is thatP"
Bagley-"He expects to be supplied
with meals on presenting an empty
trunk. IN. Y. Herald.
90, girls! There's tramp!" "Are
you sure?" "Yes. Don't you see
himP" "Now we will have some one
to try our new cooking-school biscuit
on."- Washington Star.
Jaspar-"For a good and pious man
Brown is remarkably lazy and shift
less" Jumpuppe-"Yes; he is a sort
of tramp on the strait and narrow
way. Philadelphia Record.
Tramp-"I want pension" Pen
sion agent-"What for?" Tramp-"I
broke my leg in escaping from the
draft" Pension agent-"My dear sir,
the new bill gives you $4,000. ."-Ieras
SJtimgs.
Mrs. Witherby-" -"Mrs. Plankington
doesn't dress SO well as she used to,
does she?" Mrs. Banger-"No. Since
her husband signed the pledge she
. hasn't the hold on him that she used
to have."- Cloak ReUiea0.
. "Tomson doesn't brag about that
; bright boy of his any more" Mop"
%Isn't he bright any more?" "Well, he
says about the same sort of things all
the time, but he's got to the age when
they're saucy."-HGgper'S Bazar.
"Shall you go to the party to-mor-
row nightP" asked Miss Emerson OF
Boston of her friend Miss Blocker.
%You bet your sweet life," was the re-
ply. "But isn't it rather reprehensible
to wager ones saccharine yitalityP"-
Judge
"I never send story out for publ
cation" said Dullpath, the realist,
without first having slept over it." q
don't believe I've ever read one of
them, either, without doing the same
thing" returned Hawley.-Harper's
Bdzar.
Mrs. Brush-"Has the hanging COM
mittee decided about your picture
yet?" Brush-"Yes" Mrs Brush
"Are they going to hang it?" Brush
(dubiously)- heard the chairman
say he thought hanging was too good
for it. y Brooklyn Life.
Sociable Minister-"Do you read
your Bible every day, my little dear?"
Little Dear-"No, indeed. l don't
have time. I'm too busy helping
mamma stone raisins and things, so as
to always have something nice for din
ner every time you come. GOOD
NeaOS.
"That odious Marie Harley has land
ed Jack Smithers at last" "Yes, Jack
told me of his engagement last night
never. It's only a Lenten engage
penance in some ."-Harper'S
BGzar.
"Say, Charlie, don't you ever get
awful scared here alone, when yOul
papa and mamma are away to church? ?'
"Why, no. You see, I'm never really
alone; mamma says God is always with
me-" "Oh, but l should fink you'd
rather have some of your own folks
Life.
They were dreaming of welded
bliss. after your hard days work
dear" she murmured. "Yes," he
interrupted earnestly. "You will come
home and talk with me, and hold me
in your lap, and read to me, and drive
all my cares away, and rub my head
and it will be so sweet, and so just
like book!"-Puck.
81 DESIRE" said Miss Esmeralda
Longcoffin, entering music store OF
Austin avenue, "to purchase piece O
music for my little brother, who plays
on the piano" "Here, miss, is pre-
cisely what you want" what is the
name of it?' "The Maiden's Prayer
for so cents" "Only so cents! Why
he's much further advanced than that
for last month he played piece wortl
Is cents. Haven't you something fol
a dollar?"-IerGs Sttings.
Applicant for insurance sir;
: neither drink, chew nor swear.
don't go to the theater or attend balls
and have no evil associates. / am a
home always by 10 O'Clock; am Sun
day-school teacher, and my morals arr
above reproach. l never had a day.
sickness in my life" Agent-"That il
an extra, extra hazardous risk, young
{, man, and we can't take it." Appli
9 cant-"What" Agent-"No. The gooC
: die young, you Knoxville.
Gilhooly-"Why don't you propos,
to Miss Longcoffin? She is dead gont