The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-16
PlTH AND POINT.

before an average jury the maid Z
chances are as ten to one.-Llfe.
| Before lending pocket-knife It Il
always a good idea to rap ten-cen'
! pieces out of the handle.-Puck.
The man who says the world owes
him living, always has an uphill tims
In collecting the debt.-Ram's Horn.
When mans dollars have gone "a
| the dogs that's the time he has tc
whistle for them.-Philadelphia Times
| Speaking of hollow mockery
doesn't hungry parrot come pretty
near answering that description?-Buf'
falo Courier.
The epitaph illustrates dominant
| trait in human nature-the willingness
! to be generous where it can do no good.
Washington Star.
| Statistics show that in counting the
young man is most likely to lose his
| self-control when he's just holding his
| own.-Philadelphia Times.
If we had as much charity for the
faults of others as we have for our
own, the desert would soon become a
| flower garden.-Ram's Horn.
-Kate-'Do you prefer the seashore
or the meuntains?" Nana-'The sea-
shore, by all means; one is always sure
of seeing so many heavy swells!"-
Brooklyn Eagle.
why did everybody laugh SO long
| over that story of old Boreby's? 1t
wasn't a bit funny" ''They were
afraid he would tell another if they
kept quiet. Vogue.
Willie Keep 'Matrimony seems to
me to be matter requiring con-
sidera BILE thought" Ethel Xnox-''rve
often wondered what it was that
restrained you."-N. Y. Times.
Wanted 1t In Advance:-Poet-"Can
see the editor?' Office Boy-''Yes, if
you'll give me dime" Poet-''I will
when / come out" Office Boy-"Yes,
but you won't have time then. Truth.
Of Course She Does.-Mrs. Mcbride
81 wish you would tell me why Patti
calls every one of her tours farewell
tour" Mr.. Mcbride Doesn't she
fare well every time. detroit Free
Press.
-Brown-''That Billings has never
told the truth in his life. What story
was he springing on you just now?"
Robinson-''He was telling me that
you were a scholar and a gentleman"
-Demorest.
-Barnes-"I don't see how a good
many of you city folks manage to keep
the wolf from the door, Waite-"O,
we live in flats. and it would be mighty
clever wolf that could get by the jan
itor. N. Y. Herald.
Mrs r. o. Mantick-sAh, that no
bic, noble sword! suppose some mem
ber Of your family has drawn 1t time
and time again. Mrs. Mat R. Fact
NO; only once. Ny husband won it
at rattle Buffalo Courier.
A Hibernian Metaphor.-The City
Editor-"What have you written about
the death of that bright young Jen-
kins?" The Irish Reporter-"Some-
thing nate, sir, windin' up with these
words: He leaves a brilliant future
behind him. '"-Pittsburgh Bulletin.
In South America.-The Envoy
"We come on behalf of the struggling
patriots of our republic, to ask the aid
of your republic" The Secretary of
State-'No. sir. Instructions begin
at home. We have all the struggling
patriots we can take care OF. Brook
lyn Life.
-'Confound it," exclaimed Jackson,
what stupid fellow that jeweler isl"
How so?' inquired his friend. why,
I told him the other day that wanted
engraved in the engagement ring the
letters From 4 to from Arthur to
Zenobia, you know-and the idiSt went
to work and put in the whole alphabet"