The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-17
CHATS BY THE WAY.

There are good many playgoers these
days who are quite ready to agree with
the sentiment thus expressed by w. s. Gill
bert In one Of the songs in his new opera,
His EXcellency:"
Qulxotic is his enterprise, and hopeless
his adventure is,
Who seeks for jocuarities that haven't
yet been said.
The world has joked necessarily for over
fifty centuries,
And every joke that's possible has long
ago been made.
started as a humorist with lots of men
tai fizziness.
But humor is a drug which it's the
fashion to abuse;
For my stock in trade, my fixtures, and
the goodwill of the business
No reasonable offer l am likely to re-
fuse.
And If anybody choose
He may circulate the news
That no reasonable offer l am likely to
refuse.
oh, happy was the humorist-the first
that made a pun at all
Who, when a joke occurred to him,
however poor and mean,
Was absolutely certain that 1t never had
been done at all
How popular at dinner must that hu-
morist have been!
Oh, the days when some stepfather for
the query held handle out,
The door-mat from the scraper, is 1t
distant very far?
And when no one knew where Moses was
when Aaron put the candle out,
And no one had discovered that door
could be a-jar!
But your modern hearers are
In their tastes particular,
And they sneer if you inform them that
a door can be a-jar!
In search Of quip and qYiddity I've sat all
day, alone, apart
And all that / could hit on as problem
was-to find
| Analogy between a scragg of mutton and
a Bony-part,
Which offers slight employment to the
speculative mind;
For you cannot call 1t very good, how
ever great your charity
It's not the sort of humor that is
greeted with shout
And I've come to the conclusion that the
mine of jocularity,
In the present Ammo Domini is worked
completely out!
Though the notion you may scout,
can prove beyond a doubt
That the mine Of jocularity is utterly
worked OUT
Local huntsmen will peruse with pleas
ure this interesting paragraph from the
Wilkes-Barre Leader: "There are deer in
close vicinity. A fine buck was seen back
N nnta6 nm
the Bowman's creek watershed and in the
swamps that abound in the fastness Of the
Iehigh range. The number of foxes shot
within the past week shows that reynard
is keeping up his progeny. The wildsat is
abundant on the Lehigh and Moosc
mountains. One hunter alone In the past
four years shot 259 foxes, 300 wildcats or
catamounts anda large number of skunks
The skins of the fox are worth from % to
so cents. New wildsat skins sell for 90
cents to 81, according to size, and for
skunks a good demand will place the pelt
at ST. Notwithstanding the aggression Of
civilization the wilds Of Luzerne Lack
| awanna Wayne, Monroe and Sullivan
counties are full of game Of the widest
sort, and the woods will be full Of hunt
ers from now on until the season closes.
| The markets are crowded already with
smaller game, and later In the season
| there will be deer and bear meat galore"
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| 1t will be welcome news to wheelmen
that the big cycle companies will in all
probability name 500 as the standard
price for 1896 models. One Of these compa-
nies-the Rambler firm in Chicago-has
already made this announcement; and II
| would be singular, indeed, If its compet-
| itors in high grade goods did not follow
| its example. The raw material in an
average bicycle costs less than $S. The
labor in making It costs less than, $22. And
| the remaining sos represents freight tolls,
| advertising, commissions and profits. The
cost of the bicycle Is bound to come
down. You can put 1t down as a sure
| thing that inside Of twenty-five years the
| best wheels will go begging at $50 apiece.
Up to date, Editor Singerly's emphatic
demand for q new leadership in the De-
mocracy of Pennsylvania has not been
| honored by q spontaneous response.
| Neither Is it altogether clear that Secre-
| tary Harrity Is yet under any obligation
| to proffer his resignation as boss. In
deed, those of Harrity's friends who may
be supposed to know, intimate that the
hopeful secretary of the commonwealth
believes the late candidate for governor
Is merely doing some more loud talking
through his hat"
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