Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-05-10
PITIi AND POINT.

--"Do you think you will enjoy the
opera when il will be all in Erench"
Mrs. Smallpay-"You silly boy Don't
all the people in the boxes talk En-
glish?"--Inter.Oc
-Father-"Is the girl you are going
to marry economical?" Son (enthusias-
tically)-'I should say so. Last year
she spent five hundred dollars in bar
gains. "-Broolslyn Life.
How we would enjoy the rapture
or our earliest callow love,
Could we ITS bliss recapture
Less the foolishnoss thereof
Puck.
-"J hear your son has become an
actor; how is he getting on?" VERY
we'll indeed. He began as corpse, and
now he has already advanced to the
role of a ghost. t."-Fliegende Blatter.
Sly yboy-"Well, good-day, Charleyi
drop in and see me some time when
you haven't anything else to do"
Charley-"But I'm always busy" Sly,
boy-"Yes; knew you re."-Boston
Courier.
-Mamma-"Oh, l am terribly wor.
ried about Robbie" Papa-"What is
wrong with him now; some simple lit.
tie ailment?" Mamma-"No; he has
washed his face twice without being
told. "-Inter-Ocea
Mrs. Mulligan-"Yer wages is twin.
ty cints short this wake, Moike." Mr..
Mulligan-"Yis, Mary Ann. The boss
docked me for the time wuz asking
for raise in me wages. ."-Browning,
King & Co.'S Monthly.
-"Do you think" said Willie Wish
ngton, that it actually hurts man
to be hit with one of Cupid's arrows?"
"No," replied Belle Pepperton. "As a
rule, he merely becomes senseless for a
time. Washington Star.
The Aunt-"I think Sibyls con.
duct is outrageous. She is flirting dis.
gracefully, and only just buried her
husband!" The Niecc-"That's not
very bad. Some of us would not wait
that long."-Harlem Life.
--Mother-"To think that my little
Ethel should have spoken so imper.
tinently to papa to-day at dinner! She
never hears me talk that way to him"
Ethel (stoutly)-"Well, you choosed
him, and didn't."-Broolilyn Life.
-"Men who cat beef become very
beefy," said Dawson, 'aud so on. Man
takes on the attributes of what he
eats" stop moralizing, and order
the lunch," said Sappy. "All right,
said Dawson. "What do you eati
veal?'- Harper's Bazaar.
Not Professional. Walker Turn
pike-"I wuz readin' in pape' this
morn that there's swell young man
in New York that always takes bath
before eatin'" Willie Werll-"How
holler he'd be, Brother Walker, if he
had our job. Detroit Free Press.
-"This," said the attendant as he lee
the way through the incurable ward
sis one of the worst cases we have. lie
was once newspaper man." "But
what is his hallucination?' asked the
visitor anxiously. "He thinks he has
money" answered the attendant sadly
brooklyn Life.
-Clubberly-"I am in terrible
pickle, ordered some roses sent to {
girl and the florist made a mistake an(
sent them c. o. D." Castleton-"That'i
easily fixed Why don't you go around
and explain it to the girl?" Clubberly
MOT much. She might want thC
ey."-BroolSlyn Life.
bson must be awfully
afraid of his wife. lie is always tell
ing us how she will give him fits if h,
doesn't hurry home" Potts-"That'
the best sign in the world that he il
not afraid of her at all. The man whc
is bossed by his wife never says {
word about it. t."-Indianapolis Journal
81 didn't know yo' could read
Bre'r Downey," Downey (apparcntl,
much interested in his paper
yes, Use read ebber since l wuz e
boy" Den how comes it you'se read
in dat paper upside down?' 81 al
ways reads dat way, Bre'r Downey
den Use gets at de bottom OBJ de fac
widout habing ter read down de Who'll,
column. Harlem Life.