Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10

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persons among my patients who have
been scared into illness by the pesky
things .-Indianapolis Journal.
! The air was hot at a. m.
No fresh and cooling breeze
Famed mother earth or softly stirred
The leaves upon the trees.
At 10 a. m. the sun was working hard
With fattering success;
The mercury was boiling hot
Ninety degrees or less.
At noon the heat was furnacelike,
Dogs gasped for want of air,
At great strong thermometers
Were bursting everywhere.
And then at last one prim old maid
/ Said, with a modest cough:
| 81 think I'll go upstairs and take
My winter fannels Off"
-Somerville Journal.
| did you ever save a dollar?" asked
the citizen, severely.
Never answered Meandering
Mike
did you ever do days work."
Never"
"Why not?"
mister, you're an intelligent man,
an you can see dat desc discussions
between capital an labor is bound to
continue. What I'm amin at is to
keep me mind perfectly free from pre-
JUDGE on either side SOS to be right
in line when dey wants someone to
do good job of arbitration p
Washington STAR
A man entered an "ice cream par
lor," and slowly and thoughtfully ate
his portion of vanilla. While he was
paying the cashier he said, quietly:
II notice you advertise that you
make your own ice cream"
''Yes..'
'Let me give you a pointer which
will help your trade amazingly"
''Well?" asked the man, curiously.
The reply was bland and apparently
courteous:
Get some other fellow to make it. .
I-Harpers Bazaar.
The French president was surround
I ed by a bowling mob. But he never
quaked quake of fear.
! Suddenly somebody threw a dyna-
mite bomb.
It failed to explode.
The crowd grew frantic.
They yelled, threw up their hats
and lifted the president upon their
shoulders, crying:
give t!"-Syracuse Herald
81 guess that I'm making some head
way" said the persistent lover, who is
not in favor with her father.
''But thought the old gentleman
kicked you out whenever he found
you at the house?'
"He does, but I have noticed that
he is not kicking nearly as hard of
late. l feel sure that he is gradually
relenting. Detroit Free Press.
"Wot are you breathin' so hard
for, Dusty?"
"A shoemaker run me out O. town
] IOI uOSL d Iu110s
| "Wot riled him."
Gle runs a quick repair shop, an
he got mad cause I handed him a
couple O. boot heels an a shoestring
an told him I'd call fer de shoes in
| haIf'n hour. "-CIeve1and Plain Dealer
Rodney Jones is awfully in love
! with Alice Wiggins.~
"How do you know"
"He sat behind her at the theater
and I heard him tell her there wasn't
anything on the stage half so beauti-
full and interesting to him as the back
of her hat''-New York Evening
World.
Crawford-Are you good judge of
a girl, old man?
Crabshaw-A better judge never
drew the breath of life. In all my
experience I was deceived in only one
girl.
Which one was that?
Crabshaw-The one I married.-New
York World.
Young man." said the veteran,
learn to say"
81 know what you are going to tell
me-" said the high-browed youth who
wore a uniform. "You are going to
advise me to learn to say no."
"Not al all. I was about to advise
you to learn to say nothing. Wash
| ingtOn Star.
Emma-Charley asked me to marry
| him last evening and I had to refuse
him, the dear fellow.
Ella-How did it happen?
Emma-Of course [ like Charley,
but as to marrying him"
ElIa-I mean how did it happen that
he asked you?-Boston Transcript.
Struggling minister-There was
stranger in church today.