Year: 1877

OCCUPATION is the necessary basis of
enjoyment.


We have more Incidence in the mind
than in the body.


THERE'S good wide ditch between
saying and doing.


THINK for yourself and think much
more than you talk.
OF late years more interest is taken in
college scull contest than ina college
'kull contest.


The man whose feet were so large that
he had to put his pants on over his head
has got boy so bow-legged that his
breeches patterns have to be cut with
circular saw.


AT Hyde Park, down near Scranton,
New York, they have Welsh Punch. 1t
is not liquid nor muscular in its nature,
but humorous and newspaper. One of
its jokes looks like this: "Siht repap 81
emo rallod raey."


NORWICH Bulletin: The German word
for life insurance company is lebensver-
sicherungsgeselIschaft. 1t has the great
advantage that while the agent is pro-
nounciDg it, the victim is fairly warned
and has an opportunity to climb over the
fence and hide under the barn.


SOMETHING LIKE AN APPETITE.


Bring me turtle here in bowlsi


Bring me turbot, bring me coles!
Turkey, too and dainty chine,


Balls OF sausage meat combine
Tipsy cake and Roman punch;
OF plum pudding good hunch,
With mipce pies, both brandy sauced,
BriDg-the list Il can't exhaust
Bring them all land when you do,


Bring the nearest doctor, too!


A GENTLEMAN who rather suspected
some one was peeping through the key
hole of his office door, investigated with
q syringe full of pepper sauce, and went
home TO find his wife had been cutting
wood, and chip had hit her in the eye.


WHEN you go to book auction, don't
bid on an old Greek work just because it
is going dog cheap. A Greek book, to
man who doesn't understand the Ian
guage, is of as much use as a meer-
schaum pipe and a pocketful of smoking
tobacco is to a yellow dog.


LISTENING for the echo of the from
bone of the vanquished mosquito, and
smiling sadly to himself as he thinks of
the summer boasting of the ephemeral
fly, the convival cockroach now sits on
the handle of the fragrant frying-pan,
king of the insect world.


AN exchange paper says that Zone
cranberry patch in Pennsylvania yielded
one thousand and nineteen bushels this
year, and when man stopped to look at
the crop five minutes it drew his mouth
up into such a knot that he couldn't
find his mustache."


THIS is the way the Boston Transcript
puts it in behalf of Theodore Thomas:
Philadelphia is very nice city. 1t has
very nice candy, very nice ladies, very
nice terrapin soup, very clean white mar
bic doorsteps, and the front window cur
tains all have two tassels and fringe OH
the bottom edge. And yet Philadelphia
has no ear Tor music.


NEW YORK Commercial: 1t rather dis
courages man who has virtually re-
solved to rise early these winter morn
ings TO get down stairs and, after plung-
ing his hand into bowl of buckwheat
batter in feeling around for match, to
discover the family cat peacefully curled
up on his breakfast plate.


IT cannot but piepossess the minds of
liberty-loving people like ours, glory
ing in the grandeur of its free-schOol
system, TO hear member of board of
education camly rise in his seat, ma
estically wave his hand to thegentleman
who preceded him, and blandIy remark,
"Mr. Chairman, amt got no objections
to this ere motion prevailin'."