Year: 1878


of God.


Green should be the turf above
John Morrissey.


The prevailing strawberry mark
"20 cents box"


It's wise father who knows his
own child in Utah.


The hen becomes rooster when
the sun goes down.


The spring time cat is audible,
with the bootjack obIigato.


The Cimbria must not hurt our
navy. 1t must take something of its
size.


No man likes to hold a girl baby
in his arms until she is seventeen
years old.


American ficsion-The annual
statement of New York insurance
companies.


The Creator may have made an
honest man, but he never made an
honest politician


The quiet fellow in the corner who
lets his rivals do all the talking gen.
orally marries the girl.


The lightning-rod swindlers will
soon begin to operate. Spare the
rod--but kill the agent.


A certain California schoolma'ma
is said to be able to "sing hymns
like a ten octave angel"


A hint is as good as a kick, but
there are men who will never take
one till they get the other.


The man with but one idea, like
the hen with one chicken, is very
apt to make the most of it.


All! What growing days these are!
The interest on mortgage climbs
half way over the house in one night.


Don't spank your children with
the boot,jack, II is too hard to hold,
and is apt to make bunions on your
thumb.


A bedroom set valued at $50 is
offered to the couple who will get
married on the Greenvillc, Michi-
gan fair grounds next fall.


A Missouri editor, who got one of
the new counterfeit dollars stuck on
him last week, gave the fact as an
excuse for suspending his pubica
tion.


The patent medicine man will
never feel that life is all that hope
can paint until he can plaster his
advertisement on the face of the
moon.


ada, what makes you such bad
girl2" "Well, mamma, God sent you
Just the hest children He could find,
and If they don't suit you l can't
help i'll"


General Mite, the dwarf, is said to
have earned 100000 for his mother
in the last two years. This is a fine
illustration of the value of the "wid-
ow's mite"


The Beecher men still believe in
Beecher, and the Tilton men still be-
lieve in TiIton. There are good



either one Of them.


What is the difference between
schoolboy studying his lessons and
farmer watching. his cows2 One is
stocking his mind and the other is
minding his stock
Cut this out and paste it in your
hat: Miss Lovely says that males are
no account from the time the ladies
stop kissing them as infants to the
time they kiss them again as lovers.
1t is proposed that the Senate meet
only once every two hundred years
and then remain in session only
twenty-four hours. The object of
this bill is to give Senator Sharon a
chance to spend portion of his time
in the Senate Chamber.
Definition of a muff: A thing that
holds young lady's hand without
squeezing it. ''"
A man can profess more religion
in ffty minutes than he can practice
by working hard for fifty years.
Almost every actor has his favor
ite role. Now and then one is found
whose favorite roll is in the gutter.
The Graphic has information that
Edison has invented swallow
tail coat that can also be used as a |
boot jack
A lady joking the other day about |
nor nose, said: III had nothing to
Ado In shaping IL. 1t was birth
day present." -"4
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