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PRIZE POETRY. 
The result of the first prize given for poetry by a 
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ductlon: 
’* I had a dreme— 
I thought 1 was alone, alone; 
Oh It did seme 
So sad, away from home, from home 1 
"My head upon my hand 
1 lent, I lent; 
My eyes upon the sand 
I bent, 1 bent. 
*• I thort of other da*e, 
And things, find things; 
Of happy, childish plays, 
And strings, and strings. 
SPARKS or JOLLITY. 
Girl loafers—Female bakers. 
Toilers of the see—Opticians. 
Mere matter of form—Fitting a dress. 
Tiie best “church service”—Matrimony. 
Maids of honor—Those who do not jilt 
suitors. 
Obscure writers, like turbid streams, seem 
deeper than they are. 
A drawing-master, worrying his pupil 
with contemptuous remarks upon his lack 
of ability, ended by asking, “ Now, sir, if 
you were going to draw me, what part of 
me would you commence first V" The hoy, 
with a meaning look into his master’s face, 
answered very quietly, “ Your neck, sir?” 
An Alabama editor having read Dr. Hall’s 
lecture advising that husband and wife 
should sleep in separate apartments, says 
that I)r. Hull can sleep where he chooses, 
hut for himself be intends to sleep where he 
can defend his wife against rats and other 
nocturnal foes, as long as he has got one to 
defend. 
“ Jenny,” said a landlady to her help, the 
oilier morning, “Jenny, was there any lire 
in the kitchen last night, while you were 
sitting up?” “Only just a spark, ma’am,” 
was the reply. The landlady looked sus¬ 
piciously at Jenny, hut the innocent girl 
went on scrubbing and humming “ Katy 
Darling.” 
“ Bon, why the dickens don’t you go to 
work, and not be such a vagabond ?" “ Wlint, 
work before breakfast ?’’ “ Well, work after 
breakfast, then.” “ Pshaw, it is only ft little 
while before dinner.” “ Work, then, between 
your breakfast and dinner, and between din¬ 
ner and supper.” “ No, 1 read in a doctor’s 
book, that it is unhealthy to work between 
meals.” 
“ On Dogs ” a Virginia school girl writes 
this composition : —“ Dogs is usefuller than 
cats. Mice is afeared of cats they bite ’em. 
Dogs follows boys and catches a hog by the 
car. Hogs rarely bite. Sheeps bite people. 
People cat hogs and not the Jews as they 
and other animals that doern’t chew their 
cud isn’t clean ones. Dogs sometimes git 
hit with boot jacks for barking at night. 
Sleepy people gits mad and throws at mu. 
Dog is the best animal for man than‘ground¬ 
ed hogs or koous or gotes. Dotes smell. 
The End.” 
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