fl&MMNHim. 
JAN %\ 
NEW READING OF AN OLD PROVERB. 
A bird that can’t sing. 
And Insists upon singing. 
Should have Its neck wrung.— Life. 
Kissing, they say. out of fashion has gone, 
’Tis a pity, and life's but a span; 
Now, who would get mad If the maidens should say: 
“O, ain’t he an old-fashioned man!”— Puck. 
Coal Dealer; “Good morning! Fine, brac¬ 
ing weather.” Ice Cream Man: “Beastly 
weather.’ — Tid-Bits. 
“Does he go by machinery?” inquired a 
little girl who saw a dude on a bicycle pass¬ 
ing. — Farm , Field and Stockman. 
“See here, waiter, how is it that I find a 
trousers button in this salad?” “Dat am a 
part of de dressin’, sah.”— Life. 
Hardly a week passes but we are re¬ 
minded that we are constantly surrounded 
by perils seen and kerosen e.—Springfield 
Union. 
Tramp (to woman at the door): “I feel very 
much distressed, madam.” Madam; “Some¬ 
thing you have eaten?” Tramp: “No, some¬ 
thing I’ve not eaten.”— Epoch. 
Some musicians are fond of speaking of the 
“colors” of the tones of various musical in¬ 
struments. We wonder if they have noticed 
that the cornet is always ‘ ‘blew?”— Burlington 
Free Press. 
McKenzie: “What a delightful thing it 
would be if some one would invent a new fig¬ 
ure for the germau 1” Miss Laker (from Cin¬ 
cinnati): “Wouldn’t it! They’re so awfully 
stout, as a race ”— Judge. 
“Young man,” said the physician, impress¬ 
ively, “your symptons indicate fatty degen¬ 
et ation of the heart.” “I presume they do, 
doctor,” replied the youth, dejectedly “I 
am engaged to a young woman who weighs 
314 pounds.”— Chicago Tribune. 
Hotel Waiter: “You are late for lunch, 
sir.” Eminent Physician: “Yes, I had to 
finish my magazine article on ‘The Laws of 
Health,’ so as to get it into the next mail. 
What have you to-day?’ H. W.: “Hot rolls, 
clams, plum pudding, apple dumplings, mince 
pie and fruit cake.” E. P.: “Bring ’em all.” 
—Omaha World. 
The following anecdote, illustrative of rail¬ 
road facility, is very pointed: A traveler 
inquired of a negro the distance to a certain 
point. “Dat ’pends on circumstances,” re¬ 
plied the darkey. “If you gwine afoot, it’ll 
take you about a day, if you gwine in the 
stage or de bomneybus, you make it in half a 
day; but you git in one ob desesmoke wagons, 
you be almost dar now I”— Salem Standard. 
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