THf SUR#t 
SWEET AND BITTER. 
How sweet and fresh the soft spring air— 
A balm, an appetizer. 
It makes me feel like—but, oh ! whew 
Consarn the fertilizer: 
—Burlington Free Press. 
“Order slate” is the injudicious advice 
suspended before certain coal-offices.— Col¬ 
orado Farmer. 
A Tree is like the man in a hurry. When 
he leaves he makes good use of his limbs — 
Yonkers Statesman. 
Noah lived in the Mississippi Valley, for 
didn’t he come out of the Arkausaw land?— Ag¬ 
ricultural fipitomist. 
Low cut shoes are recommended for croquet 
playing. The mosquitoes think they are 
lovely.— New Hampshire Patriot. 
“Those who use our goodsare very much 
attached to them,” is what a porous-plaster 
company advertises.— York Beacon. 
The tenor in a fashionable church choir 
found to his horror that his voice all at once 
became unpleasantly thick. He strained it, 
but without any good effect.— New York 
Tribune. • 
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Student (not very clear as to his les¬ 
son) : “That’s what the author says, any¬ 
way.” Professor : “I don’t want the author; 
I wantyou.” Student (despairingly) : “Well 
you’ve got me.”— Philadelphia Quiz. 
A Writer says an ordinary beetle can 
draw twenty times its own weight., We have 
seen the insect move a woman weighing 165 
pounds by simply alighting within half an 
inch of her nose.— Norristown Herald. 
Irate Father : “See here, sir, what does 
this mean? You said you were at the head of 
the class, but Mr. Pedagogue says you are at 
the foot.” Little Son : “Well, maybe he 
counts from the other end.”— Omaha World. 
“1 know I’ve got a vein of poetry in me, 
sir,” confidentially asserted the young man to 
the editor, “and all I want is a chance to 
bring it out. What would you suggest, sir ?” 
“1 think you had better see a doctor and have 
it lanced.”— Life. 
We do not think the public will stand a raise 
in elevated railway fares. In fact, the 
crowded condition of the cars leads us to the 
conclusion that the people who travel on them 
stand about as much as they care to now.— 
Yonker's Statesman. 
Pat, for the first time at a hotel table, saw a 
boarder reach for the celery several times and 
placidly proceed to dispose of it. Pat gazed 
in dismay, and turned to his fellow country¬ 
man with “Oh ! moi ! he’s aitin’ the bo’kay!”— 
Agricultural Epitoinist. 
—“No,” said the house maid; “I don’t 
apologize to a man when I throw a bucketof 
water down the front steps to wash ’em and 
he comes along and gets drenched Pve tried 
apologizing, but I’ve found there’s nothing 
you can say to a man in that case that wilj 
satisfy him.”— Scranton Truth. 
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