Judge — November 24, 1888 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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CONSOLATORY. Uncle Thomas has been fixed up by the boys during a particularly lethargic sleep and is just sh! you look jest like what you've allus acted like!” A CLAIM ON. THEIR GRATITUDE. Young Doctor . is ran down with business. You must ea said a friend to him one day. ot at all “No? a mint of moi my pi But their heirs ought to stand something handsome.” nts don’t pay A CAREFUL MOTHER. Edith (who has received an invitation from her fiancé)—* Mamma, Jack says he will be around this evening with a buggy Mamma—" Wm! Are you sure, dear, that he is able to drive with one hand 2” PHILOSOPHIC UNL TRYiNG CIRCUMSTANCES. When Jones was at the theatre the other evening he sat down by istake on his neighbor's hat and reduced it toa hopeless mass of silk board. ef was madder than half a dozen March hares, mly observed the culprit, “1 was awkward and no mis he added, with selt mplacent pity, "when 1 think that it Josrer— Chante Miss tfacarety (40 Dri Dinnis Dhriscoll ! ain’ phere they do employ naygurs? SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JULGE. No, a man is not apt to get too much re needs to keep a lookout for counterfeits. ion, but he We are all dissatisfied, ‘The only difference is that some of us sit down in the squalor of our dissatisfaction, while others make a ladder 0 A mole furnished with a spy-glass or a twenty-foot telescope would still be unab! of the moon's habitation, > determine the question nguish it from green cheese. We alll pray gious, good, bad and indifierent. the Hebrews prayed to Jchovah, and the modern prays to the Almiglty—dollar, irreligious and unr The crank is a very necessary wheel in life's ma- chinery. “ even pulse, for it is the man that lives in one idea who keeps the world agog. The stolid ave ford to keep an to become ngels and spend the remainder of eternity in pouring forth uninterrupted song are generally those who have ast power for vocal melody. Those who appear to be most anxious There than one ¢ what ma internally be a possibility of getting more religion ain, but this is true only of That developed adequately cont led the fore ly overgrows its be c n article. pacity. If the American has little reverence in his composition, A COMPARISON OF AFFLUENCE. Aha, my friend! I've got the new H'orld building! What you got?" “ve got Cleveland defeated, and don't you forget it! he has a preponderance of superstition—of the steam- electric sort. For instance, | have no faith in the potency of hair placked from the head of a saint to ward off diseases and protect (rom danger in general; but some- thing which never fails to be an object of superstitious worship with him is a little cabalistic sign made thus—$. There is a rumor to the effect that an old man with a lighted lantern is frequently seen on the streets of an old New England town in broad daylight. There can be no doubt that this is the re-embodied spirit of Diogenes con- tinuing his search, If he succeeds. in finding an: honest man he should have the specimen carefully mounted and placed lass case, not so much for the purpose of exhibiting it as a curiosity as for the purpose of keep- ing it so. Nothing is more characteristic of the Chinese as a nation than the habitual reverence with which they speak of the dead. When an emperor dies, “The mountain has collapsed ;” and when a prince departs this life, * The dream is over.” Some of our western phrases are equally characteristic. The announcement, * He has kicked the bucket “He has handed in his checks,” may not bear on its bosom the flowery fragrance of eastern senti- ment, but such expressions are certainly characte d cannot fail to be impressive, or, RATHKINEE GRESHAM. comicbooks.com