Judge — December 15, 1888 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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A SUDDEN CHANGE OF OPINION. Mx. HocRack (reading natural history (Convulsively, as the escaped bicyclestire for the family)—"* Valk about snakes attack- gets in its rork)—"* Lemme go, Mister Snake, ing men! I don’t take no stock in any sech an’ I'll take it all back an’ apollergize PUT THEM ALL ASLEEP. “Did you read about that minister in the west who stopped in the middle of the sermon to eject ‘ Roaring Jim’ 2” what was Jim doi s disturbing the meet and the parson put Jim to sleep in tw tion “They were asleep on the inside.” Just outside the church door they had a mill minutes. “Where were the congre THE ROBBER. But though he seached every cranny and hole, Not a trace of the thief he found to slaughter, For the only thing that the burglar stole Was a kiss from the lips of the old man’s daughter. CALLING ON THE PARSON’S DAUGHTER. “TL suppose you go regularly to meeting,” she said, demurely. colored. “Yes,” he answered ; “if they're by moonlight.” They made a noise at the gate that night, I woke the old man from his sleep upstairs © Ah, ah!” he langhed, as he struck a light, “T'l ake you, my burglar, unawares.” The young man A THOMPSON STREET MISTAKE. see yo's a strangah ind’ ward, mah fren’. y-walk at Mose Parkah's dis eve. * Oi ‘ve been dhrivin’ a char-rcoal car-rt in this dishiric’ fer tin year, an* it's th’ foorst time Oi wor acoshted be a coon,” Mr. Werte ter see yo' down t' d Mk. SLATTER We'se be mos’ happy fer Tickers, fifty caints.”” a SENTENCES PASSED BY THE JUDGE. 2 most inveterate borrowers are the borrowers of trouble, Money will buy almost anything, from a postage-stamp to a peerage or an opinion. Why not reverse the ancient order of things? Let trouble 0 to protest and borrow happiness once in a way. It is not always an easy matter to succeed gracefully ; but it requires a much finer equilibrium to fail successfully. Everything becomes an old story. It is doubtful whether five people on earth would be happy in an unchangeable heaven. It is easy to be noble among the noble. The difficult thing is to keep the nobility of one’s nature unperverted among the petty and ignoble. Personal dissatisfaction may be the cause of our being so critical with others, and of our bitter disappointment when we learn that none are exempt from defects. It is a pusillinimous desire which would prevent earth from returning to earth, Nature lends us a cloak for the A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING. (calling boy)—"* Cash !* CounteyaaN—" Great turnips, can't you give me time to get my pocket-book out! I don't want no credit, don't! I'm going to pay you cash soon as I can get at it convenience of a day's journey. When itis done with, lo you! we take the cloak and seal it apart, and lock it away in lavender and musk. Then let her get it how she can! Children were formerly required to honor their parents, and to support them in old age; but we of the new heraldry seem to expect that parents will accumulate sufficient prop- erty and reputation to last two or three generations. There is a sensation upon glancing over one’s first printed article which is no more susceptible of reproduction than are the summer days of childhood or a mother's first joy. That which. approaches it most nearly is, pethaps, the emotion felt when one for the first time holds in his hand a twenty-dollar check payable to himself. The whole world is poor in comparison. KATWRINE GEOSsEAN. GALATEA. I asked a kiss, but she denied ; Then pressed I cloner to her side, And stole the kiss, With heart awake, She gave me all I chose to take. comicbooks.com