Judge — February 9, 1889 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE PAPA’S LITTLE GIRL. HE is so dainty and so sweet, To see her dance is quite a treat, As swiftly turn ber tiny feet In gay, delicious whirl Her eyes are purest, truest blue ; ‘They seem to look you through and through ; And now, I s'pose, you wonder who Is papa’s little gil ‘That is the name she calls herself, She's such a pretty little elf ; Ab, well! she knew where laid the pelf, ‘And gave her fan a twirl ‘When Moneybags placed all his store Of gold, and sixty years or more, At her fair shrine, upon the floor Gazed papas little girl. So simple, shy and ingénue, Quite too bewitching, pure and true, She sighs whene’er she looks at you, And pats a truant curl. But all the same she doesn’t care ; She'd rather wed a millionaire, And ride in gilded coach and pai Would papa’s little girl. PEARL EYTINGE. MUST HAVE EXERCISE. Little Johnny has been with his mother to call on a sick lady. “Why was she chewing gum all the time?” he asked. “I suppose,” replied his mother, “it was because the doctor had left word that she mustn't talk.” PREPARATIONS FOR GOODNESS. Mrs. Sprague is a member in good standing of the first church (Pres- byterian), and brings up her children in the way they should go. ‘They have all upon reaching a suitable age united with the church, While 1 was in there one day last week, making a friendly call, Fred, the youngest boy, came into the parlor in a very demoralized conditition. He was h mud, and looked very much as if he had been the under His elder sister, Alice, janation of Fred's earance, that he was going to join the church at the next communion Sunday, and that there were three boys on that street that he wanted to whip before then. covered wi THE WINTER POET. In the sprin (The poor And sing of the the year he will mourn angle-headed young poet), APT TO BE, © That's too thin,” said Jiggs, after listening to one of his f i Ciccise or fim case oF FIRE PULL THe RPE A DISCOVERY. Our New PoRTER (who pulls the lewr of the patent fre-extinguisher by mistake)—"" Sure, Oi know now phere th’ holey wather do all’come frum!" INTERESTING DISCOVERIES IN HISTORY. Psammetiches of Egypt was always called Sam by his intimate friends. Because Cyrus the Persian first fitted out his army with boots without cost some historians claim that he deserves the name of “ Free-booter.” The Last Days of Pompeii was not owing to Bulwer. It was Vesu- vius who did the business. Julius Cassar suffered his first de- feat at the hands of his mother, who found him drinking Roman punch. WINTER’S LESSON. Lives of burglars now remind us To be careful how we go; We can't help be Footprints ia th HE WOULDN'T WAIT. “ T understand there is a man here who wants to lick the terror of Shin- “Go home and tell that to your grand- mother.” “It would be no use to tell her,” was the repl “Why?” “She 1s deaf.” SAVED HIS REPUTATION. Epitn—"Oh, mamma! how can such awkward people dare to risk their necks on the ice?” handy,” bellowed the bully as he en- tered the bar-room of a border town, “Yes; he’s just now engaged in a broad-axeduel with twoothermen inthe dark room yonder. Won't you wait 2” “ Nen-no; I'm late for supper now. BUSINESS POINTEDNESS. Old lady (rushing into drug ay, mister! 1 want some ging clerkR—"Ysem, Face or fence ?” THAT KISS. ™ I've found my heart again, And broken is the chain That bound me long to thee. Farewell! T now am free.” Said she: “Before you go A kiss, that T may know We part as friends ; no more— ‘Then farewell ; all is o'er!” T kissed her Ab! the girl bad wily ant— T kissed ber, And again I lost my heart. (Time, five seconds.) SNIDER (after his second summersault tice tumblin’ at Barnum’s circus for nothin’, comicbooks.com