Judge — June 1, 1889 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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8 small brass thing, Who had given it to her that night when they ‘ At West Point, And there on the ba pen, of the beautiful stream, c linger and dream, button she never would rs have vanished, and still she wears oy bute ing buttons a dozen or more, Triumphantly carried as tr From West Point. hies of war For she visits each summer that romantic place, Where the passport most sure is a pretty giel’s face; Where lovers, like mushrooms, so rapidly grow, That girls, » tally, must button each beau NOTES FOR FISHERMEN. is not an ice fish to do all the blowin ‘The torpedo-fish is very rarely caught by a line, as it no sooner sees a boat than it goes off. ‘The reason that the fish in the } no eyes is that they do not live in th ‘A black bass was caught in Long island sound the other day. It was perfectly white, with golden spots. A school of weak-fish held a recitation near the At- lantic cable recently, and the operator in New York overheard them de- clining the verb “to bite.” A perch belongs to the acanthopterygian order of fishes. ‘This sounds funny if you ty to say it fast. : ‘The passengers on a southern steamer were treated not long since to a serenade by a troop of drum-tish. In the South sea islands silver-fish are used as money, and one ing four ounces passes for a quarter. A hammer-head shark listened to a dude on board of a yacht telling some improbable story, and immediately * nailed” him. A party of young men were lost off the banks of Newfoundland, and only reached land by the aid of a pilot-fish which towed the boat to land. John Jones, a farmer in New Jersey, recently found a turtle weighing three hundred pounds in his well-bucket. He still has the bucket to prove his story. ammoth cave have sea, Visitor Ata recent dinner of the G, A. R. the members rebelled because a Mr. FRENDERS (who has made money as a calcimine hunt now'days fer ole fambly po'traits dat I had my great-gran‘pop done up from mem'ry." REGISTERED HEREDITY. * That's a rather interesting painting, Sam.” ontractor) —"* Vassir. Dey's sech a gar-fish was on the menu. on their name. While a ball was being held in a Mount Desert hotel a flying-fish en- tered the ball-room, and after circling about the heads of the dancers for a few minutes flew out again. Fishermen always guess at the weight of a catefish, because they say that if nature had intended them to be weighed in the regular way the cat fish would have been supplied with scale: They said that it was not right to make puns PERILS OF THE DEEP. “1 can’t see how people can trust ‘emselves aboard these ships with water-tight: compartments,” said Uncle Abner. “Reg'lar death-traps, they seem to m Jow so?” asked his nephew. “Why. s'pose the water happens to git into one of ‘em, how in the world is it ever goin’ to run out?” A WHISPER FROM VASSAR. PROFESSOR OF the vertebra: is th and speaks emph: Ladies, among the smallest of and hesitates, finds it again “the mouse.” comicbooks.com