Judge — October 19, 1889 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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22 HUM OF THE COURT. G®T YOUR breast-pins. An exchange says opalescent glassware “is the rage for candle- light effects, THERE IS TOO much recent talk about the old Hamilton- Burr duel. It is thickly enshrouded in the last half of Aaron's name. EDITOR STONE of the Journal of Commerce “bas not had a day of rest for thirty years.” He must be made of precisely that ma- terial. T MAY be true, as stated, that there is honor among thieves; but it is so successfully hidden that it does nobody any good — not even the thieves. THOMPSON is practical. When Jones said to him sympatheti ally, “1 fear Smith is losing his grip.” Thompson said promptly, “Why doesn’t he buy a trunk ? E NEVER read the obitua- ry column of the Baltimore American without shedding copious tears over the grief of General Felix Agnus; consequently it is so pain- ful that we never read it. THE EDITOR of the Detroit Free Press has invented a cast- iron potato, obviously made mere M®. HOWEL would disturb his later somnolency. SOME RECENT domestic tragedies seem to make it necessary that a E BI man shall promise at the altar to kill himself first and his wife after i. the consummation of that dreadful act. HE something in the able editorials of a portion of the evening press on such topics as base- ball which recalls alike the melan- choly of Bull Run and the jubila- tion attending the fall of Richmond, SOMEBODY says China “is a sleeping giant whose strength is unknown.” China is a sleeping coward. When she sand discovers her strength she will run away from it as fast as her legs can carry her. A PAPER questions the accuracy of a recent picture of Lily girl. But the fact is -gardless of the lineaments. Langtry is not only a girl, but she has belonged to that sex for the long period of forty-five ALL GAMBLING in New Or- leans is to be stopped, and the people of the town are moving out much haste, trepidation and were to be another visitation of yellow fever and B. F. Butler. THE ABLE LIAR and prognos- ticator of the Norristown /fer- ald says the winter in his locality will be so cold that people will want to goto the north pole to get warm. We trust he will continue to live, because if he doesn’t he is likely to prognosticate in the opposite direc tion. to sell, which reminds us of the Gree- ley turnips that cost Uncle Horace a dollar apiece. . it is remarked, does the bulk of his literary work be- fore dinner. We see how it is. Actua werur | 22 lbs LIVING SKELETON —"* Jest make that dog move on, will yer? I don’t THe s feel like being picked to-day If he were to do it after dinner it tution as well. (an hl \ NOT DIFFICULT TO COMPLY WITH. Mrs, Rurrixs—" Me an’ my husban’s too pore t' tek care ob de chile, so we's ‘bleeged t’ fetch it heah."” SUPERINTENDENT —"All right; I'll keep it dark.” A THUNDER-STORM in Ohio was thought for a time to be Private Dalzell; but as it did no damage it soon transpired that it was a disorder of a few of the ordi- nary elements. ‘0 THE GREAT LESSON to be learned,” says a newspaper philosopher, “‘is that human life is never cheap.” And this in face of the notorious fact that a girl baby was recently bought for ten dollars. MAN who was many years chairman of the Democratic state committce of this state has just been sentenced to a. period in the penitentiary. “The delay in his punishment is remarkable, for he must be seventy years old. Ce] T IS considered vulga a fashion authority, “to have acall-bell on the dining-table ;” and we all know that it is customary in Boston for the host to arise, go to the kitchen door, and call out gently but firmly, “Jane, bring in them beans.” THE KAISER is said to be mor- bidly sensitive with regard to his shriveled arm, And not with- out reason, Germany is essentially a military nation, and think of the head of the army being one-armed and otherwise equipped as the law doesn’t direct. ‘T IS AMAZING that young Mrs. Emmons Blaine should survive. We refer of course to the pictures of her published in the daily newspapers. Mrs. Blaine is really fine-looking, and she must have an excellent consti- ZON tells in a book how he spent $1,250,000 in two years. His picture in a contemporary shows a youth with a very thin face and avery large nose. The cars are omitted because, apparently, there isn’t room for them on the contemporary’s page. WO GEORGIA NEGROES Went out to fight a duel, and when the time for shooting came the challenger cried, “* Don’t shoot!” and ran away. Now there is a model duelist. If we would only get our lessons from such men there would be less bloodshed and consequently more peace and con- solation. VERY FEW THINGS are sad- der than Chauncey's story of the boy who ate green apples in a church-yard, singing mean- while “Nearer, my God, to thee,” but there was something of sad- ness in the music of a venerable and very near-sighted man — is the way I long have sought, and mourned because I found it hot.” A WOMAN in Brookfield, Mass., captured a burglar, and was greatly distressed to find he was a neighbor on whom her affections had been conferred. She thought the rascal was one David F. Ritchie, editor of the Saratogian ; but David could have ~ easily proved an alibi, anyhow, because at the moment of the Brook- field occurrence he was. stealing a horse in Greenfield, Saratoga county. comicbooks.com |