Judge — August 30, 1890 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A PESSIMISTIC REVERY. °D LIKE to take a journey hence To other worlds, for here, in fact, Nature seems short of common sense ‘And painfully devoid of tact Her loves and griefs, her joys and pains, Mix up in such a reckless w: ‘That which the losses are, or gains, ‘No reasoning mind can clearly say. ‘The things she does and leaves undone, Her curious use of good and bad, Would really be no end of fua— ‘Only it happens to be sad. The pains and evils she contrives ‘Appear to make her feel elate ; And then, her spite at human lives Is something’ strange to contemplate, "s hideous laws ‘Should earth's {air atmosphere disgrace. And yet the earth be safe because “Tis poised aloft in airy space ; ‘That half our life is given to sleep; ‘That not to eat is certain death, And that alive we cannot keep Without the constant aid of breath; Why, these facts s0 outrageous seem fhat when T ponder them 1 shake Myself and say," This is a d T surely cannot be awake!” Alas! Iam. My grief is this, That I'm too wide awake by far, And hence my yearning project is ‘To seek some other sphere or But then, on second thought, perhaps Tal beiter stay and calmly’ wai Because when years enough elapse Tit have to goat any rate. GEORG coming. WHEN THER A BLOW AT INCONGRUITY. cLe Prieta —"T warn't never on a yatcht, but I reck'n I'm entitled t' wear ole leather-top fer a Sunday mornin’ drive, arter servi’ twenty-four year as head bucket- * Eagles," passer with t HUM OF THE COURT. will go home in May. This fact will add greatly to the pleasure that attends his discussion as to whether a book is immoral it is safe to say it is— else why the discussion ? MBS. JOE CHAMBERLAIN receives a warm welcome to her old home, only a small portion of which is not for Joseph. HE -OLES of Milwaukee want a monument to the late Mr. Kosciusko, whose death was attended with a wild, fierce shriek from the be ik of freedom. GAIL HAMILTON conducts a bible talk every Sunday which is naturally voluble and is attended with frequent stamps of the foot indicating trouble for the smaller scholars. ECENTLY, and dir wasn't Wall street THE SCION OF THE FAMILY Mr. Gir. looking youngster I ever saw! MS. GikAFFE—"' He doesn’t hand some much, Selim; but just think what a Napoleon of cocoanut sprouts he'll be when he grows up!” Claim regrets that. TOO GOOD A CHAD Larker came near be Miss Pact 7 Miss Exses ad Kandegy! said yes under ws cording to an exchange, $ dy a man found Ke TUCKY and Alaba: | you can get, y millions of dollars in crops and at least a hundred Republican votes apiece ? WRITER says he doesn’t regret the time he lost in wooing. stor Jones dropped fifteen thousand dollars in the street, nd returned it to him. ‘The street isn’t mentioned, but we believe it a held elections yesterday, Democra my son, Why c victories as usual.—Flmira Gazette, nit those cyclones in several western states that destroyed Oh, no, Of course not. Nobody The things to be regretted are the unspeakable idiot he was, and the unaccountable idiocy of the woman who finally ac- cepted him. DONNELLY says a balloon can be made that, sent to the level of storm- clouds, will break up cyclones and thun- der-storms. Mr. Donnelly is a daring man. He begins the erection of his tower of Babel next week. OME OF THE GIRLS at the seaside during the late hot weather were dressed in something less than a little brief authority, and performed such feats before high heaven as made the angels bathe in their own tears. OD NEVER meant that a poor, inno- cent child should be born into the world for the mere purpose of having it afflicted parents and friends slu: tears over its grave through the watering- pot of an ordinary newspaper. ONES, licutenant-governor, had so nar- row an escape from drowning recent- ly that a contemporary calls it a close he term is classical, but we understood it to mean a pe from assassination, comicbooks.com