Judge — March 28, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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434 HUM OF THE COURT. THE FOOL of early April will find that the other one has given him the wooden egg for breakfast. THE TURKEY has his triumph and his death together; but the hen comes to glory at this time and lives to cluck and perhaps to crow about it. PERSEVERANCE —A chicken tried to lay an egg, as she had seen her mother; and when she found the nest was bare she turned and laid another. THE RELICS of the Napoleon family postponing death in order to quarrel over the political proprieties connected with it is a ghastly spectacle. A POET wrote of a hen that hatched an Easter bonnet, and thereby combined in a few lines the only two Easter things that poets have written about in many centuries. THEY SAY that “honest tears” were in Speaker Reed's eyes at the close of the late congress, and we certainly know that that is the only kind of emotional moisture the gentleman is able to produce. T OCCURS in law that an act- ress, even a pretty one like L. Russell, can’t forfeit. a contract without having to pay the dama; It is justice, and perhaps that what makes it seem so curious. WE SHALL miss the lenten aint from the pew she has so demurely of apparel as she goes laughing into the sunshine shall speak for the wis- HE HEN is a humble bird; but she is so valuable that she is never killed merely to get her plumage for women's hats. She does not sing enchantingly, but, her songs have food in them worthy of all acceptation. Oh, let us sing the charms of the humble but industrious hen. A CAUTIOUS PROPOSAL. Miss Caupicut Miss McNess — Miss McNess— What's his business?” He's a broker.” Miss Catpicur —"* Has he spoken to Yes; but I hardly t father yet?" he could watch me in connection with the dry-goods market,” dom of Solomon in having many kinds of wife. A PARAGRAPH by way of explanation Bartlett is not the existi mead Bartlett, the villain of one of the convent Mighty lucky thing for both Bartletts. THE DAUGHTER of a million- aire has so small a waist that nal scandals, they diamond necklaces there. ladies make such mi possibly because of the absence of the diamonds. A FAMILY QUARREL in Ken- tucky recently resulted in the death of one and the injury of sev- eral, But proceedings were rigor- ously postponed until the close of the regular Wednesday evening prayer- meeting. RECALL the lady who found a wedding-ring in her choicest Easter egg; and as it was demonstrated beyond doubt that the hen built around the ring the story was scientifically curious as well as. elaborately untrue. ME. INGALLS is doing some newspaper work, but appar- ently not the kind that is worth a million a y It must be said, however, that figures, like spurts in are always beautiful to the unpracticed and unreflective eye ay she frequently wears her ‘fag RECOMMENDED FOR SUMMER-YACHTING, zo full-back London topcoat on, somewhat impatiently to deck-hand)—* Don't hit me ALGERNON GILRoy with that life-pweservah pecupied ; but her change ys that Burdett - Coutts piece of business. who has missed his boat, with his ner ; I'm all wight! OY in Detroit, told about in Free Press, trying to get trusted because his father is dead. Grocer refuses. show?" “Why can’t you give a boy a * says the bereaved child. “You know as well 2s I do that ma can't marry again un- der a year and hold her position in society nk it will amount to anything. He asked papa for an option until the end of the Mount Desert season, so that the downfall of German opera in this cit that he wrought the destruction not merely to be made president, but to lift up his son-in-law. SOME STATESMEN of the legisla- ture of Minnesota propose that any woman showing her “ nether limb or limbs” at a public entertainment shall be liable to fine and imprison- ment. When a state becomes as shockingly impure as that its mor- als are bad and its boom is gone. Me. BLAINE will find that his Easter egg has the figures 1892 embossed on the shell, while Mr. Harrison will observe the same peculiarity in the yolk of his; and as to which is which and which isn’t perhaps the prophets will tell on the first of April. MBS. L. CARTER terminates her season with sickening haste. The sole detail mentioned is illness. Nothing, the reader will observe, as to bad acting and a sim- ilar kind of reputation, Mere pause in business to get health for a tre- mendous success next time. Fa- vorite method of permanent retire- ment. WE ARE almost as much pained as astonished to learn from the .l/usécal Courier of Boston that Secretary Blaine is respcnsible for but it is consoling to reflect Even in that case, however, it's a Damrosch *¢LJE HAD reached the age of ninety,” says an obituary notice, “and but for an accidental cold might have lived many years longer.” Death is generally inop- portune, It is invariably an acci- dent, or the result of an accident. But for this cold or that fever the man would have continued to exist. At ninety or any other age death is premature and wholly unexpected. And yet the dying goesgight on, quite as if it had been contemplated in the beginning; and there is real- ly a belief that living is the rule and sing to live the exception. HE WAS THERE. 66\/HO was the original first- WwW nighter ?” * Adam.” BOTH SIDES. YOU claim she gave you up, my boy, To mortify the flesh ; While she admits you did annoy Tiecause you were too fresh, VERY REMARKABLE. Hunker —"\ got the best of Goslin yesterday.” Spatts—"1 didn’t know he had any,” comicbooks.com