Judge — August 8, 1891 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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288 HUM OF THE COURT. PROVERB—The race is generally to the field. E ARE pained to learn, from the Enquirer of that town, that they have flickered knees in Buffalo. THE PREACHER has a right to his vacation, and if the devil doesn’t take one during his heated term the more fool he. HERE is something remarkable in the story that a lady has a pet mouse, unless indeed the little thing is her pet aversion. CASE was recently tried in Wyo- ming before a jury composed en- tirely of women. The jury promptly rendered a verdict, but there are to be twelve suits for backbiting. PUT A PIN in your mouth and you won't cry when you peel onions. So says a Maine housewife; but she ought to add that a surer remedy for this kind of moisture is not to peel the onions. THE FLANK MOVEMENT AT LONG BRANCH. Word has gone forth that the beautiful Miss Plungey has been seen to enter her bath-house, and the beach-committee immediately convenes, HOWARD McQUEARY has lost a large amount of money by his heresy; but he is an honest, conscientious man, and his heart is as light as his pocket. PUNCTUATION: NO GOOD CITIZEN could have stood half the punishment that “The” Allen did and live. Must the good citizen therefore be atough? No; he will find it more profitable tod Tramp (roused ot the park benchy—*1 don't see why yer poke me wid yer club.” SCHOLARLY POLICEMAR “That's the punct- uation-mark that I points me marks wid,” WE DON'T KNOW what the Rev. Mr. Fulton of St. Louis has been doing, but he remarks with an evident feeling of relief, “Thank God, there will be no news- papers in heaven!” res Miss Lert Miss Exvee— Humph ! her sawdust would float anything.” AN INSINUATION. R1S—" How nicely Miss Paddington floats !"* E DO NOT believe the story that ex-Speaker Carlisle sometimes drinks to excess; but if it is true it is another evidence of the evil of an insufficiently protective tariff. THE STATE of Massachusetts has taken up the coaching craze. ‘That is not nice. The puritanism of the founders insisted that man should walk on his uppers and nobody have any fun. ‘THE WHITE-CAPS of Indiana have taken to whipping girls and old men, We should think white-capping would be so contagious under these conditions that there presently wouldn't be a white-cap left. WE OBSERVE that during a legal killing recently a dove alighted on a flagstaff over the prison in which the killing occurred. What a long-lived dove that is! He has been doing that thing these thirty years. HE FINAL resting-place of the remains of Jefferson Davis will be Richmond, Va. This seems strange. Mr. Davis resided in that town about four years, and left it with a rapidity which indicated extreme disgust. THE STATEMENT that General Butler can repeat the four gospels from memory is probably not true, because men of ideas have very poor memory as to lines and details ; but just the same it is a good adver- tisement of the general's book. 2. AUNT MIRANDY CAMDEN (from the Jersey pine-belt)—"* Mornin’, gents. Won't some one of you take this here dressin’-gown up t' that Jady on th’ pizarro? She lent it to me, but I reck’n | won't need it comicbooks.com