Judge — December 23, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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IN A BROADWAY CABLE-CAR. They enter with a haughty mien ‘The Broadway cable-car. She has the bearing of a queen, While he looks like a czar. IN A BAD WAY. +4] SAW a man to-day who said he couldn’t believe his own ears.” “What is the matter with them?” “They are so large that they magnify.” HE HAD IT. Customer (to clerk in book-store)—" Have you ‘Prometheus Bound ‘?” Clerk (rather new at the business) —" Yes, ma'am, . It doesn't come unbound at all.” CHRISTMAS BRIGHT heavenly guide that truly led The wise men from the east afar And paused above the manger-bed While angels smiled through doors ajar, Be thou our guiding star! Oh, Yule-log, weaving mystic gleams And shadows on the haunted floor, Show us how through thy fervor streams ‘The charity that, lit of yore, Glows kindlier evermore. Aud Another pull, and once again ‘To science pride gives way. Although the gripman does not reign His subjects feel his sway, EMBLEMS. Amid the holly's glossy green, Or where the alder decks each bud, The ruby berries, thickly seen, Shall typify that precious flood— His freely-given blood. Andob, sweet Child ! the flower of love ! Creation’s crown! still gently win Our hearts and souls to realms above Afar from touch of soiling sia, Till we shall “enter in.” CHARLES H. CRANDALL, RURAL JUSTICE, A CITY swell was arrested by a country constable for getting over lively and disturbing the peace of the village. An empty whisky-flask and a THE NEAREST THING YET TO PERPETUAL MOTION, lady's steel hair-pin were found on his person. The justice of the peace was disposed to pardon the empty whisky-flask, but when the hair-pin was produced his honor's counte- nance clouded and he said sternly, “T shall have to commit you for carrying concealed weapons.” MISTAKEN ECONOMY. She (fiancée) —" Well, we've estimated most of the expenses of housekeeping, and there’s four hun- dred dollars of your salary still. Is there anything else?” He (fiancé) —" Yes; the cook's hire will be one hundred dollars.” She—" Oh, | mean to cook my- self. Anything else?” He—"Yes; doctor's bills—say three hundred and fifty dollars.” BOOK by Theodore Tilton is chiefly interesting as evidence that the writer of it still lives. The low conductor pulls the strap ves the bell a ring, Which, though it gives their pride a rap, It lets it have its fling. THE CHRISTMAS BELLE. ‘Then when the joyful day arrives, ‘And Maud is loaded down With rings and bracelets, pins and pearls, Her own small gifts she'll shyly bring And whisper low, the elf, “It is not much, dear John, but then T made it all myself.” MARY MEN. SCOTT. When cable-cars again you board Pray leave your pride at home; For free-born people can't afford ‘To groan beneath the thrown. RELICS OF THE CHASE, Ten gross of caribou-horns. What can you be shipping up to Moosehead?” Sportsmen buy ‘em.” comicbooks.com ILE holidays are drawing near, And mamma deftly sews On slippers, ties and knitted scarfs For Maud to give her beaux. From half the men in town,