Puck — June 1877 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Tue other day one of the ‘editors of the Hawkeye cut out of an Eastern paper a map of the Russo-Turkish war, and hung it on a hook for reference. One of the compos- itors thought it was an editorial article, and set up a column and a half on “A new plan for funding the national debt,” before the foreman discovered what he was at, and killed him. Tere is perhaps no more perfect picture of perplexity than the countenance of a man who Feds in his pocket a letter which his wife gave him a month the light ina futile effort to determine whether there is anything in it that would convict him if he were to carry it in his pocket the rest of the year, and nuail it on the anniversary of the day on which it was written.— Worcester Press. ‘Tue humblest can do something toward mak- ing the local paper interesting. If you cannot be a defaulting bank-clerk, you can at least step on an orange-peel and sprain your ear.— Rome Sentinel. Ir is thought remarkable that a dead man should continue to edit a paper, as is the case in Chicago. Prentice has been dead several years, but he still edits the columns in several of our exchanges.—Danbury News. A CORRESPONDENT writes to ask why newly- married men are called Benedicts. ‘I'he reason, we believe, is that in entering on their new state of life, they are supposed: to give up all the bad bachelor habits to which they have benedicted.—San Francisco News Letter. ‘Tne Russian soldiers while on the march do their cooking for meals, we suppose, on some of those mountain ranges.— Philadelphia Bul- etin. A reMaLe member of a suburban church, who is known to be prominent in all works of charity and benevolence, was seen in town Sat- urday. She purchased ‘a barrel of flour, two pounds of saleratus, and a box of condemned strawberries, and left an order at a printing- .office of the sixth magnitude for 500 tickets; hence it is inferred that a church sociable and strawberry festival is impending over that de- voted town like the sword of D——ocles.— Chicago Tribune. Amonc the watering place arrivals of dis- tinguished Southerners we are pained to find as yet no mention of “ Mrs. Eliza Pinkston and family." — Commercial Advertiser. Now does the small boy repair to the point south of town to indulge in the recreation of ‘a noonday bath, and we may soon expect a vigorous denunciation of the shameless practice from the old lady who owns a field-glass.— Brookville Jeffersonian. A Boston sign reads: “ W. Browning, clothes cleaned and repaired in the rear.” His patrons, we suspect, are principally boys who slide down cellar doors.— Norristown Herald, Ir is untrue that the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens returned to Georgia as a registered letter with a fifteen-cent stamp on his nose to pay for the postage. — Chicago Tribune. A rich man died in Baltimore recently. One half of his property was left to charity and the other half to conjecture. — Cincinnati Satur- day Night. : Mucn has been written against the accor- deon, but the first evening after a young man who practiced on one moved into the second floor of a house on Union Street, a smile lit up the face of the aged citizen who lay in sickness on the floor above. He said he was now re- conciled to death.— Norwich Bulletin. Aw acrobatic Frenchman claims great credit for being able to ‘‘ walk on the ceiling with his head down;” but if he wants to create a real sensation, let-him walk on the ceiling with his head up.— Worcester Press. ago to mail, and holds it up to ; PUCK. Tue world would sympathize more with the man who has a cold in his head if it wasn’t for the insufferable air of superior sanctity and calm, uncomplaining martyrdom that he puts on and sits around in.— Hawkeye. | ‘Tue placing of a statue of Fitz-Greene Hal- | leck in Central Park has already been produc- tive of good results. Since the frightful image was unveiled, hundreds of young poets of New York have sworn off—abandoned Pegasus, and are now seeking positions as street-car dri- vers.— Norristown Herald. | AN article in a health magazine shows that | printers die young. Maybe good printers die | young; but the compositor who converts a | word of five syllables into five new words of | one and two syllables each, without trying very | hard, doesn’t die as early as he should.—or- | ristown Herald. PuitapetrHia Bulletin: When Greek meets ; , Greek then comes the tug of war, we think; | but when American meets American it’s “«What'll you have to drink?” Since the Michigan Legislature prohibited the marriage of cousins, the breed has become | | quite extinct in that State.—Richinond En- | quirer. » Weasant WE Ar a lecture in a Western city a learned Pro- fessor made the remark that a “demonstration like that was worth something.”— Let's go out,” said an economical backwoodsman to his “they are gwine to take up a collection.” | — Cincinnati Enquirer. MebDLING with others sometimes brings us into scrapes, and thereby one of the eiders of achurch made “ bad work.” A young fellow entered thg church and took his seat, keeping his hat on. ‘The elder noticing it, requested him to take it off. His request not being com- plied with, he spoke to the young man a second time, and seeing he ‘still hesitated, the elder gently lifted the hat off, when, to his chagrin, out rolled a quart of hickory-nuts, making more noise than was consistent with decorum. “Man,” said the youth quietly, “see what you have done ?” A MINCE pie sent to a Sing Sing convict was found to contain an ingenious rope-ladder. Unless you oversee the preparing of the mince meat yourself, you can’t always tell howa mince pie will pan out; and a rope-ladder is not so apt to spoil a man’s appetite as the half of a mouse garnished with a tail and cut bias.—Nor- ristown Herald. a Nic The Puck Publishing Co. send by mail to any point within the United States a Palmo Sun Shade on receipt of $1.50. SS comicbooks.com