Puck — July 4, 1877 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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A New Hampsuire man has buried two wives within eight months.—£.x. Well, if his wives were dead, and he is opposed to cremation, we | | | don’t see what else he could have done with them.—Norristown Herald. Why is it that the man who plays the bull- fiddle in an orchestra is always, or nearly al- ways, bald? Because he has no hair on top of his head.— Norristown Herald. Mr. Btoop, of Fitchburg, Mass., has lots of creditors who want to know what he has done with their money, but in this case Blood won't | tell.— Phil. Evening Chronicle. | Ir is nip-and-tuck with Grant and Nicsics to") see which shall be revictualed the oftener. We | regret that we have lost track of the score, but | it is close—very close.— Worcester Press. | Cincinnati Sat. Night: A Paris editor was recently sent to prison for two months and fined two thousand francs for “insulting the army.” When you are walking along past the army after this, be a little careful how you insult | them, AN officer of the navy, on board one of our vessels in China, tells us this neat thing in the way of blessing: A manon board the U. S. S. “Monocacy,” whose term of service had just expired, pro- ceeded to take leave of his late officers. Ap- proaching the commander, he invoked the choicest blessings on his head, in a brogue that | left no doubt as to his.native sod. And so he | went from one to another with a “God bless ye!” or “May heaven reward ye!” until he came opposite the lieutenant-commander, who had frequently been obliged to suppress Pat's love for the “ardent” by stopping his leave. With a reluctant touch of his cap, and down- cast eye, he mumbled out, ‘And may God bless you, too, Misther C——, ¢0 a sartin extint! 1 Harper's Drawer. A MAN usually makes as much fuss in steer- | ing a limber stalk of asparagus to his mouth as | an old woman trying to thread a cambric | needle with a linen thread.— Zerner's Falls Re- | porter. | Wu ‘you read in the papers that a well- | known hotel at a summer resort has “ enlarged | its rooms for the coming season,” you may infer that they have scraped the paper off the walls. —Phila. Bulletin. ‘Tere. is a limit to everything but the de- struction that follows the course of a man’s | big toe when he gets it through a hole in the | bed-quilt, and is suddenly attacked with the nightmare.— Fulton Times. | First Paracraruist— Why don’t you hit the English a rap for snobbishness?” Second Paragraphist—‘ Ought to, I know, but ’tisn’t safe.” First Paragraphist—‘‘ Why not ?” Sec- ond Paragraphist—‘ Oh! Grant is over there, and Evarts is trying to re-establish the extradi- tion treaty, and it wouldn’t do now, you know, to write anything calculated to fire the British heart.” First Paragraphist—- What a head you've got! I never thought of that.”—CAi- cago Tribune. ‘Tue Acting Emperor of China recently came very near being killed by an explosion of bomb- shells. ‘This is the first intelligence of Wiard’s operations in the Celestial Empire.— Worcester Press. Tue death of “the largest woman in the world” is again announced. Her name was Beaton, but her weight wasn’t.—Rewey’s Wor- cester. Granr has been presented with the freedom of the city of London, and he can now stand on a corner, while waiting for a street-car, with- out a policeman telling him “to move on, and not hobstruct the 'ighways.” DIPORTERS AMD MANUFACTURERS CF GENTLEMEN’ § HATS 174 Fifth Ave. 169 Broadway, Hecrwrenn 22d 4 23rd Six NEW YORK. 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