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Pith And Point

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
November
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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Joint ownpntion - Cun-ing. Eumno claescE - Sohoolmtasern. Hotel-kf.kpeus nro people we Imtc to "put up with." "Tms," tlionghta boy while boiag trounced bj his fond papa, "isvetyÜS ii whnlo." A HTUTTEH1NO Professor pnys : " X]1() tog Star i no star it all. lt is t p-p-p. pup-planet. "No, Ma'aM," said a groccr to ;in ap. plicnnt for credit, " I wouldn't even trust my own feelings. " Ti! r: man wlio Bees a f riond running after him nowadays thinks whether he owes Lim nnything beforc he says " (Jood morning. " Seven-eighths of the cnlire popula, tion of America are in dobt to each other. Well, indeed may onr people 1)8 calle the Bturdy owemanry. - Hawk-Eyc. A rnoPKKEPER of great expprienco says that however talkative clcrks inay be during tho day, they re nlways reaiiy to sbiit up at night. "The single-stull race!" cxclaimed an old lady as she laid down Iim mom. ing paper, " I didn't know as they LaJ discovered ft race with doublé skuli f A Germán was abont to mnke a jomney to his fatherland, aDd, Trisliing to gay " good-by" to n friend, tended hü hand and said, " Yell, off I dou'd comí bank, huilo." QÚD gent to boy (who is smokijiijtle end of a eigar hehaspicked up)"Ugi, for shame, throw the nasty thingswj. Boy - "What! for you to piek up mi smoke, eh ? I knows jei !" That Georgia negro preacher iras both frank and hrewd who remarkedto his floek: " AVe have a collection to make this morninp, and, for the gkg] of beaven, whiohever of yon atole JIi. Smith's sheep, don't put anythiug oa the plate." A country couple, newly married, Ktopped at a hotel, and the bridegroco ealled for ome wiae. When asked what kind of wine he would have, be itplie.d: "We -want that kind of min where the corks pop out and the liquor boils up like soap-suds." " I was bom in Bath," said a dirivlooking customer, ns he haxangned i crowd at a plitical meeting, "andl love my natire place." " You don'tlook as if yon had ever been there since," said one of his hearers, ns he proceeèii to laud an opposition candidate. These are Puck's Autunm Thongbts: Autumn nian prt clruiiK? Auttimu kick 7 Autumn moukey marry? A Ut 111111) UlUidAU klHS ? Ant uimi ui usiciau lliuzish ? Ought 'cru ? A lady in general con versatioD, In-ingenioualy cooking her dates, was redncïng her age to an astonishing limit. Her daughter, whose partiy Freneh biood had brought her a keen wit, interposed with the remoastrance, " At least, leaTe nine mout ha between our ages, mamma !" Mi.'CH has been written against the accordeon, but the iirst eveniug aftem young man who practico d on one moTed into the second floor of ft house on Unioü street a smile it up the face of the aged eitizen who lay in siekness on the floot above. He gaid that he was now refenciled to death. " It is social death," says a fashiontble magazine, "when it becomes knom that a young man wears coreets." This is ns it should be, too. Ifs all verywell for an enterprising young man to war corsets for a day or two, just to beeoire nu expert with thern, but t) wear tiem as a practice is miserable. When you see a young fellow who a year ngo used to step up and order lager for the crowd with the utmost Bang froiil patiently trundling a baby carmge along tlie strect on Sunday afteruoon, and looking cliapfalJen in nis last Reason's hat, don't it spenk volnme ior the reformiug influence of ■woman's eociety I-Puck.

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Old News
Michigan Argus