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Pith And Point

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Day
16
Month
November
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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Where may everlasting springs bo found ? In an india-rubbcr factory. There íb only onc way for a woman to keep a secret. That is to keep it goiug. Asparagus resewbles long sennons a one important partícula- the ends are most sought aiter. Somebody advertises for a Bervaut girl who would not be abovo plicing herself on an equality with the resi of the family. " The Circassians are at their olj trade of aelling their daughters again. That'g verj eommon amo"ng parents in this country also. Some parento ruim children on tl samo plan they trotiM tree, evident]; thinking that the raote thej're sproutal tho better they'll pffírtr. The report ïimt Cleopatrn's Keedle was to be bon'g&H to Boston probablj arose l'rom the fact that tbc City Government voted to have a great sewer. ' ' Ne veb catch me marry ing a ref onnal man," said a wise little Chicago gitl; " when I get married it will be to somt man who doesn't need reforroing." The householder now maketh the fitst fall foray at bis furnace and ooal-bins, and returneth to the drawing-room it a smndgd CD his no3e ond his hair Inl) of cobwebs. Women have beert kno-wn to remove tlieir jewelry under the excitement of t camp-meeting sermón on charity and lmmbleness, bnt no one ever saw tliem throw away a real-hair switch. Receipt for expediting wine-making (men tramplingthegrapes whüe reading the papers) - Visitor - "Yon give thein newspapers?" Proprietor - "Yes, bul oppoaed to each man's opinión; readitg them they do their trampling w a vengeaEce." Two men met on the piazza of the Railroad Hotel, at Lincoln, Neb.jone claimed that Nebraska was all a good country, or should be; "all it lacks," said he, "is good society and wat." " My good Lord !" saysthe other, "that is all h - 1 lacks." A SHiPWBECKED Irish sailor was mrrating how be and his companions had floated about at sea for twenty days 'a an open boat. "And what diil yoado for food, Pat, when the provi&ions gwe ont?" asked a bystander. "Sure. and wo dined on one of the offioers. 'Twis the first mate we'd had in a fortnight," was the reply. A yotjxg lady asked her young man Saturday evening why he called herhis Ultra, and he courteously replied that it wi3 a Latín quotation. "This," said he, " i my kuee, and when I add ycrato it I have my knee, plus Ultra, whioh il Latin for ' I dou't want anything more on my knee.' Don't you sec, my darling ?" She said she did. A LADY sent a note to the newspaper to get a recipe to cure the whooping cough in a pair of twins. By a mietate a recipe for pickling onions was nnconsciously inserted, and her name attached, and she received this answer throngh the "Answers to Correspondente:'" Mrs. L. H. B. - If not too young, skin them pretty closely, immerse in scalding Wü ter, sprinkle plentif ully with salt, and immerse them for a week in strong brino. A FiiENcn chemist is said to have sacceedod in producing a paint with which to illuminate the numbers on street doors at night. Figitres tracd with it are so lustrous as to be rcad even on a dark night, and the preparatum of the compouud is said to be si.npei Voexpensive, and not injurious.

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Old News
Michigan Argus