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Stray Jokes

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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It is the dry goods clerk who most frequently sales uuder falso colore.- New Haven News. If there is anything in the world whieh will make a man forget that his joints are stift", It is to step on a squeak doll on an unlighted stairway.- Philadelphia Cali. Young Lady (in shoe store)- I want them plenty large. Proprietor (nieasuring foot) - Yes, miss; you want threes. Young Lady- No; twos are my size.- The Epoch. "You needn't order me around, sir," said tho washervvoman. "I'm not the hired girl. It's BridgeCs place to look after tho mille. I'm the laundry lady." "That doesn't scare me," said the man. "I'm the milk gentleman and I'm the P. W. G. R. K. of the U. O. G. G. and Most Eminent Past G. W. of the Aneient Order of M. X. Q. Z., and I want somebody to take this milk." "Yes, sir," said the washerwomnn meekly, as she went to flnd a crock. - Chicago Tribune. i And so every tfay he gavo the AlmightjAdviee nhich he deemed of great worth; Aiul his wife took iu sewiug To keep things a-going While he superintended the eartii. -The Churchman. I A youug lady, visiting for the first time in the country, was alarmed at the approach of a cow. She was too fnghtened to run, and, shaking lier parasol at the animal, sho said in a very stem tone: "Lio down, sir! lie down!"- New York Tribune. The chess club has occupied its present quarters for a remarkably long time. Usually chess playera want to move- New Orleans Pieayune. The figures of this year, 1868, resemblo threo big girls aud a dudo as they spread themselves aoross the parement on a fine afternoon.- Williamsport Sim and Banner. Some one asks: "Does it pay to be good?' Perhaps our evidence in the matter will not be taken, and so we shall not answer the question directly, but we will say that it is good to be paid.- Lowell Citizen. The 3'oung man who would waste time kissing a girl's hand would eat tho brown japer bag and leave the liot house grapes for some one else. - Somerville Journal. Of t times af ter a man has seen his "ante'' he is compeliĆ³! to go and see his "uncle."- The Epoch. Let a man sit down on a bent pin and ho will arise promptly and speak briefly to the point. - New Orleans Picayune. It is hoped that the man who predicted that we an going to have a warm winter hasnt a Imshel of coal in lus bin, and is snowed up 100 miles from a coal yard.- Nbrristown Herald. Young eigbty-eigbt, W pat your peighl, And trust you'll aot decrease in wetgfet. Be tempereight, Tobacco height, And don't stay out until it's leiaht.

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