When are some comic papers the sharpest.' —When they are filed. "Good blood will show ifcsolf," as the old toper said, struck by the redness of his nose. A druggist has this cheerful invitation in his shop window : —" Gome in and get twelve emetics for one shilling." A writer on scbool discipline says : "Without a liberal use of the rod, it is impossible to make boys smart."
On a sultry summer Sunday, a minister, observing rpiite a number of his congregation asleep, remarked in a most emphatic manner, "I saw an advertisement last week for live hundred sleepers for a railroad. I think I could supply fifty, and recommend them as good and sound."
'Tiik Thistle.—The Scotch thistle is said to have been taken to America by a clergyman who carried with him a bed stuffed with thistle down, in which some seed remained. Feathers, being cheap in the new country, were substituted for the down, which wns soon emptied out, and the springing up iilk'd the couutrv -,vith Hurtles.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 95, 5 September 1871, Page 5
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