WIT AND HUMOR.
“ Have you in your album any original poetry ? ” asked one young lady of another, ; N T o,” was the reply ; “ but some of my l'i lends have favored me with original spelling. A woman said in a police court, the other day, that before marriage her husband pretended to be much struck with her, but now she was every day struck by him.
Pa and Ma—Why is the letter d like a equalling brat ? Because it makes Ma mad. Why is the letter y like a young spendthrift? Because it makes Pa pay. A thief was lately caught breaking into a song. He had already got. through the first two bars, when a policeman came up and beat him with a stave. The rest may be imagined. About the finest thing we have ever found, either in town or out of town, is—dust.
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Globe, Volume I, Issue 3, 3 June 1874, Page 3
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