Next time you shiver at having a tooth pulled think of Joseph Brooks, of Colorado. Ho lay still and let a bear chew hit arm off, and thereby saved the rest of his body. Come to read the item over again, it was a wooden arm, but Joseph wasn’t to blame for that. “ Scribner’s Magazine ” has this negro aphorism : “ Always drink pure water. Many a man gits drunk from breakin’ die rule.” A French oil merchant advertises that he has a “ chasm ” for an apprentice. He has looked up the word “opening” in the dictionary. An old gentleman, having been invited by an acquaintance to go out and see bis country seat, went, and found it to be a slump in a large meadow. A Kansas cyclone blew a man baldheided. The wig was a new one, and is a total loss. A medical writer says children need more wraps than adults. They generally get more.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2418, 5 January 1882, Page 3
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