Young Woman to (American naval officer) : " What was the last engagement that you were in, lieutenant ? " Lieutenant (frankly): "Oh, with a Chicago girl." "Och," said a love-sick Hibernian, " what a recreation it is to be dying in love. It sets the heart aching so delicately there's no getting a wink of sleep for the 'pleasure of the pain.'" Father (after church): " Johnnie, what made you make that noise during service ?" -Johnnie : " Jimmie stuck a pin into my leg." Father : " H'm ! seems to me a pin's a pretty small thing to make such a fuss about."
Spiders are reported in Florida which spin webs so strong that snakes are entangled in them. But Florida spiders, perhaps, never tackled the variety of snakes •which emanate from the bungs of Peoria or Blue Grass whisky.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 36, 8 June 1896, Page 4
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132Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Hastings Standard, Issue 36, 8 June 1896, Page 4
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