WIT AND HUMOR.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 127, 4 August 1871, Page 6

WIT AND HUMOR.

The lady whose blood curdled in her veins has ever since been very sour in her disposition. An ugly.old bachelor suggests that births should be published under the head-of-"New Mu*ic." A tvealthy widow, advertis'ng for an ngenf, was overwhelmed .with applications, ns the tvpo, by mistake, made it "ajrent." The Chattanooga 'Times' asks: Whither are we drifting? To which the Knoxville 'Whig' replies: It would I e profane in us to say. An affectionate mother bewails the loss of one of eight children, because "there was just enough for a cotillon, and they did dance so prettily." Hint to Go W'>< n a lady indulges in a yawn tr two, gentlemen callers are justified in taking their hats and viewing the house from the outside. "I am sorry to say," said a Sheriff to a handsome young widow, " that I have an attachment for you." " Tin sorry to say, sir, that it isn't mutual." An impudent youngster came very near getting his cans boxed the other night at a wedding party, for wishing the bride many happy returns of the day. "Never mind the obituary. Judge," said a culprit, when the Court became patheficin pronouncing sentence, "let's fix the time for the fm.oral." A wag, on seeing an old gobbler trying to swallow a cott< n string facetiously remark* d that it was a desperate attempt to introduce cotton into Turkey." Augustus says young men tight by solacing themselves with ihe "ardent," but that young ladies get tight by so lacing in a different manner. Of corsetH so.