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Wit and Humor.
Books most influenced by hard times
are pocket-books.
The money and hair of a fool are soon
parted in trje middle.
Good little bootblacks are shining ex
amples of what boys can do.
To train up a boy in the way he bhould
go it is necessary to switch him off oc
casionally. Pat says: "And sure, nearly iviry
frind I hev lift in the woruld hez bin
did long since."
n Arkansas neckties are cheap. The
crowd puts it around your neck, slings it
over a tree, and it doesn't cost you any
thing. The young collegian who wrote home
for a new coat and got one a mile too big,
suggests that that was not a "fitting"
reply.
Did you ever notice a man's face under
the influence of a first bite of rhubarb
pie which the cook had forgot to
sweeten?
What is the difference between a de
linquent printer and a mad landlord?
One tramps the track and the other tracks
the tramp.
A story is told of a lady of fashion
who said she should like to go to Rome
to have her portrait painted by one of
the old masters.
An exchange tells about a boy climb
ing a tomato vine to get away from a
mad dog. Tomato vines attain an enor
mous size in California, so do lies.
A young man,who ought to be ashamed
of himself, in commenting on a fireman's
parade, said that a wet day was always
favorable for an exhibition of hose.
A gentleman who had been victimized
by a notorious borrower, who always for
got to pay, called him one of the most
promising men of his acquaintance.
"My luck," exclaimed a Bohemian,
"is to atrociously bad that I believe if" 1
were to invest in some soap, washing
would go out of fashion to-morrow."
The most puzzling thing about an cd
itorial shears is the antipathy usually ex
isting between that useful article and the
italics found at the bottom of the para
graph. Mrs. Spilkins, reading that General
Crook had iust caotured a hundred
lodges, devoutly expressed the wish that
her husband's lodge might be among the
number.
Andrew Jackson was accused of bad
spelling, but John Randolph defended
him by saying that "a man was a fool
who could not spell a word more ways
than one."
"The train has caught up with those
cattle again," sleepily remarked a pas
senger on an Ohio railroad, as he was
awakened by the whistle of the engine
the other night. ,
A Connecticut preacher says that a
good congregation will praise the music,
the choir, the ventilation, and the civili
ties of the usher; but as to the sermon
"Well, I dunno."
Man "Do you think it would be safe
for me to cross this pasture?" Maid
"Well, the old bull don't like red very
much, but if you will chalk your nose, I
guess he won't attack you."
"You ain't afraid to die?" said the
clergyman, tenderly. "No," replied the
sufferer; "I'm only afraid if I do that the
old woman will go shooting among my
private papers the first thing."
Harry Turn recently married his
cousin, of the same name. When inter
rogated as to why he did so, he replied
that it had always been a maxim of his
that "one good Turn deserves another."
A certain young and amiable prince,
pursuing in great haste a beautiful lady
at Court. "Your Highness is running
very fast," observed the lady. "I am
only following my inclination," he
replied.
"Why did you name that old horse Na
poleon?" asked a gentleman of a Negro,
whose horse was almost reduced to a
skeleton. "Why, Marse, you see it's caze
the bony part is so strong in him," was
the reply.
A gentlemak observed one day to
Henry Erskine, the Scottish advocate,
who was an inveterate punster, that pun
ning was the lowest sort of wit. "It is
so," answered he "and therefore the
foundation of wit."
A gentleman named Allen Hannah
married Miss Hannah Allen: now Miss
Hannah Allen is Mrs. Hannah Hannah,
probably the only lady in the world
whose whole name can bo spelled back
ward the same as forward.
Areverend sportsman was once boast
ing of his infallibility in finding a hare
"If I were a hare," said a Quaker who
was present, "I would take my seat in a
place where I should be sure of not being
disturbed by thee from the first of Janu
ary to the last day of December." "Why,
where would you go?" "Into thy study."
She put her arms about his neck and
said:
"Darling, mother is coming to spend
the summer with us."
;He met her blue eyes with a look of
despair.
"Coming, eh?" he gasped.
"Yes, hubby."
"I wish I was Peter."
"Why?"
"Because the Scripture says that
Peter's wife's mother lay sick of a fever."
The last seen of him he was buying a
lot of arnica plaster, and wondering if
Holloway's Ointment was good for
bruises.
Magic fountain pens indelible-fop.
marking Linen. Writes with water no ink re
quired. Every Pen guaranteed. Samples by mail,
post-paid, 10c; 3 for 25c Agents wanted in every
county. Djlvid J. Kixa, 115 7tn street, San Francisco.
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FAKM.1X MILES FROM THE CITY OF NAPA.
(!nl. fou.ains 193 acres 100 acres rich bottom
land, the remainder vineyard land; -10 acres of bear
ing vinos? r. :ior k In fruit: 2 cews: 7 head of herses:
carriage, harnesses, farming toels: fine house of in
rooms, furnished: extenMxe outbuilding, etc., etc.
The above will be offered very low. and on reasonable
terms for SO days. For further information, apply to
.1. VAN DUSKN, 8 Kearny street. San Francisco.
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This cut represents tho celebrated $10.00 SWISS
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THE ABOVE IAP SHOWS THE "ABEJL STJBAKNS KMCHOS,"
THE CENTER OF LOS ANGELES VALLEY. COO Farms already sold and Improved. Within the Artesian "Well-Belt, and having water near the surface. For site in Sections or Fractions, by
ALFRED ROBINSON, Trustee, 542 Market btrcct, corner Montgomery, San Francisco, or apply to WM. R. OLDEN, Anaheim, CaL, or", concerning the Colony, to Rev, ROBERT STRONG, West
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The smaller squares within the "Stearns Ranchos" represent 1C0 acres. Roads-are proposed to be laid out on every section line, forming blocks of one mile square, with roada on all aides, audun.
many quarter section lines. Send for circulars.
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