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Vol. III.
LiNCQLrroN. N C, Tuesday, June 19th, 188.
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Real in earnest, ain't for me."
Wan't that cute? I took the hint,
An' a chair, an staid, an' we
1 i Quit our fooling
. ' :ih I Judge.
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any of the finest monuments and
ombstones in Woodlawn cover
former patients of mine.-
York Epoch. 1
-New
A New York bachelor over sev
enty years of age recently visited
Maine, fell in love with a damsel
CATCHING UP.
Miss C. was born two years ear-
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j less than half his age, was accept- ; . , . . ,
, - 0 1 om was ten years old she gloried
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ed, and went home po prepare for
; the coming of his bride. When
all thinge were in order, instead
of going after the betrothed him
; self he sent his brother. The
younger man was pleased with
! his future sisterin-law, so pleased
; that he : persuaded her to marry
j him before startingfor New York.
!r-Belfast(Me.)Prss.
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"QUIT YOUR FOOLIN'."
Girls is quare ! I use' to think
Emmy didn't care for me,
For whenever I would try ; .
Any lovin' arts, to see
How she'd take 'em sweet or
sour
Always, saucy-like, says she,
" Quit your foolin' V
Once, agoin' home Fom church,
Jest to find if it would work,
Round her waist I slipped my
; - ; arm - ' --T -V r
My ! you ought 'o seen her jerk.
Spunky? well, she acted so f : f
And snapped me up as perk-
"Quit your foolin'"
Every time 'twas jest the samej
Till one gight I says, says I ji
Chokin' some 1 must admit, H
Tremblin some I don't deny j
"Emmy, seein' 's I don't suit, j
Guess I'd bettersay 'goodbye,' !
An' quit foolin'." j
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Girls is quare ! She only laughed ;
Cheeks all dimplin' : "John,"
says she, -i
"Foolin' men, that never gits
ANOTHER EGG PROBLEM.
Now here is a nice little prob
lem that some of our exchanges
think beats beats Donnelly's ciph
er. Try it and you will be great
ly surprised, if not thoroughly
convinced : "Put down in figures
the year in which you were born ;
in being twelve ; when Tom was
known to be fourteen she confess
ed to sweet sixteen ; when Tom '
proudly boasted of eighteen, she
! timidly confessed being past nine
teen ; when Tom: came home from
college with a mustache and a
vote, and had a party in honor of
his twenty-first birthday, she said
to her friends : f
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! "What a; boyish fellow he is!
Who would think that he was on
ly a year younger than I?"
When Tom declared he was
twenty-five, and! old enough to
get married, she said to an inti--mate
friend :
"I feel savagely jealous to think
of Tom getting finarried. , But
then, I suppose twins are more at
tached to each other than other
to this add 4 ; then add your age
at your next birthday, provided it j brothers and sisters."
comes before January 1st, other- j And two years later, at Tom's
wise your age at last birthday ; i wedding, she said With girlish vi-
multiply result by 1000; from this
deduct 677,423 ; substitute for the !
vacity, to the wedding guests :
"Dear old Tom! to see him
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ngures continuing iruen 01 married to-night, and then to think .
the alphabet, as A for 1, B for 2, how? when he was only five years
C for 3, D for 4, etc. The result ! old? they brought 'him to see me,
will give you the name by wHd I his babv. sister ! i! wonder if he
you are popularly known. "--Ex. thinks of lt to-d Selected.
Citizen (to Physician) --You "i
have a largfe practice amongf the
wealth v and fashionable class of
people, haven't you doctor?
A couple of castaways Old
shoes.
When a tailor gets rich it is by
Physician Oh my, yes ; why ' shear industry.