KIB BLINGS.
A little nonsense i«ow and then. U reliahodby tba jriveft-nan.
A bridge collapsed with a Decoration \ Day parade in New Hampshire. It couldn't j keep up with the procession. * ) Hood, in describing the meeting of a man and a lion, said : The man ran off with all his might and the lion with all his mane." from the endless discussions which it has provoked, the taw for executions by electrioUy-is likely to kill off more judges thatf' criminals" - • ... Farmer's wife : " Wby do you get np and leare that piece of steak ?" Tramp : • r J. didn't a«K for work, ma'am : I asked for soriiethinsr to eat. Father : "Whnt does your college coarse include ?" Son (more fond ot boating than of books) : "A full mile straight away and retain." Tom -Blgbae : " i hear your baby was troublesome. What ails it ?" Walker Kninht (weTJlv) : " Insomnia." Algernon deSwellton : " WiUyon please pass mo the menn ?" Eliza Jane : * 5 We haven't any Jthin morning, sir. They're not iv season yet." A colored clergyman in a southern town prayed the other day that the indelicate might be made delitate, the intemperate temporal, and the industrious dustrious. -
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8869, 30 August 1890, Page 4
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191KIBBLINGS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8869, 30 August 1890, Page 4
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