Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — PITH AND POINT. [ARTICLE]

PITH AND POINT.

ABOARmsa-nocsß keeper’sjtree—’ash Barbels were first made in the cooper age. A bod and lyin’ catches the biggest fish of the season. “Dabling, this potato is only half done.” “ Then eat the other half, love.” People talk of a visit to the salt sea for the purpose of getting a little fresh air. Whew the river rises one foot what becomes of the other ? It remains tide, of course. Whew the Arab has stolen everything else in sight he quietly folds his tent and steals away. When a man threatens to give you a piece Of his mind he wishes to destroy the peace of yours. When a young man is alone with his best girl he is generally supposed to be “holding his own.” By a -mother-in-law— * ‘ You can deceive your guileless little wife, young man, but her father’s wife—never*” The author of the “Little Brown Jug ” was probably in a jugular vein, when he wrote that sometime popular ditty. A bridge over a stream in Missouri bears this legend : “Drive over as fust as you want to, and be durned ! ” Everybody, therefore, drives at a walk. A Texas young man shot himself because a young lady refused to dance with him. In his blind rage he probably mistook himself for a rival. The “utterly utter” kind of talk has infected the street gamins, one of whom, after picking up a more that usually fragrant cigar-stump, exclaimed to his friend: “Jack, this is quite too positively bully.” “ Tommy,” saida mother to her7-year-old boy, “ you must. not interrupt me when lam talking with ladies. You must wait until we stop, and then you 1 can talk.” “But you never stop,” retorted the boy. Pride’s fall: “Yes,” sa;d Clara, “ your Maltese cat is pretty enough, but he can never come up to my bird.” That was all she knew about it. That kitty did come up to her bird that very day, and it was all dav with the bird.