Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — Thought to Be Funny. [ARTICLE]

Thought to Be Funny.

“Hark! Somebody is playing a delightful bit from Wagner.” “O! that’s only James shoveling coal into the furnace. ” — Life. “Did I understand you to say that miracles do not happen in these days?” “You did. ” “Then you were wrong. My plumber has just failed. ” —St. Joseph News. “When my husband and I quarrel we don’t permit the children to be present. We send them out of doors, so they can hear nothing.” "Oh, now I understand why they are always on the street.”— Fliegeudc Blatter. “So ycU are looking for an honest man,” said a friend of Diogenes to him. “Yes, sir.” “How will you recognize one when you see him?” “He wi 1 return a borrowed lead-peaciL” Washington Post. “Do you understand that Bronson has finally decided to enter the state of matrimony?” “Yes. I think so; at least he told me he was.going to Utah.”—Brooklyn Eagle. “Did you know that Miss Bjones was going to marry young Smyth? “I know it; but I cannot understand how a girl as intelligent as she is can consent to marry a man stupid enough to want to marry her. "-—Life. “I can’t find where that plumber did anything to this heater." “Neither could I. I told the man, but he said we’d find it in the bi Ji. * — Philadelphia Times.