Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and FiresideVarious
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Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884: A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
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Agriculture -- United States -- Periodicals; Farm life -- Periodicals; United States -- Rural conditions -- Periodicals
Beards taken, taken of, and Registurd
by
ISSAC FAC-TOTUM
Barber, Peri-wig maker, Surgeon,
Parish Clerk, School Master,
Blacksmith and Man-midwife.
SHAVES for a penne, cuts hair for two pense, and oyld and
powdird into the bargain. Young ladys genteeely Edicated;
Lamps lited by the year or quarter. Young gentlemen also
taut their Grammer langwage in the neatest manner, and
great care takin of morels and spelin. Also Salme singing
and horse Shewing by the real maker! Likewice makes and
Mends, All Sorts of Butes and Shoes, teches the Ho! boy and
Jewsharp, cuts corns, bleeds. On the lowes Term--Glisters
and Pur is, at a peny a piece. Cow-tillions and other
dances taut at hoam and abrode. Also deals holesale and
retale--Pirfumerry in all its branchis. Sells all sorts of
stationary wair, together with blacking balls, red herrins,
ginger bread and coles, scrubbing brushes, trycle, Mouce
traps, and other sweetemetes, Likewise. Red nuts, Tatoes,
sassages and other gardin stuff.
P. T. I teches Joggrefy, and them outlandish kind of
things----A bawl on Wednesday and Friday. All pirformed by
Me. ISAAC FAC-TOTUM.
* * * * *
A SONNET ON A BONNET.
A film of lace and a droop of feather,
With sky-blue ribbons to knot them together;
A facing (at times) of bronze-brown tresses,
Into whose splendor each furbelow presses;
Two strings of blue to fall in a tangle,
And chain of pink chin In decorous angle;
The tip of the plume right artfully twining
Where a firm neck steals under the lining;
And the curls and braids, the plume and the laces.
Circle about the shyest of faces,
Bonnet there is not frames dimples sweeter!
Bonnet there is not that shades eyes completer!
Fated is he that but glances upon it,
Sighing to dream of that face in the bonnet.
--_Winnifred Wise Jenks._
* * * * *
Little Pleasantries.
A Sweet thing in bonnets: A honey bee.
It will get so in Illinois, by and by, that the marriage ceremony will run
thus: "Until death--or divorce--do us part."
He had been ridiculing her big feet, and to get even with him she replied
that he might have her old sealskin sacque made over into a pair of
ear-muffs.
A Toronto man waited until he was 85 years old before he got married. He
waited until he was sure that if he didn't like it he wouldn't have long
to repent.
How a woman always does up a newspaper she sends to a friend, so that it
looks like a well stuffed pillow, is something that no man is woman enough
to understand.
"Yes, my dear," said Mrs. Ramsbothom, speaking of her invalid uncle, "the
poor old gentleman has had a stroke of parenthesis, and when I last saw
him he was in a state of comma."
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