Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-14
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She wore a belted ulster cloak, All buttoned down before, A standing collar, and the tie
 l ihlnk was red she wore. A jockey hat sat on her nose She carried rattan, And all who saw her couldn't tell The lady from a-mar.

All buttoned down before,
 standing collar, and the tie
 think was red she wore.
 jockey hat sat on her nose
 She carried rattan,
 And all who saw her oou!dntteI
 The lady from a-mar.
 Governor Garcelon can withstand great deal of Merrill suasion in the Maine.-Pica- yune.
 The cabalistic ''st" attached to political ad- vertisements means third term.-New Or leans Picayune.
 Professor in Psychology-What is the first power developed by man? Senior (somewhat mixed)-Well-I- welI-I suppose the power to creep. Senior sits down amid wild ap- plause.
 steel manufacturers They are all working overtime, and it is feared that the supply of metal will run short. A Chicago girl has or dered pair of skates Courier.
 Little Willie (to Mir. Jones, who is quite at tentive to Willie's widowed mamma): 'Mr. Jones, how did you come to have such bald head of hair P MT. Jones (who is not as dry as he looks and has been in the fur trade) : ''Why, Willie, I neglected it one season, and the moths got into it."
 The other day pr. Washington, coIored man, was arraigned before justice of the peace, charged with something like mal-med ical practice. He had given colored man a dose of medicine, and the colored man didn't live but one hour afterward- The justice was 8 colored man, and probably knew as much of law as the doctor did of medicine. When the doctor had been arraigned, the justice asked ''Dr. Washington, how long is you been practicin' ob medicine P ''Sence de wah sah.'' What books on de fzick an de human reconstruction did yer study" ''Oa, I studud 'nuf-Cornstalk's plosophy mong de number. Now, jedge, let me ax you one pint. What books on ds law Hid you study?'' 'Ise heah, pris'ner afore de bar, ter try dis case, an not to stand 'zami- nation. Comin' down from de law language to plain niggar an mule, what made you kill dat man? Splain yerself, sah, or I'll put de clamps of my 'thority on yer" 'tEf dar's a man in dis county what can 'splain hisself, Isa de man," said the doctor, arising. 'Some few days ago vented new medicine from roots dug outsn de groun'. Hit struck me dat de medicine would cure de rheumatiz, an when went ter see the man what is dead now concluded to experiment. on him. No ment wid hit. All medical 'ventions has ter be proved. When Bright vented der kidney disease, he didn't know hit would work till he tried hit. figured hit up jes dis way. Says to myself, of dis medl- cine cures dis man hits good; but eff hit kills him 1t won't do ter tamper wid, or let lie roun' loose 'mong chilun. Well, I gin him der medicine, and about an hour afterward he was dead. How would know dat de medi- cine was ftten fer use ef I hadn't tried 1t :? Don't yer see de geography of my gegement Science must be 'vanced, yer know" ''Dat's fack, said the justice, after musing awhile, ''de pint are well sustained. MT. Cornstable, turn dis man loose, and caution him not to vent any noah medicine in my township."- Little Rock Gazette.
 A WINTERS TALE.
 A boy took it in his head
 That he would exercise hts sIei.
 He took that sled into the road
 And, lord . massy how hs slode.
 And he slid he laughing cried
 "What fun upon my sled to slide."
 And as he laughed, before he knewed,
 He from that sliding sled was stude