Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-21
POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The peach crop is nearly ruined, yet DOT tion of it will be preserved.-Neoo OrCe0ns Ptcayst7ae.
 It is shocking form now to speak of ''the baby;'' it is "our infanba, ? aw.-Neac York Commercial Adoertiser. The highest timepiece ever adjusted was ''when the sentinel stars set their watch in the ky.''-L0eoeN Courier. man walked into an Oil City Dank yes- terday, and throwing down large bill said he was like the Democratic party, he wanted change.
 young man on Main street says he is go- ing to attempt the feat of going forty days without work He says if his employers do not watch him he thinks he can accomplish the task.-Rocksand Courier.
 A young man in the city of Galveston gave a collector bill of $25 to collect. Meeting the collector the young man asked, stDid you get the money ?" "Yes, he paid up.'' ''How much are you going to charge me ?'' 'sWell, I tell you rather like your looks. I ought to charge you something, but I won't. I'll just keep the $25 and call it even. "-G Cubes toa -Neacs.
 Local item from Le Temps:
 s'One drama of the most emovings is passed himself Tuesday at Rouen, on the wharf of Mont -Riboudet.
 "We have seen, all of blow, towards four hours of the afternoon, one woman, young yet, holding between her arms one lit tie girl of six years, the eyes haggards, the vestments in disorder, the figure dscomposed, debouch by the street Leeat, advance herself with precipitation febrile to the border of the water, take her infant, contemplate it one second, throw him in the abysm and elaunch herself there in his turn.
 "A mariner, Nj. Dufresne, witness of this scene terrible casts himself into one bark, rams vigorously towards the spot where the mother and the infant have disappeared, re- seizes them at the moment when the one and the other go to disappear and rebrings them to the beach.
 saThe cares the most impresseds are givens to the shipwreckeds. The infant retakes soon cognisance inconsistent of the danger which she comes to run she mice to her sa- yiors'' (Translator's Note-IEHe s0a12-it c ses sauveuss literally fsshe mouses," but the idiom of the English language requires that we should use tsmice,n n not "mouses. ."- VGs- sar, September 15.) GAS to the mother she dweIls ferocious, sad and silentious. s"To the following of what unhappiness, of what events yet unknown, mysterious fatal, this unhappy has she wished to escape to the existence? It is yet secret yet ignored of alIs ''-Neao Fork World.
 AN ODE TO LOT sTovEpRE. Internal stun your nature well know So when took you down six months ago Each piece numbered so that might tell Exactly now youo go together well, And now the time for chilly days draws nigh, To put you up again msdly try, But all in vain. The joints that then did fit Now do not come within inch of it. get you two-thtrds put in place and then Crash you go tumbling to the floor again; Once more try. You're rather full Of soot, And getting daubed from head to foot. jam my thumb but still perseyere, One piece goes down again and rakes my ear; grab to catch the piece, another goes, And falling scrspes the hide all of my nose And then another piece falls with slam, And then the rest goes down and say "dam." And then my blood gets boiling and Isay, By all that's blue I'll ix you anyway. Once more go to work. By patience great get all but single section straight And that am about to place, when. ohi The chair stand on tips. Down dat go, While and ronnd me with . horrid crash, The whole comes down again in one grand smash And then my wife remarks: q never A man clumsy" 2" gay: Hold yer jaw p And for tinnnan send while retire To wash myself and swear, to vent my ire.