Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-27
ALL WOOL

It is easy to breakfast in bed if you will be
 satisfied with few rolls and turnover. A good rule for the rink-If young lady
 can't skate, let her slide.-Boston Courier. It has been discovered that the Dutch baby cries for it's nudder and fodder at the same | time.-New Orleans Picayune. People who insist on wearing their old rags | are only working against a reduction of the l price of paper.-New Orleans Picayune. | Talk about acting Juliet When you see | Mary Anderson come out on the Capulet bal 1 cony, lay her piece of chewing gum on the | railing, and reach for Romeo, you see acting 1 real enough to craze Harvard student.-N. | o. Picayune.
 The Boston Globe notices that King Alfonso
 wears necklace of black beans as charm. Boston papers always did speak we'll of AL | fonso, and they have stood by him faithfully 1 in two marriages and other troubles. It was | the bean.-New Orleans Picayune. Visitor-''Lor', low did it appen p Mrs. 1 O'Blarney, the nurse, whose patient has had | 8 relapse-"Will, now, she wor a-gittin on foinely, she wor, whin ali av a suddint she
 tux woilent cold. No one cudn't tell low it | 'appened but it's my belafe they gev her gruel
 out of dhamp basin:"
 At crowded French country theatre wo-
 man fell from the gallery to the pit, and was picked up by one of the spectators. who, hearing her grooming, asked her if she was much injured. 'sMuch injured ]" exclaimed l the woman, q should think am. I have
 lost the best seat in the very middle of the l front row."
 l The bes and most conclusive reason for an effect that we ever remember to have heard was given by 8 Dutchman, in reply to a l friend who remarked, ''Why, Hans, you have | the most feminine cast of countenance I have l ever seen" ''Oh, yaw," was the reply, q know the reason for that-my mother was 8 woman"
 A young lady writes to an exchange: stFor 1 my part, prefer an evening passed at home with pleasant book to attending balls, par ties and theatres" O, certainly. When 8 young lady hasn't beau, nor 8 new bonnet, nor g new walking costume, she generally
 prefers to remain at home with 8 book which she is too mad to read.-Norristown
 Herald.
 A Frenchman can even look at his afhictions in bright and cheerful way and smooth the toughest path by bit of pleasantly. gen.
 tleman was recently walking in the Tuileries
 with his dear children-eight beautiful daugh- ters sEWhati l" said an acquaintance who met him, s'have you so many children-and
 all girls ?" ''Yes," returned the paternal guardian, ssthese beautiful girls are all mine. What one wishes for in his youth and finds it hard to get one has in abundance in his old age"
 Tennyson's contribution to St. Nicholas narrowly escaped destruction. Mrs. Dodge read the first two or three lines and inquired,
 ssWhy, what idiotic bosh is this ?" She read
 two or three more, and then thrust the con-
 tribution in the waste basket with an excla nation of disgust. Fortunately, the name of the author was conspicuous as the poem lay in the basket, so she reperused the dainty lines, exclaimed, "How delicious !" and sent them out to the composing room by special
 messenger. Free Press.