Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-09
MINORITY REPREsENTAFIO

Oh, the skirt! ths beautiful skirt,
 Jesked thro' the sush and dragged thro' the dirt, CDce you were white As the mantle Of snow; As the leaves Of the lily When spring zephyrs blow; Stiff to tha touch and fir to the e,e Drawing the gaze Of each male passeE-by; | Now tattered and spattered- Oh, piteoUs wrong Beautiful ekirt-you can't stand 1t long. | Andrews Bazsar William Blacks now novel is called ''sun- rise" Probably, suggests the Oil City Der rick, beceuse he thinks it will be read. When witty lady is asked her opinion of | moustaches her reply is that she always sets her face against thsm.-Elmira Advertiser. | Anna: Glow do love pets before I was married always had a monkey" Arthur: /: ''And what have you now?" Anna: ''You." :" | A negro woman near Chesapeake Bay late | ly made an amusing reply to Wall street sprculator of religious as well as duck Presbyterians in this vicinity ?" he asked. 'Weli, massa," che answered, '.I ain't heard of none of dem bsin' shot this season."
 ''My friends" said the political speaker, with burst of ingenious eloquence, II will be honest" There were large number of l his naishbors present, and the terrific out burst of applause which followed this remark entirely upset the point which the orator was l about to introducs.-Rockland Courier. | There is young lady in Keokuk, Iowa, who is six feet four inches tall, and she is engaged | to be married. The man who won her did 1t 1 in these words:
 'Jhy bcaHty set my soul aglow; I'd wed thee ght wrong Man wants but little here bsiow, But wauts that little long, It is said that the scorpion, when surround ed by a circle of fire, turns and stings itself to death. Probably it fesls something like the young man after he is tilted, and whose only ambition is to get out under the silent stars and kick himself over a fence.-Rock- land Courier.
 The Nov York Herald has raised more than | three hundred thousand dollars for the Irish relief fund, and woman in that city couldn't go to church last Sunday because her bonnet was six weeks old. We little dream, while assisting others, of the suffering at our own doors !-Norristown Herald.
 ssHas your husband shown any encourag- ing signs of growth in the fear of the Lord ?" aaked clergyman of New England woman as they shared social cup of tea. "Wsu, said the woman, 1T kinder think he has, for have lately noticed that he never goes out on the Lords day without shotgun. "-The Hour.
 ssDon't waste your time in clipping off the branches" said the woodman to his son, 'but lay your axe at the root of the tree" And the young man went out and laid his axe at the root of the tree, like good and dutiful is nothing so beautiful as filial obedience!- Boston Transcript.
 Fair Alice, Of the ball the belle,
 Tripped lightly on her dainty feet,
 When suddenly she slipped and fell,
 And on the floor she took a seat.
 The maiden, bushng like rose,
 Quick with her sister flies away;
 ttOh, sister, did they my-toes-
 Those horrid men ?-:o tsli me tnay.'"
 "They didn't Iook-they were discreet"
 Miss Alice, pouting says, "It's msan-
 My silk stockings look sweet
 But doAt you think just enc was sesn?"
 -Oil City Derrick.