Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-24
GREAT BLOWS.

The third turmoil is grease for the Grant
 boom.-Picayune.
 A tornado is great blow to any country Philadelphia Chronicle Herald. They say Mrs. Langtry can be more grace | ful in stubbing her toe than most women can ! in throwing kiss.
 'Foregoes'' was the word given out at a written spelling exercise recently and one 1 little boy handed in, 'Go, go, go, go."
 "When you choose wife," says Spanish proverb, sshut your eyes," s'When you choose a husband" says an American proverb, postpone the business as long as you can l and then run away"
 Judge Thomas Sergeant, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, once said that eff it were not for the women this world would be hard world for painters, per-hangers and clergymen. ."-Philadelphia Progress. It would appear that Mr. Le Due has been
 little remiss in distributing his snow ball seeds this winter. There hasn't been more than half crop, and the younger members of the community are just suffering.-Hawk- eye.
 (Which do you think would be the easiest for me to change myself into-a lion, horse, or an ass ?" asked conceited fellow of @ friend. ''Oh, into an ass, by all odds, as that wouldn't be so much of change" was the reply.
 An ingenious manager in Burlington has made drop curtain representing an enormous bonnet, with sprays of flowers, and dropping plumes. This is let down on the play early in the first scene, and is kept down all the evening, and the audience, seeing about as much of the play as it is accustomed to seeing,
 goes away delighted. Burlington Hawkeye. Littre and Robin, who were associated in the preparation of famous Dictionary of
 Medicine" were two very absent minded men. One day when they were seated side by side at the same table at their work, one, feeling his leg itch, laid down his pen to
 scratch it. Unhappily, in his absent-mind- edness, he began scratching his compsnion's
 leg. His companion, perceiving that his leg
 was being scratched, inferred that he was
 scratching it himself, and laid down his pen so as to be able to devote himself exclusively
 to the operation.
 Here is an amusing bit of ecclesiastical tit for-tat. Two young men were chums and in- timate friends in college. One became 8 Baptist minister, the other an Episcopalian. They did not meet again for years. When they did, it was in the pulpit of the Baptist,
 for whom the Episcopalisn preached to the great satisfaction of the congregation. Ser
 mon over, the two divines ducked their heads
 behind the bresstwork of the preaching desk
 and held the following colloquy ''Fine ser
 mon, Tom much obliged. Sorry I can't re-
 pay your kindness for preaching by asking you to stay to our communion. Can't,
 though. you know, because you have never
 been baptized" 70, don't concern yourself
 about that, Jim. I couldn't receive the com munion at your hands, as you have never been ordained"
 young man brought this in: ''The pala- tial residence of our well known citizen, John Smith, Esq. was last evening a blaze of light, the occasion being recherche soiree in honor of the lovely Miss Smiths arrival home from the academy. From early gloaming till g o'clock were the guests arriving. At that hour all sat down to most appetizing repast, to
 which was given the close attention it so well
 deserved. The large parlors were cleared for the merry dancers at the conclusion of the banquet, and until the wee sma' hours ayont the twal were reached fair women and brave
 men tripped the light fantastic toe in the be-
 wildering mazes of the dance." Etc., etc.,
 etc., and so forth. When that young man got the paper and found these words, ''There was dance at Smiths last night"-only these
 and nothing more-he went out and hanged himsef.-Boston Transcript.