Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-12
Fun ,On High Olympus.

l Apollo" said the god of the hyperion
 curls, in weary tone, ''put up that tiresome | Tyre you make Minervas." s'You want the Tyre, then," said Apollo, | s'to be like yourself, unstrung. Well, it shall | be done anything to keep peace bet Venus. !" | 'sYes, indeed" said fair Oytheria, ''quarrel- | ing always Mars our pleasure. It puts me out | to hear it."
 'sYes, it is very pro VuIoan," began the | god of the loud sounding sea, but the rest of | the assembly immediately howled him into si- lance and he sulkily appealed to his father If | it wasn't kind of rough to be Saturn in that way. But the old man told him that If he 1 tried to ring him in on any of his puns he'd | eat him up-
 ssAnd serve him right" said the gay young Hermes, ''dont Boreas with any puns. Jupi- | ter's Iris sufficiently aroused now, without making matters more Ceres. sI say" shouted Minerva, and when the | bIue.eyed maid from Boston Common lifted | her voice everybody was silent, ''I say, all of you Juno the difference between Pluto and 8 section hand on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad ?"
 sBecsuse Pluto erovels in the shade and the section hand shovels in the grades" Loud laugh the gods, and the Paphian green declared that the conundrum took the apple. The applause that greeted Minerva's effort inspired great love himself, and he said he had little one of his own. "Only one?" asked Mercury, with such an appalling emphasis on "only" and such meaning accent on t'one" that Olympus rang again, and love told him if he didn't correct his elocution he might turn in his key and pouch and there'd be new carrier on number five next week. Then he went on:
 ssWhy is Venus like Horace Greeley's daughter?"
 And, of course, they all gave it up because none of them dared to guess it, and then, while they were all whispering the answer to each other, Jupiter said:
 'sBecause she married Smith" :"
 Then they all said ''Ha" three times apiece, and by and by Iris asked innocently: U. Smith, of SmithviIle r And then great Sove ordered sn adjourn ment and told Iris that if he ever caught her sliding down the rainbow again when there was company at the hill, he'd marry her to some Indian god with nine heads andno legs, and name that no Greek in free America could pronounce. He then retired in great ill humor saying that he didn't feel very well to day himself. Thereupon Mercury, strik- ing the ceduceus in his hat-band, went into the shop and fixed up the following prescrip- ton for a sleeping potion:
 R. Aqua purs, hottissimus przm Lemonis naturae sncz
 Sugari loaferis 1spund
 sniritus fruroenti optimus hDgrz
 DIRECTIONS :- To be absorbed per lsbial ofifice unus every noctem ante going to somnus.
 Thus did the immortal gods while away the happy QOurS Ou OAyApuo 1A old days of Andrews & Stoddard's Latin grammar.
 It is probable that large thread mill will locate in Shelton during the coming summer.
 The Union Knife Oo., of Union Clty, nave made arrangements with number Of German boy. lately imported to Bridgeport to make cheap knives for them.
 The principal business nien of Naugatuck are willing to furnish their share of funds for the proposed branch railroad from Osborne town to Naugatuek by Millville.
 Postmasters appointed in Connecticut the last two weeks: Long Ridge, Fairfield county, AIanson 0. Dixon; Danbury, Fairfield eoun- ty, John Tweedy Hampton, Windham coun- ty, John G. Potter.
 Since Oct. 1, 1879. up to March l, 1880, there have been about l, 150 barrels of clams shipped from the town of Stratford. not counting those which have been carried into the city of Bridgeport. They average $2.25 per barrel.
 Manning, Bowman 6 Co., manufacturers of britannia and silver plated ware in Meriden, contemplate the erection of B brick building, larger than their already mammoth establish ment, early in the spring. It is stated that the plans and specifications of the new build ing are already in process of arrangement.