Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-30
CRUMBS OF COMFORT.

Edith-MapIe surgar is made by tapping maple trees with gimlet and grocery store hogsheads with an auger.-PhtddeLphi Press.
 A lecturer is telling ''How we Hear It is easily told. Somebody tells a friend of ours, and tells him not to tell; that's the way we hear.-lEaratto1 Independent retired pugilist, who disapproves of the
 brutality of the modern prize fight, has taken up his residence in Lawrence because they
 have Pacific mills there.-,SonaerctlLe Jour7adt.
 A Massachusetts girl has long hair that trails for half yard At 8 muddy crossing she first takes her hair across and then comes back after her trail. Philadelphia Chronicle It having been reported among the boys that Johnny was busted, Johnny called ln Tom and Sammy and showed them the con- tents of his pockets, consisting of twenty commonies, six alleys, ten agates and three | chinese. Johnny is a nice boy, and his credit is fully restored.-B0StO11 Transcript. In China man who makes or sells adul- terated food is imprisoned or hanged. In this country it is the man who buys the aduL terated food who has to suffer. The other fellow acquired five inches of fat on his ribs, 1 and is elected to positions of honor and trust. | The Chinese must go. Some of there cus- toms are subversive of our most cherished l institutions. ns.-IerGs iStftt71gS.
 That was a singular occurrence at the west ern addition on Wednesday, when a promi-
 nent member of the big board stopped to
 speak to burly Irishman who was shoveling | sand as if a casket of doubloons lay under his | pile 'Is that hard work?'' said the broker. | ''Begorra thry how you loike it." said the | laborer ''You bet you" sad the broker, | and pulling off his coat he spit on his hands 1 and went to work with will Then, while | the precipitation ran down his face, he delved 1 and lifted and finally put aside the shovel and l gave the man quarter. ''What the deuce l did you do that for ?' asked a friend, who 1 had regarded the performance with consld- i erable curiosity. Because" was the reply,
 ''unless stock matters improve within the 1 next three months, I'll have to come to It, | for I couldn't beg, and I can't borrow, and | I'll be hanged if I'm going to starve as long as
 there is a sand hill and a shovel in San Fran
 cisco "-lSan FrdpciscO Nelcs Letter.
 There IS no question about it, this energy
 is all mistake likeness is respected, and
 superabundant activity is despised. No one
 is more respected than judge, ana yet he | deyotes his whole time to sitting on bench,
 and no one is more thoroughly despised than
 a tramp, who keeps meandering round the
 country goaded on continually by abom- inable excess of energy. Almost all the
 trouble in the country is caused by the con-
 fiict between capital and labor. Who ever
 heard of a conflict between a lazy man and
 capital? Nobody. A lazy man has got too
 much sense for that He never objects to
 any amount of capital, rather approves of it.
 That ridiculously busy man, Dr. Watts says | in one of his @sthetic ballads" that Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do" Now, that just carries out my idea.
 See how anxious Satin is to keep people
 busy. He can't bear to see them in state
 of virtuous idleness, but gets them to work
 at something (no matter what), and then he ! knows he has a chance Of calling them to his 1 bosom.-Qutz.