Morning journal and courier., 1883-07-17
PROBABLY.

Annie Louise Gary is opposed to the ballot | for women. Probably she is satisfied to have ! her husband vote as she tells him.-Bostor Post.
 Nearly four hundred persons were killed | by the wind last year in this country. This | is terrible record for an of year in politics. New York Commercial Advertiser. A shower of stones is reported by six ! teen gentlemen of St. AIbans, Vt. It is no ticed, however, that these gentlemen are members of brass bsnd.-Boston Post. A young lady on leaving concert recently expressed her delight with the excellent mu- sic and said that she was particularly pleased ! with "that piece from the 12th Massachu- l setts,' meaning Mozart's Twelfth Mass" The Rev. Dr. Hall said that every rock was a sermon, when boy was stealing apples from MT. Halls orchard. When the boy s father subsequently, asked him why he one of MT. Halls sermons Tribune.
 There was young man who said, ''There! lean steal in during prsyer!" But the shriek of his shoes So pervaded the pews That he sank in his seat in despairs A German editor who was challenged to fight duel refused and was still considered brave man, because he frankly admitted that even if he did escape being shot, his mother-in-law would torment the life out of him for being fool enough to fght.-Phila- delphia Chronicle.
 'tWhat learned man MT. A isl" exclaimed Mrs. B. 'He talks so Interestingly on every thing he knows, and he knows so many things" ''Hm D eiaculated Mrs. c, 'tyou should hear my friend D; he talks equally well of things he knows nothing about as of any others. He is what you may really call 8 learned man. ."-Boston Transcript.
 Eight members of the Stone family, in Tennessee, on their way to church in an OK wagon, were run away with by yoke of oxen and all tumbled into 8 creek without in- jury. This little spread gave local paper chance to say that was one of the occasions when no Stone was left unturned in the eff fort to hear the gospeI.-New York Oommer- cial Advertiser.
 tsYour daughter graduates this month, Mr. Thistleped ?" ''Yes, she'll be home about ates also ?" "Oh, yes; he'll come home about the same time" ''And what are they going to do7" s'Well,'' said the old man thought fully, 1T don't just exactly know what they want to drive at, but Martha she writes that she wants to continue heE art studies on the continent, so I think I'll just send her to Greece in the dairy and let her do little plain modelling in butter; and Sam he says he's got to go abroad and polish up little, and as good luck will have 1t he'll be home just in time to spread him. self on the grindstone and put an edge on the cradle blades against the wheat harvest" And the old man smiled to think that he hadn't thrown money away when he sent his children to schooL-Hawkeye.
 AFRAID? {? OH, NO.
 In the meadow, rich with corr,
 One salubrious summer morn,
 Went maid.
 q am very fond of COWS,
 And love to watch them browse"
 So she said.
 f'when they cat the fragrant grass
 And gaze at me as pass.
 sint afraid"
 Just then one old brindle COW
 Raised her head and made 8 bow
 How she flew.
 Not the COW, but that rash naid
 Who had said she wasn't afraid.
 pshaW Phewi
 When she reached the nearest shed
 She was very nearly dead,
 And wet with dew.
 This tale Is true.