Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-28
STEEP.

''Isnt this tea too steep?" inquired the customer. ''Certainly it is, sir" was the re- ply, ''it is to steep."-Advertiser.
 This has besn a year of strange phenom. ena. Only yesterday messenger boy was seen going faster than a walk.-PhiIadelphi Gall.
 One of the first things railroad acquires is a deficit. We don't know what it is used for, but it's part of the equipment the first year.-BurliDgton Hawkeye.
 After wrestling with the subject for long while, New York writer concludes that there is only one thing that can effectually remove the odor of fried onions-time.
 ''Oh, Charleyl" exclaimed she, 'sses that little white dog Isn't he pretty ?" sYes," replied Charley, ''he is cur white pretty'' She falls in dead faint.-Boston Transcript.
 A Montana statesman is named Maeinnis M. Maginnis. The middle initial is thought to stand for Maginnis, and vague suspicion is gaining a.footing that he may be of Irish descent.-Bismarck Tribune.
 ''Pa, what is poetic license ?" 'sWell, my boy, as nearly as can learn, poNtic license is something which enables a tiInn to say things in verse which would inearcerate hinl in IL. aRtic asylum if worked of at politi- cal meeting. "-Oil City Blizzard.
 'fMay," asked little Burlington girl of 8 companion, what do you suppose is the difference between beau and beau ideal ?" ttWell, don't know" was the frank re- sponge, ''unless they leave off the Ideal after they get married -''-Burlington Free Press.
 It was Christmas eve, and they had been propounding conundrums. "Why are you like the Christmas tree?" queried she. "Be cause 'tis ever green, I suppose" "Oh, no; it's because you look so sprucel" They will be seen together next summer at Cony Island.-Advertiser.
 ''I now offer you Rubens,' said an auc- tioneer, "a perfect gem of genias, perhaps the finest painting that came from that mas ter hand.' There was no bid. The auction ger passed the Rubens, and, taking up anoth. CT picture, said: ''Very well, gentlemen. I nov offer you Rembrandt by the same ar- tiat."
 GiIhooly to Kosciueko Murphy, whom he met at ball at the residence of Colonel Yeyger, on Austin avenue. s'You look well fed. are well dressed and all that Must have 8 good income. presume" "Oh, yes, !" re- piled Kosciusko, 1T can't complain. I have my salary, $ 800; then make $500 year by my literary labors, that makes $2, GOO, then run in debt $1 1000, that makes s, ,0OO A single man who couldn't subsist on that ought to be ashamed of himself. ."-Texas Siftings.
 An interesting conversation was overheard not many days ago by one who chanoed to occupy the seat behind two gitls on a rail road car. The young ladies-boh evidently from the rural districts-met unexpectedly on the train. They proved to be old friends and were soon launched into conversation that might be said to come under the head of confidential. One, pretty brunette was about to be married, and proceeded, in an. swer to her companions inquiries to give g description of the man of her choice After quite little dissertation on his good qnali- ties, she acknowledged that he wal not very good-looking. "No. Franks not bit hand some-he's too stout for that; but Carrie, you should have seen the man Imittened Oh, but he was pretty. Harper Bazar.