Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-25
TOO SHORT.

His lordship (after missing his tenth rab- bit)-sI'll tell you what it is, Bageter. Your
 rabbits are all two inches too short, here l abouts !"-London Punch. Quality and quanity; s'The idea of my ] being jealous of Miss Smithl' exclaimed Mrs Brown indignantly; "the idea of my being l jealous of her, when I, think so much of her ID ''Yes, but what do you think?' asked Brown.-Boston Transcript.
 1 ''Wife, why do you open the windo ? We only have ten degrees of heat in this 1 room" ''Yes, that's so. and in the open air 1 it's four degrees. Now, I'll let those in, and l then it will be fourteen, and quite comforta- ble here e-"-Gilhooley' Etchings. From across the sea come rumors of the ] decline of eolored hosiery and the supremacy of white balbriggans again. A lady crossing muddy street, though, needn't think she ! isn't going to be allowed to pass unnoticed because she doesn't wear white.-Boston Post.
 A poor uncle at sea: Whats thatP a Bible ?" asked Fogg's country uncle. "No," replied Fegg, opening the book, Its dic- 1 tionary." "Hm ," ejaculated the avuncular 1 relation, turning over the leaves. Well I s'pose it's mighty valuable book to such fellers as you, but, by mighty! if had it I don't blieve I'd ever read it through, if I l lived to be's old as Methuselah. ."-Boston Transcript
 man in London was sentenced to 8 months imprisonment for throwing an in- fant through 8 window and smashing the glass Of course when 8 man breaks win dow he should be punished but "a months | imprisonment seems pretty severe for little l thing like that Perhaps the fact that the infant was killed may have had something to do with the severity of the sentence.-Nor- l ristown Herald.
 They do not indulge in any maudlin senti- mentality over murderer out west. The perpetrator of horrible deed who expiated his crime on the gallows in Nevada not long ago was making his last remarks. Said he, s'l am ready to Ro" That's right" said l the sheriff, ''you might as well be ready for you'll have to go anyhow" ''Earth has no I ties for me- continued the murderer. 'sEx- cept this,' interrupted the sheriff, tapping I the hangman's knot ggestively.-Cincin- natl Saturday Night.
 A Dog, on a warm summer day, lay down 1 in the Shade and soon fell asleep. He was Awakened by the Noise of huge Bull ap-
 proaching his shady resting place. "Get up"
 1 said the Bull, land let me Lie down here '" I Mo- replied the Dog, "you have no Right I to the place I was here First.'' Well, D
 said the Bull, looking innocently at the Dog, I but with ferocious Twinkle in his left Eye, which made the Dogs spinal Column run l cold and his lower Jaw give way, let us Toss I up for it, ''Thank You,'' said the Dog Po- litsly, 1T never Gamble,' and he walked
 ] Away. Moral-Virtne has it's own reward Life.
 THE PRAYER OF THE FINANCIER. Give me, Lord, the widows mite, Give me the orphans sustenance- Toward the poor man's store aright Direct my keen detective glance. The humble treasure of the poor Is not beneath my lust for gold; Direct the workman's footsteps sure Within the ways where stocks are sold. The callow youth whom fortunes fair Tempt into parting with his trusts, | Lead him, oh. lead him to my lair And mine the task to see he t'busts." The merchant whose declining days | Ths light Of honor makes less dim, Whose age is sweetenea by mems praise | o Lord, just let me get at him! The wealth of these. of many more,
 Make mine, although need 1t not; It swells my overhowing store
 | From kindred sources hardly got. ] O, ask me not, O Lord, what end 1 These gifts ask of Thee shall serve; So long as Thou Thy blessings send l Should from my stern purpose swerve? | Although no honest hand will press The hand which in friendship stretch: | Although of love kiow far less Than many homeless, hopeless wretch; | Yet give me MORE, o Lord, to spend
 | For my ambition high and free,
 | Until our yacht clubs, in the end Will be afraid to blackbau me.
 Puck.