Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-26
MESSAGES

t'And what is this animal callsd?" asked the teacher in class of natural history as he pointed to picture Of @ sloth. And the class all shouted at once, "A messenger boy!'- Exchange.
 It was on the piazza. ''How beautifully that woman sings, said one lady to another, who was in gorgeous attire and blazing with diamonds. "Is she mezzo-so prano ?" 'tNo, guess not. I think she is 8 Swede," re- piled the other.
 As part of the marriage ceremony in Ser via, the bride has to hold piece of sugar be- tween her lips as sign that she will speak little and sweetly during her married life. The sugar soon melts eway.-Louisvills Courier-Jo Journal.
 It is well enough to embroider Good Night" in sleepy colors on pillow sham, but when the bolster is stuffed with prairie hay, and the mattress is preparing to celebrate it's golden wedding, the hospitable wish is too sarcastic to be pleasant. Hawk eye.
 Michigan woman, on recovering from fit, discovered her husband kissing the ser want girl. He explained that he was driven crazy by anxiety about his wife, and she took one contemptuous look at the servant girl, and said she believed him. But she hasn't had 8 it since.-Bostou Post. San Francisco man advertised for 1920 red haired girls-must be good looking" and not one response was received. A few days later he advertised for 1920 golden-haired beauties, " and before the paper was out two hours the street in front of his office was crowded with just the style of beauty he de- gired.-Bismarck Tribune. An agricultural journal says GA we'll trained shepherd dog will drive cattle or sheep better than boy" This is true. 4 shepherd dog is not very successful in driv- ing boy. A bulldog, with head the size of dinnsr-pot, will drive more boys ln one day than shepherd dog will drive in week if there is old man farmer to encourage the dog.-Norristown Herald. Yes, my son, if you would have something to occupy your mind, something which shall make you studious and thoughtful, and drive from your mind all frivolous thoughts and idle fancies, buy two or three shares in fuctuating railroad stock. Yes, my son, you will always have something to think about, if you follow this advice. It may not be money, perhaps; but it will be something - Boston Transcript.
 Said the plumbers apprentice, as the proud young lady of the mansion where he was at work passed him without deigning him even so much as glance "An right, my beauty you can sail by me now without a thought or care for my breaking heart, but just wait till the boss sends in his bill for this job and you'll mighty soon have to shed Gnae SSaISKln SacQu0 ana u1dmOuu odI GhOPo and ind place in the humber walks of life Then you'll be glad to get rising young plumber, but I'll make you grovsl for these sights before I'll let you win mo. ."-Cincin- natl Saturday Night.
 Where is the doodIebug that erst-
 When blushing, frsgrsDce-breathtng nowrs
 Wood back by Aprils kindly Rhow'rs.
 Beamed gladly forth from FIora's boT'rs-
 Where Is the doodlebug that burst
 All into life and toiled away
 Thro heat and dust of summer day?
 And where the gauzy white pekEy
 Which, wheo the spring. serene and warm,
 Succeeded wiLtry wind and storm,
 Bedecked the comedy female fcral-
 Where Is that futed thing, gray,
 That with the advsnt of each spring
 The beaus admire and poets sing?
 Gone like deebing, summer dream
 Gone Ike the soon-forgotten lay
 Gone like the friends of ye-terday-
 The doodlebuS and white pekay!
 But when the vernal rain and bsann
 Refresh the hillside and the plain,
 The two will cJme-WiH come again.
 Eugene Field