Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-21
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 | A New Hampshire dog is sick from biting | a tramp One cannot be too careful what he eats this warm weather.-Lowell Citizen. A Newport swell changes his collar three times each dey. One would naturally think
 ! he would wash his neck once in while in I stead.-Lowel Citizen. The man who. uses profane language 1 may have considerable dash about him, but he is running the risk of going where they have altogether too much colon.-Boston Transcript.
 Thousands of men have commenced at the bottom of the ladder, and staid there. Oth- CTS have carried bricks and mortar and reached the top by honest industry.-New i Orleans Picayune. ! A book just published is entitled stHow to Make $500 Yearly Profit with Twelve Hens. D We have not read the book, but we suppose the authors recipe is to sell the corn they ! would annually eat and then kill the hens. l ssHe airs himself at . summer hotel He apes the dude and the English swell, He gIistens and gares with fobs and rings, He scatters his money with easy swing, He loafs at like a money king He wines and dimes and dirts and dances, And with lies of wealth the girl entrances; i But. the season OCT, again he'll seek His old position in 6 corner grocery store, where he tolls IS hours out of 24 for the princely salary of $s.76 tand finds him- self1 per week. All 1ue21AGa H06t Ab9 WEASkS4 DO0Ac B0SsO5 on the opulence of his poverty. What wor- ries most of us at the present time is the pow erty of our opulsnce. It is too sad 8 thing to write verses abous.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
 It was his first dinner at which he found a programme" printed in French. and, after examining the bill of fare intently from top to bottom, he called to the waiter, and, point ing to the word "menu" at the top, said Fetch me dish of that for starter. Edith first. class summer resort is one at which the cottagars will not speak to the hotel guests. A second class resort is one at which the hotel guests will not speak to the cottagers. third class resort is one st
 which everybody tries to have q good time. Philadelphia News. A conceited young country parson, walk ing homo from church with one of the ladies of his congregation, said, in allusion to his rustic audience, 'sI preached this morning to | congregation of asses 1T thought of 1 that, D observed the lady. s.when you called them beloved brethren:'' 4 oaLx A SISTER TO HIM. He lifted his face in the starlight dim. And all that he saw round. dull sky; And the stars that twinkledlooksd to him Like the phogphor gleams of the are-ny.
 The new moon hung in an awkwaTd shape,
 And was crooked and bent like the he, horn & of ram And the garden gate bangsd to with 2 slam. The brook oozed over the slImy stones From stagnank pools in the meadow marsh; Or it crooned along with plaintive moans. And the song of the whip-poor-wtl WAS harsh. He jabbed his ribs on the clumsy stile, For dark pitch Yas the dusty lane And his thin lips curved in q bitter smile, As he emote the weeds with spitefuI cane. Rough and ugly and long was the way, The skies were dull and the earth was cold He hated the night and he dreaded the day, And his heart seemed hundred centuries old. With the dirge of his sighe he timed his tread, As one who pondereth bitter things. But he only whispered, with drooping head And heart that wondered-tsKicked, by jinRsp p
 -Robsrt J. Burdette, in Life.