Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-13
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A lodging house bed in New York can be obtained for five cents, and still some New Workers occasionally persist in staying up all night. Philadelphia Call. Student (to Parker House ebarber)-"What twenty cents for shavel Why, I can get shaved twice in Cambridge for twenty cents" Barber (consolingly )-''Oh, we'll, sir, ten cents year ain't much of saving. liar yard Lampoon. To get rid of the smell of fresh paint in a chamber or living room, slice few onions and put them in the middle of the room After that it will be desirable to get rid of the smell of the onions This can easily be done by putting on another coat of paint Philadelphia Call. Storekeeper-''Thisp piece is counterfeit '' Customer-'I know it; I got it here'' Store keeper That cannot be; we never take bad money" Customer-'I am aware that it is your rule to give bad money, not to take it; but I trust you will make an exception this time. ."-Boston Transcript. A doctor obligated himself to cure mans wife, but failed "You said you would cure her,' exclaimed the indignant husband 'sYes, I said so." ''Well, why didn't you ?' 'sWhy, my dear sir, because she died. If she hadn't died the chances are that she would have lived. .''-Arkansaw Traveller One of the States back toward the suns home base proposes to establish the whip ping post for wife beaters It shouldn't be done. When men become so fastidious as to demand public posts to which to lash their wives while whipping them they should be entirely deprived of the healthful amusement. Bismarck Tribune. The Detroit Free Press states that the new Duchess of Westminster, wife of one of the richest men in Europe, WAS married in a dress of white foulard, costing seventy cents yard. The duchess need not think that she is going to have many followers in her new departure; her foolhardy attempt will be a failure.-Boston Courier. s'Have you any imported cigars?" asked a New York traveller of 8 cigar dealer in Havana. "No, sir," the dealer replied in some surprise. s'We keep nothing but the domestic. There is no cali for foreign-made cigars in Havana D ''Aw so sorry but I neva' smoke anything but the i'm ported arti- cle, y Philadelphia Call. MAHDI. In the Nile land, through the desert From Tajoorah west to Kofod. From Fl Chargeh far to northward, Reaching to the Lake N'yanza In the southward of the river.
 Does the name of great Fl Mahdi, Like new railroad (on paperl, Ramify to every portion,
 Tanfeekeea, Gondokoro, Walag ga, Menawashy, Bir Bajuda, Bedeseeyeh,
 Towns and mountains, rivers, valleys, All In uD1Vereal chorus, Sound his fame and raise Fl Mahdi
 While the great False Pr phet madly
 Praises Fl with ut the Mahd Though Mahdi must be very surely,
 Thus to shake to it's foundation
 All the country of the Nile land, Bahr Fl Abisd the white Nile,
 Kuocb ed he out at Fl Obeid,
 Hicks Pasha and eve squsdron-
 Every squad like q white head Then to kbartoum. former slave mart, Turned his forces like torrent Damned by Tewfik and by England, From Dem Gooj0o to Dem Bekir.
 Thus Fl Mahdi great False Prophet,
 Raises Fl in Upper Egypt, A':d the English swear, by jingo,
 That they will not fight Fl Mahdi, Till their side profit. Merchant Traveller.