Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-24
FASHIONABLE.

Locomotives are always spoken of as in tn
 feminine gender and just now they are in th
 height of fashion. They never move vithou
 a busGle behind. Philadelphia Call
 A Philadelphia paper says that lemon juice
 in water makes healthful and invieoratine
 drink. Now what's the matter with putting
 q little lemon juice in lemonade occasionally l Oil City Derrick.
 "How old are you, my little man?" asked l a gentleman of the young idea yesterday. "Well, sir, replied the youthful financier, "I l shall be nine years old as soon as the circus leaves. ."-Boston Post.
 The waning of the honeymoon-scene, l Richfeld Springs. Wife (to husband who l has promised to spend the evening at home) -"Do take some cofee." Hubby-"No, it keeps me avake."-Life. q hear that your father-in-laws will has been filed" said one citizen to another. "You don't say sol" was the alarmed reply. "rll bet forty cents that they filed my wifes share down the closest "-Burlington Free Press.
 Did yeu meet young Dudee, or Cortland, yesterday" asked one Marathon man of another. "Yes." "Well, how did he strike you?" ''Just as be does everybody. He struck me for @ dollar. ."-Marathon Inde- pendent.
 Lightning struck 8 hall out in Minneapolis where some of wagner's music was being rendered and the leader of the orchestra merely motioued to the man at the big drum to hit 1t more gently in the next inning Philadelphia Press.
 An intoxicated husband on reaching home seized an umbrella from the rack, opened it and proceeded to his wife's bedroom. Are you crazy?" exclaimed the grieved and indig- nant matron. tNo," replied he in an un- steady voice, ''but-hic-I supposed there'd be Q sterm, so pve-hic-come prepared for it."
 ''Why do you always wear 8 bunch of flow CTS in your buttonhole?" inquired Miss Fus- sanfeather, while MT. Titepants was calling the other evening. ''Oh, it gives one an air of freshness,' responded the poetical young man. ''Well, replied the young lady, frank ly, 'I don't think you need any artificial means to prove your freshness" And then Titepants went out and sat on the hitching g post to think it over.
 In one of the reception rooms of Vassar college there hangs an excellent reproduction of Millet's famous picture, ''The Angelus''- two peasants stopping their work in a potato field to say an Ave Maria at the sound of the distant angelus. A teacher at the institution surprised one of the Irish servants looking earnestly at this work of art. Pretty pie ture. Patrick, |" she said. "Yes, mum, quoth Pat, ''but what's the matter with the potay- ties?''
 Somnolent lies the pickle ln It's brlny bath, and in dreamy idleness the wad of chewing gum lies en the window sill. Athwart the glintipg sunbesms, in their lonely search, the shivered corset steel intrudes it's sinuous length, while in the far-off dolly dells of the bosky woodland copse the curl paper hutters in ssd-eyed idIen<ss for the bangs it never more will clasp. A broken garter here, an undarned stocking there, few bent and scattered hair-pins-they are little things, hUk nh hnw mut6iV vet nAth6tlCailV. they tell the hungry heart that the sweet girl grad uate has fled, and is now engaged in catching beaus and frecklss.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.