Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-21
ADULTERATED,

Sugar is selling at two cents 8 pound ia l many places in Cuba, and the question arises, What do the grocsrs adulterate the sand with? Boston Courier. A Chicago waman is suing for Q divorce from two husbands at the same time. She finds it impossible to boss around any more
 than four with a degree of success.-Bur- lington Free Press. How quickly mother discovers that her recently married son is being henpeeked ]! She forgets that she has been talking to the boys father ever since her own marriage Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Frenchman in New York makes dimples As hhe as advertised for . steam drill its safe to presume that he has 8 commercial traveller for customer.-Boston Courier.
 boy was milking COW in Dodgeville, N. Y, recently, when lightning struck the COW. The boy, unsvRre of the cause of the blow, was heard to exclaim ''Ah, hal your tail hit yourself that time instead of me !"-Phil< adephia Call.
 lady advertises that she has 'sa fine, airy, weIl-furnished bedroom for . gentle man twelve feet square" Another has s's cheap and desirable suit of rooms for a re- speetable family in good repair" Still an other has 'ta hall bedroom for a single woman eight by twelve.''
 A southern judge decides that 8 husband can ''strike his wife three licks with switch and escape punishment Not muck, your honor;-not if his wife can grab 8 rolling pin or broom handle, he won't escape pun ishment. And in 8 majority of cases she can grab.-Drake's Travellers Magazine.
 New York Dairyman-'.John, the pigs look rather queer. Have they been fed?'
 John-'Yes, sir"
 Dairyman-''Whatd did you give them2"
 John-''As there wasn't nothing else. sir, I gave them the milk that was left in the cans when the men got back from the city"
 Dairyman-"Great Josephus! What have you done? Run for the doctor'-Philadel- phia Call.
 ''MAUD MULLER's" BROTHER. He anbled down the stone-1ecked lane.
 And out from his midst there frequent came full-strer gth cuss word, deep and low,
 AS he knocked nail from wanton toe; And he wished he was deadn Socrates And the robins rang out a chime fEom the trees.
 And he wi.hed-as he stepped on business briar,
 Which made him reflect. By gosh, Mariar," From the farm and the meadow and making hay. And "Brindle" and Bright and the kicking COWS, And the blackbirds sang in the alder boushs.
 Now poet, who sat on 6 moss-hid stump. With his face in 8 smile and his back in a hump, Had heard the boy as he muttered away; And he called him hither and bid him say What life he'd choose if he had his pick? And the brown thrushes piped from neW-bult rick And the lad looked up with his eyes in 1aist. And, cutting a snack of "VirginiR Twist" He paured for momeht, then. child-ike, said, $ ifs all the ssme an had my pick. I could tell ye so suddink 'twould make ye sick I'd be cashier 8 savings bank" And the poet fell over, limp and lank. And this simple child with his tender thought, From his sweet desire his wish had wrought; And he rides in a chariot gilt and gay, And the poet is up OF the box, they say, And the world h1es hence with it's jam and jerk,
 And the birds, as of old, get in their work. -S. B. McManus in Puck.