Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-05
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The fashionable sand Gich contains very little meat The bread is merely trimmed with Hamburg edgiRs,-N. Com. Adv.
 Lucy Larcom has written poem entitled, q Climb to Rest" We'll, nearly all poets have had to sleep in attics -Somervills Journal.
 A Louisville lady has sued for divorce, asserting that her husband has not done any work in fourteen years There ara soms omen who want 8 man to be on the keen jump all the time.-Courier-Jo Journal
 ''Isn't it,awful?" cried Julie, as dog, in the agony of fright, went scurrying past with tin kettle tied to his tail 'Yes, indeed!" replied Jones. q guess there won't be much left of that kettle ''-Boston Trans cript.
 In one of our Indian languages the word ''woman" is rendered ''kewanojawjaw, ;" with marked and earnest emphasis on the last two syllables. Even the ssvages understand the vile and wicked arts of the lying slsndersr.- Bismarck Tribune.
 A rural friend wants to know what is the best thing to feed hogs on. He might faed them on the ground, or, if he wishes, in trough. We never did approve of fixing u p mahogany tables with marble tops for hogs to feed on.-Oil City Derrick.
 s'What uonsense,' exclaimed Bertha. s'Tha idea of telling Mrs. Brown that you were only twenty three.n s'But didn't do right, Edith2 You know mamma has always taught us not to exaggerate. It is better to under rather than overstate, you knoW."-Boston Transcript.
 An uncouth-lookine young man from the Sandwich Islands, the son of 8 missionary, was once requested to address g mission Sunday school in New York. He began by asking, Where do you suppose I am from. children?" 'tFrom the country, sir" blurtsd out rough boy in the corner Harper's Bazaar.
 Timid lady going up the Washington mon | ument Conductor, what if the rope breaks that holds us 2'' Conductor | ''Oh, there are 8 number more attached as safety ropes" Timid lady-'But if they all break, where shall We go ?' Conductor .'Oh, we'll nm, that all depends on what | kind of life you have been living before. | Texas Siftings.
 In the account of 8 Waterbury mans l death 1t is stated that ''he had been sick for | two weeks or more, but had recovered so | that he ate his supper and smoked cigar in very good condition at p. m., but soon after | this he began ts feel ill.," etc If Water
 bury ''cgar in very good condition" can kill g sick man so quickly, what might not be | expected of one whom it was feeling just | right?-Boston Transcript. An ice dealer presented bill to one of his customers yesterday, and after paying it the gentleman said: Well, this kind of weather means cheap ice for next summer, doesn't it?'' II don't know about that" replied the ice-man, dubiously. '''Why not2 There is csr. tainIy enough of it, with all the rivers and ponds:fro solid. D ''That's g just the trouble; they are frozen too solid" ''Too solid!' "Yes,'' sorrowfaily replied the dealer; ''when | ice is frozen as thick as it is now the expense of handling it is so great as to take of all l the profit. I am afraid ice will come very i high next summer. r."-Philadelphia Gall. 1 'Im very ,matter-of- fact" she cried, | To handsome bachelor at her side | An angel without winga. l "Oh, certainly yes, !" the wretch replied, 1 'For it is ackno wledged far and wide l That facts are stubborn thingS-" l New York Journal.