Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-26
NOT GUILTY.

An Indiana school teacher arrested man i for kissing her without permission. Verdict Mot guilty on account of insanity y.-Phila- delphia Call.
 A man who bought 10 cent cigar at a summer hotel came back shortly and said he would like one of the one scent kind.-Bos- ton Commercial Bulletin. Sings 6 seaside poet: "Alonc my lonely watch keep" You are lucky. Man with the three gold base balls keeps ours more than three halves of the time.-Burlington Hawkeye.
 Somebody has said that the most direct way to mans pocket is through his ston- ach. The most direct way to a woman's pocket has never been discovered.-Burling- ton Free Press.
 Maud s. has beaten her own trotting and own yield of milk. The next rara avis will be hen which shall beat her own eggs Lowell Courier.
 An exchange says that 'Fthe Russians so fond of tea that they continue to pass hot water through the exhausted tea leaves long after they have lost the power of imparting their taste thereto" Our 1andlady must be of Russian descent. Boston Post.
 'eYes, sir, said the entomologist, "I can tame flies so that when I whistle they will l come and alight on my hand" "Pshawi" said the bald-headed man, 'that's nothing. They come and alight on my head without my whistling." The entomologist sat down. l-Someryille Journal.
 An exchange contains an article entitled ''How to Breathe" We didn't suppose there was so much ignorance in the world. When man doesn't know how to breathe 1 the best health resort for him is a lot in g cemetery. He would spoil if kept many days above ground.-Norristown Herald. The Treasury department has prohibited the landing of rags from foreign ports for three months. If the Treasury department country, it would conclude that there were enough rags in America, and make it's order permanent.-Norristown Herald. ''What ever became of Morgan?' said 1 little boy to his father, who had just become a Mason. The father smiled. fHe was 1 never heard of afterward, was he?" The | father still smiled fEThen, if he was never 1 pened to him. He must have been elected 1 vice president. ."-Puck.
 q hear Gail Fisher, who left here a few months ago, is married and living in Indian 1 apolis. Did he marry well?' ''Oh, yes; he l married we'll He well when he mar i ried." 'fNo joking. mean did he get l good start by marrying?' "Oh, yes; he got 1 a good start-he married a widow with seven children. n-Kentucky State Journal
 stCoachman we lave not at our 'ouse, Mrs.
 Brown, and as an Englishwoman born my self, Pm sure Fave proper notions about the
 soshle scale; but Lord "a mercy upon me,
 Mrs. Brown, can't no more 'elp it than can 'elp bresthin' hair, wen tramway I iguard-'orse-car conductor, should say looks at me nowadays-do you know, ma am. Fam that Mustered I don't know w'ether Pm on my ed or my 'eelsl"-Puck.
 Visitor {at the Indian schooI1''So all these children are Indians?n
 Teacher-stY Yes; many of them are sons and daughters of great chiefs" Visitor-ssWhat are they doing now?'' Teacher-ssThis is the arithmetic hour and they are doing sums."
 Visitor-"Ahl Yes, have often heard of Indian summers 5
 The silence which followed was only bro- ken by the whizz of tomahawks. Philadel- phia Call.