Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-06
AT LARGE.

The cultured maiden from Boston wrote te her friend that she had just been to hear MT Joseph Emmett sing ''Pique-a bout. "- Puck.
 General Grant is now convinced that pa rents cannot be too careful in keeping theil children out of the street.-Louisville Courier Journal. The Mind Cure Doctrsss-'A person if never sick. If you think you are sick, you will feel sick; but you are not.' Patient And If you think I pay you, you get the money; but then you don'ta Oh, yes, m derst nd. It is very simple, delightfully."- simple. "-Boston Transcript.
 A correspondent writes: Will you please inform me when straw hats can be worn without exciting comment? Certainly. Straw hats can be worn without exciting comment when worn on the head. But when they are worn cavorting along the street in a gale of wind you must expect a remark or two.-Philadelphi Gall.
 "Shall help you to some butter, Mir. Smith9' asked the host. ''No, thank you. D Don't you eat buster?" No, not now. used to, but I've reformed, yeu know. I'm proud to say am now 8 temperate man. " II know; but I don't see why that should interfere with your eating butter" '1 don t take anything strong."-On City Blizzard.
 Paradoxical-One rainy day last week Gill
 
 which was crowded to the very utmost. When he put his fare in the box, he remarked to the driver: ''The railroad company think they are very smart; but you can just tell them for me, that if they let so many people crowd into one nobody will ride in the cafs at all. n."-Texss Stftipgs.
 The messenger boy is so called after the famous Messenger breed of race horses; but not because of his swiftness. It was on ao- of the a20Wn6aa Of the former. the name having been bestowed ironically, after the Indian fashion of nomenclature, which makes it proper to call great coward Man not-Afraid- -of-Satan, and the brayest of all braves, Man-Afraid-of-a-Boile Hen.-Puck.
 ''What is a receiver, pa?" asked the small boy. "A receiver, my son, is one who is placed in charge and he receives the proper sy of g bankrupt corporation" Well, what does he do with it? He generally keeps it my son." answered the old gentle man as he turned again to his paper, while the youthful speculator quietly walked out into the hall with the intention of getting corn- in the paternal o1s overnnst, h high he night hnd
 'sNow, my dear," said the candidates wife, q don't wish to throw the slightest obsta- ole in the way of your election, and if you choose to turn the house into beer-garden, and have all the loafers in town tramping on my carpets and filling my curtains with pipe smoke and drinking whiskey out of my best tea-oups, shan't say 8 word. But want you distinctly to understand that if another of those women's rights delegations comes to know if you are going to take manly stand for down tredden womRnhood-weli, that delegation has got to be twenty years older and keep it's veil down, or I will inter view it myself That's all dear.'-Puck.
 Two little creatures were sitting in the gloaming-in one of those old-fashioned, dig zy, delightful gloamings that female novelists tell us about. They were sitting there, and the gloaming gloamed away, and the crea- lures sat and sat. The two creatures were 8 dude and dudelet, and they were too-too. t.Adolpheus,'' uttered she with a sigh like unto 8 sleepy cat. 70 Adolphens" ''What is it, my beloved Alicia? What woudst thou of thine Adolphus?" T would-[ would" ''Speak, dearest: thine Adolphus is ready to do anything to please his ownest own. '" ''Then, Adolpheus. o Adolpheus kiss mel" There was slight convulsion of the atmos- phere, trembling of the young boughs over head and the gloaming had it ali his own way thereafter. The verdict of the coroner's 8 jury was, Swallowed each other. ''--San Francisco News-Letter.