Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-15
BREVITY.

fEBrevity is the soul of it, she murmured
/ as she contemplated her new bathing suit
Boston Post.
This is the time of year to live out of doors
as much as possible. Married men will please
l not infer that we mean to uphold them for
passing all their evenings in the beer gardens
Philadelphia Chronicle.
l A California colonel has lost his voice
through excessive smoking. Californians
I now say that in future they will waive all OBJ
1 jections to their wives learning to smoke
1 Louisville Courier-Journal.
Young gentleman caller, who has forgotten
his watch: IT see you don't keep a clock" +"
Young lady (snatehing at the opportunity
/ very large watch dog. Exchange.
Lightning recently struck house in the
suburbs of Chicago and nearly tore the shoes
from the feet of a yeung lady. The reason
why it didn't complete the job was because
it didn't have time.-Burlington Free Press.
A New Orleans dressmaker allows her girls
4 to cultivate her garden during their monday
rest. There is aAothing mean about that
dressmaker. Some people make their help
lie idle for an entire hour in the middle of
the day.-Boston Transcript.
An Indian chief while in Washington was
taken to see the burlesque show. After the
performance he remarked through an inter
prefer that the Great Father was very kind
to send the poor Indian blankets when they
were so much needed at home.-San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
''Nonsense!' remarked the cynical man;
&C it isn't love that makes people marry. It's
B fattery, rank flattery. The man is proud be-
cause the woman took fancy to SO inferior
being as he knows himself to be, and the
womans vanity is tickled for precisely the
n similar reason. In word, each loves the
\ other for showing poor taste in choosing
mate. Boston Post.
$50 you struck the man because he called
you ?' said the police judge. eyes,
SIR "From which I am to infer that you
were not liar ?'' "Oh, no; was liar, and
am yet. If I had not been a liar I should
have paid no attention to the fellows re-
marks. Truth is SO scarce, judge, that when
I hear it I can't keep down my enthusiasm" :"
-Arkansaw Traveller.
They were sitting beneath the large UNI
brella on the beach watching the merry bath
ers as they bobbed up and down in the
water, and he was trying to tell her how his
1 heart longed for her, but somehow he could
not bring himself to do it; and as she scooped
up with her little hand quantity of sand
l she dropped it down between George and the
back of his collar remarking: 'EThere, George,
/ have heard people say you hadn't any sand
| in your neck, but I know better" George
has postponed the proposal indefinitely
l Boston Transcript
Wonder when they take people into
churches they don't give them practical
| animation Instead of asking them lot of
questions which they don't understand, why
aren't they put through ordeal that will
very soon show whether they Christians
or not? Let some competent bore operate on
them for an hour or two; then get somebody
to ask them if it is hot enough or cold
| enough for them, as the occasion calls for,
I and wind up by inviting them to the parish
| fair and the Sunday school picnic. If a man
comes through all this without showing his
| temper, he should be taken into full fell
| lowship without further delay. The only
| thing that can be urged against this system
| is that the man might be so much better than
| those admitted in the old way that they might
| not feel at ease in his company.-Boston
| Transcript.