Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-17

man Ifa on the cars the other day and said Dear sir, have lost my legl'' Ts which | the Westchester man replied, as he hurried away, My dear friend, have not seen any
 thing of it.'
 Hammered silver is ali the fashion nowa- days. Have you any?' 'FWhy yes. That IS, my silver is hammered out of me every rent day, and what is left the butcher and baker take. Hammered silver is no novelty to me. me."-Somerville Journal
 A Buffalo cook has invented new soup IT It IS any improvement on the old kind of supe, who rushes out to say, ''The carriage waits, my lordl' but gets stuck and says, Sir, did you ring:" the Buffalo man de- serves monument, and ought to have it right away.-Burdette.
 Madison county girl wrote to her cousin in Brooklyn to come up and spend month on the farm; they were going to have husk- ing bees and dead loads of fun. The Brook lyn girl replied that she would not come, as the last time she was there she was stung by a horrid bee and didn't want any more of it. Brooklyn Times
 He Gsolemnly)-"You had very narrow escape last night, Miss Julia" he-''Mercy what do you mean?' He-'Well, you see, had dream about you. I thought I was just about to kiss you, when the Chinaman rapped at the door and I woke up.n She (after pause)-"The Chinese must go." TOnly the intimate friends of the families invited. r. San Francisco Post.
 f'There, my daughter ,'' said the old man, placing deed for beautiful mansion among the wedding gifts, ''is my present, and my best wishes for your future happiness go with 1t. God bless you, my child; God bless you!" and he turned away, choked with emo t1on. 'Is there mortgage on it, papa?" she asked brightly, as she arranged the deed conspicuously on the table. ''No," he said, there is no mortgage on the deed; it's on the property"
 There is surely some mistake in the tele- gram from Hawarden which appeared in this mornings Times. MT. Gladstone, we are told, ''faced the biting easterly wind at s o'clock in the morning with no other protec tion than that afforded by shawl loosely thrown over his shoulders" We decline to believe that the Prime Minister of England disported himself thus scantily appare1led o1t his birthday.-London Globe December 30.
 An Auburn lawyers little daughter goes to Sunday school and is in a class with other little girls. Possibly the Auburn legal lumi- nary hasn't allowed for the sharp ears and bright eyes of his little one as mulch as he might. It was in review last Sunday in her class The teacher: was gong over the good old story of King Solomon and his wis dom. ''Now, dears, who was the great queen who travelled so many miles and miles to see this King?" Silence prevailed in the class. ''Why, you do know, all of you. The Queen who came to see the King" The name had been forgotten by the class In order to help them, the kind but misguided teacher began to offer little assistance: ''You do know, am sure. The name began with s, and she was 8 very great Queen" Just then up shot a little hand, and out spoke the tri- umphant voice of the little Auburn girl She transixed the listening school room with +1,,f ness-lke voice; ''I know, teacher; it was the Queen of Spades. .O-Lewiston Journal.