Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-16
WATERY.

Yes. Noah was the first drunkard; but it was water which drove him to the bowl Boston Transcript.
 The government tea farm at Summerville, s. G., is not success. Cold tea can only be produced successfully in Kentucky.-Lowell Courier.
 No one will be disposed to dispute the as sertion of a Chicago paper that there arc 1.-two sides to the dressed-beef question. D. New York Graphic.
 We move to amend the pension laws, so that all persons over the age of 21 years shall get pension. This ought to satisfy every body.-Lowell Citizen.
 ''If de wedder grows much worse and de work harder all de time," said an Alabama colored man, "dis nigger will have a call to preach. flynn Item.
 The shooting in Florida is reported to be unusually good. Probably the cold has made the game so stiff as to render it unable to get out of range.-Lowe1l Citizen.
 pan which by means of electricity will keep milk fresh has just been invented. It is not likely that Mr. Garland will take any stock in it.-Arkansaw Traveller.
 "Look here, judge" said the burglar, 'I ain't so bad as you think am. Only give me time and I'll reform" And the judge gave him fifteen years.-Somerville Journal.
 In church last Sunday we saw no less than 200 women with birds on their bonnets. In this instance, perhaps, the women were justi- fled in choice of millinery, for of course birds worn at church are birds of pray-Boston Transcript.
 q want to make square business propo- sition to you," said a stranger to the occu- pant of an office on Griswold street the other day. EtIll hear it, sir" "I'm heir to at least $30, 900, 900, and I'll sell -" "Are you one of the Lawrence-Townley claim antsP' I am. My family runs back to the Crusaders. As was saying, being tempo rarily hard up, I'll sacrifice =" 7'No use no use!" But I'll take ''10 for my chance" ''No use, sirl One of the heirs who is good for $45, ,000, 900 was in here yesterday and sold me his claim for $7, and don't care to invest any further. I've only got about twenty years to live, and I can't possibly might go across to the tailor shop and try him. guess he's the only man on the street who hasn't bought one of the claims. De troit Free Press.
 A correspondent writes to the Chicago Morning News: Your manly defence of the superb painting, ''The Virgin of the Book entities you to the gratitude of every loyal citizen of Chicago I have no sympathy for a man who will not stand up for his town under all circumstances and at all hazards. Your loyalty to Chicago and her interests elicited my admiration many months ago: and I have read with constantly increasing pleasure your able disquisitions upon the subjects of the State house statuary, the opera seasons, and similar aesthetic mat ters. I know of no abler eonservator of the arts and sciences and fully believe that if your example were emulated this beautiful city of Chicago would soon become the cen tre of national art. l am positi ye the pie ture of 'sThe Virgin of the Book" is genu- inc Raphael I know Raphael intimately and, as distinctly remember, I saw this self-same picture in an unfinished state in his paint shop over the saloon at the corner or Clark and South Water streets in the sum mer of 1879. Let us stand by Chicago art ists and Chicago art, say I.