Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-08-02
UNPOPULAR.

Mediums are not popular in Kentucky;
! they are such terrible tax on spirits-Low-
ell Citizen.
Paris consumes forty-nine tons of snails
daily. An American messenger boy would
stand a poor show in Paris.-Dansville
Breeze.
A pious old lady recently sent as wedding
present pair of fiat irons, a rolling pin,
and motto worked on cardboard, reading,
'tFight on. n."-Bangor Commercial.
There are ten thousand chamois skins
thrown on the market for every thousand of
the animals killed. A suspicion exists that
the sheep have taken to wearing cAamois
skins. Philadelphia Call.
A writer says that the overtaxing of chill
dren is one of the evils of the age. Some of
the property holders of Burlington think
that the overtaxing of parents is about as
bad.-Burlington Free Press.
AT the Concord School of Philosophy Prof.
Davidson has delivered lecture on ''Aristo-
ties Debt to Plato" That is a subject on
which there must be a vast amount of inter-
est accumulated.-Lynn item.
A woman proposes to go over Niagara
whirlpool in a rubber bag. She will succeed.
A woman who is light-headed enough to Sc
riously entertain such an idea is in no dan
ger of sinking Herald.
Many and many night has the anxious
philosopher lain awake vainly trying
to decide which is the harder task For his
neighbours puppy dog to hold in his moon
light bark or for his six-year- old boy to hold
in his whistle.-Somerville Journal.
Help Wanted.-Drowning Man-''Help !
help! What do you mean by sitting there
and letting me drown, man?" Newspaper
Proprietor-'FYou should have advertised,
my friend. You could get all the help you
want through the newspapers. ."-Tidbits.
Sunday school teacher-And what is your
favorite book, my little boyl Little boy
Bible? L. B.-Yes, sir. S. S. T.-And why
do you love the Bible more than any other
book? L. Because pa gives me five
cents every time I read it.--Boston Courier.
Doc Benton started out with his ice wagon
and before he got to the postofhce he found
he was running street sprinkler and the
street sprinkling cart, right along behind,
was putting steam from all the cracks in the
box. These few simple facts regarding
the weather culled along Main street from
the truthful population of the city and the
Appeal gives them for what they are worth.
Carson Appeal.
On recent Sunday the lesson was upon
the Babylonian captivity, and the teacher
had done her best in preparing the lesson so
as to attract and hold the attention of the
class. This not being always easy matter
in some of the Old Testament historical les
sons, the teachers energies were directed to-
wards making the story life-like and realistic
to her young pupils. "Now just sup
pose, boys" she began, ''that some
army was to come here and take
your fathers and mothers and you prison
ers, and carry you off to a strange land and
make you work as slaves, and try to make
you believe in their religion instead of your
own," etc. AS her vivid imagination en-
larged upon the picture, she was pleased to
notice that the boys looked interested, and
that sundry mischievous kickings and punch
ings had ceased; but her satisfaction quickly
ended one patriotic urchin, amid the
smiles of his comrades, exclaimed, eyes,
Exchange.