Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-04
WORKING.

When man gets to be 8 leader of work lngmen he is able to quit work.-FhiladeI- pnla North American.
 Sometimes mothers secrete the erring boy for fear the father will hide him when he comes home.-Boston Budget.
 A Burlington man ate too much, duck Thanksgiving day and had fit of indiges- tion. His wife recommended some quack medicine. Press.
 Flowers of sulphur sprinkled on a hot shovel and the fumes inhaled while they are but Fogg af1irms that he will die before he will snuff up burning birthstone. It is not unlikely.-Boston Transcript.
 The intimate friends of MT. Henry Waiter sop, who were accustomed to hail him as they passed with the familiar salutation = Hello, Hanki" now accost him in gentle ca- dences with: 'sBon jour, Horngray y!"-Chi- cago Saturday Evening Herald.
 A great many American girls who hastily marry foreign noblemen never repent at leis- ure. This is not so much owing to the hap piness of their marriages as to the fact that when 6 woman takes in washing and ironing and hustles around to support husband and twins she has very little leisure to repent in. New York Graphic.
 Barber-Sir, you're getting bald rapidly. I have most excellent remedy
 Old gentleman-Never mind; I'm just yearning to be entirely bald.
 ssEh? Why that's remarkable desire. Indeed"
 ssNo, it isn't. I've got a terribly wicked son, and Pm determined that he sha'n't bring my gray hairs in sorrow to the grave J Philadelphia Call.
 Finally, let me wind up my letter with an anecdote of an incident which occurred at a fire in Dublin. My brother, who was among the spectators, heard from time to time a voice as of woman wandering about among the crowd, and crying aloud in pitlful &C., cents, "Och Mrs. Mccormick, Mrs. McCor- mickl'' At last the wanderer discovered the object of her search, and, as it happened to be in his immediate neighborhood, he lis en- ed with great attention for the urgent com m1nication she had to make His feelings, therefore, may well be imagined when he heard the good lady exelaim: f'Och glory be to God, Mrs Mccormick, we shall all be burnt in our beds this ght!"-London Spectator.
 Lawyers sometimes 'sthrow themselves'' in cases in which they become thoroughly inter ested. Counsellor Pratt in summing up his points in the Dorr case before the general term yesterday said: "From the morn when the stars first sung together down to the night when Mayor Thacher repudiated the musical notes from Henry Doris saloon the love of music and the susceptibility of its power have ever been regarded as among ths nobler qualities of the human soul and the question is now presented for decision wheth CT one of the most numanizing, elevating and ennobling instrumentaiities in the civiliza- tion, education and refinement of the nine- teenth century is to be prohibited AS a source of evil by the mayor of Albany. ."-Albany Journal.
 man went up the aisle seat to fad
 Unknowing that dog on behind. The usher stopped him, saying: sir, fear You do not know dogs not welcomed here" The man turned round the friendly dog espied; He don't belong to me, sir he replied But, sir. he followed you without oubt.'' And so did you!'' The dog was hustled out.
 -Tid-Bits.