Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-24
EASY.

Even Socrates could never quite get over his astonishment when he pondered upon how much easier it is to love girl than it is to make the girl love you.-Somerville Journal.
 A correspondent wishes to know how edi- tors spend their leisure hours. Leisure hours?Ioh, yes; they spend them catching up with their work.-Burllngton tVt.) Free Press.
 It is easy enough to be agreeable in society. All you have to do is to listen while the other man talks. If the other man is a woman, you've got to listen anyway.-Cam- bridge Chronicle.
 She Didn't Think it Was Good.-Farmer- s'This is last nights milk, ladies. You will find it nice and rich" Young Lady from the City-'Ugh Dont't drink that! Look at that thick ugly scum on top. "--Tidbits.
 The Versatile Boston Girl-He Gender ly)-"And what do you think of the engage
 ment ring sent you, Jennies' She delight
 edly)-"Oh! it is beautiful; in fact, the
 handsomest one ever had given me. ."-Bos-
 ton Courier.
 Full Understanding. street Sun
 day school teacher (to Wun Lung, a new re- craft. )-''Do you understand Wun Lung, the
 beautiful song we have just finished: Where,
 oh, where are the Hebrew children'?' Wun
 Lung-F'Yep, me undlestland.'' Teacher
 'sWhere are the Hebrew ehildrens" Wun Lung-"Heblew childlen down on Blaxtee stleet "-Hebrew Standard.
 Merchant: Well, if Sparks is a good
 salesman, would like to get hold of him" 7" Partner: "Oh, yes, he's good salesman, but he's terrible stutterer. Why the other day he tried to give customer price on a
 piece of silk, but before he could get it out,
 the market price of that silk had fallen two
 dollars yard. The woman took the piece
 rather than ask him if he couldn't make 8 reduction" Merchant: i've want Sparks. :" -Tidbits.
 President Van Buren's son, familiarly known as Prince John, was man of great natural ability, good lawyer, and ready wit On one occasion, he had taken some technical legal advantage by which his oppo- nents client in action was non-suited. The man was furious, and declared his pur- pose to give John piece of his mind when
 he saw him; he would wither him. Happen
 ing to see John one day at Downing's, stand ing at the bar he boldly confronted the
 Prince, and, being small man, looked up at
 him fiercely and burst out: MT. Van Buren,
 is there any client so low and mean, or any
 case so nasty, that you won't undertake to
 defend him in it4' '1 don't know" said
 John, stopping to put away another oyster;
 then bending down and conidentially drawl-
 ing out his reply in the little mans ear:
 in the Boston Budget.
 'I was at Fort Keogh one summer not long ago when explosion occurred in the
 boiler which blew it some distance from the fort into a swamp. The men started after it. When they got there the mosquitoes were 50 thick that it was found impossible to work. The men got inside the boiler and the mosquitoes punched their stingers through the plated iron. The men clinched their bills the inside and kept on clinching them until hun dreds and hundreds of mosquitoes were fas- tened to the boiler. The men built fire in- side the boiler to scare off the other mosqui- toes, and the latter started to fly away. Of course those that were fastened tried to fly with the rest and actually carried the heavy to the dry land After that it no trick to haul the boiler into the fort. How did they get rid of the mosquito billsa Why, they just filed them off close and left them there. ."-St. Paul Globe.