Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-27
PECULIAR.

The man who thought he could grow wise by eating sage cheese was own brother to the one who believed he could live on the milk of human kindness.-Boston Budget. A New York plumber was found dead yes- terday with his hands in his own pockets. The circumstance was peculiar that the coroner will hold an inquest.-Boston Post. An English paper, speaking of the launch of new vessel, says: "The christening cere- mony was performed by Lady Campbell Her tonnage is 1, S10, and she can carry six guns"
 A German rushed into drug store on Penn avenue yesterday and exclaimed: "Mein Gott, young man, I eat raw bork and dink dere vas dose machinery in it."-Pittsburg Chronicle.
 'fWhat are chilled p1ews?" asked the lit tie son of an agricultural professor "Oh, my son" was the wise reply, "they are blows that have stood in the furrew all winter. "- Burlington Free Press.
 The author Of Glow to be Happy Though Married" denies the report that he is follow ing it up with companion volume entitled How to be Jolly Though Buried" Wesus- pect he doesn't want to run the idea into the ground.-NorristowR Herald. At frequent intervals the telegraph an- nounces the discovery of a wild man in the woods playing all sorts of antics, but he gen. erally proves to be disappointed Democrat le ofice-seeker who has got to commune with nature and swear at the administration. Pittsburg Leader It is now proposed to erect monument to perpetuate the memory of the hero of Shiloh. IT the generals who, alone and un- supported, won that battle for the Union and the confederacy will subscribe $1 apiece, we can have $500, 900 monument on $10O,- QUO pedestal before Washington's birthday Is celebrated in New York.-Burdette. MAUD MULLRR-A FRAGMENT Maud Muller on a mild March day. Vowed she would move on the 1st of May. Not but the house she occupied With modern improvements was supplied. But when on the paper her eye she set And saw the advertisement ''To Let.'' Her comfort died, and a vague unrest And nameess longing filled her breast A longing that welLnigh drove her mad For nicer house than the one she had, Larger. cheaper in better repair; Five minutes walk from everywhere A decentralization without flaw room for her husbands mother rin-laW, parlor, 1sx2s,
 And sunny, airy nursery.
 She rented house by no means bad ct not near so nice as the one she had
 And hunting, packing and moving day
 Were enough, she said, to turn her gray.
 And as op an upturned tub she sate In her new house, dusty, desolate,
 And heard the truckman, not with care,"
 Dump basket of crockery ware,
 She mourned like one of all hope bereft
 For the cosy dwelling she had left,
 And to herself in accents saddened.
 Whispered softly, '1 wish hadn't
 Then to boss the trucknan she took her way
 Signing, I'll move again next May"
 Alas for Muller! Alas for Maud!
 For clipped veneering and shattered gaud.
 Heaven pity them both, and pity us all
 Whose wives to questioning houses fall,
 For of all sad words ever written yet
 The Saddest these, "Fhis House to Let.''
 An, if the house she occupies
 On earth woman satisfies
 In the hereafter angels may
 Build her where she'll care to stay!