Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-19
PROHIBITED.

"Has prohibition proved failure in your
town?" asked gentleman of man who had
Just come down from the hills. ''You bet it
hasn't. Wy, podner, we can get more iker
now than we ever could before. No fail
ure about that, is thar?'-Arkansaw TRAY
eller.
Little Boy (studying his Latin lesson) r
"Pa, what does mort means" Pa (ex-al-
derman and buiider)-''Is that word in your
book?" Little Boy-"Yes, pa" Pa
''Well, it means more mortar but didn't
know it was Latin. New York Times.
One day when Mr.. Potts was being shown
the old Roman baths the attendant drew out
glass of water and handed it to Mr.. Potts,
who tasted it. Glow old do you say this
spring is?' "Ahout three thousand years
old" replied the attendant. eff you could
put a drop of equally old whisky in it would
be decided improvement. Fun.
George Washingtons bible is owned in
Philadelphia. Though he carried it al
through his campaigns, it is not injured in
side, the leaves are not dog cared or the mar
gins marked, and it doesn't look if it was
ever used at all. This shows what remark
ably neat man George Washington was
Washington Post.
Wife-Mr Hendricks is to give small
informal tea party to morrow afternoon to a
few ladies, and 1 was wondering if I had bet
ter wear gloves.
Husband-I have always understood that
on such informal OCCASIONS the ladies handle
each other without gloves.-New York Sun.
Bobby-Ma, you don't want me to play
with wicked boys, do yous
Mother-No. indeed, Bobby.
Bobby-Well, if one little boy kicks anoth-
er little boy isn't 1t wicked for him to kick
him back.
Mother-Yes, Bobby, very wicked.
Bobby-Then don't want to play with
Tommy White any more. He's too wicked.
1 kicked him this morning and he kicked me
back.-Harper's Bazaar.
When Mr.. Boozle landed in New York
from a Liverpool steamer the other day, he
gave every appearance of having had a long
and severe tussle with the flowing bowl. A
riend wss on the dock to meet him, and,
when he perceived his condition, he said:
care there water tight compartments in your
ship, Boozlea' "Betcher life. Chuck full
of EN-" 81 thought so. And you had one,
didd't yous" ''I'dno. Whya" "You don't
look as though drop of water got into you
during the entire age."-Texas SiftiDgs.
"Ah, those autumn leaves, Farmer Robin
son, sighed his city guest. "What lovely
tints of color, and what an addition they
are to the charming scenery you must SO en-
eyes, miss, the leaves are gettin' good
deal Of yaller and red on to 'em, that's fact.
It's about time to gather"
'sThen you really find time to gather au-
tumn leaves?"
"Oh, yes, indeed. We rake up a few
carloads every year for beddin' for the
hosses."
Another aesthetic dream smashed.-Hart-
ford Post.
1t is very desirable that books for young
people should paint society and life as they
are, yet it is worth while to err little on
the side of good breeding and good manners,
and to Ike p up, instead of letting down, the
standard of daily speech. We do not wish
our children to end in losing all distinction
between careful and careless talk, and per-
haps to end in bathos like that of simple
hearted German woman at the West, who
described to stranger the death of her five
children in burning house. and then added
amid her tears, ''And how is that for highg'
COL Higginson, in Harper's Bazar.