Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-21
NO. e5
CREDIT.

. This is about the time that the country pes pers print Emerson's fsRhodorR" and credit it to Mrs. Sigourney.-Puck.
 Damon and Pythias may not have been the first Quakers, but they were certainly great iends.-Merchant Traveller.
 The man who ruleth his wife's spirit is q great deal scarcer than he who taketh city. Boston Journal of Education.
 They tell about professor in Germany who died in brown study and was buried in rehection.-Buriington Free Press.
 A Pittsburg editor says: Husbands are not made to order" We'll bet he can't con- vince most wives they are t.-Washington Critic.
 Browning is revising some of his earlier poems. He is afraid somebody has ciphered out their meaning by this time.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
 The man who is looking for something tc do rarely finds anything, but if he is willing to do anything he can always find something. -Tid-Bits.
 In Velapuk ':gaIon' means "to rejoice" Those who have enjoyed what is apt to come from gallon will regard this as very apro- pos.-Boston Post.
 A Rare Talent.-'sA very clever girl that stupid Miss Blum, who just went out.n "Clever? Why, she never opens her nouthI" EThat's where she's cleVer."-Life.
 A girl down South wanted husband so bad she paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for one and picked out an editor. We come high, but they must have us.-Our Society Journal.
 ':I hear that General Lightfoot is going to run for Governor" said the judge. stGlad he's going to run for something" said the major, with feeling,, sFhe run from everything all through the war."-Burdette.
 "You don't seem to have many married people living near Fifth avenue" said Brooklyn citizen, recently. s'I was over there the other day, and didn't see single gen. tleman wheeling baby carriage. ."-Puek.
 A Seventeenth ward school teacher re- gently asked the question: "What is 8 pilot?" The smart boy answered.: "It is @ lot where they grow pie-plant, "iand was sent to the foot of the class.-Milwaukee Wiscon- sin.
 Miss Clara-''Oh, Ethel, had my ears pierced to-day!" Miss Ethel-"Weren't you dreadfully frightened" Miss Clara-''A lit- tie at first, but kept saying solitaire, soH- taire, solitaire, to myself, and before I knew it it was over. ."-Sun. Not so Big in Washington.-"You are 8 very large man, Yrsaid an avenue tailor to 8 new Congressman, as he took his measure. ''Think sor do youl' replied the NJ. 0. 'T certainly do." 'sWell, you ought to see me when Pm home. ."-Washingto Critic. In Congressional Circles.-Boston girl (with newspaper in her hand) )-'fThat's queer piece of grammar" Congressman "What's that." Boston girl-fA member of Congress saying if he had not saw the man, etc." ongressman-Qaughing heartily)- s'Thats so. Had saw would have expressed it just as we'll, wouldn't Washington Critic.
 While at church an old lady happened to sneeze, and immediately every eye WAS turned toward her. When she reached home she said to Dinah, her colored maid of all work, who had been her companion at church: ''Dinah, why didn't you take the blame of that sneeze on your shouldersa You should have made it appear as though it was you, not I, that sneezed." The next Sunday the old lady sneezed again: Some of the young folks filtered, and there was broad smile on the faces of the congregation as the sim ple-minded, faithful Dinah arose and said: ! 'sI take de blame ob dat sneeze my missus ! hab jest sneezed on my own shouldersl"- Youths Companion.