Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-23
FRUSTRATED.

Bereaved widower (to office boy)-"There ! IS the obituary notice of my wife. Will you see that the editor gets it?" Office boy "Yes, sir. Do you want it illustrateda"- Epoch.
 At the bridge station of the Brooklyn ele- vated road e. great crowd pushed and strug- gled. "That's all right, gents," sang out a brakeman with fine irony, "Jam in, jam in, or the ladies will get all the seats "-New York Sun.
 Infuriated citizen (to organ grinder)-" say, Garibaldi, move on with that measly music. My wife is sick" Organ grinder (grinding away)-"Si signor, droppa neekel cen ze slota and hear it stoppa playing" ."- New York Sun.
 sI was completely carried away with you, sermon this morning, Brother Hightone, J said leading somnambulist to his pastor "Ah, yes," replied the shepherd; ttso ob, served. Into dreamland, too, wasn't it ?''- Detroit Free Press.
 Tramp-Give poor fellow something ter eat who carries three bullets of the late wal around with him.
 feeding him.) Where do you carry them, Tramp-In my pocket.-Judge.
 New Yorker Gin Boston)-"Can you direct me to Salem streetp Offcer-"Cert'. You go through Province court to Washington street, skin through Cornhill until you come to the straight part, circle round Scollay square till you find an outlet, and inquire again. That's as far as my beat goes. ."-Tid Bits
 When it is unusually cold in Parma, Italy, newspapers suspend publication. In this country it is Ca cold day" when a newspaper gets left, but in Parma a newspaper doesn't get left on cold day. In case of 'simportant news" i" however, they issue small extra, but as the base ball fever has not yet reached Parma an extra is seldom necessary.-Norris- town Herald.
 It was Washington's Birthday.-(Scene, Wall street, before the statue of Washington in front of the Treasury building)-Patriotic Father Gmpressively)- y)-'sIt is Washington's s birthday, my son, and there is the statute of the man who never told lie." Sharp Son ''Never told lie, chg We'll, don't see what business he has got on Wall street, then" Texas Siftings.
 He had come from "way back" with the divine desire to shine before the footlights burning in his manly breast. But he had only succeeded in obtaining position as scene shifter at the Great Cosmopolitan Theater. So it was natural that he should glare fercsly at the waiter when the latter bent over him at his first hotel dinner and said: ''Seupa"-Detroit Free Press.
 A particularly vigorous speaker at a wo- mans rights meeting waving her long arms like the sails of a windmill, asked: t'If the women of this. country were to rise up in their thousands and march to the polls 1 should like to know what there is on this earth that could stop -them!" And in the momentary silence which followed this pe- roration still, small voice remarked: IA mouse"-St. James Gazette.
 After the Matinee.-Mabel-sL day. girls. Where have you been." Clara and Maude-'fWe've just come from the matinee Been to see the new society actress" Mabel -''Was she gooda What did she plays" Clara-ssOh, she played in the worst lot of old dresses you ever saw. And do you know she actually wore the same dress through whole act" Mabel-ftWhy, now positively scandalous! What was the plays" Maude- ooh, I didn't notice. Repertoire think the bill said '-Boston Beacon