Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-31
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\ There's many slip 'twixt the cup and the | lip, which may account for the extreme pop- ularity of the straw.-Puck. | Won't somebody please induce the weath. l CT bureau man to prophecy rain9 Then, per- 1 haps, 1t might be fair one day in severn ! Somerville Journal.
 + "Carrie" writes to know "what is the most attractive way of wearing the haira' On the head, Carrie; and be sure that it is pinned tight.-Burlington Free Press
 Oh, Yes; She Had-He (rapturously)- ! "My dear Miss Smith, you have no idea how exquisitely beautiful you arel" She (calmly) -"Do you take me for fooli"-Ths Idea. Live within your income, says the practi- cal adviser; but if he would tell how one may live without 1t he would have the merit ! and the glory of instrueting larger constitu ! ency.-Boston Budget.
 | He-"What rage thore has been during the summer for 1apis lazuli." She {from Chioago)-"Yes; but never could see the sense of folks running after those foreign singers as they do."-Jewellers' Weekly. Bentley-I understand that the beautiful Miss Beauregard has at last accepted Posey- boy. Has her heart become softened, won- ders
 Sattly-No, her head, guess.-Burlington Free Press.
 "You've read Shakespeare, haven't your Certainly" ''Do you remember how Polo nius diedF 'I should remark He died sud den-with meaty -oric suddenness, I may say. :" "How meteoricf' "Why, he died by a outlet
 from Hamlet. "-Yonkers Gazette. A passenger on train from New York the
 other day stepped from the overloaded car to
 the platform and filled his lungs with the fresh, pure air. "Ah," he exclaimed, 'sisn't
 this exhilaratinga" "No," returned the la
 comic brakeman, ''this is Hartford Courant.
 Bulow was once asked by 6 new composer to listen to his opera. The musician sat at
 the piano and ran through two or three num-
 bers, and then turned to the maestro with:
 "Well, how do you like itf' 'I have always
 liked it." said Bulow quietly.-American
 Musician.
 Some time ago teacher on answering a
 knock at the school door found one of her pupils wrapped up to protect her from the rain. Teacher, mother says needn't come to school to-day cause 1t rains," and down stairs the little maid fled like frightened decr.-Albany Journal.
 Thrifty mother-"Ellen, why will you per sist in eating the soft part of your bread and leaving the crusts under the edge of your platei Some day you may be glad to get even crusts to eat" Thoughtful daughter "Yes, mother, that's what I'm saving them for. ."-Boston Transcript.
 The Chinese baby knows no cradle and it's father, therefore, never trips over such 6 re- eeptacle when he jumps out of bed at mid night and goes groping about after the pare- gorio bottle. If there is any other advantage in being Chinese father we have never heard of 1t. -Norristown Herald.
 Foolish Complaints-Old Mrs. Bently-s'I see that the bakers are making their bread lighter than they used to" Old Mir. Bent ly-"Yes, and the poor people are kicking like thunder" Old Mrs. Bently-"Why, don't see why they should. To me heavy bread is an abominstien. Philip H. Welch in the Epoch.
 ''Elsie Morgan" sends us @ poem, "Sum- ner Flowers Will Bloom Again" Dollars to doughnuts they won't, Elsie Not this sum- mer; nor next summer, neither, too. They may bloom next summer, but 1t will be the first time for them; it won't be again. It's pity people can't confne themselves to the truth in poetry; also in pross.-Burdette.