Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-23
NIORE K.

Othello's was a case of the Moor the msrry- her.-Washington Critic.
 "Old Hutch" and his wicked partners get up a wheat corner because they can cereal profits in lt.-Lowell Courier.
 If the "fence" in politics were made of barbed wire there would not be so many per sons rusticating on it.-Puck.
 A Memphis man Is named Percy Cute. There appears to be trouble in this name.- Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
 The girl who sees her lover leading rival through the waltze doesn't be- lieve ''There is better whirlwind. "-Boston Courier.
 "There was an old woman who lived in a shos," sang the imported New York nurse to the Chicago infant.
 ssChestnutl" interrupted the babe, with a weary sigh.-The Idea.
 ''I wonder what you would say, Brown" said Jones tentatively, eff l should ask you to lend me fifty dollars" Don't wonder any more, Jones'" said Brown promptly; 'I shouldn't say any thing "-Somerville Journal. Parson-I am astonished sir, to hear man with three married daughters say that mar riage is & failure. CitiEen-Well, sir, when you have three families besides your swn to support you will learn that marriage is positive bankruptcy. Lowell Citizen. Husband (who has married for money)- My dear, wish you would give me little l money this morning. I really haven't l change enough in my pocket to get down 1 town and back. Wife-Why, certainly, my love; but do you think ten cents will be enoughs- l Epoch. "ShalI our boys be whipped at schoola' is 1 the momentous question that has taken the place of tsIs marriage failurei" The fact | that our boys are our boys, and are here to l whip, prove that marriage is not a failure. As to whether the boys shall be whipped, that l depends largely upon whose boy it is.-Hart- l we'll Ga Sun. Interviewer-To what do you attribute the I falling of in yer passenger trafics 1 Railway manager-To the fact, sir, that we spent $1, ,000, 900 in blasting the roof of | a half mile mile tunnel and making an open cut of it. (Bitterly.) Our chief competitor, 1 with quarter of & mile tunnel, calls itself Lovers Route now, sir.-Chicago Tribune.
 "The German police must be very much interested in the late Emperor's throat trouble" said Mrs. Spriggins, laying down l the newspaper.
 "Why do you think sof" asked MT. sprig. gins.
 ''Why, 1t says in the paper that they've
 taken every copy of Dr. Mackenzie's book
 there is to be had in the country. ."-New
 York Evening Sun.
 Young man (to coroner)-'I see by ths
 newspapers that there is an unclaimed body
 at the morgue."
 Coroner-"Yes, sir" ''I think the body is that of friend oi l mine." "Wss there any psculiarity about you, friend by which you could identify his re' |, l mains!;'
 "Yes, sir; he stuttereG horribly ."-Drakei
 Magazine.
 When earth shakes off her robs of green, l And barren leaves the hills and wales;
 When natures drama shifts the scene, 1 And naked are the sylvan dales; I When song birds cease their gay refrain, Which erstwhile sounded far and near; 7 When frosty Jack comes forth again
 And points with cold the atmosphere; . When all has passed heath winters sway, And leaden is the sky above, P 'Tis then the sad, sad words we say
 we must put up the winter etovem . Merchant TTsYelef,