Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-13
FLOW FRY.

Flowers do not vote, yet they have pollen places s.-Pittsbdfg Chronicle.
 The lazy mans favorite flower is the dahlia. -Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
 After election one side crows and the other eats crow.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
 If all people were to ''vote as they pray" it wouldn't take long to count the ballote.- Lincoln Journal.
 It is fashionable not to have oatmeal mush for breakfast. That's what causes the stir in the kitchen.-Boston Courier.
 "Mrs. Elkin's son George is going to be 8 play actor in real theater," said Mrs. Spriggins; Che did so well on the premature stage. e."-Harper's BaEar.
 Things dc not always follow as matter of course. A man who makes puns is not pandit; neither is one who plays in band a bandit. .'-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. There is 0 flower called the "bachelor's l button," and it is supposed to be thus appro- l priately named because it is never found on bachelors olothes.-Drakes Magazine. Kalakaus, king of the Sandwich Islands, is writing novel; but probably there will be nothing in it quite so novel as the fact that Knlakaua is a king.-Boston Transcript. 1 First Missourian-Well.h how's music out In Bullet City this seasona l Second Missourian-Splendidl You ought to have heard the laet open air concert by the Salvation army.-Burlington Free Press. Wife (to unhappy husband)-'I wouldn't worry, John; it doesn't do any good to bor- row trouble" Husband-'Borrow trouble7 Great Cesar, my dear, I ain't borrowing trouble; I've got 1t to lend."-Scranton Truth.
 sfIs he liarS" exclaimed one of two men talking loudly on State street about 6 third man this morning ''WelI, should say he was. He would rather tell lie at 60 days than speak the truth for spot cash. ."-Albany Journal.
 A Brooklyn preacher says that women should not be allowed to whistle. As gen lightfully tempting when they get their lips all puckered up that and sinful men can never resist the impulse to interrupt. Sons erville Jsurnal.
 Jenkins (to Brown, earnestly Brown what would you say if I were to ask you to lend me $20i
 Brown (refectively)-Wh would I sayl h&, hol-wow, WOW, wcwl" or something ot that sort, Jenkins.-Epoch. You should have counted on the expense of married life before you entered upon 1t, 7" said the young husbands friend; Git was only a question of common sense and reason that you should have exercised" Common sense and reasonT echoed the
 young benedict; "Why, was in love!"- Chicago Globe.
 Little 3-year.old Robin had got a shoe but ton in his nose, and his mother took him, in great haste, to the doctors. The removal of | the button caused the little fellow some pain "Well, my little man, said the physician, fare you all right nowa' "Yes, are all right now." was the indig- nant response, ''but are doin' to have co rested. ."-Harper's Bazaar. | Some friend of Csesar-Brutus, perhaps
 once asked the great Roman whether he
 declined liberal education necessary to suo. eecess in life 'I do," said Cesar. "I at- tribute my success to the thorough ground 1 ing I received in the dead languages
 at school. Indeed, I could not have
 attained my present eminence in Roman af- | fairs without Latin.-Chioago Tribune.