Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-16
INDUSTRIOUS.

The Chinese are an industrious people, and yet they have great deal of idol time.- Life.
 Dakota, the land of the blizzard, says if admitted to the Union she will furnish the national air.-Boston Post. The messenger boy is proverbially slow. It is only when he gets a stick of licorice that he puts in his best Hcks.-Boston Cour- | fer.
 Some enterprising dime museum manager should advertise for snow bank or few | icicles. Such curiosities as these should | draw immense crowds and enrich the pos- sessor.-Boston Transcript.
 1 The other night horse ran off with it's youthful guardian, boy of ten, hanging to it's tail and vainly shouting for the beast to stop. Was not this veritable tail of whoa? -Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. MT. Impecunious-Mary, have brought you home a little book on ''How to Cook" Mrs. Impecunious (sarcastically) y)-Thsnks, my dear; but what I need worse is 8 book ] on "What to Cook. Free Press.
 "A farmer does not need to study naviga- | tion to get the bearings of the fruit tree, " says an exchange. But after the cider has worked itself into a ferment he needs to know how to navigate to go straight from | the cider cellar to the barn.-New Orleans l Piceyune.
 ! Proofreader-Isn't there 8 mistake in this 1 sentence: "Connecticut manufactured a l larger quantity of tobacco than usual last yearP' Shouldn't it be ''raised larger quan- 1 tity?"
 l -EaiteE-No. I used the word manufactur-
 ed dvisedly.-Ezchauge
 'sThe school honse of the future will make provision for bodily training" says Professor McAlister. The school house of the past used to make provision for bodily training that is, the old-fashioned schoolmaster used l to make the average pupil hop around pret- ty lively.-Riehmond Dispatch. "Ah," said Journal 'scomp., ,"''they have gone into this syndicate plate matter instead of original articles at my boarding house. " ly suggested. ''You are shouting now," re- sponded the typesetter, as he reached for an- other handful of pi. Albany Journal. Poets who submit their verses in person to magazine editors want to look little out.
 Some fellow has invented new "magazine
 gun" containing ten or twelve cartridges, and
 warranted to be more destructive than any
 other similar weapon in the market. Such q
 gun in the magazine editors hands doesn't
 give the poet much chance to get down stairs
 and around the next corner.-Norristown
 Herald
 The Journal of Education asks the teach
 CTS, Do you smile as serenely in school as at
 the soclableg If any body Of sound mind can smile serenely at sociable-oh, the irony of
 the world!-he ought to be able to keep on the broad grin in the school room even though the pupils be made up of dunces and incho- ate murderers. Smile at sociable-and se- renelyl Oh, this is quite too muchl-Boston
 Transcript.
 One of the most striking pictures in the Verestchagin collection at the Art Institute
 is ''The Forgotten Soldier" It represents a
 bit of rough country, some sky and watch full vulture. "But where is the soldier?" asked visitor the other day. "I don't see
 how the name of this picture can be made to fit it." ''Why, the name is appropriate, of course," said the man who knew all about art" "The picture is called The Forgotten Soldier because the artist forgot to put the soldier in."-Chieago News. Banker Rosenthal directed his bookkeeper to address pretty rough letter to Baron K, who had promised several times to pay what he owed, but had neglected to do so. When the letter was written it did not suit Banker Rosenthal, who is very excitable, so the lat ter hastily penned the following: ''My Dear Baron K: Who was it that promised to pay
 up on the first of January? You, my dear
 baron, you are the man. Who was it that
 promised then to settle on the first of Marchs
 You, my dear baron. Who is it that didn't
 settle on the first of Marchs You, my dear
 baron. Who is it then who has broken his
 word twice, and is an unmitigated scoundrels
 Your obedient servant, NOSE RosENTHAL." D.
 From the German, in Texas Siftings.