Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-10
PRINCIPALLY.

The principal foreign missions will be ably edited during the present administration Puck.
 It is better to be born handsome than wise. At all events, it is wise to be born handsome. i-Boston Transcript. When an Indian dies his relatives pay his I debts. And yet some people think Indians can be civilized.-Life. Should teeth be extracted under chloro- form or ethers asks contemporary. Either, of course.-Boston Post. Love is blind, and it's mighty lucky for the minister that he is, nine times out of ! ten.-Somsrville Journal. The joke of it all is that, in spite of all the advertising, the people who landed on Ply mouth Rock didn't wear pants.-Somerville Journal.
 Bibbins (who has been dining, not wisely but too we'll l)-"'Loye that makesh Ter world go rouL' know bsrrer. It'sh whisky."- Pick Me Up.
 Young MT. Bibber, when asked by his musical lady companion why he went out between the acts of "Meistersinger, frankly replied: "To get an opera glass. ."-Jewelers s Weekly.
 It was Wanamaker himself who once wrote an advertisement reading: "We have striped women's stockings at 15 cents per pair" This was the beginning of great mans business
 career.-Detroit Free Press.
 Things are looking up in New York. The
 Mayor has ordered the dead timber to be
 chopped down in Broadway and other cattle
 trails, and is making efforts to boom the
 town in several ways besides.-Chicago
 News.
 Engagement announced: "Clara," he whispered ardently, edo you think you
 could bring yourself to marry mes" "No,
 George" she answered with a sad little
 mi ua1
 I'm so timid. You might bring me, though,
 George. ."-Harper's Bazar.
 The following is fragment of an actual
 conversation overhead in the North End. The
 speaker was describing street fight: "Yer
 dirthy liar, sez tn ould lady that kapes the
 lady up wid brick and hit her in the head" Boston Commercial Bulletin. ''Let us not waste our time," yelled the
 temperance lecturer. "Let us not waste our time in dealing with the small saloons and
 grog shops. Let us go to the fountain head. Let us go to the brewery, my friends" "All right" chimed in an old soaker from 8 back seat. "Tm with you."NAmerica. Brown-"Where's that flyer laid on the table moment agoa" Mrs. Brown-"You never expected to see that again. did you" Brown-"And why not?" Mrs. Brown-'I supposed you understood enough of parlia- mentary practice to know that when bill was laid on the table it was seldom heard of again."-Harper's Bazsr. Mrs. Casey-"An' did you hear sbute 1 Mike O'Mslley, Mrs. O'Flaritya" Mrs. O'Flarity-"Oi did not, Mrs. Casey; an phwat ails himf' Mrs. Cssey-"Phy, the ! long snooze he's been afthur takin'. Sure he l wint to slape twenty days ago, and they 1 couldn't wake him oop at all at all till this ! mornin'." "Mrs. Flarity-"Hivan protect I usi an phwat did he say thin:" Mrs. Casey l-"Divil worrud. He wure dead. Peck s Sun.
 Customer Gin 8 restaursnt)-"Where do all the frogs' legs come from, auyways" Pro- prietor-"Why, from frogs, of course; did you suppose they came from chickensa" "Well, you can't always tell. I have had chicken salad here that came from veal, and I should think it would be quite as easy to get frogs' legs from chickens" The pro- prietor looked out the window and said he thought there would be some kind of wealth CT soon.-Norristown Herald.