Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-25
ORIGINAL.

Playing cards were originally square. Per haps card playing was also; but let us not be too credulous.-Boston Transcript. ssI never saw my hands so dirty as yours" ," said mother to alittle girl. 1T guess grand ma has," was the quick reply. y."-Boston Journal.
 Tramp (after ringing door belD-"Please, ma'sm, I've seen better days" Housekeep- er-s'So have I; it's real foggy to-day" Gangs the door. .)-New York Sun.
 Mother-"Bobby, you shouldn't speak so grossly to your father; you never hear him speak grossly to me-" Bobby-"He dassent, ma: he's just like me, he dassent. Epoch.
 The fashionable rainbow tea-fashionable in New York church circles-does not need much sugar. It is run by sweet young girls and the proceeds go to the church tuni.- New Orleans Picayune.
 It is asserted that the only color that can be determined by the sense of touch is blue. That peculiar shade known as black and blue is certainly determined by touch if not the sense of touch.-Boston Transcript.
 A society has been formed in England to provide suitable reading matter for ser- wants. Bacon's essays and Lambs works should not be neglected in selecting library for any well-red dcook.-Philadelphia Times.
 "The poor know nothing of the trials of the rich" Perhaps not. But If the poor read the newspapers they know that great many of the rich escape protracted and pain- ful trials by going to Canada.-Norristown Herald.
 MT. Winks Hooking over the paper)- "Cheap, Drugg & Go. are selling all sorts of patent medicines at half price," Mrs. Winks-"Just our luck. There isn't any. thing the matter with any of us." ."-New York Weekly.
 sWife, did you order that boneless liver as I asked you to do this morningP' "Yes, did." "What did the butcher sayf" "You're 8 mean, gcod-for-nothing old thing. Don't you speak to me again for a month. ."-Chi- cago Herald.
 The Miss Browns-"Oh, 50 glad to see you, Maryl But we've such dreadful colds we hardsl' Fair visitor-"Oh, dear, how sad! I hope you haven't got cold, MT. Brown!" London Punch.
 Dentist (to fair customer in chair)-"Are you not Miss Smith of Madison avenuea" Miss Smith (coldly)-"Yes." Dentist-"I think I had the pleasure to meet you in Sar- atoga last summer" Miss Smith-"Indeed; :; you will see, sir, that you get hold of the right tooth" He got hold of the right tooth but it came harder than any tooth Miss Smith ever had pulled.-Epoch.
 A Kentucky gentleman, who recently came to Washington to consult with his member of Congress about an office under the new ad- ministration, was asked yesterday by gem tleman from Boston whether it was really true that the people of Kentucky are so very bibulous. "Bibulous!" said the Kentucktan. Fabulous! don't reckon you could find 8 dozen Bibles in the whole State. ."-Washing- ton Post.
 Country editor-"What are you busy with, my desr," Country editors wife-"I am writing some cooking receipts for yonr housewife's column" O. E.-"Oh yes. Giving us something nice this week." o. Els W.-"Yes. I am giving directions how to boil 8 Westphalia ham in sherry and serve it with appropriate garnishings. I also have new method for making pate de foie gras. " c. E.-Indeeda We'll, after you get through, dear, wish you would fry that liver and pork I bought for dinner, for I am feeling mighty hungry. y."-Boston Courier.