Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-17
RAGGED.

In the Dressing Room.-Jack-Now I must hunt for my trousers. Tom-Don't. You might bag them.-Puck.
 Teacher-What is the island of Java noted for? Bright Boy (son of grocer(- It's noted for tn coffee that used to come from there.-Good News.
 Wife-I don't see what there is about my dress you don't like. I think it is only prejudice. Husband-Possibly You know it is cut on the bias.-Boston Tran script.
 Printer-The goat got in the office last night and when came this morning he was stone dead. Editor-Confound that poem! I didn't mean to leave it lying around loose, but guess he gotitl-Atlan- ta Constitution.
 A lady once consulted St. Francis of Sales on the lawfulness of using rouge
 'WeI, '" said the saint, ''some pious men object to it, others see no harm in it, but I hold the middle course, so you may use it on one cheek. ."-Living Church. Struggling Minister-There was a strane look like9 "I did not see himg" "Then how do you know there was stranger among the congregation?" ''I found good quarter in the contribution box.n- New York Weekly.
 Editor or Organ-"Course and abusive | remarks" That's good phrase. By the way, MT. Blower is on the other side, isn't | he! City Editor-Oh, no; he's one of our speakers. Editor-So? Let me see. I | think you had better change that to ''keen and incisive. ."-Boston Transcript. Philadelphia Brother Drabkins-Good- by, then, Brother Broadbrim, these are troublous times. know not when may see thee again. Brother Broadbrim-Thee speakest truly, Brother Drabkins; but if | neither thee nor I suffer arrest this week, thee wilt find me at meeting on First day. Puck.
 Cashly-Therel now that I have given that poor woman a quarter I ought to have luck. Flashly-Don't follow, my dear man: nothing to do with it. Cashly --Whya Flashly-I went to the races one day and gave blind man standing at the gate quarter for luck. Lost every cent l had. When came out I tried to borrow a quarter of the blind man, but he couldn't see it.-Kate Fields W ashington
 At the Newsboy's Mission-Teacher to MickeyeNow, Mickey, you read the les son to me first, and then tell me, with the book closed, what you read
 Mickey (readingSSee the COW. Can the COW runi Yes, the COW can run. Can the COW run as swiftly as the horse' No, the horse runs swifter than the COW. Closing up his book to tell what he has read.) Get onto de COW. Kin her jig-lets runi Be'cher life she kin run. Kin de COW do up de horse runnin'i Nav, de COW ain't in it | wid de horse.-Life. A Plain Case.-7A famous Chicago law yer once had singular case to settle. A physician came to him in great distress Two sisters living in the same house had babes of equal age who so resembled each other that their own mothers were unable to distinguish them when they were to- gether. Now it happened that by the carelessness of their nurses the children | had become mixed; and how were the mothers to make sure that they had re- ceived back their own infantsl "But, per haps," said the lawyer, athe children were not changed at all" ''oh, but there's no doubt that they were changed, i" said the l physician. "Are you sure of itFn ssPer- fectly.n Well, if that's the case, why don't you change them back againi don't see any difficulty in the affair. n-B Boston {, Gazette.