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Show I JUST FORFUN H A Persistent Theatre-goer. H The absent-minded man didn't H look up from lata paper when tho Hj conductor on tho Connecticut ave- H nue car came around. Ho Just felU H In his aide pocket for his ticket and H handed tho ticket to tho conduc- H tor. Tho ticket, howover, "was a H theatre coupon. H "Here," spoke up the conductor H rather sharply, "this don't go. H Come on with the fight one." B The absent-minded man glanced H over the top of his paper at the H coupon. H "Well," ho snapped, "that's tho H coupon off the ticket the man gave H mo, and I purpose to occupy this H seat till the curtain drops. You H can just H Then he came out of tho fog, and with a sheepish look flashed H out the car ticket Washington M Star. French Frugality. H Even in the country where econ- H omy is practiced to perfection, tho H practice has Us drawbacks, as a H writer In Gil Dlas points out. H A guest at a small restaurant in H tho environs of Paris complained H to tho proprietor that he had not H received tho hulf-chlckcn ho had H ordered. H "How much longer shall I have H to walt7" be asked. B "Only until somebody orders tho H other half," tho proprietor replied, H soothingly. "M'sieur would scarce- ly expect us to go out and kill H halt a chicken?" Youth's Compan- t j it Intentional. A little boy was onco brought before a magistrate charged with throwing stones at ailway trains. "What have you to say In auswer to tho serious charge?" asked his worship. "I didn't throw no stone, sir; 1 V,'as only going to," said tho boy. "Only going to!" echoed tho magistrate. "Well, the intent was thoro, and as a dotorant I shall line, .you $5." On leaving tho court tho father of the boy was called "back and Informed that ho hadn't paid tho fine. "That's bo," replied tho parent 'T should havo don'o so; but, as tho Intent is Just as good In law, why, you're paid." Tit-Bits. Great Expectations. Peter L. Harris, the grain expert of Lincoln, was condemning the reciprocity ldeja. . "The United States promoters or Canadian reciprocity expect too much of it," ho said. "They expect ex-pect to gain practically everything and to glvo practically nothing. Well, they'll get left like HI BUI-ingB. BUI-ingB. "HI wont to a horse sale one day and bought a horB for $13. When Ijo got the horse home "he offered of-fered It a bucket of water, but It wouldn't drink. After that ho gave it a feed of corn, but it wouldn't touch that either. '"By gosh ho said, 'you're tho very horeo for no If, you'll only work!' Washington Star.' |