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Show o DISASTER AHEAD, "In my school days," said a story teller who was trying to illustrate the absurdity iand futility of unfounded fears, "we used to have a lecture every Friday afternoon. One day the lecturer lec-turer was a geologist, and chose Niagara Falls for .us topic. "He told us about the geological formation of the falls, described the diff-rcnt periods to be traced in the gorge, and then went on to say that the falls were .slowly wearing back toward Buffalo, and that in the couisc of some two hundred thousand years they would have worn back to Eric, Pennsylvania and thsit town would be left high and dry. "Suddenly one of. the girls in m . class began to sob 'convulsively. "What is the matter?' asked the teacher, in alarm. ' j "Oh," waited the girl, 'my sister lives in Eric!'" . j DESIRABLE ADDITION. i, "If you want a versatile journalist ( to add to your staff, I can. recommend one," said a New York man on his rcr turn from a visit to the home of his boyhood. "Where is he now?" in- r . . i qutr.cd the editor of the big daily . i , newspaper. t , "He's in Harborville, where I lived 4 the first fifteen years of my life,". was the reply, "and he's the -mainstay of j the Harhorvillc Banner. "The 'editor told me that he had , never allowed the young man to know whe her a broom, a concert ticket or a pair of shears would be handed to him when he reached the office, and the editor -couldn't sec but he worked j just as well with one as1 with another." |