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Show : THAT REMINDS ME- HIS ANSWER. A Massachusetts b.shop, who was visiting visit-ing one of the churches in his d.ocese, : requested that the children of the Sun-: Sun-: day school should be assembled to be catechized. The good bishop put this question rather rath-er suddenly to the little boy who stood trembling at the head of the class: "Who made the world?' The little fellow, fel-low, with quavering voice, replied; "I didn't." I The bishop, astonished at the answer. I demanded: "What do you mean, s.r?" j Still more frightened, the laa repl.ed: ; "I I did I won't do it again!" -?- HEARD THE FIRST TIME. j A Mr. B , a lumberman of O e-on, i was noted among his acquaintan.eo fori : his deafness, and among his emp.oyes i ; for his slowness in paying tnem their i wages. i One day the engineer of Mr. B 's saw ! mill came to him and in a very loud ' In a very loud voice sa.d: ''Mr. a , I ! want ten dollars." , "Hey?" replied Mr. B- , bending his Ihead as if to hear better, "I want twenty dollars," demanded the engineer, raising his voice. "Oh, 1 heard you the first time, ' replied re-plied Mr. B . HE IS "USEFUL. The Wallflower. "Cholly Chalk ifn't a ; bit of use," sneered the girl who danced, j "Indeed he is, thfn." said the hostess; ! "he has been sitting there hiding the tear in the sofa all the evening." Chicago Chi-cago Daily News. DEPENDS. Girl with the Lillian Russell Complcx-ioon Complcx-ioon I'd be ashamed to be so supe sti-tious sti-tious as to think it's unlucky to open an umbrella in a house. Girl with the Fay Templeton SmI e It would be unlucky to open this one ini painted on it. j HONEST GOODS. Oleo Manufacturer Do you guarantee this coloring matter -to be absolutely harmless? ; Dealer I do. It's the same kind we sell to the dairymen. FITNESS. "Why do they call these congressional appropriations for rive.s and -ca.bois 'pork'?" asked one of the visitors. "I have sometimes wendered Pt that myself." said Senator. Lotsmun. ' The localities lo-calities that don't get anything always do a lot of beefing over it." AY. T" 'WThat caused the fire in the match fuotory?" "There was some friction, I believe, among the heads' of the j-pu t.u;..: i |