Show I JUTS OF FUN The fishing season is I on What did you catch yesterday asked a Peoria urchin with a pole and an oystercan to another boy I Just what youll catch when you get home said the other morosely rubbing his shoulders And then each smiled a sickly smile and the convention slowly and solemnly adjourned i ad-journed without date Peoria Transcript Trans-cript The wife of a Texas man lost two thousand thous-and dollars the other day She left it iii her bustle and doesnt know l where she put that articie When her husband discovered dis-covered her carelessness he made a much bigger bustle than the one she lost but it didnt contain the money A woman should never get in arrears with herm her-m rey that t way JVbmstown Herald You ought to have your baby bap tized Rastus said a member of the church to a colored father Yes sah but I cant afford de cost I doest cost anything HI know it doesnt cost nuthin fo de mere act of baptism sah but yo see I owe de minister two dollars for peromin de w ecldin cermony a yeah ago an he nIdught qiject salt to bap tisiftlb aby that hadnt been paid fO Ex I Miss Lillian Smith a California girl fourteen years old has beaten Dr Carver by one second having broken one hun dred glass balls in two minutes fortyfive seconds It is probable that she supposed that they were dishes which she was en gagedfn washing People who have i domestics in their families will see that there is nothing extraordinary in Miss lIss Smiths achievement if our supposition is correctBoston Transcript Theological item iem Why do you sup pose the Rev Surplus Sportly Reed is always driving over to Smithville 1 asked one Austin gentleman of another His wife says that he tells her that he goes over there to admire the beauty of the place was the reply Yes but does his wife know the beauty of the place is n young widow No 1 dont think he has described all the features of the landscape to her He has not got into the details yetTexas Siftings 1 commercial traveler had a dispute witha waiter at a country inn South relative to the relatv probable date of an egg which had been served for breakfast Welfvsah said the servitor ItI jess go call de gemmah out of thirtyseven and if he dont say dats a fresh egg I done eat it sah Why YOu mahocranvrnl |