Show HUMOROUS A young man in this city who practiced in the gymnasium one af ternoon only was able to jump his board bill the very next day Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Saturday Night The ice dealers of New York have increased their prices twentyfive percent > per-cent You cannot blame them poor fellows The crop was badly touched by last wintersfrost Boston Tran cript Said Miss A to one of her little girls at Sundayschool Whats the meaning of good tidings Theyre the things hung over the backs of rocking chairs maam replied the fouryearold Boston Post Since hops again came into fash ion they are alluded to as domestic I circles It is not known who perpetrated per-petrated the pun but he is no doubt some renegade journalist who shall be exiled from the bustle of life to the very outskirts of civilization Detroit Free Press You can always tell when an editor edi-tor is on a vacation He walks about the streets as if he had lost a thread of thought or something and nothing noth-ing will bring him back to himself so quick as to have some one call copy in his earNew Haven Reg ister Little Phil a bright fiveyear old is afraid of thunder During the recent re-cent hot spell his mother would remark re-mark Oh I pray for rain One day when she said it Phil thus addressed ad-dressed herOh mamma I will tell you why it dont rain When I say my prayers I des say please dont pay any tention to what mamma says cos I am fraid of thunder Wit and Wisdom What is your age asked a friend of Mine de C the other evening Thirtyone promptly replied the fair Sapphira Oh where do you expect to go when you die V gasps another lady I am thirtyfour and you told me last winter with your own lips that you were just my age my love I know I did dearest but it was only to console you IFrench Wit |