Show A Joke with Variations You ought to get five cents worth of chloride of lime What for For a nickel The above was passed around freely among a number of St Pauls citizens and was in each case recognized as a practical prac-tical joke of considerable merit Acting upon the suggestion a prominent merchant mer-chant of this city determined to work it off on his bookkeeper with an original variation So he said You ought to get five cents worth of potash Contrary to the merchants expectations the taciturn bookkeeper meekly bowed his head and went on footing his trial balance while his employer retired discomfited at the affaire flambec The next morning ho received a note from his bookkeeper to this effect I took the five cents worth of potash and I am as sick as a horseYSt Paul Globe |