Show SnMt GOOD SHORT STORfS He Meant t Have It Liverpool Post u amusing story is being told Ia Edinburgh Edin-burgh At n recent auction sale of old furniture n chair bearing on the back the carved words Dunottar Castle was put up Experts expected it might fetch about 25 The bidding began at 5 and soon reached 30 whan Only two brokers remained In the competition which to thQ amazement of every one present advanced ad-vanced in 5poundblds to fl0 and then jumped in steps of no to 600 Finally one of the bidders retired and the chair was knocked down to his successful rival at the price oC CiO The secret of this suc ccssiul sole is quite sjraple Sir Donald Curria had seen the name ou the back of the chair and had commissioned ai Edinburgh Edin-burgh brolor to buy i Next day forgetting for-getting what he had done ho Instructed 1 Glasgow broker t bid for the chair and these two were the rival bidders with the result that Sir Donald is now the possessor of what Is probably the most costly old oak chair in thy world She Had Proof Chicago TimesHerald Mrs Kendal tells an amusing story in connection wit one of her American tours She brought with her from England Eng-land n maid who a the cause of not n Httio fun When in Washington Mrs Kenda sent for 3 worthy African laundress laun-dress who had been highly recommended to her As most people know negroes have lightcolored palms to their hands The English maid however did not know this She noticed Mrs Kendal handing to tho laundress all sorts of dainty articles when suddenly she exclaimed Oh madame ma-dame you are not going to let her wash those lovely lao handkerchiefs ShOil ruin them with her black skin Nonsense Non-sense laughed Mrs Kendal that doesnt como off She is perfectly clean Clean cried tho matd scornfully didnt I see tho palms of her hands Why a couple of bas of soap and plenty of of sda would take the black off the rest A Classical Joke A Worcester man tells the Gazette of that city that when visiting the British museum some timeago ho stuck a postage post-age stamp on the mummy case oC Cleopatra Cleo-patra 1 was all alone says he No one was looking and I stood there gazing ing at the mummy case and thinking over the store mummy I put my hand in my pocket and felt the postage stamp I could not help It I The thought of the mummy thousands of years old and the brandnew stamp of the brandnew country was too much I hastily whispered in the ear of the effigy Why is this stamp like Anthony Give It up Because its stuck on you slapped I it on the case and started out t establish estab-lish a alibi u quickly as possible I Prom TTig Point of View Spare Moments An old lady of Edinburgh employed a gardener to cut the grass In front of her house She gave him strict injunctions to cut it short remarking An inch at the bottom is worth twa at the tap Havin finished his work to her satisfaction satis-faction ho was asked into the house After paying him sho offered him half a gloss of whisky He eyed the quantity In the glass and exclaimed Fill it up mem Its no like the grass ye ken an inch at the tap Is worth twa at the bottom A Personal Equation Person Equnton San Francisco Wave In an Edinburgh school an Inspector wishing to test the knowledge of aclass in fractions asked a boy whether he would rather take onesixth or onesev enth of a orange if he got his choice The boy promptly replied that he would take oneseventh At this the inspector explained at length t the class that he who would choose the smaller part as this boy had done because it looked the biggest fraction was very foolish but the laugh was on the other side when tho chirping voice of another little urchin broke In Please sir but that chap dlsna like oranges Beyond Reproof TitBits At a marriage the bide was requested to sign her name In the registry at the sacristy Excitement caused her fingers to tremble she took the pen signed and made an enormous Ink blot Must I do it over again sho blushingly asked her husband agn No that will do but s Oh dont cold me I will pay more attention the next time |