Show WIT AND RUMOR Cleveland PlalndeaJer The first balloon bal-loon you sent uP said the captured Spanish officer gave us a great shock How so queried his American entertaIner enter-taIner taInerhy Why It was this way One of our < t staff had been Inside your lines and the Instant he caught sight of the balloon he jumped to his feet and yelled Blessed saints There goes Sharter I Roxbur Gazette Boo11ias Wheel away got a good nosltlon I EnrdFlrstrateexcept when he is riding his bicycle Boston Globe Theres a Jo 1g woman who makes little things count How does she do It Teaches arithmetic In a primary school Indianapolis Journal in the beginning begin-ning said the Corn fed Philosopher I man Is much concerned that his little wUes heart shall always be light Later he pay > more attention to the weIght or I the bIscuit Puck Miss InnltYhy dt women always al-ways cry at a wedding mamma Mrs InnltTh mlrrted1 en my child because they know how it i tjicm selves and the unmarried ones because they dont Chicago Post He ants the earth Oh no he doesnt He wants some thing a good deal betterthan that Such as what Yell hed like to be the tax asSessor for it Chicago News Thero goes a fellow who leads a handtomouth existence J that so He looks JrOSDerous I enough CJh he is prosperous ns far as thats concerned Hes the best mUst In this town Indianapolis Journal Time said the pragmatic boarder lies between eternity and eternity How ungrammatical said the Cheerful Cheer-ful Idiot Idiotwhat Wwhat sort of split Infinity you know Chicago Journal telelShlin sorry to hear roure broke But 1ehn ButelelghBroke Vhos broke Whats the matter with this showln it handful of gold CutelelghNothinl Lend me twenty will you Puck r came very near killing a man long long ago said good old Aunt Phil end a musingly Why Auntie exclaimed her niece increduously Yes my dear He said he could not JIve without me and I rejected him And he died Oh no He lived answered the old lady with a twinkle in her eye but if be had kent his word and died I suppose Id have been responsible So you see how near I really came to kllllnS him |