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Show "One day this unconventional worker washeard repeating to himself the chance remark of a clever child. "Well," said Mb wife, "what can you make out of that?" "Oh," was the literal reply, "about three dollars." Youth's Companion. , His System. A man professionally "funny" in print, is often a cause of perplexity to his family fam-ily from his habit of picking up "unconsidered "uncon-sidered trifles" and weaving them into a marketable web. One such person, whose notebook is never at hand, has a ' way of memorizing hints which is less original than amusing. He finds that no method is more satisfactory than that of fitting items together to form a sentence, sen-tence, which he repeats to his wife until she remembers it, "Susan," said he one day, "remember that Walter Besant shoots crows and steals acorns in un old distillery." "Yes, I will." agreed Susan, "but I really must know what it means." " 'Walter Besant' indicates an article on certain reforms to which he gave an impetus, 'shooting crows' and 'stealing acorns' will remind me of two anecdotes I heard this morning, and the last part of the sentence indicates an article I want to look up in one of last year's papers." pa-pers." One thing is certain that this journalist, journal-ist, should he attain a widespread celebrity, celeb-rity, need never fear the harpy biographer. biog-rapher. That dauntless and untiring fiend will find no "hints for work" or "fugitive notes" to print for the curious |