Show 8Pie I I i 1 A woman will talk about hanging up her I stocking for three months ahead and then expect her hmlhmul to shed tears of joy J when rho tells him she Is going to got Die bathroom papored for his Christmas present Jscw York Press I o tAn 1 t-An English oorrospondent tells this I story Two Alsatians 1 nmojig the Cot man troops t at Tien Twin were III their j tent and an English soldier was passIng Said one Alsatlnn to the other Seining schynt dsunn rchun John Is tho sun shining yet and tho other Alsatian replied re-plied Ja dsunn wchynt schun lang Yea the sun has been shining a longtime long-time Tho English soldier listened and shook his head Wonderful coves thoso Germans he exclaimed Ojily been hero 3 week and blowcd If they aint talking Chlnoeo aready S a aIn a-In China oven tho writer of rejected literary lit-erary work JH trctotl with politeness Hero Is I an editors letter printed In the Japan Gazette Wo have ready thy manuscript man-uscript with delight By the bonefl of our jineestors we swear that never have vfn encountered such a masterpiece Should wo print It lila Majesty tho Emperor I would order us tn tnko it as acriterion and never uguln to print anything which was not equal to It As that would not bo t possible before I 10000 ycnro ull trembling we return thy manuscript and btg of theo ten thousand pardons See my hand is I at my feel and 1 am thy slave Mr Meddorgrass Old Man Hocorn lets I his antlfurrlu sentiment get away with j him on this hero Chinese business J I Mrs Mcddcrgrnss 1 telll Has he quit J drlnkln tea Nope but ho luau killed all his Shanghai Shang-hai roosters Baltimore American a S Sticking to His Penchant Whats become be-come of that boy who had such talent for machinery He waa arrested the other day for I running a divorce mill Cleveland Plain I Dealer I S S Suddenly the good fairy of tho play intervened in-tervened It Is I time for me to show my hand she exclaimed The villain recoiled I I If I I her hand were only all he mut I i tcrcd observing with unfeigned alarm tho effect of tights upon the raw soldiery i hitherto blindly devoted to his purposes I Then he slunk away omitting In his con I fu lon even the snarl of baffled rage il Detroit Journal |