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Show NOTES ABOUT MEN. Mr. Gladstone was much bothered by young, unknown authors, who sent him their published works for his Judgment. So his secretary was Instructed to use this liigenlus formula of acknowledgment. "My Dear Sir: Mr. Gladstone Instructs me to way that ho la In receipt of your book, jfor which he returns thanks Be assured that he will lose no time in pe- ' rualng 1U" J m m Prof. Drum of Bucknoll university, Lewlsburg. Pa., went on a fishing excursion excur-sion Decoration day. Vhllo on his way homo he fell In with an affable stranger, who. seelntr the professor's fishlnc; tackle, aBked him: "What luck"" The doctor showed his catch, whereupon the stranger strang-er remarked: "Mphm. I'm Fish Warden Burkoy. You've been fishing out of rn-a-non. " and the day's outing cost tho professor pro-fessor something close to $50. Santos-Dumont, tho aeronaut, was tes- 1 tlfylng In a will case not long ago. He had no personal Interest in the case, but knew tho old man who had written the will. Counsel for contestants was Irving to show that the testator was of unsound mind. "Did not the old man talk to himself him-self when lie was alone?" asked thi lawyer law-yer "I do not know." said the witness, who foresaw an opportunity to turn tho laugh on his bullying Inquisitor. "What." exclaimed tho lawyer, "vou do not know and yet you claim to have been an intimate inti-mate friend af his. How do you explain your ignorance of the fact that deceased talked to himoelf when he was alone?" ' Because," said Santos-Dumont In hN dryest manner. "I was never with him when ho was alone." |