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Show How Jokos Go the Rounds. Some of the Jokes going the rounds otLrf1 Olnal0vlth the aithSra! Others have been born upon reading the work of a rIvnL Occasionally a There Is, for Instance, the Joko which has been used for twenty years or more on the minstrel and variety stage. One man, referring to a woman, say8: "She Is not exactly handsome, but she has face that grows on one." The other" vaner'T.usua,1Iy a woman, answer? Well, I'm glad it did not grow cm me " About four or five years ago a loki T, COmlc p,aper ld that Joke; did it purposely. I read It ami fell to wondering if the editor k-W how old the Joke was; and I mentnllv decided that he did, And that had Printed the Joke as a Joke. About" that time a certain doctor was advertising heavily that he could amend? revamn alter, Improve, disguise and chaW u- dnlCatUyea by S". Thf idea led me to Improve the old Joke and I Snow-iie.fTOCOnd ha,f oC the answer s follows: "I suppose so. It certalnlv it not a face that one would hS Sf cd." I sold this for $2. A few weeks Maaz7nA. Jokeamlth" In Bookloyers |