Show PUNS FROM THE PEN joy kot bat it hta 51 try kanc convicts in the illinois penitentiary publish a paper called up to date and that its editors have the faculty of beins jolly under adverse circumstances the following paragraphs will attest excuse haste and a bad pen as the convict said when he escaped by aid of a loose stone in the wall no annie the fact that nearly every cell contains two cell ticks prove that most of the prisoners are irish great exclaimed the new arrival as he sat in his cell the first night even the flies in the penitentiary wear stripes prisoners are hereby notified that although winter is coming they are still prohibited from getting on skates how do you feel asked the old timer of the new man as he entered the cell after his first days work in the very rocky was the relevant answer S s s t rah we are the boys ot the L S P every educational institution in the world has its yell and were not go ing to be left out well have a yell even if we cant use it the members of the pioneer club for women in london to which all the advanced women belong are known by numbers instead of names cincinnati enquirer we dont wish to rob the pioneer club of any of its laurels but there are sixty advanced women not more than four flights from our office who are associating under similar conditions dit ions misses ara and mollie becs young ladies aged eighteen and twenty have started s paper at grayson ky it is called the eastern kentucky republican and as the young ladies state that they can set up the paper each week they feel justified in their venture jokes about making up the form being barred we will simply remark that having the kees they are out for the quoin we wish the girls success we trust the older members of the fraternity will not deem us too insignificant ant to exchange with we know that we are young we were born that way but we are striving daily to overcome this fault and not without apparent success we fully appreciate the fact that as yet we are simply skirmishing around the outskirts of butia eames and fair play can accomplish it we mean to push on until we fling our banner to the winds from the acropolis |