Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-22 | Page 26 | A Chinese Joke

A Chinese Joke.1 The Chinese are very fond of a publication pub-lication printed at Pekin which, ia called the Jlialao-lin-Kuan, or Laugh, injj Book. The jests from this esteemed work, a number of which have been translated, seem to bear a certain family fam-ily resemblance to anecdotes the world over, just as some of the most frequently frequent-ly recounted jokes of modern times are to be found in tho works of ancient Greeks, who, perhaps, stole them from still earlier jesters. Here is one of the Cl-ineso jokes: A courier, bearing important dispatches, dis-patches, was given a horse and told to make all possible speed toward his destination, des-tination, i-iome time afterward he was . found in the rottd, walking, and push ing his horse before him. "Why in the world are you doing that?" he was asked. "Oh." he said, "I reflected, and I came to fho conclusion that we should make more speed on six feet than we possibly could on four." Washington Star.