Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-03 | Page 7 | Origin of a Joke

Origin of a a Joke Dr Finders Pinders the eminent archeologist archeologist arch- arch announces that he has de de- deciphered ciphered the he cuneiform inscription on a n tablet he excavated in the plains of Assyria find and nd believes that It is a a copy or of f a n prehistoric comic paper Among other ther items it contains the following merry Jest which bears a strangely familiar fa Ca- fa- fa sound Now there were ere gathered together at t the place of othe the telling of stories many of them that have lived long Inthe in inthe the he land and ond one of or them lifted up his voice and said Behold it i cold rold with much extremeness extremeness Whereupon another made answer saying Verily it doth But let us separate and nd get hence for here cometh lethu- lethu salem alem the aged and If w we tarr tarry he will wi even ven tell teU us again of ot the cold spell of the he he year 40 40 And they got hence with much BaltimOre peed Baltimore American Amerian