Show Some Japanese Jokes tNew York Sun The Jopaneeo have a kn sense 01 humor and thlr literature n bund In wblt Sayings and funny Stories They also appreciate the better class 01 Jakob published In their countries anti many a bright paragraph and laughter provoking dialogue Is translated from the American press and reprinted In the native Papeete Japanese i Joke are artistic ar-tistic subtle an dto b thoroughly enjoyed en-joyed must understood In the original orig-inal A foreigner examining the Japanese Japan-ese language and noting Its peculiar construction and Idioms might think It a rather laborious matter to Joke Intelligently In-telligently In that tongue For Instance where we ask How Is your mother tho polite Japanese would propound a query which on being literally rendered ren-dered Into English runs as follows Your mother as for honorably well being be-ing Is I Where we say Please speak louder he would say In trot More big voice bymeanaof deigning to speak ondocod and where we might observe ob-serve We hal have 0 thunderstorm thunder-storm his remarks again literally Interpreted In-terpreted would be to this effects Thunder emitting Bund torm to apPears ap-Pears likely to become being Is I And yet tho rarest kind 01 humor and fun are easily and delicately expressed by him himA good example of Japane humor Is I the story of two men who were ton deaf and who meeting each other one morning Indulged In the following dla logue First Deaf MAre morning M-Are you going to buy sake ama thing to drink Second Deaf nnI am going to buy sake First Deaf MnnOh excuse me I thought Jim were going to buy sake Neither bail heard or understood a syllable 01 uhat the other wn Saying The story of an Illiterate dog is I told plainly by one ulto wn bitten You told me that when n log barked at Once he auld leave off doIng do-Ing so It one wrote tiger on the pain 01 ones hand and kept ones nit clinched Well I have had a rough time if It for listening to you Indeed How 001 A European dog began barking nnd flying at me as I was coming late last night So I struck my clinched list out toward him and lust look how I got bitten Ohl Then probably I was a dog who had not yt leore < 1 Japanese vrltlngThe In The Pursuit of Fashion we obtain a glimpse 01 tile Jnpar oaUrlet To young men have com across each other In front of a haber daidiers Shop one 01 them waved his hand hurriedly and cried out I 1 have much to may to you but u to urgent businems cal me home at present I must put off the conversation for a few nays when I will come and see you nt your ionic The other astonished at his friend strange excitement asked him win this urgent business might be whether he meant to say for instance that any of his family had been taken III Oh no replied the first young man with a laugh I have Just been getting at this obopn i kind at krbl which I my wife conunistelaned me to buy for I her The reason why I said I couldnt a top and talk to YOU now Is thnt It I wool < 1 be nn awful thing for her to fait behind the fashion while I was loitering on the way The story of the smells and Jingles Is I one that ho ben enjoyed by many generations 01 Jnpaneee It Is I told an follows An old fellow In Yedo named mhl bel kept an eel shop where he servei up eels 1 smoking hot to his customers Kleabure his neighbor wishing to save money used to sit find eat his bole lice next to the e1 merchants door and regale himself with the Smell 01 the brolo eels The merchant finding this out presents a bill for smelling 01 eelm 1 Klcabtiro not to be outfitted brings out his cash box nnd Jingles It saving You have charged me for the mine 11 of your eels nnd I have paid you with the sound 01 my money we 101 now square A omewnt similar story may be found In labellas third book thirty seventh chapter hut the Japanese Is I undoubtedly the older version |