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Show MISSOURI BIVEB STORIES. "I've been trying to figure It out." said a Leavenworth man to another, on the street the other day. "Figure what out?" asked the other. "Why, the derivation of that word 'restaurant.' Now, there's the Latin word, res,' meaning thing,' and 'taurus,' meaning mean-ing 'bull,' but I can't make anything out of that" "You can'tT Well. I can. It means 'a bully thing.' Let's go over there and get something to eat." "Will you give me one of your pictures?" pic-tures?" the small girl asked the caller who was waiting for her mother to come down. "My picture," said the lady, smiling. "What kind of a picture, dear?"- "Vi'hy your picture. The kind you get took down town." "But what on earth would you do with it?" "Oh, I'd put It on my dresslnler." Leavenworth Post. |