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Show lm: ;: to 1 vcl'::l;.; ) Washlnirton Sfar. , "How many bottlea o' thla will I have to take?" asked Karirx-r CorntossPl. "Bctore you're cured?" said the medicine men. f "No. Before I jet my picture In the paper." iroT that zixv or A POX Harper's Weekly. - ' Friendly Old Lalv (to lttfle alrl sitting-on sitting-on porch beetdo dojr)Ah, my dear, your dog- le s setter, lan't he? Little Girl Oh, no. ma'am; be (rets up an' piaya around sometimea. "WHAT we pay roa. Little drope of water. Little grain of aand, , ' Make the milk and aupar Sold throughout the land. Philadelphia Ledger. . JLECOGSriZED TEXII AT SXQXTT. Chicago Tribune. The patient teacher, for the purposs of Impreselnsr the lesaon of 'The Cricket on the Hearth" upon the mlnde ef the children, chil-dren, had procured two or three crickets. "Now, children," ehe eald. exhibiting; them, "do you know what theae are?" "Yes'm," said the little boy with the golden locks, raising bla band. "They're the bugs you see when you open the cKiaet under the kitchen alnk." r f . THEOEY. . Judge. Bhe-The man came to look at the roof today, but he- didn't do any work Just looked at It and went away. He Maybe he's going te mend the leak by Chrlsltan Science treatment. , JTTST TECfe THUSTCK Philadelphia Press. "I don't think Crabbe will ever succeed.! He' a too fond of finding fault." "Well, he's got a good Job at It, now." "A Job at fault finding?" "Tea, he's a spotter for the traction company." - . A MATHE-TATTCAL STtTJJT. One added to one equals one, But of courae the one must.be won; . . Then add a divorce That's easy, of course And one minus one equals one. . '..- Smart Set ' AS THEY DO AT KOBOS. Puck. 7 "They understand a lot about politics In ths Kobos islands." said the eea. captain cap-tain as he came ashore. "I got there Just after a campaign. The new King was real happy on the throne. " 'Where's the defeated candidate r ' I asked of nlm. . . 'He's been eaten,' says the King. We always eat 'em here In enlightened Kobos. Then, you see, they can't uae ell the apace In the kingdom's newapspers in ezplainin' why ths election went against 'em, and for crltlciam' of the winner for aakln' a white man to sat dinner with him at the Black House. " "The Black House. the new King added. add-ed. la the executive mansion here In Kobos.' Ko-bos.' |