Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-25 | Page 4 | A Little Folly

A UHLE FOLLY j HER PREFERENCE. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I dunno as it's any great advantage to be a preferred creditor." "Why not?" "Blmmelburg was a preferred creditor credi-tor of old Grigsby." "I didn't know that." . "Yes, Grlgsbys widow preferred him to all the rest, an' married him, too." AJTOTHTR WASTED EFFORT. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Do I make myself plain?". "You do." "Could I make myself plainer?" She softly laughed. "Yon mlghf." she said, "by letting your whiskers grow." And then he knew that, his elaborate argument on the rights and wrongs of mergers was entirely wasted. A CON'SCIENTIOTJS TRUSTEE. "Wealth," said the preacher earnestly, earnest-ly, "should be regarded as a trust." Deacon Close fist, in a front pei. seemed wrapped in meditation. "After all." he soliloquized. "I don't object to that doctrine. A trustee should invest money carefully so as to bring in the largest returns consistent with security aad that's what I do every time." New York Times. USEFUL. : The Lyre. ' An amusing story is told of a Norwegian Nor-wegian girl, straight from the country, who was seeking service in New York. The lady asked: "Can you bake?" and the answer was "No." "Can you broil V "No." "Then what can you do?" . "I can milk reindeer." answered the Norwegian girl with assurance. A SOLEMN1 THOUGHT. . Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Well, the winner of the America's cup is now in the water." ; "Yes, and what is still more serious, the loser is there, too." POBX AND BEAN COMBINE. Cincinnati Enquirer. Knowltt Chicago and Boston should work together to further their mutual Interests. ' Askitt Because why? Knowltt Well, you see one supplies the pork and the other supplies the beans. JUMPING AT CONCLUSIONS. "Yes, Tomllnson has lost his Job. He kissed the pretty typewriter girl before his employer." "Ah. yes. He should have waited to let the employer kiss her first. Tom always was impulsive. LOOKED LIKE A CINCH.' As he worked his way up a long line to the window of the paying teller of a downtown bank, a porter with - a leather bag stood Immediately In front of him and passed In a check for $2000. "How will you have it?" Inquired the teller. "Five hundred in tens, seven hundred and fifty in fives, five hundred in twos, two hundred in ones,, and fifty In silver." sil-ver." The packages of bills and rolls of silver sil-ver were promptly passed out and deposited de-posited and locked in the bag, which hung from the neck of the porter by a chain, when a messenger boy, with bulging eyes, exclaimed: . "Gee whix! Mister, do you mind telling tell-ing me what horses you're going to play V New York Times. NOT ACQUAINTED. j "Have : you- any poor relatives, Percy?" "None that I know, old chap." "I see, eld fellah -thea you nrost have same rich ones.1 "Tas. ba Jove! but none that kaow j mer Kewr.Tor- Time . .. . .., -. .-- . . - "