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Show HERE'S A STRIP OF LAUGHS TO MAKE , YOUR LIFE MERRIER A WAT OUT. Philadelphia Ledger. Miss Oushine-ton But were you never ' frightened. Captain, when you saw the enemy approaching? Capt. Frank No, I felt safe so long as I bed a couple of Ufe-preservers with me. Miss Guahlngton Life preservers? Capt. Frank Yes; my legs. A REQUISITE. Washington Star. k "A man takes a great deal when ke goV Into politics, doesn't he?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "It's very much like going over Niagara Fall. You don't want to attempt it unless un-less you have a good, stout barrel." V BAPTISM. Puck. Up In the mountains we came on an old preacher exhorting the people to go down into the valley and be baptised. We wondered some. Why in the valley, rather than here? "The watuh up yere," the old man politely po-litely explained to us.' after the meeting, "is mas' powe'ful mighty hahd, an' watuh 't won't wash the duht outen a man's shunt I hain't gwine take no chances of hie) washin' the sin outen bis soul." HIS GLOOMY PKOSPECT. Atlanta Constitution. "Well, you got do mens you voted fer; what you gwlne do now?" "I gwlne sit right here, 'twel de Pub-llklns Pub-llklns take care er me." "Rise up, my fVen I'll show you right whar de undertaker live at!" A FORMIDABLE COLLECTION. Sound waves go on for years and years So science teaches. And space is full of useless 'cheers And wasted speeches. Washington Star- NEBVE. Town Topics. "You say he is absolutely fearless?" "Well, rather he spends his days In a racing automobile and his nights courting a chorus girL" t |