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Show i THE 2AN FOR THE PLACE. I Awkward Youth -Sa-ay, can't ycr J give me a job on this'ere paper? I don't s'pose I can learn to be an editor, but I'm told there is "other softs o' work in newspaper offices." Utf, llentemall (great editor)-r- "Yon. might suit in some capacity, perhaps. Do you know anything about book-keeping?" Nope.;;' Are yojgood at figures" "Ah, yisd'm good at figures." " How rriuch are 9 and 7?" , "Lemme see. Put down ot. and then put down .7 alongside of it, and that makes 97 " "Well, sir. you would not do frr the counting-room but I see no reason rea-son why you should not rise to proud eminence., in the circulation department."- Good News. A lvtontc.nl m street man came in the other afternoon just a his wife wasVigorously spanking their 4-year old boy. 7 'Vhat are you doing that for my dear?'' he inquired. "Why." she , answered, between slaps; "he forgets everything t tell him, and notf I. propose to impress his mind so he won't." "Then my dear." said the father, 'why don't you turn him other end up?'" |