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Show Cllpi,d lor Fun. A Kansa boy writes home from Manila: Ma-nila: " I horn nre manV queer cusloins to be seen hero. Tint native women do not ho d Up their skirts when crossing the Micelti. They lutve no sklrth lo hold up. lint that Isn't thu str.tngo custom. The men do uoi look." Kan-bas Kan-bas City Sittr. "We now hnvo chalnlcss wheels, Imisele-s carriages, cowlcss milk wagon wag-on and brainiest- tludec, but, alasl no smokelctN cigarolles," says the Chicago NewN, . Out In thbt wnlermelou annex to heaven our most crying needs aru a titleless bulldog and u liltless shotgun. Denver Post. "How did ynu enjoy yourself In Italy!" asked Maud. "Loveiy," replied re-plied Mamie wiln nll tliu ontliu-hisiu of the trnveier.. "Hy tlie wa.v, wasn't it too perfectly clever of them to name that big volcano uftur thu Vu.-uvlusV" Tho widow: "l'mrtnwfully afraid John wasn't dead and wo buried him alive." Friend of tho Family: "Oh, you needn't worry, Mrs. Greene "If hu hadn't been dead, he'd a laughed right out. at some of thu nice things that were said of til tii by the narnon. With his sense of honor It would have been Ini-pBs)lo Ini-pBs)lo furhlm to have kept Ins face straight." "Mr. Flanders says that ho won't pay 0 cents a loaf .for bread,'' said the grocer's boy. ' "No." said tho proprietor, gloomily, "I never Ihougt 'hu would If ho could get trusted." ' Tho fly Is a peculiar little bird. Ho makes his appearand! here about tho flrxtof July and remains until he Is 'frozun lo death. He is very apnoylnu fj bald bends and babies and Is devoid of manners, although ho bIiows good breeding, for It Ih said his 'progeny numbers a million cveiy year. "Mamma." said tho olnnlhal beauty to her m.tturnal ancestor, "I urn really alarmed nt Mr. Klukiy's luteuse passion pas-sion for mo." "Why, my dear?" "Only last night he declared 1 was sweet enough to eat," Life, |