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Show "Cheese it!" said the rat to the trap. "I will," said the trap, "and with baited breath I await your coming." An exchange says the difference between a hungry man and glutton is that one longs to eat and the other eats too long. "Cleanliness," we are told, "is next to godliness." Under these circumstances, we may assume that soap is next to charity; at all events, let's soap so.-Judy. Is there any opening here for an intellectual writer?" asked a seedy, red nosed individual of an editor. "Yes, my friend," replied the man of quills. "A considerate carpenter, foreseeing your visit, left an opening for you. Turn the knob to the right." He came home late the other night, and his wife woke up and found him with a burning match trying to light the faucet over the marble basin in his dressing room. "James," she said, "that is not the gas burner." "I know it now, my love," he replied, unsteadily; "fact is, I've been overworked, and that's reason I made mistake." "Yes you look as if you have been lifting a good deal," she quietly answered, as she returned to her pillow.-Boston Courier. |