| Show DEVI the Wes western terri edit editors 1 ors begin to turn the tables and roco reco urit funny stones dea of happenings up in the east the following fair specimen Is going the rounds of the western papers A good story is told of a tall rawboned fellow who went into a market house in boston perhaps the quindy quincy and seeing a large hog bog on exhibition was mightily struck W with ith it 1 I swear said he a groat great log I 1 swe swear ar I 1 nove never r saw a finer looking 0 one in in my life I 1 swear I 1 what short logs legs hes got I 1 swear look here friend said a little dry looking individual trotting up you must not swear so 1 I swear I 1 should like to know why asked the haid with an ominous look because said the little man swearing is against 0 the law an ani I 1 I 1 shall have to commit you drawing himself up I 1 are re you a justice of the at inquired the y 1 lam I am 1 l well ivell I 1 swear said the profane one 1 I am more astonished at that than I 1 was about the alie hog bog JC irish schoolmaster who was instructing some urchin s in the rudiments of polite learning and coming to the word posthumous demanded the definition from a small boy bov at the fostof foot of the class the defini definition eion was 1 not forthcoming at ahe customary preliminary held head scratching and the master growing impatient exclaimed och ye donty know that the posthumous works of a man are arc the books lie he writes after hes heli dead 11 11 w j A Ss ea hadji sidi beni aasand on the return voyage to madras after his pitt grimage was caught in a terrible storm and recollect recollecting ilig that he be had vi mohammedan law by indulging in ewines flesh on a particular ow occa sion he made a due confession and prayed for a cessation of tho storm all was in vain the storm raged on and the hadji losing his temper and pie piety ty pettishly exclaimed what a fuss about a little pork I 1 blut iw i say fishy why is a kiss liko like a rumzi rumor it goes from mouth to mouth |
