Show MIXED ED SPICE tho lady has lost her only child and the friend who calls upon her to console her finds her plunged in a gulf of utter woe but you must not give way to pour grief in this manner you must try to bear up bays says the well mean ng ing friend r end oh I 1 know I 1 sobs lobs the a afflicted lct e d parent wringing her hermanda rhanda he hands frantically but you know how I 1 am the merest mereat trifle upsets mel met at a hotel in this city a couple from the country ot of Mi lealan extraction took beats seats at the dinner table directly after a young couple seated themselves opposite and the young man took a stalk of celery from the dish diah and commenced eating it the old lady opposite looked at him a moment with an air of disgust and then nudging her hub hup hubband husband band said in a stage whisper whisp erf dye the blackguard ata nta abing the bokay hokay james parton says saya that a curious circumstance occurred many years ago when a testator in england left to a fi friend but with the th e condition that one half the sum should be buried with him in his hu coffin the legatee took advice on the matter 96 where Is the money now asked his hla friend in the tho bank was the reply ali ail all right sald said the adviser write a check for aud and put it in the old mans coffin payable to hia hla order icso bo your son has decided not nob to marry my daughter baid eaid one gentleman to another gyes yes air why because it has been proved that your dau daughter is the divorced wife of a bank cashier that makes no difference aa 3 it is proved that your bon eon escaped from a penitentiary a fact well weighing this and that I 1 reckon better marry life is so short that people got time to be particular A medical man in new orlean orleans 0 who Is fond of his little joke called on his colored minister and began to catechise catechism cate chise him why is it said he that you are not able to do the miracles that the apostles dl did d they were protected against all poisons and all kinds of perils how is it you aro are not protected now in the same way the colored preacher responded promptly dont know about that doctor I 1 I 1 is ive taken a mighty sight ofa of trong strong medicine from you doctor and I 1 Is ali all alive yet the man marx of medicine had no more questions to ask aik y N 0 fica A happy robin wag was one day chanting a requim over the deceased amer jn the forrest for rest reat having ched it said sald 6 21 nd rid now ill away to the balmy land here bere all tho the year the magnolias arn art ar full fun of humming birds where ilire in response to the bang of a gun in a u small smail bosi boli bo hand the robin concluded not to too zo south and two dys djs das after it was inid sold for a quail on a railroad lunch counter for a dollar moral dont dant t sing until you are out of the woods the following true story juht jurt reaches us A jamaica plain kepic lican told hla his wife a few days bedol 4 election that if massachusetts went democratic he should leave the state and added that be he meant it too upon waking the morning after election he remarked that his ol factories were vera not greeted with the mutual odors from the kitchen and going to the door he be called his wife noting at the same time that preparations to move whre wire apparently going on down stairs she bhe informed him quietly that the state had gone democratic and he called savagely for a paper that he might know the worst it was brought to him and he was closeted with it for some time then coming to the door he shouted to his wife if get 1 f the breakfast mary no matter about moving thero there any place to go to boston post |