Show SHORT AND SHARP like oliver olivet wendell holmes we dont dare to be ag as funny as we can through fear of circum circumstances stan cep only yesterday we received a letter from a young man who had been almost strangled by laughing at our jokes and we let ours ourselves elvei out much either nor was it a good day for exchanges portland standard in a primary school not very long ago the teacher undertook to convey to her pupils an idea of the use 0 of f the hyphen the wrote on the blackboard birds birds nest and pointing to the hyphen asked the school 1 what is that for after a it short pause a young bon son of the emerald isle popped out plaze maam for the bird to td roost omil on that little girl must have touched a very tender place in her mothers heart when she said after a she he had been punished 61 now mamma I 1 wish sing me a nice song gong and what shall I 1 bengl sing 1 her queried the child looked through her tears and replied well mammal mamma I 1 think est for the weary would be appropriate prop riste 21 it Is said on good authority that t the he japanese have a national habit of f minding their own business there are some christian people t to whom we should be glad to recommend a course of study in that far distant land we cali can always get got on amicably a man can manage his own affairs with great shrewdness but when he is so intensely and overwhelmingly practical that ho he finishes hia work by e ariy early dinner time and then spends a generous evening in looking into other peoples peopled affairs with a disinterested te intention of course to end lend a helping hand band we are apt to wish that japan were not so far on off |