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Show They Remembered Him. A circumstance happened in connection connec-tion with the failure in business of a well known inhabitant of Yorkshire which caused much amusement. The bankrupt was asked the momentous question, "What are you prepared to offer?" and in reply stated that he had no assets whatever. "What is there now, Joe?" asked a jolly looking creditor. "Nothing," replied the bankrupt. "Well, you can sing. Come, sing us a song." Joe fumbled with his hat and said he hardly liked to sing. "Come, strike up," exclaimed the creditor; "let's have something for our brass." Thus urged, Joe cleared his throat and began the ballad "And You'll Remember Me." As the plaintive plain-tive melody fell on the ears of the creditors cred-itors some of them began to feel indignant, indig-nant, bat the humor of the situation at length burst upon them, and the final line was greeted with roars of laughter. London Judy. Unappreciated. A single word sometimes reveals a man's inmost thought. "Who are those girls playing a duet on the piano?" asked one man of another at an evening party. "One of them is the daughter of the hostess," was the answer, i "And who is her acccfuplice?" Lon-dqn Lon-dqn Tit-Bits. |