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Show j A Coml Smrj- r ft Had ( ln-ek. j A prettv gouil story is told of a check j for four "hundred dollars drawn by a I prominent Newton gentleman. In his liasle the maker of the innocent little ! piece of paper neglected to place his signature upon it. The oversight was. i lir.-,t. not observed by the geinlein'm receiving it in the discharge uf un obligation; obli-gation; in the second place, the important impor-tant omission was not perceived when the paper was deposited in a bank- ikm many miles outside of this cit-y; inlhe third plaee. the Iloston bank which nets ns correspondent for the eountry i 1 nsl itut ii.-n did not, discover the error. : and, in I he fourth, the great and critical Huston clearing house did not even discover dis-cover the error. I n other voiK it piii,sed thrun'h all the banks until Jie clerk of the Uostuii bank for which it was drawn was called upon to inspect its signature in order to ascertain whose account the amount ivus to be debited from and found the signature missing. The story seems hardly credible, credi-ble, but it is a fact. Newton Journal LINES OF FUN. A market report states that "cranberries "cran-berries are cornered.'." This is hardly the term to use. "Cranberries are jammed" would be more' appropriate. Philadelphia. Times. Tiiiioos "Now-, Mr. Slimdiet, I would like to have your ideas of eternal punishment. pun-ishment. Do you ?" Slimdiet "That's no trouble to give. It's a plaee where they don't serve pie with every meal." i inter Ocean. A coli.koe graduate, who applied to ! an editor for a place on his paper, in staling his qualifications Raid that he had been the champion boxer of his class. "All right," said the editor, "I'll give j'ou a situation to lick stamps.'' "Is that your daughter at the piano in the music-room'.'" ''Yes," replied the mother, proudly. "She's play 'my forte, isn't slur.'" "No, only one. Vou see, that Warner's music, and I must says it always sounds like forty to me, too." Washington Star. |