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Show Why She Smiled. There is a proprietor of a shop hi the city, a man of most excitable temperament, tem-perament, who is forever scolding his clerks for their indifference in the matter of possible sales. One day, hearing a clerk say to a customer, "No, we have not had any for a long time," the; proprietor, unable un-able to countenance such an admission, admis-sion, began to work himself into the usual rage. Fixing a glassy eye ou the clerk, he said to the customer: "We have plenty in reserve, ma'am; plenty downstairs." Whereupon the; customer looked dazed, and then to the amazement of the proprietor burst into hysterical hysteri-cal laughter and quit the shop. "What did Bhe say to you?" demanded de-manded the proprietor of the clerk. "We haven't had any rain lately." v Philadelphia Ledger. t |