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Show Twice-Told Funny Tales. Dr. Edward Everett Halo, whose eighty-fifth birthday is to be the scene of an impressive and fitting celebration celebra-tion next month, said at a dinner- in Boston : "In my ideas about birthdays I am like a ctrtain schoolboy. ' "Which do you like best?' I asked this boy, 'day school or Sunday school?" " 'Sunday school,' he answered promptly. ""Why?" " 'Because it only comes once a week.' " Indianapolis Star. Disraeli and Bishop Wilberforce had something in common in their infallible infalli-ble alertness in a difficult situation. "How's the old complaint?" Dizzy would ask of a man whom he did not remember. The bishop was just as clever in meeting a hostile archdeacon. "I have not the smallest recollection of him," he said, when the implacable one was pointed out. But he walked up to the archdeacon and regretted that he nad not an earlier opportunity for a chat. "I need, not ask how you ar3 after all these years. Do you ;till ride your gray mare?" he added. "Yes, my lord: how good of you to remember her!" was the answer of the archdeacon, surprised into good humor. "Then you did remember him, after all?" asked a friend. "Not a bit of it," was the answer; "I saw the gray hairs on his coat, and I chanced the sex." Bellman. |