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Show THAT REMINDS ME The man with the cinnamon colored beard was observed standing at the counter coun-ter and looking at the bottles on the shelves in some perplexity of mind. "What is it?" said the druggist. "Isn't there an organization of Methodist Meth-odist young people." asked the man. "that's named after some place where John Wesley used to live?" "You mean the Epworth league?" "That's it!" exclaimed the customer, his brow clearing. "Give me 5 cents' worth of Epworth salts." "Was there an election?" asked a friend of Alex Tarbet. "An electrocution," replied the gentleman, gentle-man, blandly. Goodwin's Weekly. One day three tailors, an Englishman, a. Scotchman, and an Irishman, were bragging about what each could do in the way of making clothes. The Englishman Eng-lishman said: . "It I saw a man walking down the street I could make a suit of clothes for him." , , The Scotchman thought he would go the Englishman one better, so he said: - "If I only caught a glimpse of a man going around a corner I could make a suit of clothes for him." The Irishman said: "Sure, if I could only see the corner the man- went 'round I could make a suit of clothes for him." "How did you come to lose so many of your toes while you were up there?" asked the man with the long, pointed nose. 1 "I'll tell vou," said the arctic explorer, ex-plorer, "if you will not let it go any further. fur-ther. Our dogs were starving and there was absolutely nothing to feed, them, so, in the .interests of science, 1 I" "Good heavens! I see!" "Yes," said the pilgrim in the elderly overcoat with the bulging pockets, "him an' me is in partnership, but we don't do business together." "How's that?" "Why, he goes around sellin' a stove blackin' that leaves a stain on the fingers. fin-gers. I go around next day to the same houses with the only soap that'll take it off." ' . Guest (in Chinese restaurant) This is j what you call chop suey, is it, John? What is it made of? Proprietor Ev'lyting. Charles Your uncle is a religious man, I understand. Henry Oh, yes, indeed! He positively hates everybody who belongs to any other oth-er church than his own. Boston Transcript. Tran-script. J |