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Show Knew Their Man. A traveling salesman tells of unique correspondence between a Chi-t cago house and its representative lnj South Dakota, says the Buffalo Times' It appears that the drummer had sent the following message to his em-j ployers : . "Snowing hard In Deadwood. Snowl plows stalled. Good here for a weekj Wire funds and Instructions." To this the mnnager of the Chicago establishment wired as follows: "Telegram received. Hundred tele-, graphed you. Lose no time. Play poker, nnd remit winnings to house.'' Army Ignores Kipling's Term. "Fritz" now seems generally adopted by our soldiers and snllors as a pen name for the enemy. These soubriquets soubri-quets nre evolved In war almost ln-i evltably. In the strut, le between the North and South the Confederates were always known us "Johnny" to their Yankee opponents. "Fuzzy-wuzzy," however, as applied to the "big, black, bounding" wnrrlor of the Sudan, has often been usd by newspaper writers since RudvnnT Kip-ling Kip-ling Invented It, but the nrm'y Ignore! It completely. London Globe. How He Fooled Her. One day mother left my little brother broth-er with a neighbor while she wenb. shopping. When she returned he was) telling her what he had for lunch, and in conclusion he said: "Shai poured water in my cup before sh poured the tea, but I saw her do It and I fooled her 'cause I just drank as far down as the water! "Chicago1 Tribune. . , Jyou Tidings. Char ev. denr , , "hat is It?" Wn l3a(lruted,. True to a Principle 3 never borrow n uniiu-oUa " ' Its a goud rule" rjd ru.0 ,0 bny ' ''',"'ii-'i'-'-"e"7u;c:y;;rryoa |
