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Show Moici'l Choice. On being asked which manner of death he IhoiiKlit wa preferrable, being be-ing killed in a railroad wreck or drowned. Modes, the colored B'-rvaiit, promptly replied; "Railroad wreck." Wo linked him why be preferred railroad wreck and ho made the tot 1 lowing rejoinder: "If you I killed on de railroad, dar )o' U, but If you I drowned In de rlbber, whar 1 yo ," Clever. I Schmltt Ier oder day my noun j wain on fire, unit I hat only del choice of valklng downstair or burn- t Ing up. ttraun Veil, vlch did you ho)a)1 t I)tr latter? t Hchmlit -No, I valked down del Uira; 1 could not find a latter. Placing tha Blame. "I admit without heltatlon," aabl the man who tried to conceal hi eK-' eK-' eaioeiii, "(hat whalever I am today I duo to the Influence of my wife " "That right," replied Mr. Crow- , i cher. "Alway blame the women." . Waahlngton Star. Why I It? j "I have often wondered," say the Hon. Alez Appleby, "why It I thai 1 it alwaya the fellow 'way back In the crowded elevator who want to get off at the flrat floor the car re f che."-Nuw York Morning Telegraph. |