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Show Just Like a Man. "Tom," said the bride of a week, "didn't you promise faithfully to give up smoking the day I married you?" "Yes, my dear," replied Tom, "I believe be-lieve I did." "And now," she continued, "I find you puffing a cigar, just as though I weren't in existence. What explanation explana-tion have you to offer?" "Well, I kept my promise," replied the husband. "I didn't smoke a single cigar on our wedding day." Philadelphia Philadel-phia Public Ledger. ACT WAS NOT TO HIS LIKING American Soldier Properly Resented Filipino's Insult to a Spanish Officer. The story is told by an English naval na-val officer who witnessed the occurrence occur-rence in Manila: "As I was crossing one of the numerous bridges across the Pasig river, I saw a native Filipino Fili-pino spit in the face of a Spanish officer, and then run for protection to the American sentinel, who was pacing pac-ing the bridge. It was some time before be-fore the Filipino could make himself understood, but when the sentry comprehended com-prehended his action was very prompt indeed. He handed his gun to the Spanish officer, caught the native by the nape of the neck and the seat of his trousers, and pitched him off the bridge into the Pasig river. Then lie calmly took his gun from the officer, and began pacing his beat, as if nothing noth-ing had happened." Unidentified. Lucky. "I hear your old flame, Maud, is a widow." "I always was lucky. Just think, if I'd married her I'd be dead now." |