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Show he beheld the rubber doll.. He picked it up, hesitated a moment and then going np to the foolish lool ing fellow in the hack, he asked: "Is this yours?" He httrc'ed him not, but the jonng lady bit shed and said, ' Yes it's ours." And the laugh that followed is still echoing in tho hills hereabouts. His Nams Would be Them. An old Swedish gentlemen went into the postoffice yesterday to inquire for mail for himself. And this was the conversation: Swede Haf yon no got a later hare for me? Clerk I doo'fc understand. Swede Haf you no got vun later hare for ma? Clerk Oh, I see. What is yonr name? Swede-Ob, my name will be on dat later. Standard. "Too bad I Too bad!" muttered a seedy individual as he stood in front of the "board of trade," ''Jay Gould hasbout a hundred million dollars and I'm dead broke." It's Afle or Sex not Known While at the depot the other day we witnessed a vsry embarrassing but amusing incident. It happened in this way- A young couple, lovers undoubtedly, undoubt-edly, had just alighted. He was carrying carry-ing both valises (a snre sign of single blessedness) and she was following in his wake with a loving smile upon her pretty face. They made a bee line for the Temple hotel conveyance and when about half way one of the valises flew open and a part ol the contents, consisting con-sisting of a pair of ladies' hose, a robber doll and other articles that we need not mention, were scattered on the platform He gathered everything up, bat the doll and the hose, jammed them into the valise and jumped into the conveyance followed by the young lady. A young man who was standing near picked up the hose and aftsr carefully inspecting them went np to the yoang man and asked "are these yours?" The young man's flushed face turned pale, a sickly smile spread itself o'er his countenance and in a broken voice he murmured. "Y-jes" As the young man turned away |