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Show I JUST FOR FUN H I Took the Cue. H l He was a man who gavo HtUo H jf and got much. Today, for in- H J stance, ho had got a clothes M ! brush, a basin of wator, a towol M and a shlno, and he had given M nothing. H Tr-r-r-rlng went his badroom H bell. Tho hotel attendant smiled M uourly. Thlb was tho fourth timo H ho had boon Bummoncd, and ho H did not hurry. H "I thought you wore never com- H ing," exclaimed the visitor when H the attendant appeared at last. B "Are you nicknamed 'Slowcoach'?" H i "No, sir," answered tho attend- M ant. "They call mo 'Billiard H cue.' j M J "Billard-cuo!" repeated tho vls- M itor frowning . Then an lnsplra- H tion dawned. "Ah! Because H you're such a stick, I suppose?" H ho asked. H "Wrong again, sir!" retorted I H tho attendant. "It's becauso I Hj work hotter with a good Up." H Answers. B Proved It Himself. BH i An electric wire had fallen un- BH dor As heavy weight of snow, Tho BBJ line man found a crowd around BBl the grounded copper, and an in- BBp quiBitive Irishman lifting ono ena BBJ from tho ground. BBJ "Man alive! Don't you know BBJ what a risk you'ro taking? That BBJ might bo a live wire!" ho ojac- BH u la ted. fl "Suro n' OI thouglit of that mo- BBj" self, an' Oi flit of tho wire good BH before 01 picked it up at all." BBL. Everybody's Magazine Ht BBB- bbbmI The Same Hole. An inexperienced young fellow was called upon to make a bpoech at a banquot at which Speaker Cannon was present. In fact tho Speaker bat next to tho young mau. "Gentlomen," began tho young fellow, "my opinion is that tho generality of mankind In general is disposed to take advantage of tho generality of " Tho Speaker grabbed tho boy by the arm, and pulling him down to him, said: "Sit down, son. You aro coming com-ing out tho same hole you wont in." Ladies' Homo Journal. Vigorous Proaoher. A revlowor in the New York Nation illustrates his own com- i monts on a certain new volume of essays by a story that Is worth putting Into circulation. Throe hearers, he says, of tho admired Dr. X, woro talking in the vestibule after tho sermon. "Wo must admit," remarked tho first, "that the doctor dives deeper deep-er into his subject than any other preacher." "Yes," said tho second, "and stays under longer." "And comes up drlor," added the third. Wostcrn Christian Advocate. Local Application. "Hello, Red, who hit v' in do oye7" "Nobody hit mc In do eye I 'as watchin' do ball game througu a knothole and do sun tanned it (lat'a all." Harper's Weekly. |