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Show I llUST FOR FUN . i Both Were Adepts. Hj A man and a woman were In -a j Hj dispute as to which could tell the H bigger He. Tnc woman was given H the right of way for her eaorU "I M -was walking across the Atlantic H ocean," she said, "and met a man M no taller than that (she held one M hand two feet from the floor to l Indicate his height), who was 300 H ' years old." H The man -whistled. It was a big H one all right. "Did tho dwarf have H a wooden leg?" tho man asked. H Tho woman replied that ho did. H! "Was he "blind in one eye?' V was the next question. H i "Ho -was," replied the woman. H "Then," replied the man, "he H was my eon." Indianapolis News. H Deceitful Appearance, M The Littlot Chap We're getting H up a tug-o'-wnr between the mar- H ricd and single men. You're mar- M rled, aren't you? H The American No, I've just H been seasick, that's why I look H that way. London Opinion. H1 Lap, Lap. H DaviB How can you call a Hl young elephant of a canine like H' that ono a lap dog? H - Smith Come around some time H and hear him eat. Chicago News. H! Worse Than Shipwrecked. H I "Ever undergo any hardships on H your cruise shipwreck or any- H thing like that?" H "Never was shipwrecked, but we H went out once without a cork- H screw aboard." Pittsburg Post. A New 8en8atlon. i Little Jean had visited one of the large summer amusement pnrks for the first time, and with the courage possessed only by those girls whose playmates are boys older old-er than themselves, she had not hesitated, vhen Invited to take a ride on one of tho "thrillers" that abound in such places. To her mother, on her return from the park, sho confided tho emotions sho had experienced as she swung around the curves of the "flguro S" with her elder brothers. broth-ers. "Mamma," she said, i-whcn 1 went round those awful curves so fast I felt Just as if I had freckles on my stomach!" Youth's Com-panlon. Com-panlon. Vain Search. "Tough luck about young Soph-tcich." Soph-tcich." said the man on the rar "What's the matter with hlm?" weJriquIred, solicitously. Wc like young Sophteigh, even if he is what people say ho Is. "The doctors say that he has brain trouble." "Can't he And any cure for it?" "Not yeL The physician says it would be easy enough to get rid of tho dUpase, hut it is Imtjossible to locate tho brain." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Pity Wasted. "I always pity a faL man on a hot day." , - "I don't, for I' never saw a fat man who fclf the least, sympathy for tne when tho weather "was cold." Chicago Record-Herald. ' I |