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Show JUST FOR FUN Locating the Blame. "What kind of a trip did you have?" 'Uncomfortable. I had an upper berth. Every now and then they dropped a car from the traJn and j coupled on another, with a jolt that i felt like a collision. In soversl towns I where we stopped the village bands ; wero serenading nnd the locomotive j had a whistle that shrieked like a j banshee. And of course every tlmo , we pa Bed a freight train U sounded like thunder." "Then you didn't sleep well?" j "No. There was a fellow in the oth-, er end of the car who snored occas-1 ionally. He kept me awak nearly i all night." Washjnglon Star. A Cautious Judge. Some years 'ago there was a trial for murder In Ireland In which tho evidence ev-idence was so palpably Insufficient , that tho Judge stopped the case ajid 1 directed the jury to return a verdict of "Not guilty." A well known lawyer, however, who wished to do something for the fee he I had received for the defense, claimed the privilege of addressing the courL j "We'll hear you with pleasure, . Mr. ." said the judge; "but, to prevent accident, we'll first acquit the prisoner." Tid-Bits. Jersey Real Estate. "Monte Crlsto" was playing to a j crowded house in a New York theater. In a box sat a man who had looked look-ed on the wine when It was rod. I When Monte mounted the rock la tho sea and exclaimed. "The world Is mine," the man In the box shouted: "What'll you take for Hobokeo?" Brooklyn Life. A Better Race. Modley Hello, where are you going? go-ing? Trawling I'm going to tho museum muse-um to look at antiques. Modley Antiques la the museum? That's no place for antiques. Come with me; I'm going to nee the collection collec-tion In the cold-btorago house. Chicago Chi-cago News |