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Show OmileAhilf Small Contribution "I have made a will leaving my brains to the hospital and just get an acknowledgment from the authorities." au-thorities." "Were they pleased?" "They wrote that every little thing helps " Why It Fell "Hey, look the barometer's falling!" "Tsk, tsk probably wasn't nailed up right." Tragedy An American in London, who was badgered by the English on almost every topic, at last determined deter-mined to go on the Mississippi steamboat style, and brag about everything. His first chance occurred oc-curred at an exhibition of paintings, paint-ings, where a picture of a snowstorm snow-storm attracted general admiration. admira-tion. "Is not that fine?" asked a Britisher. Brit-isher. "Could you show anything as natural as that in America?" "Poohl" answered the American, Ameri-can, "That is no comparison to a snowstorm picture painted by a cousin of mine a few years since. That painting was so natural, sir, that a mother, who uncautiously left her babe sleeping in a cradle near it, on returning to the room found her child frozen to death!" |