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Show JOKES THAT ARE HISTORIC Shop Witticisms Inflicted on Every Newcomer That Joins the Ranks of the Seal Workers. You have no duubt all heard of the "left-hand monkey wreiK-h" utJ'.h every ev-ery new apprentice in a wazun works is sent after, and of the "italic thin space" which the printer's devil usually usual-ly Is sent to get, but William S. Coy. county superintend. -nt of schools, bit hard on one not (juite so well known when he assumed his t'uaes as a bookkeeper book-keeper in a plumbing shop riuring one of the vacations of his high school days. There was grumbling among lh hands because of something that a neighboring plumber had borrowed and which he had failed to return. The bookkeeper finally decided to help out and offered to go to the borrower and secure the needed article. , Ilia offer was quickly accepted. "What is it?" he inquired. "We want our pipe stretcher," answered an-swered one of the hands. The bookkeeper went to the other shop and to several others looking for this particular article before it occurred oc-curred to him that it would be a peculiar pe-culiar kind of a tool, indeed, that could stretch an iron l-ipe. Columbus Dispatch. |