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A malrr.n of Hie most determined character
was encountered by a young womnn
rejwrtrr on a country paper, who was
sent oui to interview loading citizens as
to their politics. ".May I see .Mr. ?
r.n'- asMii 01 a sieru-ioaKing woman win
opened the door ai one house. "No, vo l
can't," answered (lie iiuilrnn. decisively.
"Hut 1 want to know what parly he belongs
to," pleaded the girl The woman
drew up her tall figure. "Well, lake a
good look al me." she said. "I'm I he party
he belongs to!"
A pleasantry in a lerent paper reminds
me of something which happen* d
in (he days or my youth. Marcus Morton,
Democrat, having Ikhui chosen governor
of Massachusetts, a Whig minister,
in closing his pulpit reading of the governor's
Toanksgi ving ITochuuat inn. punctuated
hs signatures as follows: "Marcus
Morton, Governor? .ldhn A Howies,
Secretary? God sav" the ?fii!iinnr.
wealth of MassacJiuselts!"?<J. 1- C.
A man who stuttered badly wont to a
specialist and aflen ten difficult lessons
learned to say quite distinctly. "Peter
Piper picked a pec k of pickled poppers '*
His friends congratulated bin: upon this
splendid achievement. "Yes." said tle>
man doubtfully, "but it's s-s-such a
d d deucedly d-d-d-d illicuh rem mark to
w-w-work into an ordin-n nary c-c-convers-s-sa-tion,
y" know."?Everybody's
Magazine.
Professor (coming from his club holding
up triumphantly his umbrella to his
wife): "You see, my dear Alma, how
stupid arc all the anecdotes about our
absent-mindedness. You see. I haven't
forgotten my umbrella." Mrs. Professor:
"Hut, my dear, you didn't take youi
umbrella with you; you left ii at home.'
A gentleman living in Leeds nns a
smart son. When a friend called re
cently, the father said to hlin |?olitely,
"I wish 1 had another cigar to offer you.'
looking- with regret at the one he was
smoking. Now was the small hoy's
chance. "I know where they are. pa."
lie said, dragging open a drawer and
bringing out a box of a choice brand.
THE FAILURE OF A COLLEGE
EDUCATION.
"Well,'* observed old man l'otts, "I've
spent a heap of money 011 my boy Bill's
education?niore'n nine hundred dollars
jest to see him through Yale. And I
ilin't tllroileh vel 11 chnrolv ~
sore to think of the money I'm wastin'
on a boy who ain't got as much sense
now as Tie had before he went to
college."
"What's the matter, father?" asked
Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a little hard
on Hill."
"No, 1 ain't, Mary," answered the old
man. "Just to show you: A little while
ago I says to him i thinks it was going to
rain tomorrow. What fool answer d'ye
sorbose he made me?"
"I'm sure 1 don't know, father."
"He begged my pardon!"?Harper's
Weekly.
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