RECREATION. 
XXXi1X 

After the first summer New Jersey 
ceased to be the home of the octopi. 
Feeling some curiosity, we ventured to 
inquire of an intelligent looking octopus 
the -reasoi.. 
“Why did you leave New Jersey, where 
the laws are so favorable to octopi?”’ we 
asked. 
“It was lovely there in winter,” replied 
the octopus, frankly, “but in summer we 
had to use so many of our tentacles to 
fight mosquitoes with that we really 
couldn’t do business,.don’t you know.” 
Of course, all octopi are liars, and yet 
this explanation seems altogether rea- 
sonable.—Detroit Journal. 
Judge A.: “Well, Uncle Zeb, where are 
you going?” 
The Benedict: “I wuz jis goin’ to the 
cote, suh, to see you, suh, and get a re- 
morse from dat yaller limb dat I married 
de yarder day.” 
judzve AS a Why thatowont do. Didnt 
you promise me you would take her for 
better or worse, and all that?” 
The Benedict: “Yes, suh, but she’m a 
sight wuss dan I took her fur.’”—Harper’s 
Bazar. 
“Will you have some of the sugar-cured 
ham?” asked the landlady. 
“What was it cured of?” asked the new 
boarder, suspiciously.—What-to-Eat. 

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