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A SHOWMAN,exbifcili*& a panorama of some 
mighty “unexplored” river, incautiously re 
plying to one of the audience, who asked if he 
himself had been there, said: “Been there? 
No, nobody’s been there l” 
“ What are you going to do when you grow 
up, if you don’t know how to cipher? ’ asked 
a Harlem schoolteacher of a rather slow boy. 
“ I am going to be a school teacher, and make 
the boys do all the ciphering," was the im¬ 
pudent reply. 
Tropical. —Maid (to Irish milkman): 
Missis says she’s sure there’s been a great deal 
o’ water in the milk lately , andth at if-’ 
Pat: An’ can ye wonder at it, my dearl 
Small blame to the cows this thur-rsty weath¬ 
er, poor cratursl 
“ Ml' dear,” remonstrated a wife, peering 
out from under the bed-clothes, “I do wish 
you would use the word ‘sheol.’ It sounds 
better.” “It may sound better at times,” re¬ 
plied her husband, who was noisily nursing 
bis heel, “ but when a man steps on a tack he 
wants the old ver. ion.” 
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