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THE MIRAS, NiW-fGSttOglt. 
JULY 28 
^umonms. 
“Is that dog broken 2 ” “Guess not,” replied 
the owner, dubiously; “but 1 dressed him 
down pretty rich with a broom-handle this 
morning and he may be a little chipped about 
the corners.”— Rockingham, Register. 
There is, as yet, no instantaneous photograph 
of a kiss, ’cause all perfer the old lingering 
variety. —Detroit Free Press. 
Edith: “O, mamma, there’s going to be a 
marriage deception over to Mrs. Uppum’s to¬ 
night.” Mamma (aside): “I wonder if that was 
a blunder of Edith’s.” —Prairie Farmer. 
“What made tbe tower of Pisa lean?” asked 
the school-committee man of the candidate 
for teacher he was examining, and the young 
man answered absent-mindedly: “1 don’t 
know, sir, I am sure, unless it may have 
spent a winter in District No. 4, boarding 
round .”—Somerville Journal. 
A Philosopher, who had married an 
ignorant girl, used to call her “brown sugar,” 
because, he said, she was sweet but unrefined. 
—Otago Witness. 
Of a seedy guest, it was said that he arrived 
without any luggage except the bags in the 
knees of his tiousers. —Otago Witness. 
Sandy accepted the gude wife’s invitation 
with the reservation, “If I am spared.” 
“Weel, weel,” said the lady, “if ye’re dead 
I’ll not expect ye .”—Fhe American. 
First Boy: “Does your grandpa smoke a 
pipe?” Second Boy: “Not now, last week he 
went to sleep with a short pipe in his mouth 
and the fire reached his celluloid teeth and 
they exploded bursting his head open.” First 
Boy: “What a fool. Didn’t he have any brains?” 
Second Boy: “Oh, lots of brains, they’ve 
ruined the frescoed ceiling .”—Accident News. 
Teacher (to class): “Why is procrastination 
called the thief of time?” Boy (atfoot of class): 
“Because it takes a person so long to say it.” 
Life. 
Lady of the house (shivering): “Has the 
furnace gone out, Bridget?” Bridget: “I think 
not, mum; I’ve been at the gate all the even¬ 
ing with a gentleman friend of mine, an’ it 
didn’t go by me, mum, I’m sure. ”—Merchant 
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