As the cockroach never plays ball or votes, 
Or seeks undying fame. 
He has no business in the soup, 
But he gels there just the same. 
—The Courier. 
All played out—Open - air concerts.— 
Oneida Press. 
An inveterate smoker: Vesuvius.— The 
Prairie Farmer. 
“Do you enjoy good health?” “Why, 
yes; to be sure;who doesn’t?”— SanitaipNews. 
A Settler. —He: “ That song always 
carries me away.” She (pointedly): “I 
thought it would.”— Michigan Farmer. 
A Mustard plaster does not seem smart 
at first, but it makes its impression by hard, 
steady application. —New York News. 
Little Charlie: “Mamma, where do 
little fishes sleep?” Mamma: “ In the bed 
of the river, dear.”— Drake's Magazine. 
Noah was the first man who strictly ob¬ 
served lent. He lived on water for forty 
days and forty nights.— Michigan Farmer. 
Mistress: “Why, Nora, how dusty the 
chairs are!” Maid: “Yes, mim, there’s no¬ 
body sat on thim to-day, mim.”— Town Topics. 
There is no real objection, after all, to 
having men go out between the acts at the 
theater. The objection is to having them 
come back.— Somerville Journal. 
He: “That was an awful thunder storm 
last night, wasn’t it?” She: “A thunder 
storm! Why didn’t you wake me? You 
know I can’t sleep when it thunders,”— 
1'own Topics. 
The Power of Song: “ I don’t understand 
this at all. Ever since our Lina has been 
taking singing lessons the door bell is always 
ringing and people coming to ask if a dentist 
lives here.”— Fliegende Blatter. 
“ But the worst of all ’isms,” said a lec¬ 
turer on sectarianism, “is pugilism.” “ I 
know a worse one than that,” said a lame 
man in the back of the hall. “ What is it?” 
“ Rheumatism.” —Boston Courier. 
Mistress: “Mary, have you made the 
dj-ssing for the turkey.” Mary: “ Sure, 
ma’am, an’ I’ve made his pants, but I’m 
havin’ hard work wid his coat, for it’s no 
samestress I am at all, at all.” —Buffalo 
Courier. > 
Farmer: “Hi, there! Can’t you see that 
sign— 1 No fishing on the grounds’?” Colored 
Fisherman: “ Co’se I kin see design, l’se 
culiid, boss, but I ain’t so ignerant as ter fish 
on de groun’s. I’m fishing in de criek!”— 
Texas Siftings. 
Little Boy: “I say, mister, do you know 
why you are like water?” Fat Man: “No, 
my little boy, I do not.” “Neither of you can 
run up hill.” Fat man chases boy twice 
around block, and whacks him with his cane 
- Texas Siftings. 
Friend [who has been listening to a man 
kicking about his coal bill]: “I wonder how 
you can stand all the abuse you get!” Coal 
Dealer: “Well, I don’t mind it. In this 
business you get used to being hauled over 
the coals.”— Lowell Citizen. 
“ Dear Mr. Editor. Please read the in¬ 
closed poem carefully and return it to me 
with your candid criticism as soon as possible, 
as I have other irons in the fire.” “ Dear Mr. 
Smith: Remove the irons and insert the 
poem.”— Maryland Republican. 
How the Laundry Check was Abused. 
—Prominent Railway President who is not 
a good penman. “What in the world do 
you mean, sir. by allowing a passenger to 
ride free on that?” Conductor (in disgrace): 
“ I thought it was one of your written passes, 
sir.”— Time. 
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Killer. 
A few doses cured me of a 
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throat. 
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