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“My son, never be afraid to tell the 
truth.” “I ain’t, Pa. What bothers me 
is how to tell a lie without being afraid.” 
—Cleveland Leader. ‘ 
“So poor Bill's gone, has he? How 
did he die?” “Three tons of cement *ell t 
on his chest.” “Poor feller! He always 
was weak there.”—Punch. 
Houston : “How do you suppose the 
Egyptians managed to get the pyramids 
where they are ?” Mulberry: “Oh, their 
Congressmen probably franked them.”— 
Puck. 
“You are not interested in family 
trees?” “No,” replied Miss Cayenne, 
“so many of them remind me of these 
continual announcements tliht the fruit 
crop is a failure.”—Washington Star. 
Judge: “You are privileged to chal¬ 
lenge any member of the jury now being 
impaneled.” “Well, then, yer honor, 
Oi’ll foight the shmall mon wid wan eye, 
in the corner there ferninst yez.”—Met¬ 
ropolitan Magazine. 
Teacher: “You do not intend to 
make a profession of your study of 
music?” Pupil: “Dear me, no! I only 
am learning to play to kill time!” 
Teacher (grimly) : “You’re doing it.” 
—Baltimore American. 
“At last,” said the ambitious young 
novelist, “I have written something 
that I think will be accepted by the 
first magazine it is sent to.” “What is 
it?” his friend asked. “A check for a 
year’s subscription.”—Chicago Record- 
Herald. ' 
* Moriaritv had been badly hurt by fall¬ 
ing from a scaffold, and after the am¬ 
bulance had carried him away the ques¬ 
tion of breaking the news to Mrs. Mor- 
iarity came up. “Send Hannigan,” sug¬ 
gested one of the gang. “He’s just the 
man to break the news gradual—look 
how he stutters.”—Credit Lost. 
“A man should not go around the 
house interfering with things he knows 
nothing about.” “What do you know 
about that?” “Well, I saw something 
that looked like a battered birdcage 
without a bird in it, and I threw it out. 
Now I must let my wife get a new hat.” 
—Buffalo Express. 
“My dear,” asks the thoughtful hus¬ 
band, “did you notice a large sheet of 
paper with a lot of diagrams on it about 
my desk?” “You mean that big piece 
with dots and curves and diagonals and 
things all over it?” “Yes, it was my 
map of Halley’s comet. I wanted to—” 
“My goodness! I thought it was that 
pattern I asked you to get, and the 
dressmaker is cutting out my new shirt 
waist by it!”—Chicago Post. 
The society dame was giving a lunch¬ 
eon to the distinguished aviator. “In 
spite of the dangers of your occupa¬ 
tion,” she said, “there is an irresistible 
fascination about it, is there not, Mr. 
Uppengo?” “There is, madam,” he an¬ 
swered. “In fact, does not the excite¬ 
ment of it seem to be a species of in¬ 
toxication ?” “It does, madam,” sighed 
the aviator, “and sooner or later every¬ 
one of us takes a drop too much.”— 
Chicago Tribune. 
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