A NEWLY arrived American in Shanghai went into a shoe store and looking round said to the proprietor—"Pretty good store you've got, quite modera, but heck what an awful smell there is. Vot, the proprietor replied, you vas notice it too, Sure I noticed it, why don't you do something about it? Can't, said the proprietor. "Business is rot-
Obvious A DISCUSSION was in progress at the local inn on the value of education.
One man stressed the importance of a good education, and said that everyone was at a disadvantage without it, "Well I dunne," replied an old man, "I'm no dedicated at all, an' it seems to me that when we're no dedicated, ye just have tae use yer brains!" soe Colleets Wager I once laid a wager that I would drive round Rotten Row, an exercise forbidden by the regulations. A party assembled to watch the event; and while they were looking out for me, a man driving the Park water-cart came by, and turned the water on them, Then the company, looking closer at the drive perceived that I had won my bet.—From "Lord Charles Beresford."
E E Apparently Not A man in the backwoods knocked at the door of a log-cabin.
"Sorry to trouble you, Sam," he said to the man who opened the door. "We just come across the dead body of a man over there in the hollow, and we kind of thought it was you aal "Is that so," said the inhabitant. cabin "What'd he look like?"
"Well, he was about your build."
"Have on a grey suit?"
"That's right,"
"Boots?
"Yes; he had boots on."
"Was they hip-boots or knee-boots?"
"I think they was hip-boots" said the caller.
"Oh, well," replied the other, after thinking deeply for à moment, "it wasn't me."
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