Advice on Rifles Extract from lecture by N.C.O.: "Your rifle is your best friend; take every care of it; treat it as you would your wife. Rub it all over with an oily rag every day."
Indignant Private: "Docto Medical Officer: "Well?"
"Of course not. Would I come to you if I were?"
City Dump Wanten—Housework, or work of kind. Goodhousekeeper. Good cook. Mrs. El Lilly, at City Dump, or address Yreka, general delivery.—Yreka (Calif.) "Journal."
We assume you'll leave the dump apple-pie order, Mrs. L.
Trials of a Hostess Te new maid, preparing to serve at her first dinner party, was instructed by her garden~ loving mistress to place a "little flower" in each finger-bow] for the guests.
That point in the course of the meal arrived, and to the hostess's perplexity, she saw that no blossoms were floating about as planned, but that the water had a decidedly murky nature.
Asking the maid afterward as to the cause of the murkiness, she was informed: "Why, madam, Ah jes' put in a little flour like you tole me."—Montreal "Star."
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