The acme magazine . certain-ly appears fishy. It reminds me of aWashington waiter. A gentleman, after eating a gooddinner, said to this waiter: I am sorry I cant give you a tip, but I find I have only just enoughmoney to pay your bill. The waiter seized the bill hurriedly. Just let me add it up again, sir,he muttered. HE WANTED TO KNOW Mayor McClel-lan has a butlerin his house whowears kneebreeches and therest of a real but-lers outfit—onceremonial occa-sions. The Mayor in-vited some lead-ers over to hishouse one even-ing to have dinner. One of them cameearly and was admitted by the statelybut
The acme magazine . certain-ly appears fishy. It reminds me of aWashington waiter. A gentleman, after eating a gooddinner, said to this waiter: I am sorry I cant give you a tip, but I find I have only just enoughmoney to pay your bill. The waiter seized the bill hurriedly. Just let me add it up again, sir,he muttered. HE WANTED TO KNOW Mayor McClel-lan has a butlerin his house whowears kneebreeches and therest of a real but-lers outfit—onceremonial occa-sions. The Mayor in-vited some lead-ers over to hishouse one even-ing to have dinner. One of them cameearly and was admitted by the statelybutler. The leader drew McClellan aside assoon as he had peached him and whis-pered hoarsely: Say, George, why didnt you tell methis was a masquerade party? HIS COMPOSITION When Mark Twain was a boy atschool in Hannibal, said a veteran Mis-sourian, the school master once set theclass to writing a composition on TheResult of Laziness. Young Clemens, at the end of halfan hour, handed in as his composition ablank A Happy and Prosperous New Year to all Our Readers. THE ACME salutes the Mew Fear with ;i new dress, charming, fresh andattractive in its artistic creation. Themagazine has fulfilled its promise andthe current number surpasses the prev-ious ones in the variety as well as thequantity and quality of its is the only periodical of its kind: itsaim and scope are entirely peculiar toitself. The magazine has been accorded themost flattering commendations bothfrom the press and the general readingpublic, and has already attained a highposition among the leading periodicalsof the day—indeed few magazines havewon popular favor in so short a time. This success lias only spurred its pub-lishers to renewed exertions to make i1worthy of greater favors still. In en-tering upon the new year it puts forthno other pledge than that the literaryand artistic quality of the current issuewill be more than Squalled in its futurenumbers. It has fixed a high standardof excelle
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