Said in fun . MH. HOW is your new gns-metre comiiiK on. Jones—is it asuccess ? ?No, its :i failure ; I cant get anybody to touch it. What seems to be the trouble ? I was unfortunate in selecting a name for it : I musthave been a fool ! What do you call it? The Busy Bee. HE KNKW HE WAS RIGHT. Young Hopeful—Papa, the prefix trans means across, doesnt it ?Old Hopeful (delightedly)—Yes, my son ; as in transatlantic, which means across the Hopeful—Well, then, transparent means a cross parent, doesnt it ? TIME IS MONEY. Magistrate—Ten dollars or ten days. Uncle Rastus ?Uncle Rastus (a
Said in fun . MH. HOW is your new gns-metre comiiiK on. Jones—is it asuccess ? ?No, its :i failure ; I cant get anybody to touch it. What seems to be the trouble ? I was unfortunate in selecting a name for it : I musthave been a fool ! What do you call it? The Busy Bee. HE KNKW HE WAS RIGHT. Young Hopeful—Papa, the prefix trans means across, doesnt it ?Old Hopeful (delightedly)—Yes, my son ; as in transatlantic, which means across the Hopeful—Well, then, transparent means a cross parent, doesnt it ? TIME IS MONEY. Magistrate—Ten dollars or ten days. Uncle Rastus ?Uncle Rastus (after long thought)—Well, I guess Ell takethe ten dollars. 59 HIS EARS DECHIVED HIM. FEATHERLY (making- an evenin.^- call)—So your motherhas returned from the country, Miss Clara ?Miss Clara—Oh, no ; she woiit be back until next (surprised)—Strange ! Is not that her voice 1 hear upstairs?Miss Clara (in a constrained tone)—No ; that is Bobby atwork with his new scroll saw. 60. i 6i ON THE ISLAND. VISITOR (at BlackwelTs Island)—Well, my poor woman,what brought yoLi here ?Woman—De Brack Maria, sah, an de ferry —Yes, I understand. But what are you in for ?Woman—Ise in fo ten days, sah. AN UNFORESEEN ACCIDENT. Yes, sighed a recent widow, we are very John was out of work a long time, and when hegot a good job he died. What job did he get ? she was asked.* He joined a circus, and got twenty dollars a week for put-ting his head in the lions mouth twice a day. Thatsall he had to do. It seems hard he should have died.•• What did he die of? The lion bit his head off. A YOUNC WOMANS TASTE. Mrs. Bunker (of Boston)—I think Miss Waldo was the most perfectly dressed woman in the Emhrson—She has exejuisite taste. Did she wear jewelry ?Mrs. Bunkkr—Spectacles only. 62 Y RHCALLING A QUOTATION. OUNG FEATHFRLY-Do you recall that quotation, MissWaldo, be,<(iniiinK : No pent up—no pent up—pent upIthaca con
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