“He must be a wide-awake fellow
and accustomed to complaints.”
“That’s me,” replied the appli- j
cant. “I’m the father of twins.”
Not Guilty •
(Town Topics)
First Steno* “The idea of your '
working steady eight hours a day!
I would not think of such a
thing.”
Second Steno: “Neither would
I. It was the boss that thought
of it.”
Hitt Assignment
(Pearson’s Weekly)
“1 have a job for you, Mr. Graf- !
fik,” said the editor to the new i
reporter. "Are you married?”
“No. sir."
“I thought not. Get married
instantly, and let me have three
columns by ten oclock on/liow to
manage a wife.’*
POOR BOYS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS
_By Frederick Honk I.aw
Ephraim Chamber*
Who made the first wagon
wheel? That man was one of the
world’s greatest men of genius,
one of the men who contributed
most to the development of civili
zation. Nevertheless, in Spite of
his great gift to the world, the
maker of the first wheel is ut
terly unknown. So it is with
many othAr of the useful things
that we employ in our complex
modern life. Who, for example,
made the first dictionary? the
first encyclopedia? No one can
say definitely. Books of refer
ence of this sort were in use by
the Greeks and Homans before
the Christian era. It is, however,
possible to tell the story of one
of the men who did much to make
the present type of encyclopedia
a possibility. That man was Eph
raim Chambers, a man who rose
from being a poor London appren
tice, to become the prosperous and
honored maker of a great en
cyclopedia that did much to in
fluence literature in many lands.
