A party of Texan wagoners, after a bard
day's pull, were chatting around the camp fire
while they smoked their pipes. “Sambo, mo
bhoy," exclaimed Pat, a rollicking Irishman,
to a jollv darkey, “tell us s hat makes your
noso so flat.” “Dtui'no, Mars' Pat,” answered
Sam, "but I 'spec it's to keep me from pokin’
into udder people's business. 1 *
A Legacy of Walnut Trees.
Now York Sun.
The provision made by 8. I* Landes, of Mt.
Carmel, HL, for his wife and children took the
form of planting 100,(MX) walnuts, which, with
proper care should produce trees fifteen inches
in diameter in twenty years and yield an inde
pendent fortune.
Letting the Text Explain <hr Picture.
They were two little and they were
painting pictures in their school books. One
youngster finished a cow in blue, aud then re
memlierod never having seen a bl no cow.
"Never mind," encouragingly said the other;
“wa will say tho cow is cokL’ T
Too Mad to Laugh At.
Cincinnati Saturday Night
Said a miserable little Cincinnati boy who
had just received a scolding from bis father:
“Ma, I wish I never had been lorn." “Why.
Charlie?" “Well. I think I'd been a bettor boyl"
4*o West for Work.
Newspapers throughout Kansas claim that
tliero is an unprecedented scarcity of mala
help on tho farm aud fomalo help iu the
kitchen.
For Traveling Che*a Player*.
Iron chess boards, and chessmen with con
cealed magnet* to steady them, aro sold iu
Berlin for the convenience of traveler* -
New Orleans Picayune- It is impossible for
a party to make a satisfactory declaration of
principles when it ha* none.
The Safest Wfy.
