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Fact and Fancy.

AhS Hiih VI human klnuneSS-Mllk
punch.
When money becomes tight it is time
for coalsto take drop. Boston Courier.
Does your mother wear felt slippers9"
asled an old lady of little boy where
she was visiting.
"Yes, ma am, she do I've felt EN-,
answered the small boy significantly.
Exchange
The time for man to exercise his will
power is when he finds himself likely to
go down on the icy pavement If ii can
hold him up 1t is success and should be
encouraged. detroit Free Press
He-My income is small and perhaps
1t Is cruel of me to take you from your
fathers roof.
She-I don't live on the roof.-Punch
Almanic.
A little town in Texas has started
lying match to secure funds for public
library now it's nip and tuck be.
tween the editor of the county paper and
the Oldest inhabitant Detroit Free
Press.
First thief-Hello, Bill, still burg.
larin'g
Second thief-No. I've found some
thing safer than that
"Ehf What yer doin' now ?"
"Runnin' railroad restaurant, "-Ex.
change.
A boy may disregard his mothers call,
but when his father speaks up energeti-
cally he is apt to remember the learned
female philosophers revised dictum: "a
prompt answer turneth away WRATH
Boston Journal of Education.
Maria, suppose we give this copy of
Dante's Inferno away %
why what for p
IL don't think either of us will have
any curiosity to look at it now that your
mother has come TO live with us.-Wash-
ington Critic.
Angelina asks for definition Of volu.
bility. VOlubility, Angelina dear, is the
distinguishing feature of a horse car
driver when he is thirteen minutes be-
hind schedule time on his upper "trip.
and an over loaded coal team breaks
down in front of him on the ail-Som-
erville Journal.
Some people were talking of a young
married couple who recently solved the
problem of unhappiness by a divorce.
"H0w fortunate that they married, ;" re-
marked an old club cynic How so 2"
replied lady. "Why, if they had
not and had married separately they
might have made four people unhappy
instead of two. Philadelphia Press.
A rosy checked woman and her little
girl entered Black Rock car on Niagara
street at 6 o'clock last evening, and
young man who looked tired arose and
offered her his seat-"Not for the
world, said the woman, II wouldn't rob
you of your seat for the world, for / am
perfectly able to stand" still, Bishop
Coke insists that the millennium is 80
years off Buffalo Courier.
Church was over, and, as usual. a com.
pany of women were standing about the
doorway talking and laughing, probably
not concerning the sermon. Soon young
man acquainted with the group approach
ed, saying: Aren't you ever going
home You are blocking up the way
like Baaam's ass" You are wrong
there, replied a young lady with toss
of the head. at was the angels who
blocked the way and the ass made a fuss
about it."-Boston Times.
1t is an awful thing that there should
be such persons as Margaret Cain, who
has been convicted of drunkenness no
less than 230 times at various metropoli-
tan courts. But there is touch of grim
humor about the womans last exploit,
which has procured her two hundred
and thirty first conviction She turned
up, "very, very drunk" at the Leman
Street Police Station, and began singing
"Home. Sweet Hone. London Globe.
First Tramp-Hello, Jim; where have
you been SO long
Second Tramp-In Kansas City.
What doin'?''
"Visitin' the Mayor and other big
bugs, Had bully time"
'Ish'd say so. How did you get in
with them?"
"I told 'em I'd tramped all over the
world, and Kansas City was bigger'n
London and Paris put together. Omaha
World.