The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-03-20

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Let neer a voice be dumb
The U. S. Senate has repealed
The tax on chewing gum!
Buffalo Express
Late the other night small news
boy, with a pair of roller skates under
his arm, got aboard trolley car run
ming out into the Brooklyn suburbs.
None of the passengers paid any par
ticular attention to the little fellow as
the car bumped along, until he began
to strap on his skates. 2
Then all of sudden everybody in the
car became Interested.
"Hey. Sonny, what you going to do?''
asked bald-headed patriarch across the
aisle. "Ain't going skating in the car,
are your @ X
The boy gave tug to the strap he
was engaged in buckling and then look
ing up at his questioner replied
"Sure I'm goin' ter skate in de car.
What you tink' I'm goin' out on me
hands 7"
Having thus squelched the man across
the aisle he finished fastening on his
skates. .3UU9VE
After this for a minute or two he was
evidently in deep thought; then, as if
struck by an inspiration, he addressed
the man across the aisle: ~ ..a'
Say mister, if you want to know why
I've got ON me rollers I'll tell you. You
see dis bloOmin' coach don't go widin Il
mile of me ranch, an as der's a side
walk tro de medder / alters bring me
own private trolley along. See!'
Having parted with this information
he made a sudden slide for the rear
platform, and moment later he had dis
appeared.
It's hard job to get ahead Of New
CIV
wrinkles he is sure to be the very first
to catch on, and nothing was ever known
to phase him.-Fourth Estate.
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y story is told of an English school
master who offered a prize to the boy
who should write the best composition in
five minutes on How to Overcome a
Habit Is
At the expiration of five minutes the
compositions were read. The prize went
to lad of 8 years. Following is his es-
say:
well, sir, habit is hard to overcome
If you take off the first letter, it does
not change 'abit.' If you take off an
other you will still have bit left. If
YOU take off still another, the whole of
it remains. If you take off another, it
is not wholly used up: all of which goes
to show that If you want to get rid of a
habit you must throw it off altogether
She is a very pretty American girl,
spending the winter in Berlin and wrestl-
ing with that awful German language. y
which Mark Twain has so delightfully."-
described; but if her German is painful
to her neighbours, it cannot be more as
tonishing than the English to which she
is. compelled, to listen. She has written
back to her friends in America the re-
cord of her exploits in belleship, and as
modestly as is becoming in one with q
dong line of social successes. CaG&3
5,'I must write you an extract" she
says, from a note one of the German
officers wrote me. He is stationed at
Bremen, but came up here for his holi-
days and took me to dance. The
spirits bear witness, / shall never go to
another German dance! But this is the
extract: y - "
-. :" am glad that made your associa-
ton on my Holidays and that | could be
about you on the last hours of my pres
ence at Berlin on the ball, which Shall
be by you the most agreeable dancing.'
l. las IT that were not sufficient in the
way of elegant English phraseology for
me to think over for the winter" she
continues, "he has sent me a photograph
Of himself, and has written:
49, May it be an remaining remerl-
brance of some wonderfully fine together
+ .
o IrEtelgho. His mother has been here
to negotiate with my mother in true Ger
man style-but nay! l fear that after
we were married our days would not be
SO wonderfully fine together spent for
tunately. Youths Companion
when grandma is pleased with me
she gives. me her lovely old brass cam
dlesticks." ff4 igimi ad1 .9f aY40TTtlT
How nicev'
yes, but when she gets angry she
takes them away, and gives them I'd
q "How DREADFUL i"l lol aas'G tilqqf ~ !
''Of course; then when she gets angry
at Cousin Clara, she makes her hrina
them back, and gives them to me again. $
i.Well, that Gmakes it all right. "i70T
mo, it doesn't. Suppose grandma
should die while the candlesticks are
oyer at Cousin Clara'sv '--rHarperIs Bal
gar.
Former Judge Henry E. Rowland has
a deservedly high reputation as an after
dinner speaker. 1t is his practice to con
meet hive minutes of serious talk with
Twenty-Five minutes of story telling. All
Of his stories are apropOs, and most of
them are new. At the dinner of ST
Dalvid's society the other night, the
Judge was in happy vein. The anec-
dote which was received with the great
est laughter was that of the LITTLE how
who WAS c0nSidara h1v ,,u11lod IL 80