Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1902-11-18
Observation-Disclosures
LITTLE STORIES.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To Hold the Hold.


To Hold the Hold.
Mr.. Shaw, the telephone company
is going to place a pole i'll front OF
my residence. won't have it. What
shall | do?" these outbursts greeted
the present secretary of the treasury
one day some years ago, as he was
seated in his office.
"Unless you occupy the ground in
front of your residence until the COM
pany leaves, I see no redress re-
marked Mr.. Shaw. Have you any
men in your employ? Yes, two Polish
gardners," answered the irate property
owner.
Then place into the hole Pole OF
your own suggested the secretary.
When questioned about the story
the citizen explained that he got his
Pole there first and the company mov-
ed on.-Detroit Free Press.
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Unnoticed.
The following fragment OF conversa-
ton was overheard in a park last
Sunday morning between two we'll
dressed ladies:
did you notice that girl who looked
at us SO pointedly just now?'
1T was just as we We're passing the
Achilles statue.
"Oh! Do you mean the one in gray
Eton jacket with blue silk revers and
strapped skirt to match; a blue hat
with big bow of green velvet, pale
gray kid gloves stitched with black
pale blue silk -founced underskirt,
high-heeled patent-leather shoes,
spotted veil and blue parasol2.
aYes, dear, that was the one.
- No. then, | didn't notice her: i'll
IN hardly looked at her. Chicago
journal.
Her Complaint
Jane was patient in one Of the
large public hospitals. She boasted a
cough which was more than suspected
to be fake cough rather than
bronchial or pulmonary.
The kindly young physician in
charge of the ward allowed her some
harmless remedies. One day he said
to her:
All Jane. fear you are a very bad
case of hypochondria.'
The next morning there she was
again asking for her little dose.
I'm very bad with it today, doc
tor?''
with what?' asked the doctor.
"Wid what ye were namin' for me
yesterday" she replied. 1T gave me
no peace at all last night New York
Times.
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Works Both Ways.
He laughed Oh, how he laughed!
It was a great joke.
AT last he said. II have found
a place where they have woman sized
up just right She isn't a complete
human being.
"She 1snt?" She exclaimed warmly
"No. In Sweden, where they've fig.
ured the problem out, man is the
unit of value and a woman counts lor
only one-half," he explained. when
han travels he pays full fare on the
raj ads and full rates at the hotels
while if he takes his wife along the
two of them are charge up as only
one and half persons. You see the
logical deductiOn?'
Il do she ansewred And when
woman travels alone she is charged
full rate for one person, while if hel
husband happens to be along, the rate
is for one and half persons. The
husband. therefore,"
He had stopped laughing.
II always did thinn, he announced
emphatically. that woman has most
perverted sense of humOr, and most
extraordinary method of reasoning
But if you really want to get a
relative value she persisted. why
just consider the matrimonial market
Man is quoted at high figure i'll thai
only when ne has title, while woman
brings the top price without one.
"Oh. we'll" he said to himself. as ht
slammed the door behind him. whats
the use of arguing with woman
anyhow ?"-New York Times.