Evening journal., 1903-05-19

oOhf lily AAAAlt liitilf 1Wu may Dt Alii
Governor some day
Small kid--"Say boss, what have !
ever done to your"
You can't always tell by appear
ances, for many a pawn ticket hangs
at the other end of a gold watch chain.
Customer-"You needn't send that
baby's high chair that / ordered some
time ago"
salesman-'Tt was shipped yester-
day
Can't help that; you
were too slow. The kid has grown up,
and / want to change the chair for
bicycle"
At the burial of a South London man
his six dogs draped in black followed
the cortege.
Great Britain spends S1125OOOOO
year on the support of the poor. This
does not include private charities.
Kilkenny Castle is one of the oldest
inhabited houses in the world, many
Of the rooms being much as they were
500 years ago.
! 1t is claimed that by the Draft-Wil-
liams method of locating ores by the
detection of electrical currents not
only can deposits be located, but that
the extent and depth of the lode can be
determined with an accuracy that it
quite impossible with any existing sys-
TEN of prospecting.
A section of cable in the Caribbean
sea was recently raised from 135
fathoms OF water, where it had lain for
thirty years. Tests showed its core
to be in perfect electrical condition,
and the rubber insulator uninjured A
fear that sulphur from the rubber
might injure the copper wire had no
foundation.
Henry NJ. Flagler has had built in his
new home at Palm Beach. Fla. the
\ largest pipe organ ever placed in a
private house in this country.
Professor Braun of the University
of Strasburg, has undertaken to heat
a room. i'm Munich by a fiashlight i'm
Nuremburg, which is 100 miles away.
George C. Rockwood of New York,
has just passed half a century as a
photographer He has made portraits
of many prominent men, and has posed
every president since Van Buren,.
Wouldn't it be funny If
; should become a little boy again?
d Bobbie--Maybe IT wouldn't be so
b funny for you. pa II you wuz to be
littler n me think I'd square up few
b things.
Eyes. sir. he was obliged to go in the
I snake country, so he took a gallon OF
T whisky along"
And how did he make out?"
[ "Splendidi Got so full. and wabbled
Z so, the snakes missed him every time
they struck at him.
! Within eaght months We have receiver
4 enough emigrants from Europe no re
people Ireland
Il don't see why dressed man
j. like you should have to walk the rail
4 road track"
* Well. you see, am a theatrical man
4 ager, and am getting together a com
e pany"
i The Rev. Y. Horter-Shame on YOU
\ You're drunk half the time. Why don
you do better?
Lushman-Can't afford it. It cost
money to be drunk all the time.
Warden-He was the coolest am
10 most thoughtful convict that ever brok
- jail.
IS Jenkins-That so?
l. Warden-Yes. He left behind hir
* a note to the Governor of the state be
he ginning, Il hope you win pardon m
he for the liberty I'm taking.
lie Boorisch-Now, what's your idea {
p "cad2"
he Naylor-Usuaily it's a fellow who
D. forever calling somebody else one.
p Tawker-well, that's always the wa
~ You never miss the water till the we
rs runs dry"
er sharpe-There you go with anoth'
.li ridiculous quotation. How could we
9l run II 1t We're dry?
le Jasper-"That man Burr is alwa.
: cracking some stale joke
Casper-"Oh. I see; sort of ches
n. nut Burr"
Why is il that man with ne
- diamond ring on one OF his left hnge
rarely uses his right hand?
Az n lamp be overturned remember IN
a. water Will only spread the flames CARR
ial by the burning oil. The right plan Is
or connnc the area of the fire and 20 smoth
he the flames by throwing down sand, gard
rs mold OF -four as rapidly as possible.