The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-24

gently in great glee. I suppose II real ly am that. but at first when read a note from one of my Filipino teachers beginning, Respectable Lady, l felt al-i most insulted. Poor thing! You can see she tried so hard and that is very. near the Spanish form. z
 Here's a good one, chi1ned in a de- partment clerk, some provincial off, |cial put on pamphlet returned to our. office: Do not finding and 1t is taking back to her procedence. It suppose he meant the party was not there, 50 he returned the package to the sender
 T had a private pupil" said another teacher, "a dignified, middle aged Fili- pino, a man of position. and we were ringing the changes on verbs We had the word eat and he slowly evolved, She was eaterl-whe IL came.' I had bad fit os coughing just then and left the room to compose myself before explaining that, not being cam |nibal, he probably meant she was eat ing
 "One of the Filipino copyists in our office made our chief talk about a wooden mortal when he was meaning to mention wooden mortar, < said MT. N
 That's not so bad. It seems some times as though half the men you meet are wooden Inortals'' said our cynic. Did you ever fool people with that old Icatch about the clock striking?' No. What is it?''
 aThera yxyo e a nInnLf ,1y1 a,,xs s;97e oe < room and a wooden man on the other with a mallet in his hand, Every time he heard the clock strike he struck. How many times would he strike in twelve hours?"
 "oh, that's arithmetic. I can't do that"
 "Just add one. two. three and 50 on lup to twelve. That's easy
 No, that's not it. ..
 Say that again." (Said again slur- ring words together.l "oh, see. sure. l A wooden man couldn't hear at all, could he?" Chorus of oh's.-
 "One of the minister's, said prin- 1 ter, had an article set up in which he spoke of Muslin theology. It came out muslin theology. Pretty good definition of much of the stuff. It's muslin when lit isn't cast iron. I've no use for the article, Miss Mehitable-with a side glance at me, for he likes to get me l 'rilsd'
 You may talk all you please agains' theology for that's a nan-made thing but religion every man has in himself Ieven if he doesn't know it, and he car lnot get away from it. It may be only "a seed now, but some day. somewhere it will grow and grow"
 Speaking of misused words" sait Mir. x, who dislikes ''pious talk, "hav Eyou noticed some of the signs dow1 ltown? Evidently the civil servic
 board did not correct the English or tn lspelling. saw this sign, and it was al
 American firm, too--'Good work did.
 It is rather rough on a native son t
 have his dray announcing the 'Califu mia - Company saw another f1rn lhad placard about C-o-u-a-t-s. Hop the goods in his coats were as strong a lthe spelling. ! always wonder, toe Iwhy the Godlen Gate place is painted fiery red. and why that man in tn
 English dogcart on 8 certain harnes
 sign is so carefully mapped in his Eng l fish laprobe. There doesn't seem to any immediate danger that he woul
 freeze without it. heard some Filipi
 nos laughing about it and about tn
 funny little windows in some America houses in Errnita. They spy out all tn
 weak places in our arrnor. you may b
 sure" Having thus effectually turne
 the current of conversation, Mr. 3
 stopped quite out of breath -Manil
 Sun.