The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-01-25

Senator Dryden tells of an unusual
wager in his home city Of Newark,
made on the recent election for gov
ernor Of New Jersey
Ten of our Republican business
men," said the senator, decided to
guess what the Governors plurality
would be. II was agreed that the one
who guessed nearest to the vote should
order a dinner for the entire number
and that the one whose guess was the
farthest from correct should pay for
the repast.
"The lowest guess was 5000 Repub-
lcan majority, the highest $4,000 The
actual majority was about 10000"
Were you one of the ten, Sena.
tori"
NO" he answered, smiling with sat
isfaction. 81 had something better
than that | was the invited guest of
the ten when the dinner was eaten"
Congressman George d. McCreary
of Philadelphia tells story that hap
pened to him while he was travelling
in Ireland. An Irishman came down
hill driving cart the side of which
had been lettered with the word
"OBrien." The letters, however, had
been displaced, and the visitor, seeing
this, said to the driver, jestingly:
What is your manner"
"O'Brien is my name" was the
ready response.
"Ah," replied the other, sis that so?
There is nothing to show it."
YES" was the reply, "it's on my
cart"
1T might have been" answered the
other, but it's obliterated now"
at isn't Obliterated," rejoined the
indignant Irishman, tits O'Brien."
well, it was O'Brien" answered
the other, but It's Obliterated now"
And they parted without settling
the controversy.
Congressman Robinson Is authority
for the story of an interesting device
invented by the editor of country
newspaper in one of the little interior
towns of Pennsylvania. The editor,
who tried to make his journal bright
and interesting, was kept in hot water
constantly by indignant residents of
the town, who disputed his printed
statements, and who were always
looking for the editor "to give him a
piece of their minds" This became
so annoying that he finally engaged
an old gentleman who was stone deaf
as his chief assistant. Whenever an
t,,I isyt,
against the course of the editor, he
was at once referred to the deaf Jour
nalist, who sat and listened to the
inevitable trade without change of
countenance.
Representative Curtis told a COM
panion story to that of his consulta-
ton with a palmist in Southern Kan
sas. The palmist assured him that he
would make a good public speaker if
he kept at it long enough.
"A lawyer friend with me on that
OCCASION" said Mr. Curtis. had his
own hand read at my urgent request.
The palmist studied the lines intently
for time before making several OBJ
servations, the last of which was:
You are evidently barber
No. said my friend.
"'Then what are your
"'A lawyer
But said the lady, much to my
friends discontinue, will you tell me
what is the difference between being
shaved by barber and skinned by
lawyer"
On a recent claim day in the House,
while the few interested members
were doing business a bunch of South
ern Representatives sat in the Demo
cratic cloakroom and talked of claims
they knew about.
Funniest one ever heard Of" said
a Texan, was put in by a man down
at Austin. He was a stranger. They
found him one night at one Of the
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II Made Great Difference.