New-York tribune., 1905-08-03
FROM THE CYNIC.
Three women may a secret keep
If as it has been said,
There's one of the lot has heard il not
And the other two are dead.
SATURDAY Evening PO

Saturday Evening Post
LIBEL suit down in Louisiana grew out Of an er-
ror of the telegraph. correspondent of a New
Orleans paper wrote of one OF the speakers at a
Baton Rouge meeting: The Rev. Thomas J. Up
ton is cultured gentleman" The dispatch came
over the wires "colored gentleman" An editor.
with an eye TO saving space changed the words
TO NEGRO" so that the paper next morning said:
'The Rev. Thomas J. Upton is a negro"
Did Not Need It-After writing a prescription for
a patient, the physician told him that the druggist
patient asked the physician lend him the money
Thereupon the physician carefully scratched out a
10 cents, remarking: You can have that filled for
dime What scratched out was for your nerve''
philadelphia Ledger.
The "Kriesblatt." published in the district Of
Hochst. Prussia, printed the other day this adver-
tisement: Lost, perambulator containing a six
months-old baby, the same having been left on
Sunday outside public house in Sossenheim. or
possibly in H0chst. or Unterliederbach On the
peranbulator cover the following is embroidered:
Sleep WE'LL mother watches over you
m The folio &{3llowlng letter was received from his sister
visit II am sending by mail parcel eontant9n Tag og
the golf coat you wanted. AS the brass buttons
hfa loving ssr 9aEe cut 'he @ 70 @ gng Sc
buttons in the righthand pocket of the coat
AT recent Parliamentary election in Carlisle Eng
lana, one or the candidates named Chance His
campaigners got out placards reading: Give Car
Isle Chance" The opposition replied with: Take
no Chances. Vote for sandersonv' The electors
Glanced it.
Mstrusted Him.--''Marthat" said a West,,or+
] woman td to h her negro Sook when Abe
''Doan' know es Ahn mahry dat man. replied
the cook. ' i9pi'e"
What's the matter now!' she was asked
well. ma am the cook said shaking ber baad
"Ah hear Ab been runnin' round wiz ernutbab
woman. Abs full OBJ suspaiosity bout dat 1'aT ~. !.
kansas City Times. ''''
THE unfortunate disaster by which a life has
been lost on the Welsh mountain known as the
Devils Kitchen has drawn attention" saws The
Dundee Advertiser" "to the curious but seemingly
universal practice of past times In naming pecuIiar
natural formations after his satanic majesty 1t is
scarcely an exaggeration To say that hardly a
county in the British Isles is without some place
thing with the designation Devil All Of
which prompts the thought that his satanic mai
esty must be holder OF considerable amount of
property this terrestrial globe. The Devils
Punch Bowl, the DEVILS Bellows. the Devils Beef
Tub the Devils Frying Pan, the Devils Lake the
Devils Dyke. the Devils Cauldron, are a few in
stances which occur at random. scattered about In
various parts of the country"
Provoking Mlstake.-The caller was angry and
even beIhgerent, Il want an explanation and an
apology, sir, he said. In your paper this morn
ing you had an account Of the wedding the
Shlthbys last night, and you spoke Of The jay
mat mat st5snaed the happy pair as they went 70 the
gasped the editor. II wrote it joy'T'-(Chicago
Tribune