Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1906-10-20


$50. Tommy, you wish to be excused
from school this afternoon" "Yes'm."
lis your excuse a good one or Is 1t
baseball?" Both, ma'am."
"Why did you have the sun-dial
moved. Amy?" II wanted 1t where the
moonlight would shine on 1t, so we
could tell the time of night"-Life.
the baby after its rich uncle. Booker
No; he looked at it, and said he'd
give them $4,000 not tc.-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
Stella-Professor Lee says candy is
cure for fatigue. Bella-That's true;
man who brings me chocolate never
makes me as tired as a man who
doesn't
Mistress (soliloquizing)-I'm afraid
this hats rather out of date. Maid
oh, no, mum. It's quite fashionable.
Cook has just bought one exactly like
it-Punch-
Lawyer-My wife bought this rug
in my office at an auction sale. Client
She paid big price for it, too Law
= y
it to her.-Detroit Free Press.
A Georgia man lost leg In an acci-
dent, and when they picked him up the
first word he said was: THANK the
Lord, it was the leg with the rheuma-
tism In it!'-Atlanta Constitution
New Bookkeeper Ito employer)-
How shall enter up the five thousand
dollars that your old bookkeeper ran
away with-profit and loss? Employer
No, charge it to running expenses
New Dentist Tin Frozen Dog)-Will
you take gas? Bronco Bill-Will it
hurt if 1 don't? Dentist-It will.
Broncho Bill-Then, stranger. for your
sake 1 think I'd better take it--Life.
Lady visitor-That new girl of yours
seems very nice and quiet Mistress OF
the House-Yes, she's very quiet She
doesn't even disturb the dust when
she's cleaning the room.-Everybody'
Journal
AS small Tommy was about to climb
into his chair at the dinner table his
mother said: Are your hands clean,
dear?" COURSE they are" answered
Tommy. IF you don't believe it, look
at the towel"
Where are we going to take lunch?"
she asked her husband, while out In his
touring car. 20, wherever we happen
to STOP" he replied Goodness You're
not going to eat as often as that, are
, you, dear ?"-Yonkers Statesman.
, Mr.. City Boarder was being enter
tanned by his rural sweetheart DO
] you play and sing When the Cows Are
in the Corn Miss Milyweigh?" Lord
bless you, no :" she calculated. 81 get
the dogs and chase 'em out l"-Harper's
Weekly.
|, Balty Moore-The meanest man has
: been again discovered. Calvert, Jr.-
5 Where this time? Balty Moore-In
< Ohio, as usual. This chap is making
: money by selling the weather predic-
lions furnished by his fathers rheuma-
e tism.-Baltimore American.
A physician started model insane
u asylum with special ward for crazy
chauffeurs and motorists. But l don't
see any patients" said a visitor to
whom the automobile ward was shown.
oh" the physician replied, "they re
all under the cots fixing the slats."-
Clipping.
"I'll take that" said the man, indi.
. eating a silver-mounted handglass, land
1 want you to engrave on 1t. From ]
]. b. to Phyllis" every WELL" replied
the salesman, well put is on the back
here" "Oh. no; put 1t around the
:, edge on the front. l want her to sex
it."-Phlladelphia Ledger.
Mamma" asked the little girl, "ha.
MIR. Brown got heart disease?" 90
. don't know, my child. Why do 20,
askT' "Well, it says In my new bool
u that faint heart never won fair lady
: and when l saw Mrs. Brown l made III
. my mind that something must be wronl
~ with his.'lToledo Blade.
- 81 understand" began Mrs. Galley
- sternly, that you have been seen a
- the theater with my husband
= "Well," interrupted the pretty govern
: ess, defantly. what of that?" "Wel
10 Miss Reeder, If you wish to remain Il
=, my employ you'll have to keep bette
80 company. "-PhiladelphIa Press.
Is New Kind of Dialect story.