The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-12-27


how to cook"
II do" she replied, "but 1 still have
faith to believe that you are man
enough to keep it from becoming neces-
sary for me to do so."-Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
Welter Weight-Did you hear the
awful dressing down the master gave
your friend Crasher? By Jove. he did
let him have it!
Thruster-Glad of that. What did he
say to him?
W. W.-Said he was nearly as bad as
you!-Punch
CriticIExcuse me, but does this pic
ture represent a box Of shoe backing
just opened?
Artist-How ridiculous. Why, that
Is my celebrated painting, entitled ''The
Sunset
Critic-Sunset? Great Scott! Where
Artist-In Pittsburg.-ChicagO News.
What canary eats has been the
subject of research by a scientist who
weighed canary and found it rather
over half an ounce. He also weighed
all the food and found that the bird
consumed thirty-two times its weight
every month, or actually more than its
own weight every day.
"Won't you sing something for us,
Miss Muriel?''
"Oh, daren't after such good music
as we have been listening to-
"But I would much rather listen to
your singing than to any amount of
their good music."-London Illustrated
Bits. &.
Gabriel have blown my trumpet
three times and nobody pays any at
tention to it.
Israfel-That's strange.
isn't it? People just make hasty
jump for the curbstone and then look
to see which way the automobile
went" -Cieveland Leader.
A child Of strict parents whose great
est joy had hitherto been the weekly
prayer meeting was taken by his nurse
he came home he exclaimed, 'Oh, NAM
ma, if you once went to the circus
you'd never, never go to prayer meet
ing again in all your life"'
Madam. do you keep hens?' asked
the lady VIII The gold trimmed eye
glasses as she stopped at the door OF
the farmhouse.
Sure replied the woman in the
door, wiping her chin with her gfng-
ham apron. Are you looking for
board. ma am ?"-Butchers' Exchange.
This anecdote illustrates the light
side of English university life:
Dean-And so the unfortunate youth
was taken from his bed and totally
immersed in the fountain. Pray, what
part did you take in this disgraceful
transaction? Undergraduate (meekly)
His left leg, sir.
No sovereign of the United Kingdom
was ever crowned in Ireland, but dou-
BILE coronations Of English monarchs
have not been infrequent. Henry II.
was crowned at Westminster and
again at Worcester, Henry III. at
Gloucester and Westminster and Hen
~ vi. at Paris and Westminster.
The Gold Coast is a long way from
the Cape of Good Hope. The latter is
one of the termini of eastern Africa;
the former is wholly in west Africa.
The Gold Coast takes its name from
the precious metal having been dis
covered there in abundance by the ear
~ Portuguese and English navigators.
Tho ContempIative Man.
He comes not in company because
he would not be solitary, but finds dis
course enough with himself, and his
own thoughts are his excellent playfel-
lows. He looks not upon thing as q
yawning stranger at novelties, but his
search is more mysterious and inward,
and he spells heaven out Of earth. He
knits his observations together and
makes a ladder of them all to climb to
God-John Earle.
The Smallest City.
vergennes. Vt, is probably the small.
est city in the world, and it is the old
est city in New England outside Con-
necticut. In 17SS the Vermont legis-
| lature authorized Vergennes to organ
iZe as town for four years under tie
! name City of Vergennes' before elect
/ ing city officers. For many years Yer.
! gennes was the only city in Vermont
/ Boston Globe.
Discoras.
The snow had been followed by 8
sold rain, and in the slate colored dusk,
wading through the deep slush, the lit
tie man under the big umbrella cough.
ed dismally.
| Doesn't the weather agree with
you:" we inquired.
| He shook his head
| mot often" he returned. I'm ono
of the government forecas.ers."--.1e s
Orleans Times-Deuocrat.