The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-24
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Correspondent in The Chicago News.
Just the other night I spent few
minutes in Wheeling, w. Va, between
trains. Time threatened to die hard on
my hands, each a fortnight long. So /
went into vaudeville house and invested
whole hard earned quarter In a seat
Thence I watched q minstrel perform
arce and saw and heard these things
that make people laugh heartily. Like
wise took note of them,
Tambo told the interlocutor that a
few days ago man had fallen from
the top of q seven-story building and
hadn't hurt himself a bit. The interloc-
utor said:
did you see the man fall seven sto-
ries and not get hurt?''
mo. sab, didn't see him fall etc.
did anybody tell you that claimed to
have seen him fall?" etc.
mo, nobody told me that claimed" etc.
Now" said the lnterlocutor, when
you didn't see anything yourself and
haven't heard anybody say he saw it,
there's a doubt"
whats dat?"
'.I say, when,' etc.
''Yessah. Say, Mstat Brown. did you
evan see yo' brains?"
mo. What an absurd question! OF
L
did you evan heah anybody say he
seen yo' brains?"
mo. certainly / never heard anybody,
etc S4
'eThen, there's doubt
Shrieks of laughter and loud applause
When the excitement had subsidized,
the interlocutor said:
Didn't see you going into a saloon
the other day."
In cat n, lin xxy1,ot w,
seen"
II mean, were you in a saloon the
other day?''
'Yessah, I was in saloon.'
did you drink whisky"
"Yessah, drank whisky"
Don't you know whisky is your en-
emy?"
"Yessah know whisky is my enemy,
but I'm awful pious."
You're what?"
I'm awful pious an l was taught to
love my enemies"
Frenzy of delight from all over the
house.
Then came a sketch team. The white
man did a clog, and then in crash
the black one came tumbling on, with
all sorts of junk rolling about him. The
white man said
Where did you come from"
'I fell through the slSyllght. Igot an
awful pane" Laughter.)
'I keep hotel down street and need
man. VIII you work for me?"
THAT your hotel?"
Yes
Then" (picking up a plank IT think
I'll board there" (Roars of delight)
81 think maybe picking up piece
of barrel hoop) 81 should stave off
starvation. At least (pc1ing up bar
rel hoopl / hoOD So
Uncontrollable mirth as one after an
other saw the deep point after the black
faced artist had held up the hoop and
repeated the words.) 'If didn't (picl1s
un bucket. I'd get pail Don't chew
the rag (wittily handing out mop rag)
I suppose you have plane cooking Ga
carpenters plane is presented. saw
you when I sashayed through the sky
light" Zach point was illustrated by
its proper article and theh delighted
crowd showed signs of Mysteries. The
fellow went on to say he would stick
around awhile. and told the white man
he had the grip. (Ah, 1t was excruciat-
irgly funny when he handed out a little
satchel and said he had the gripD
Then came a brand new one. / won
der If the shade of Bill Nye ever thinks
of coming back and killing the idiots
who butcher his jokes about his dog
Ertomologist? This Is the way they
handle IT.:
my dogs name Et'mologist.'
"Et' mologist? What you call him Et'-
mologist for?"
Cause a Et'mologist collects in
sects"
(Yells of joy and surprise from the
intelligent patrons of the drammer.)
Here comes one that always lands big
never fails. The black face fellow says;
MY wife's always askin' me fer a
dollah-dollah at night, dollah at noon.
dollah in de mornin"---
What does she do with all the mon
ey?"
Don't know. I amt nevah give her
none yit''
They even--at Wheeling while waited
for my THANKSGIVING that old, old favo--
ite:
my wife died last week"
TOO bad What complaint?'
mo complaint Everybody's salts
fed
This thing of furnishing humor for
the American public requires brains
That's why the low priced opponents
of the drammer never get closer than
within 20 years of this century's output.