The Holbrook news., 1910-04-15
GOOD SHORT STORIES
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 They are telling this story of the late Senator McCarren: On the second day of his illness his nurse took his temperature and the Senator asked her what it showed. Its 99H," was the reply. When it gets to 100 sell" rejoined the patient
 Soon after King Edward had passed . the huge concourse of children at Househald. Norwich, little girl was seen by her teacher to be crying. Why are you crying; didn't you see the king?" asked the teacher. Yes, but, please teacher, he didn't see me" sob bed the little girl
 The editor of a metropolitan journal was lunching the other day with friends in Boston when some one be- gan talking shop. Do you suppose" asked this individual, solemnly, that the time will come when poetry will cease to be written?" Its here now," promptly replied the editor.
 Among the patients in a certain hos pital of Harrisburg there was recently one disposed to take a dark view of his chances for recovery. Cheer up, old manl" admonished the youthful medico attached to the ward where in the patient lay Your symptoms are identical with those of my own case four years ago. I was just as sick as you are. Look at me now!" The patient ran his eyes over the physi- clans stxlwart frame What doctor qFgI L a.
 Attorney General Wickersham took a party of public men out to Fort Myer in his automobile to see the aero plane tests one day recently. Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and La bor, sat iii the seat with Wickersham, and they kept up lively conversation during the trip. When they had ar rived at the fort one of the party ask ed Nagel how he and Wickersham got along. "Oh, we got along all right" replied Nagel, until Wickersham be- gan to talk French to me. I don't un- berstand French" Then why didn't you get even by talking law to him?" exclaimed Secretary of State Knox.
 There's an old darky barber down in the House shop that has a gift of blarney that would put Bourke Cock ran to the blush. One of the new, rep resentatives blew into the barber shop. He looked a little frowsy, and one would assume that he had dined heav fly and slept lightly. The barber turned on the blarney faucet at once. 'Mistuh, yo' is a Congressman, ain'L yo?" he asked "I am," was the reply. eWhy do you ask?" "Oh, jes' couldn't mistake it. I knows statesman when l sees one You reminded me of nah old fren' Senator Thurman, of Ohio, jes' as soon as yo' set down in nah chair" ''In what respect do I sug- gest that noble gentleman" asked the new statesman. "Yo' breff, sah.'
 A travelling man who shutters spent all afternoon in trying to sell grouchy business man bill of goods, and was not very successful. As the salesman was locking up his grip the grouch was jmpolite enough to observe in the presence of his clerks: ''YoI must find that impediment in your speech very inconvenient at times" "Oh, n-no," replied the salesman. By cry one has his p-pe-culiarity. S-stam mering is mine. Whats y-yours?" I'm not aware that I have any" re- piled the merchant. "D-do you stir " your coffee with your r-right hand?" asked the salesman. Why, yes, of course" replied the merchant, bit puzzled "W-well," went on the sales man, "t-that's your p-peculiarity. Most people use teaspoon"