The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-29
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How Gould He D." Tt?-A landlord is said to have
got twelve commercial travellers into eleven bedrooms
Now" he said. IF two of YOU gentlemen will go into
No. bedroom and wait a few minutes, I'll find a
others to their rooms Well. now. having thus be-
slowed two men in No. !. he puts the third in No. q
the fourth in No. 3, the fifth in No. 4. the sixth in No
5, the seventh in No. s. the eighth in No. Z, the ninth in
No. 8, the tenth in No. 9. the eleventh in No. 10. He
then came back to No. where YOU will remember he
left the twelfth with the first and said: II now have
accommodated the rest, and still have one to spare;
You will please step into No. IL: YOU will find it emp
IT," Thus the twelfth man got his room. OF course
there is a holfe in the skinner somewhere; but we
leave it to the reader to determine where the fallacy is
with a Just warning to think twice before deciding as
to which, if any, was the odd man out"
He thought it was a pretty good joke when he had
the office boy call up his wife each day and humble
words of "ndearment while he was at the ball game.
hut the joke can be- appreciated when both he and his
wife learned that 1t was not her that the boy was talk
ing to each day. as the wife was too busy playing bridge
and it proved that il was the servant to whom the boy
was talking. oh. YOU men!
The executive committee of the American Bow
Scout organization. of which the late Col. John Jacob
Aston was vice president. has decided to send out an
order notifying all troops of the American Roy Scouts
to decorate their colors. Euidons and sidearms of Off
ccrs with crepe for thirty days in memory of Col.
Aston.
In Speaking Of Long .Jobs.-Pcrhars tho worlds
record for long service is held by the occupant of a
grave In the chur"hNard at Battle. Sussex. This is
Isaac Insall, who died in 1898. at the age of l20. For
ninety years he was in tho service of the Wohsters Of
Rattle Abbey. Sarah Thompson of Belfast. served
eiEhty-three years with one family, dying in 1895.
In tho spring a young mans fancy lightly turns
and turns. and turns. and turns. says Helen Rowland.
Yes. Helen. it's something like tho love that lies
in a "oman's eyes-and lies, and lies. and lies.
TIL" Philadelphia Inquirer has discovered a body
blow to the hack-to-the- farm idea. in this suegestion:
Thcr" is one comfort in being a city kid. anyway. He
doesn't have to stand for sassafras tea and onion
syrup.
Now that two OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in California mad
another in Observation-Disclosures received messages from
William T. Stead since he died in the Titanic disaster
the question arises why didn't he send out a G. O. D..
immediately upon the occurrence of the accident? He
would have had the wireless beaten to a FRAGILE"
a Chicago cab driver has been nominated for con-
Gress. That is eminently appropriate. An exchange
opines that if he had heen a taxi driver. he would have
been in line for nomination to the senate.
The pinky Car is Doomed" says a hea dline and
the Duluth Herald adds: The last characteristic of
this roughridinG country of the west will soon be num-
bercd with the bison and the Indians"