Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-09-22
A Bit o. Nonsense
Discipline.

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Discipline.
Father Cleft in charge)-No, you
cannot have any more cake. (Very
seriously)-Do you know what shall
have to do if you go on making that
dreadful noise?
Little Girl (sobbing)-Yes.
Father-WeM, what is it?
Little Girl-Give ME some more
cake.
And she was squite right.-Presby'
terrain Standard.
Countershot.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Gust see
the wind!" exclaimed little Bobby
looking from the window on a stormy
day.
"You ask me to do something i'm
possible answered Bobby's papa.
who is a great stickler for accuracy
wind is air in motion, and you can
not see air. 1t is invisible"
"But papa
swell, my son?''
81 heard you talking about a sight
draft the other day
And papa didn't explain how he
had raised the wind to meet that.
The Reason.
A Missouri darky was endeavorlng
to sell a mule to Jefferson City
man, who, however, was in doubt as
to the animals age.
eff" said he, "this mule is as young
as you claim, why Is it dat he bends
so at the knees
ooh, don't let dat little fact worry
you, boss" the negro fastened to say,
"Dat mule bend at de laigs, but II
amt due to no age dat he does. Dc
homes, truf, boss, is dat ! amt had
de money to look after dat mule DC
way he oughter been. My stable is
kinder low an dat mule he been
obliged to stoop a little, OATS ALL
Harper's Magazine.
Somebody Was.
While Comiskey was in England
with the world touring baseballists
he and several friends were conducts
ed through an ancient cathedral by 6
typical British guide and caretaker.
"Behind the altar" he said, "lies
Richard III. In the churchyard out
side lies Mary, Queen of Scots. Ant
who," hating above an unmarked
tagging in the stone floor and ad
dressing Comiskey, "who do yor
hhink, sir, is a-lying ere on this
spot"
"Well," answered the Chicago mag
nate, 81 don't know for sure, but
have my suspicions."-Judge.
Missed 1t.
There is often fun att the baseball
grounds outside of the game, espe
cially among theIboys who try to see
the game without being admitted.
One youngster who was fortunate
enough ito find a knothole in the fence
was heard to shout to another who
was munching away on a juicy apple:
"Say, IN quit this hole if you'll 81
me a couple O. them"
eco on" was the reply. "Yer cam
see through the ginks on t'other side
O. the fence"
"Orl righ1, sonny" was the rejoin
der, keep 'em. But that's where you
missed it, for there's a sawed off guy
in front of this hole and there ain
nobody in front of him, see?"
Anything to obIige.
Lippincott's Magazine: mot lone
ago. relates ex-Speaker Cannon, "a
young couple came in from the sub
urbs to New York City, to see the
Hippodrome. They arrived very ear
ly and decided to have lunch. They
visited a tea-room and had the placs
all to themselves.
"In serving them the waitress omit
ted to supply a teaspoon, and the fail
young bride whispered the fact to hel
husband.
summoning the waitress, the young
man asked:
MAY we have a spoon?"
"'Why certainly replied the girl
I am just tidying up, and you car
have the whole room to yourselves III
a minute or two"
There will be no new court house
erected in Dunn county until aftel
the voters decide upon the question
of the removal of the county sea-
from Manning to Dunn Center. The
commissioners rejected all bids ad
vertised for the building here to take
the place of the court house burned
last January. Since the fire the of
fees have been scattered arount
town in a very inconvenient manner
but because Of the agitation for thu
removal of the county seat, the com
missioners did not wish to build un
It'll that question was settled.