The Coconino sun., 1923-10-26

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having a profile picture so he would
have to have only one side of his face
shaved, and Frank Leslie says the
same man wanted to get shaved with
out lather so he wouldn't have to pay
so much.
While Sheriff Bill Campbell and his
family were driving back from Cali
fornia a few weeks ago, Bill says,
he hit a bad place in the road so
hard that two of the family hurt their
faces pretty much against one of the
top braces. Bill heard a clinking
noice and thought sure he'd busted a
spring. But when he looked he found
the springs We're all right. Finally he
found that when he hit the bump he'd
busted dollar bill in his pocket into
four quarters and that was the noise
he heard.
ssHow long since you read the BIZ
ble?" one of our saints asked a hard
ened old Flagstaff sinner the other
'Hain't never read it a-tall. How
long is that ?" the sinner replied.
Chet Black said the other day that
when he was in the hospital in Los
Angeles a couple of years ago con-
valescing from an operation he got so
hungry he almost ate the pillow. He
was told to be patient and that next
day he would be given something to
eat. Next day the nurse brought him
a tablespoonful of tapioca. Chet ate
it and then said:
Il want to read a while; please
bring me a postage stamp"
Last time Tom Wagner, big up and
down and also around, was down in
Phoenix ne stepped into bakery in
the outskirts of town and asked
pert young woman behind the coun-
ter if they served meals there. "Yep,"
she said, looking him over, ''but we
don't fill silos."
In some of the rural communities
in Arkansas, some of the bacll-woods
communities, you know, says Tom Pull
liam, they always have corn cake
and 'lasses for breakfast. The lady
of the house walks around with the
1asses jug and asks each in turn:
"Want a dab or trickle ?" If you
say "dab' then she runs her fingers
around inside the neck of the jug and
slaps a lot of lasses on your cakes.
If you say "trickle," she dips her fin
gers into the jug and lets the lasses
trickle off onto your cakes.
Jimmie Mitchell says the saddest
death he ever heard of was that of a
poor man who hurt his back and they
bathed it with alcohol and he broke
his neck trying to lick the alcohol off
his back.
Woo Chung asked Senator Fred
Breen Iast week:
you go that place plitty soon?"
'sWhat place?"
"That place-Phloenix."
Well, what you want to know
"When you go there, make law get
me plenty whiskey."
Of course it was all meant jok-
ingly:
A Flagstaff man asked his wife a
week ago last. Sunday afternoon:
what was all that cackling over
on Aspen avenue little while ago ?"
"Oh," she said, "the Woman's club
ladies We're laying a cornerstone.
Carter Joy wants to know why So
ciety editors always speak about the
bside being led to the altar. "Who
ever saw a bride pulling back ?" he
wants to know.
"I've noticed it always gives a man
a happy feeling" says Billy Bayless,
when he needs shave and runs
across some other feller who needs
one just as bad as he does"
J. P. McVey Of the high school fac
ulty has gathered up few queer
answers given by pupils to examina
tion questions, and among the many
these are a few:
Things which are equal to the
same thing are equal to anything
else"
"a grass widow is the wife of a
dead vegetarian"
"Oceania is that continent which
contains no land"
"In India man of one cask may
not marry a woman out of another
casI7"
Parallel lines are the same dis
tance all the way and do not meet
unless You bend them"
"Gravitation is that which is there
We're none we should all fly away"
fLouis XVI was gelatined during
the French revolution"
"Horse power is the distance one
horse can carry pound of water in
an hour"
Guerilla warfare is where men
ride on guerillas."
"Palsy is a kind of new writer's
dance"
Letters in sloping print are hys-
terics."
"If you meet someone whom you
feel you have known for thousands
of years, marry her and then you'll
be sure of it," writes a friend who
requests that his name be withheld.
aDon' feel any too good, boss re-
sponded "Jedge' Miller, when asked
how l7o 1Troc opttino alOnp int no