Judge — November 21, 1896 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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325 NOTHING NEW TO HIM. +6] WANT to get a suitable birthday-present for Charlie.” “Let me see; he swore off smoking the first of the year, didn’t he?” Yes; until the first of next January.” “Well, I saw a new-fangled kicking-machine to-day that ought to please him.” “Oh, pshaw! Charlie has three of those in the house now.” A YOUTHFUL PHILOSOPHER. Lady (calling on Edith's mamma)—“ Edith, how old are you?” Edith—" Three years old. I should like to be four, but (with a sigh) I suppose some one must be three.” HER INTEREST IN POLITICS, [TWAS election night. The hour was eleven. Mrs. Grimley was standing at the front gate as = Mr. Jimpkins passed. THAT WESTERN TSILVER CENTER: Fe “ Waiting for the returns?” he inquired pleas- Tue noys— Well, Bill, they say you're goin’ east to bring out a wife, Is she purty ?” La Se ane pets Buizzarv BLL purty? Well, probably! Blue eyes an’ go/den bair an’ "—— ie returns I'm waiting for,” replied the lady Tux Boys—" Ban; sharply, ‘are waiting for the returns.” PRELIMINARY WORK, MARJORIE is five years old, with sharp eyes for seeing whatever goes on and a bright way of describing it afterward in her somewhat limited vocabulary, ‘The other day her father was taken ill suddenly and a strange doctor was called in. It chanced that the medical man had an impediment in his speech, and the moment Marjorie heard him talk she was all attention, for it was the first time’she had ever met with a person who stuttered. After the de- parture of the doctor Marjorie, who had thought it all out in her own mind, made even her sick father laugh by saying, “That doctor couldn't remember the words he was going to say; so he talked a little while before he said them.” THE WEARING OF THE “GREEN.” SPECIFICATION NECESSARY. O'Hocan—" Begorry, Biddy ! Oi cud almosht fergive McMulligan fer these two Twynn—" She's a scorcher.” in’ phy?" Triplett— Passion poetess, or wheelwoman ?” O'HocAN—"‘An account av th’ beautiful imerald color they're turnin’, be gob !" SHE COULD NOT DO IT. “ HAT a great Ww many cases of suicide there are now!” said Miss Tenspot. “Yes, there are,” as- sented Miss Perkasie. “Do you know, I could never commit suicide. It would kill me.”” SHE WANTED IT. . Newsboy —" World, A BUNCO FISH-STORY. lady?" 2 Ambitious female — 1, Dezr Cuauncey—'* Hold on there, Gummy, old boy! . __ re, an Ambitious Hear my latest ‘ before-dinner’ funny crack.— 2: —__ Its excraciatiogly. fanny. 2 Yon ses, it was this way. You're right!’ A MEANS SUGGESTED. y — WILL h: ve ae “Tabard!” sbeked the te | hilt aly i son nig | SC ily | lid “Allow me, madam,” said a stranger with a sympathetic jill 74 LING A h HI gleam in his eye, “to show you ‘ oo ba ets ‘ NV this book on the art of making x 4 \ of shirts.” - CHOLLY’S ARTIFICIAL SMILE, SS ]MJAMIIA, see the clerk.” “Yes, dear; why?” “His smile has the neu- ralgia. 3. Guamy—"* Ha, ha, ha!” ete 4. Deer Cuavncey—" Yes, Ha, ha, ha!” etc, comicbooks.com