Judge — May 22, 1920 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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e—— —————77= = Drawn by Henass Posen Digest of the World’s Humor The Navvy'’s Mistake—A cle was a geologist, and always carried. his specimens about in a red handkerchief such as navvies use to carry their dinners in. One day, as he was going home with it full of specimens, he saw a navvy at the top of a well, using violent language because the windlass refused to work. “My friend,” said the parson, “do you know Satan?” “No,” replied the man, “but Pll ask my mate. Bill,” he cried, “do you know Satan?” “N came the answer from the bot- tom of the well, “Why?” Well, there's a bloke up here wot’s got ‘is dinner.”"— London Tit-Bits, ryman His Welcome — A clergyman was ived in the new section stomobile graciously” rece he visited until a passing spattered him all over with water. “1 really didn't think so much about it,” he said with a smile, “being a Baptist. I Getting Out of It—A bist dressing a large assembly of Sunda: nd wound up by asking, p was ad- school children, in a very condescending way: “And, now, is there any little boy or little girl who would like to ask me a question?” After a pause he repeated the question, whereupon a little shrill voice cried out “Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Jacob's ladder when they had wings?”” “Oh! ah! I sce,” said the bishop. “And, now, is there any little boy or little girl who would like to answer Mary's question.”’—-Edinburgh Scotsman Fishing for Titles. (No reply) } "t mean to say you was a bloomin’ private!” Passing Shorw (London). Of Course!—*When will a preacher perform a marriage?”’ “T don’t know, Mister Johnson, When will a preacher perform a marriage?” ‘When he has the right two.”— Florida Times- Union. Not to be Disturbed—An English periodical tells the story of a minister who was asked to supply for a Sunday or two in a quiet country village. When he went to the church’ the verger met him and asked him to preach from the chancel. “Why, my good man?” he inquired. “Well, it’s like this,”’ said the verger “T have a duck in the pulpit sitting on fourteen eggs.”"—Burlington Free Press as Welcome Change—Apropos of Henry Watterson’s retirement from the Louis ville Courier-Journal, a Louisville banker said to the great editor: “I understane your idea is to start a paper of your own that will strike a new note.” “Well,” fenced the veteran, “th would be a welcome change, for paper out here do nothing but note a new strike.”"—St. Louis Republic iv At lt Again——lbsent-minded 1 — Bless my soul! I’ve gone and borrower Mr. Nexdore’s lawnmower instead of hi snow shovel.—Boston Transcript. A Detached Attitude—" What's this my dear?” asked Prof. Diggs. absent mindedly. “Why it’s the grocery bill,” said Mrs Diggs. “Our groceryman says it’s over due. “So is that comet I’ve been expecting to put in an appearance for the past ten days. I’m not to blame, 1 hope?” said the professor, and calmly resumec his studies—Birmingham Age- Herald Poetry and Mathematics—A cel brated mathematician despised poets anc poetry. A brother professor, anxious t« convert him from this unfortunate dislike handed him a volume of Tennyson oper at the “Charge of the Light Brig: The mathematician took the be began to read aloud, thus “Half a league, half a league. hal league then he banged the book down, exclain ing impatiently: “Well, if the fool mean: a league and a half why in thunder didn say s0?"—Boston Transcript