Eager for Absorption.
Citizen (to tramp)—Poor fellow! You look as if you had been in the soup.
Tramp (half famished)—For heaven's sake, tell me on which side to open my mouth.
—Burlington Free Press.
There is nothing novel in the announcement that Mrs. Chamer has abandoned literature. Amelie's literature has always been more or less abandoned.
—Omaha Bee.
Le Sawft—Why, captain, what in the world is that flat boat for?
Captain—That is for use in landing dudes.
—Ocean.
Claus Spreckels wants to build houses of sugar. If an apartment building of this material is erected we are willing to take a sweet of rooms.
—Lawrence American.