Last Year's Trouble.
Stranger—Your town seems awful dead. Had a scourge of any kind?
Citizen—No.
"No small-pox or yellow fever?"
"No."
"No floods or famine?"
"No."
"Well, what ails your town this year?"
"Nothing ails it this year, but a boom struck it last year."
—Omaha World.
America is not given to jewelry, gauds or trappings, but those familiar with the business say that she has a seal ring.
—Detroit Free Press.
Some one suggests that John L. Sullivan's bust be placed on the new two-cent postage stamps. But Sullivan can't be licked.
—N. Y. News.