"I guess, ma'am," he mumbled, "I'll resign from my club and join yours."
POLITICS
The little boy interrupted his father's reading of the paper with a petition.
"Please, Daddy, tell me the story about the Forty Thieves."
The father, aroused from his absorption in political news and comment on the campaign, regarded his son thoughtfully for a moment, and then shook his head.
"No," he answered decisively, "you must wait until you're a little older, my son. You're too young to understand politics."
POPULATION
Someone asked a darky from Richmond who was visiting in the North as to the population of the city.
"Ah don't edzakly know, suh," was the reply, "but I opine 'bout a hundred an' twenty-five thousan', countin' de whites."