“SHUFFLE BOARD.”
Now any citizen of the United States who votes, and is eligible to the Presidency, ought to know how many States there are in his beloved country without thinking, but how many are there who can say, off-hand? And so poor Thompson answered:—
“What a question! Of course I know.”
“Bet ye bottle ye don’t!”
“Done. There are—”
THE YOUNG MAN FROM CHICAGO.
And then Thompson would find himself figuring the very important problem as to whether Colorado had been admitted, and Nevada, and Oregon, and he would decide that one had and the other hadn’t, and finally state the number, with great certainty that it was wrong.