HER "KISMET"
A fashionable woman had a bit of statuary bearing the inscription "Kismet." A housemaid dusting the room asked the mistress:
"Shure, m'am, what's the m'anin' of the 'ritin' on the bottom of this?"
"Oh, you mean 'Kismet.' It means 'fate,'" replied the mistress.
Bridget was limping painfully when out with her sweetheart not long afterward, and he asked: "What's the matter, Bridget?"
"Faith," was the answer, "I have the most terrible corns on me kismet."
GOOD REASON
Representative Adamson, of Georgia, says that when he was judge of his county court a fellow was before him charged with having stolen a pair of pantaloons--they call them "britches" in Georgia. There were several witnesses, but the evidence was rather meagre, and the accused was acquitted. He was told that he could go, but he remained in his seat. His lawyer, to whose successful defense he owed his liberty, hinted to him that he was free to depart, but he didn't budge.
"I don't want to go," said the fellow.
"And why?" asked the lawyer.