"Poor little devil! I wonder whose dog it was?"
FAVORED HIGH SALARIES
A country minister was one day talking to one of his flock who ventured the opinion that ministers ought to be better paid.
"I am glad to hear you say that," the minister, "I am pleased that you think so much of the clergy; and so you think we should have bigger stipends?"
"Yes," said the old man, "ye see we'd get a better class of men."
AN ENERGETIC VIDOCQ
A man who was "wanted" by the police had been photographed in six different positions, and the pictures were duly circulated among the police. A few days after the set of portraits had been issued, the chief of police in a county town wrote to police headquarters of the city in search of the malefactor as follows:
"I duly received the pictures of the six miscreants whose capture is desired. I have arrested five of them, and the sixth is under observation and will be secured shortly."
A LAWYER'S JOKE
Some time ago a well-known lawyer remitted in settlement of an account to the publisher of a paper in the West a two dollar bill which was returned with the brief statement: "This note is counterfeit; please send another."