FORGOT WHAT ELECTRICITY WAS
"Mr. Blank, can you tell us what electricity is?"
Mr. Blank squirmed in his seat, hemmed and hawed for a time, and finally admitted:
"I did know, professor, but I've forgotten."
The professor gazed at the student with an expression of unspeakable sorrow. Then he said sadly:
"Mr. Blank, you do not know what you have done. Alas! what a sad loss to science! You are the only man that ever lived who has known what electricity is--and you have forgotten."
NOT THE SAME
A young woman who had recently taken charge of a small kindergarten, entered a trolley car the other day, and as she took her seat smiled pleasantly at a gentleman sitting opposite. He raised his hat, but it was evident that he did not know her.
Realizing her error, she said, in tones audible throughout the entire car:
"Oh, please excuse me! I mistook you for the father of two of my children!"