The rapidity of ocean transport is becoming truly marvelous. A sea captain boasts that he finished loading a cargo of wheat at San Francisco by dinner time, and then went to China for tea.


"You are making yourself rather officious in this crowd," said a burly policeman to a notorious pickpocket. "I am only trying to dis-purse them," said the thief.


The slats of the shutter of our office-window are in a dilapidated condition. "Please help the blind."


"Did you ever catch your husband flirting?"

"Yes; that's the very way I did catch him."


A deaf and dumb mute recently went into a bicycle shop and picked up a hub and spoke.