When you see a young man cleaning a girl's bicycle, they are engaged; but when you see the operation reversed, they are married.
She (approvingly)—You won her hand, then?
He (rather glumly)—Humph—I presume so. I'm under her thumb.
"What is the difference between the admission to a dime museum and the admission to Sing Sing?"
"Don't know. What?"
"One is ten cents and the other is sentence."
"A man at the hotel wanted to bet that Corbett would knock out Jeffries."