MERCHANT (not appreciating the shrug)—"Well, sir, he was a good man."
BROKER (with shrug more pronounced)—"I don't know about that."
MERCHANT (energetically)—"He was a good man, sir. If any man has gone to heaven, General Jackson has gone to heaven."
BROKER (doggedly)—"I don't know about that."
MERCHANT—"Well, sir, I tell you that if Andrew Jackson had made up his mind to go to heaven, you may depend upon it he's there."
DIAGNOSIS
An epileptic dropped in a fit on the streets of Boston not long ago, and was taken to a hospital. Upon removing his coat there was found pinned to his waistcoat a slip of paper on which was written:
"This is to inform the house-surgeon that this is just a case of plain fit: not appendicitis. My appendix has already been removed twice."