"Yes, and here it is. I was keeping it for you!" replied the individual who had opposed a stop.
"Thanks. You are an honest man. If there were more men like you this would be a better world to live in. Here—have a cigar."
—Detroit Free Press.
One Idea of It.
Farmer Railfence—Just think, Maria! Squire Hawkins has built himself a thirty-thousand-dollar house, and I'll be blamed if he's got any decent glass in the whole of it.
Maria—What's he got, Ephraim?
Farmer Railfence—Paper says stained glass from cellar to garret. Nice glass, Maria, wouldn't have cost but little more than a lot of worthless stained stuff.
—Rochester Budget.