Hollis Holworthy—Yes, I've been looking up some of my ancestors, and——
Miss Beacon—I guess you found a good many of them up a tree, didn't you?
—Harvard Lampoon.
A burning question among the Rochester newspapers is: "Have bicycles an earnest purpose?" The fellow who has just shot over the handle-bar of one is convinced that they have.
—Buffalo Courier.
Old General Debility was for a time held responsible for the Allegheny baseball team's wretched work in this season's campaign, but now the blame is being divided with old John Barleycorn.
—Pittsburgh Post.