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WHAT HE FORGOT A farmer, noted for his forget fulness and absent-mindedness, went to a town recently and transacted his business with the utmost precision. He started on his way home, however, with the firm conviction that he had for gotten something, but what it was he could not recall. As he neared home, the conviction in creased, and three times he stop ped his horse and went carefully through his pocketbook in a vain endeavor to discover what he had forgotten. In due course he ar rived home, and was met by his daughter, who looked at him in surprise and exclaimed: "Why, father, where have you left mother?" " A Gloomy Guest. At a wedding the best man no ticed that one of the guests, a gloomy young man, did not seem to be enjoying himself. He was wandering about as though he had lost his best friend, and he took it upon himself to cheer him up. "Er have you- kissed the bride?" he asked, by way of an in troduction. "Not lately," -.replied the gloomy one, with a far-away expression. Customer I shall want a large quantity of flowers from-you next week for my daughter's coming out. Flower Woman Yes, mum You shall have the very best for her, poor dear! What was she ut in for? TH OFFjlCE BUN t)H " ZaJERfe ISS SUNcif ; (COMlNQ UP FROM Mrt SA OFflCe. I HAFAH itSA dirt -. J 3EY Jfc6 GOIHG. T& siIn Slve M5 A esefid , l! THE FREEZING LIMIT An American and a Scotchman were discussing the extent of cold experienced in the north of Scotland. "Why.it's nothing at all com pared to the cold we have in tl United States," said the Amer, can. "I recollect one winter whe: a sheep, jumping from a hill in $ field, became suddenly frozen o the way and stuck-ln the air lik a lump of ice." . , "But, - man," explained the Scotchman, "the law of gravity wouldn't allow that j" "I knowihat," said the AmerijT can, "but the law of "gravity va frozen, too,!: H A ' ' 9B ! Ik " ii 'jffftjfl A,m !&&