"OUR FUNNY MAN."

Lake County Press, Issue 2160, 14 March 1907, Page 5

"OUR FUNNY MAN."

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. ' An English clerio, defending the Bishops n the House of Lords, said: ' Their Lordships are not so stiff and starchy as somo people would make them out to be. There is a good heart beating below their gaiters.' Every bald-headed man believes that his active brain has done it. A forlorn Irishman, reduced to the last stage of poverty and destitution, as a last resource made enquiry at a marine store as follows: 'Do you buy rags and bones here ?' ' Yes,' was the reply. ' Then, be jabers, said Pat, ' ye may put me on the soales.' Mark Twain had finished his. speech at a dinner party, and on seating himself a lawyer rose, shoved his hands deep into his trousers pockets, as was his habit, and laughingly inquired of those present: ' Doesn't it strike the company as a little unusual that a professional humorist should be funny?' When the laugh that greeted this Bally had subsided Mark Twain drawled out, ' Doesn't it strike the company as a little unusual that a lawyer should have his hands in his own pockets ?'