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THE CHOWANl/ J, CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO, N. C.
Thursday, January 17, 1924.
* SMILES
Glen Smith—Have you learned
your Franklin’s “Gettysburg Ad
dress?” We have to report on it to
morrow.
Miss Robinson—In chemistry lab.
What is the formula for gasoline?
Student—G. 0.
“Really,” gasped the automobilist,
bending over his victim, “really, I
didn’t hit you intentionally.”
“Aw, gon,” returned the fallen one
belligerently. Whatcher got that
bumper on year car for, if you don’t
aim to go running into people?”
“Willie,” asked the teacher, “what
was it Sir Walter Raleigh said when
he placed his cloak on the muddy road
for the beautiful queen to walk
over?”
Willie, the ultra-modern, gazed
about the class-room in dismay, and
then taking a long chance, replied:
“Step on it, kid!”
“What kind of auto have you?”
“An ‘Ash’ ”.
“What kind of car is an ‘Ash?’
Oh, a second hand ‘Coal’ ”.
Brown—I’m the most forgetful
man in the world.
Black—Why don’t you buy a fliv
ver?
Brown—What for?
Black—That will jog your mem
ory.
A city couple on a drive through
the country in the late aurtimn pulled
up beside a small orchard and helped
themselves to apples in large quanti
ties. The conscience bothering them
somewhat, however, they stopped in
front of the farmhouse which adjoin
ed the orchard and called to the
farmer who was on the front porch.
“We helped ourselves to your ap
ples,” said the woman. “Just thought
we’d tell you.”
“Oh, thats all right,” said the farm
er, “I helped myself to your tools
when you were in the orchard.”
The Sammy—Over in America we
gotta lilac bush fifty feet high.
The Tommy—I wish I could lilac
that.—Cassell’s Saturday Journal.
“What’ll you have?” asked the
waiter.
“I’m not predicting,” replied the
weary citizen. “I’m going to order a
cup of strong coffee with fresh
cream and a steak underdone. Then
I’m going to eat what you bring me
and say no more.”—London Opinion.
Professor—This is the third time
you’ve looked on Jones’ paper.
Student—Yes, sir, he doesn’t write
very plainly.
The Wild Honker—Don’t you en
joy listening to the honk of the wild
goose?
“Not when he’s driving an auto
mobile.”
Some of the matrons of this com
munity went to see “The Good For
Nothing Husband” la.^t week. Cer
tain other married ladies didn’t have
A
to go.
“You say woman is happiest after
thirty-five?”
“Yes, she then has a husband or
isn’t going to get one. In either case
she is resigned.”
Frenchman—Ou, la, la! I enjoy
ze shoeball game so much!
Wop—You maka me laugh! Ha, ha,
ha!
“Make you laugh? Porquoi?”
“You say shoeball, ha, ha!”
“Shoeball.—oui!”
“Such ignorance! Not shoeball—
feetball! — Georgia Tech. Yellow
Jacket.
Scientific Management
Mrs. Kidless—I hear the Nurse
maids’ Union is on strike. What’s it
all about?”
Mrs. Multikids—This time they’re
demanding taximeters on the babies’
perambulators.—Boston Globe.
True Chivalry
The genius of a certain Arkansas
editor showed itself recently when he
printed the following news item in
the local columns of his paper:
“Miss Beulah Blank, a Batesville
belle of twenty summers, is visiting
her twin brother, age thirty-two”—
Arkansas Taxpayer.
Lawless Proceeding
The teacher was giving the class a
lecture on “gravity.”
“Now, children,” she said, “it is the
law of gravity that keeps us on this
earth.”
“But please, teacher,” inquired one
small child, “how did we stick on be
fore the law was passed?”—The Tat
tler, (London.)
AUo Like a Fish
Bella—Dick’s awful poetical. When
I accepted him he said he felt like an
immigrant entering a strange
country.
Donna Well, go he was!
Bella—An immigrant, why?
Donna—Wasn’t he just ‘landed*—
London Mail.
Great Head
Mr. Gassam—Yes, I suppose I can
claim to be a financial success, and
just think, I started business with a
shoestring.
Miss Green—Mercy! It’s genius!
A man who could get anybody to buy
one shoestring couldn’t help but suc
ceed.—Boston Transcript.
Somewhat, But Not Quite
A little fellow was learning from
his aunt about Grant, Lee, and other
famous leaders of the Civil War. “Is
that the same Grant we pray to in
church?” he inquired innocently.
“Pray to in church? You are mis
taken, dear,” said the aunt.
“No, I’m not,” he insisted, “for
during service we always say, ‘Grant’
we beseech Thee, to hear us.”—Bos
ton Transcript.
The Longer the Higher
“Agnes is looking as young as
ever.”
“Yes, but she says it costs her
more every year.”—Boston Trans
cript.
TOMORROW?
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