"Yes," said the man doubtfully, "but it's s-s-such a d-d-deucedly d-d-d-difficult rem-mark to w-w-work into an ordin-n-nary c-c-convers-s-sa-tion, y' know."
STATESMEN
A statesman is a deal politician.--_Mr. Dooley_.
A statesman is a man who finds out which way the crowd is going, then jumps in front and yells like blazes.
STATISTICS
An earnest preacher in Georgia, who has a custom of telling the Lord all the news in his prayers, recently began a petition for help against the progress of wickedness in his town, with the statement:
"Oh, Thou great Jehovah, crime is on the increase. It is becoming more prevalent daily. I can prove it to you by statistics."
PATIENT--"Tell me candidly, Doc, do you think I'll pull through?"
DOCTOR--"Oh, you're bound to get well--you can't help yourself. _The Medical Record_ shows that out of one hundred cases like yours, one per cent invariably recovers. I've treated ninety-nine cases, and every one of them died. Why, man alive, you can't die if you try! There's no humbug in statistics."
STEAK
"Can I get a steak here and catch the one o'clock train?"
"It depends on your teeth, sir."
STEAM
"Can you tell what steam is?" asked the examiner.
"Why, sure, sir," replied Patrick confidently. "Steam is--Why--er--it's wather thos's gone crazy wid the heat."
STEAMSHIPS AND STEAMBOATS
"That new steamer they're building is a whopper," says the man with the shoe button nose.
"Yes," agrees the man with the recalcitrant hair, "but my uncle is going to build one so long that when a passenger gets seasick in one end of it he can go to the other end and be clear away from the storm."
STENOGRAPHERS
A beautiful statuesque blond had left New York to act as stenographer to a dignified Philadelphian of Quaker descent. On the morning of her first appearance she went straight to the desk of her employer.
"I presume," she remarked, "that you begin the day over here the same as they do in New York?"
"Oh, yes," replied the employer, without glancing up from a letter he was reading.
"Well, hurry up and kiss me, then," was the startling rejoinder, "I want to get to work."
STOCK BROKERS
A grain broker in New Boston, Maine, Said, "That market gives me a pain; I can hardly bear it, To bull--I don't dare it, For it's going against the grain."
--_Minnesota Minne-Ha-Ha_.
STRATEGY
A bird dog belonging to a man in Mulvane disappeared last week. The owner put this "ad" in the paper and insisted that it be printed exactly as he wrote it:
LOST OR RUN AWAY--One livver culered burd dog called Jim. Will show signs of hyderfobby in about three days. The dog came home the following day.
"Boy, take these flowers to Miss Bertie Bohoo, Room 12."
"My, sir, you're the fourth gentleman wot's sent her flowers to-day."
"What's that? What the deuce? W--who sent the others?"
"Oh, they didn't send any names. They all said, 'She'll know where they come from.'"