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Too Much Self Confldcnce. The junior clerk was busy footing up long columns of figures, and he was not particularly impressed with the exceedingly dignifiod lookiug stranger who eyed him so severely. "ís Mr. Folio in?" the latter quoried in tones of most exeruciating condescension. "No, " replied the clerk politely, "bxit he will be" - "Ah, back in a few moments, I snpposo. No need for you to go into details. I'll take a seat and wait for him. ' ' In accordance with his last remark, the strauger carefully produced a copy of the daily newspaper from his pocket and was soon deeply absorbed in its contonts. After about an hour had pln.nsod. however. he commenced to eot restless and finally spoko to the juuior clerk again. "May I ask when you expect Mr. Folio to be back?" he questioned in tones that f onned a marked contrast to those he had employed in the first instauce. "In about ten days, " replied the clerk, without even looking up froin his work. "He is off on a vacation. " And the sferanger emerged npon the sidewalk both a meeker and a wiser man. - New York Sunday Journal. Bapid Transition. "I am told that you sometimos hang negro suspects without the formality of a trial' in this state," remarked the visitor. "Wo nevah hang a niggah suspect, j suh," replied the Kentuckian. "A niggah, suh, is a suspect only until he is captnred. After that he becomes a dead. certainty. " - Chicago Times-Herald. Iomestic Cruelty. "I saw Mrs. Higby standing at the ■ winilow weenini?. " "I don't blame her. Mr. Higby was i cleaniug the pavement with that hand painted snow shovel she gave him Christmas. " - Chicago Record. Then He Went Home. He - I went into one of those "crystal maze" shows while I was east, one of those places where you see yonr own reflectiou about a thousand times. She - Oh, how awful! - Ciiiciunati Enquirer. The Science of Medicine. Fashionablé Doctor - John, try and flnd out f rom Baroness Landrath's servants whai summer resort she would like to go to next summer, so I may know what to prescribe for her. - Fliegende Blatter. Always Sorry. "Of course Jim has his faults, but he's couscientious. " "Yes, aftersvard. " - Detroit News.