Flashes Of Fun

"I do not believe that I have a true friend in the world." "So yoij bave been trying to borrow money, toó, íiave you?"- Truth. Willie- "Are you the nearest felative I've got, mamma?" Mother - 'Yes, love, and your pa te the closest rolative you've got."-"-üdge. "Miss Yam isn't at all musical." "How do you know?" "I offered to sing 'Oh, Promise me,' last night, and she said she'd promiee anything if I wouldn't." - Pittsburg Chronlcle. Jablin- "Jaggins called me a mpnkey. How can you stand that?" Dilbey - "What would you advise me to do about it?" Jablin- "Make him prove it, of course." - Roxbury Gazette. "Yes, in some respeots my wiíe is much like that lightning change artist." "Why?" "Oh, I have known her to change her mind six times in one minute."- Phíladelphia North American. Biggs - "Some of the stuff that poet lauréate turns out makes me tired! Here's a poem that any ordinary versified could write." Boggs - "Yes, but most of them wouldn't." - New York Press. He (playfully)- "How oíd are you, Miss Browne?" She - "I cannot tell a lie, I " "Oh, if tfhat is the case, I will not take a mean advantage of you. I withdraw the question." - Cincinnati Enquirer. Kitson - "A foolish" NewYork artist has just married an Indian who posed for several of her pictures." Thatcher - "Well, I suppose she was looking for i model itusband."- Philadelphia North American. Miss Keedick - "What an awful talker Mr. Gilley is, and how little he says when he speaks!" Mies Kittish -"The poor fellow is troubled with an impediment in his thoughts."- New York World. "How did you daré teil my father that you have a prospect of a hundred thousand dollars a year?" she asked. "Why," he answered in righteous indignation, "I have - if I marry you."- Washington Star. He - "Your affection seemsto have cooled with the weather." She- "That is thp ftXctív Vou knnw that a