NURSE GIRL—­“Oh, ma’am, what shall I do?  The twins have fallen down the well!”

FOND PARENT—­“Dear me! how annoying!  Just go into the library and get the last number of The Modern Mother’s Magazine; it contains an article on ‘How to Bring Up Children.’”

SURGEON AT NEW YORK HOSPITAL—­“What brought you to this dreadful condition?  Were you run over by a street-car?”

PATIENT—­“No, sir; I fainted, and was brought to by a member of the Society of First Aid to the Injured.”—­Life.

A prominent physician was recently called to his telephone by a colored woman formerly in the service of his wife.  In great agitation the woman advised the physician that her youngest child was in a bad way.

“What seems to be the trouble?” asked the doctor.

“Doc, she done swallered a bottle of ink!”

“I’ll be over there in a short while to see her,” said the doctor.  “Have you done anything for her?”

“I done give her three pieces o’ blottin’-paper, Doc,” said the colored woman doubtfully.

FISH

A man went into a restaurant recently and said, “Give me a half dozen fried oysters.”

“Sorry, sah,” answered the waiter, “but we’s all out o’ shell fish, sah, ‘ceptin’ eggs.”

Little Elizabeth and her mother were having luncheon together, and the mother, who always tried to impress facts upon her young daughter, said: 

“These little sardines, Elizabeth, are sometimes eaten by the larger fish.”

Elizabeth gazed at the sardines in wonder, and then asked: 

“But, mother, how do the large fish get the cans open?”

FISHERMEN

At the birth of President Cleveland’s second child no scales could be found to weigh the baby.  Finally the scales that the President always used to weigh the fish he caught on his trips were brought up from the cellar, and the child was found to weigh twenty-five pounds.

“Doin’ any good?” asked the curious individual on the bridge.

“Any good?” answered the fisherman, in the creek below.  “Why I caught forty bass out o’ here yesterday.”

“Say, do you know who I am?” asked the man on the bridge.

The fisherman replied that he did not.

“Well, I am the county fish and game warden.”

The angler, after a moment’s thought, exclaimed, “Say, do you know who I am?”

“No,” the officer replied.

“Well, I’m the biggest liar in eastern Indiana,” said the crafty angler, with a grin.

A young lady who had returned from a tour through Italy with her father informed a friend that he liked all the Italian cities, but most of all he loved Venice.

“Ah, Venice, to be sure!” said the friend.  “I can readily understand that your father would like Venice, with its gondolas, and St. Markses and Michelangelos.”