A boy took a position in an office where two different telephones were installed.

“Your wife would like to speak to you on the ’phone, sir,” he said to his employer.

“Which one?” inquired the boss, starting toward the two booths.

“Please, sir, she didn’t say, and I didn’t know that you had more than one.”

An Englishman was being shown the sights along the Potomac.  “Here,” remarked the American, “is where George Washington threw a dollar across the river.”

“Well,” replied the Englishman, “that is not very remarkable, for a dollar went much further in those days than it does now.”

The American would not be worsted, so, after a short pause, he said:  “But Washington accomplished a greater feat than that.  He once chucked a sovereign across the Atlantic.”

Pat was busy on a road working with his coat off.  There were two Englishmen laboring on the same road, so they decided to have a joke with the Irishman.  They painted a donkey’s head on the back of Pat’s coat, and watched to see him put it on.  Pat, of course, saw the donkey’s head on his coat, and, turning to the Englishmen, said: 

“Which of yez wiped your face on me coat?”

A district leader went to Sea Girt, in 1912, to see the Democratic candidate for President.  In the course of an animated conversation, the leader, noticing that Governor Wilson’s eyeglasses were perched perilously near the tip of his nose remarked:  “Your glasses, Governor, are almost on your mouth.”

“That’s all right,” was the quick response.  “I want to see what I’m talking about.”

According to the London Globe two Germans were halted at the French frontier by the customs officers.  “We have each to declare three bottles of red wine,” said one of the Germans to the douaniers.  “How much to pay?”

“Where are the bottles?” asked the customs man.

“They are within!” laughed the Teuton making a gesture.

The French douanier, unruffled, took down his tariff book and read, or pretended to read:  “Wines imported in bottles pay so much, wines imported in barrels pay so much, and wines en peaux d’ane pay no duty.  You can pass, gentlemen.”

A small boy was hoeing corn in a sterile field by the roadside, when a passer-by stopped and said: 

“’Pears to me your corn is rather small.”

“Certainly,” said the boy; “it’s dwarf corn.”

“But it looks yaller.”

“Certainly; we planted the yaller kind.”

“But it looks as if you wouldn’t get more than half a crop.”

“Of course not; we planted it on halves.”

REPORTING

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REPUBLICAN PARTY

The morning after a banquet, during the Democratic convention in
Baltimore, a prominent Republican thus greeted an equally well-known
Democrat: