The Turtle and the Hare.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1994, 18 April 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Turtle and the Hare.

11 Look hero, waiter," called a feeder ai a city restaurant. " Look at the hair I found in this turtle soup." " Yes, I see. You have heard of the famous race between the turtle and the hare ? " "Yes, what of it?" " Why, in this case the hair and the turtle came in even."— Murat Hahteai.

Sinos a seaside poet : " Alone my lonely watch I keep." You are lucky. Man with the three gold baseballs keeps ours more than three-haWea of the lime.— Burlington 7/ajpfteye.

A woman at Sheldon, Dakota territory, wad very muoh disturbed by a saloon-keeper selling whiiky to her husband. She interviewed th» Baloon-keeper with a six shooter and ordered him to close his plaoe, remarking that she had killed one saloon-keeper and would soon make him a fit subjeot for the undertaker if he> didn't. He dosed.

Two young men walking down the street. ••Bob, here oomes Spillars." " That'a all right ; let him come." " Why, the other day you dodged into a store when you saw him coming." " Yes, but you see I have managed to pay him linoe then.— Arkamaw TravtUerr

iJoMK p&ragraphist says that Franklin did not diflcorer lightning until after he was married. There are many men, not half so great as Franklin, who not only discover lightning after they are married, but catch thunder. — Louisville Courier-Journal.

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