K 0 0 T I E S
PEDANTIC PEDRO: • .
"Mac": ”\i/hat* s the difference between sto.ic and cynic?"
Pedro:- "A stoic is a bird what brings -babies; a cynic is
where you wash dishes when youVre on K.P• "
"Pickin’s',1 quoth Corporal Porter as he viewed the pile of frozen
coal sacks.
DID YOU KNOW 3HATY - ,, • - - •
"Sulechan" (miscalled "hooligan") is the.English name for that
fish, its Chilkat nano being "ssahk."
An expedition consisting of .five officers and 22 enlisted men were
, .ordered from Vancouver to Haines in 1898 to proceed with 384 reindeer and
•six months’ supplies to Dawson over Dalton Trail.
It was th.e custom among the Chilkats in early days to pierce the
lips of the female when she came to the age of puberty and to insert a small
round peice of bone* or silver ’’here it remained as long as she as single.
Cook Norris of E states he does not believe the rumor that the
Post is going to leave here, it would look kind of strange# Imagine '-he
sentry at Vancouver when o:i halting a column of buildings an! several hun**
dred of acres of land, ho receives tha answer "Chilkoot Barracks in answer
to his challenge.
A college professar in *Jeat; Virginia is the.aut.hor of a volume
entitled "Insects and Pests”. Hie work is "Dedicated to ify life.
The following is an extract-from a letter witten to.a concern
manufacturing hair tonic:— "Hto years-ago I had three bald, spots* I start
ed using you tonic andnow I have but one." . . •
Pedro claims that new meon means bad luck wnetner it* s seen .over
the left shoulder or not* 1
, Dr* C*7* Greene of the University of Missouri reports having dis
covered a fish that "shouts” and carries its own lights in the waters of
^onterey bay, California. The fish’has a U-shaped bladder in which it drives
the gaseous contents from one end to the other, passing through a small con
nection, with such force as to cause a loud noise. In addition it sports
350 phosphorescent ii3k3* 3oy t^age the Pur Salmon 1
•By George T.. Masury.
A local radio.fan.was listening in on a'broadcasted-sermon last
Sunday .evening. Vi/hen the preacher announced the customary offering would
be received, the local fan disconnected the apparatus.
Mike: "I’m going to marry a doctor’s daughter, 30 l can'get
well for nothing,"
Ike: "\7hy don't you marry a minister’s laughter 30 you can be
good for nothing?"
Kiddo: "My sister got a pearl from an ovseer."
Kidder:” 'That’s nothing* My sis’Ger got a diamond from a lobster."