tant, and Jewish religions, to pay him homage. Buddha, very
flattered, told each of them that if they would express a wish, it
would be fulfilled.

"What do you wish?" he asked the Catholic.

The answer was "Glory."

"You shall have it," said Buddha, and turning to the Protestant, "What
do you wish?"

"Money."

"You shall have it."

"And you?" This to the Jew.

"I do not want much," quoth he; "give me the Protestant's address!"

Father Duffy is credited by the New York World with this after-dinner
story:

"An old sexton asked me, 'Father, weren't the Apostles Jews?' I said
they were. Puzzled, he demanded: 'Then how the deuce did the Jews let
go of a good thing like the Catholic Church and let the Eytalians grab
it?'"--_The Outlook_.

In the latest number of the Unpartizan Review Henry Holt tells the
following anecdote as used by John Hay:

"Two Jews," he said, "were rescued from a raft by a Cunarder. Both
were pretty well used up, when one saw the vessel and murmured, 'A
sail, a sail!' The other who was stretched on the raft revived long
enough to exclaim, 'Mein Gott! I haf no gatalog!'"

JOKES

_Life of a Joke_

1--Appears in LIFE.

2--Copied in newspaper.

3--Used in almanac.

4--Filler on theater program.

5--Furnishes a laugh in vaudeville.

6--After-dinner speaker tells it.

7--Translated in foreign papers.

8--Retranslated back. Goes rounds of American papers once more.

9--Sent to LIFE as original.--_Life_.

"Pop, what do we mean by a good listener?"

"A good listener, my son, is a man to whom it is possible to tell a
funny story without reminding him of one of his own."

JUDGE--"You are charged with profanity."

PRISONER--"How can that be, your honor, when I was arrested for
getting rid of it?"

JUDGE--"Ten days for swearing. Thirty days for that joke."

POST--"Scribbler says if you can judge of the future by the past, his
work will live for thousands of years."

PARKER--"Let's see. Just what does Scribbler write?"

POST--"Jokes."

MRS. LESSNER--"Do you think it's true that poor Lydia hasn't smiled
since her marriage?"

MRS. SHORTWELL--"I think it's very likely. You know her husband is a
professional humorist."

The good die young was never said of a joke.

Why are jokes preceded by the so-called title, which is virtually the
conclusion, or what Twain termed the "nub"? The understanding of it
implies the reading of the joke first, and yet i