An Inflated Ambition



THE President of a great Corporation went into a dry-goods shop and
saw a placard which read:

"If You Don't See What You Want, Ask For It."

Approaching the shopkeeper, who had been narrowly observing him as
he read the placard, he was about to speak, when the shopkeeper
called to a salesman:

"John, show this gentleman the world."



Rejected Services



A HEAVY Operator overtaken by a Reverse of Fortune was bewailing
his sudden fall from affluence to indigence.

"Do not weep," said the Reverse of Fortune. "You need not suffer
alone. Name any one of the men who have opposed your schemes, and
I will overtake HIM."

"It is hardly worth while," said the victim, earnestly. "Not a