Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — Couldn’t See the Joke. [ARTICLE]

Couldn’t See the Joke.

What constitutes the point of a joke it largely a matter of opinion. A German one day expressed himself us being somewhut offended because an American gentleman had asserted that his Teutonic countrymen could not, as a rule, appreciate American jokes. “Try one on me,” said he, defiantly, and the American according told him the story of the tree “out West” which was so high that it took two men to see to the top. One oi them saw as far as he could, and then the second began to look at the spot where the first stopped seeing. The recital did not raise the ghost of a smile upon the German’s face, and the other said to him, “Well yon seethe joke is lost on you. You can’t appreciate American humor." “Oh. but,” said the German, with the frankness characteristic of his countrymen, “that is not humor—that is one lie!”—[New York Dispatch. Hawaii has a total population of 100,000: Native population, 35,000; halfcasts, 6,000: Chinese, 15,000; Japanese, 12,000; Americans, 2,000; foreign parentage, 7,500. Imports valued at $7,000,000; exports, $13,280,000. Schools, 178; of these thirty-six are native schools; pupils in all, 10,000. Native churches, fifty-nine; communicants, 5,427. Foreign churches, eleven; membership, 1,190.-