Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — He Didn’t See the Joke. [ARTICLE]

He Didn’t See the Joke.

At a public dinner the toast of the ‘•Army, Navy and Reserve Forces” was proposed in terms of equivocal compliment. In submitting the toast the chairman -a well-known personage snid< “This is a toast which requires very little comment from me, as the subject is one with which you are all familiar. Tho Army and Navy have been drank for very many years, aad the Reserves ditto.” The result was an explosion of merriment, the meaning of which it took the genial chairman some little time to understand.—[London Tit Bits. The bret ding <>f parrots in holbensei to be practicable.