Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1917 — Didn't Penetrate. [ARTICLE]

Didn't Penetrate.

At a dinner at which he presided, the hlshon of London entered Into conversation with a lady, who in' the course of the talk asked to be allowed to put a conundrum to his lordship, says the Philadelphia Star.. Receiving ready permission, she merrily cried: “Well, then, does the butterfly because the tomato can?" The bishop 'laughed heartily ait the sally; but not so heartily as when, later a young l man approached him. “I want to know, said this person, “about that joke of Miss Brown’s. She asked if the butter flew because the tomato could. Pray tell me what the joke isF