The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1930, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930 TRIBUNE'S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATUR | “They've been teaching us in art class to make our own presents. So we're going to give each other lamp shades.” NOW YOU TELL ONE TOUGH DIET ‘Three Nebraska moonshiners have received sentences of thirty days on bread and water. The bread will help them get the water down.—Life. MORE DEPRESSION And when those dry congressmen were beaten at the polls, some Wash- ington bootlegger lost a lot of good customers.—Life. Mistress (indignantly): Just look at the dust on this sideboard, Mary. It's ‘at least six weeks’ old! Mary: Then it ain’t nothing to do with me, Mum. I've only been here four weeks.—Pearson's. Cries for help had attracted Fred's attention. A big man was beating a much smaller individual. “Leave him alone!” shouted Fred, who threw himself into the fray and knocked out the big man with a well- timed uppercut. “Thanks,” said the little man after he fad pulled himself together. “Now, look here, you share this ten-pound note I took off 'im.”—Pearsons. Another item to worry about. When the navy is scrapped, what will be done with the 20,000,000 bushel crop of beans? Chicago, IlL—A beggar handed a cop, off duty, a card on which he had written “I am deaf & dumb—can you help me?” But this cop had learned the one-hand deaf mute alphabet, so he made rapid motions with his fing- ers. When the man smiled, the po- liceman arrested him, for he had told the mendicant in sign language that he was # liar.—Life. A Professor: Science has made such progress that we can now send pic-| tures by wireless. Lady in Audience: Really, ready framed?—Der Lustige Sachse, Leip- vig. | HARE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW Rabbits are being shipped from Texas to New Jersey to replenish that state's rapidly vanishing wild life. It was not considered practicable to rub rNew Jersey with hare restorer.—Life. From an anonymous clown comes the report that Chicago is so tough that the flies out there use Flit for Perfume.—New York Mirror. “George,” she thundered as she came upon an unopened bottle of whiskey while unpacking for a week- end’s camping. “What's the meaning of this?” “That's all right, my dear. I brought it along to stick a candle in when it’s empty.”—Tit-Bits. “T think this scenery is just heaven- y. “Um, I don't know. Take away the mountains and the lake and it is just like anywhere else.”—Lustige Koelner Zeitung, Cologne. “Never eat when in a bath,” says a doctor. Of course it is dangerous to sing with the mouth full—Punch. Young Mother: The landlord called jtoday and I paid the months rent jand showed him baby. | Young Father. (of crying baby): I |should have preferred it if you had |shown him the rent and given him 'paby.—London Opinion. | Paterson, N. J—In ten years, half of the tuberculosis in this country |could be eliminated if people would stop kissing, according to Basil G. Eaves, representative of the National Tuberculosis association. He acknowledged that was “imprac- \tical” and so the Paterson Tubercu- losis and Health League went on with \Plans for its annual Christmas seal [camapatan.—Lafe. | Daily Cross-word Puzzle | ACROSS 1. Small tree 16 Prickly plant 12, Sun god 18 Narrow fabric 1% Flowed 20, Pouch 21. Territorial division of Norway 23, Small topho- branch tish 26, Symbol for tellurium 22. Performs or 30. Fink 32. Upri 34. Bury 36. Ft 3 rt eas pear 41, Feminine ending p 63. Ourselves 66. Talked ehild- Hsht; Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 10. 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