"Prove it!" was the retort. "Why, everybody knows it."

   "If you knew it," his honor demanded sarcastically, "why did you marry him?"

   "I didn't know it before I married him."

   The husband interrupted angrily:

   "Yes, she did, too," he shouted. "She did so!"

   A victim of chronic bronchitis called on a well-known physician to be examined. The doctor, after careful questioning, assured the patient that the ailment would respond readily to treatment.

   "You're so sure," the sufferer inquired, "I suppose you must have had a great deal of experience with this disease."

   The physician smiled wisely, and answered in a most confidential manner:

   "Why, my dear sir, I've had bronchitis myself for more than fifteen years."

   *    *    *

   A well-to-do colored man suffered a serious illness, and showed no signs of improvement under treatment by a physician of his own race. So, presently, he dismissed this doctor and summoned a white man. The new

   physician made a careful examination of the patient, and then asked:

   "Did that other doctor take your temperature?"

   The sick man shook his head doubtfully.

   "I dunno, suh," he declared, "I sartinly dunno. All I've missed so far is my watch."

   *    *    *

   A member of the faculty in a London medical college was appointed an honorary physician to the king. He proudly wrote a notice, on the blackboard in his class-room:

   "Professor Jennings informs his students that he has been appointed honorary physician to His Majesty, King George."

   When he returned to the class-room in the afternoon he found written below his notice this line:

   "God save the King."

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