RESEMBLANCES

Senator Blackburn is a thorough Kentuckian, and has all the local pride

of one born in the blue-grass section of his State. He also has the

prejudice against being taken for an Indianian which seems inherent in

all native-born Kentuckians. While coming to Congress, several sessions

ago, he was approached in the Pullman coach by a New Yorker, who, after

bowing politely to him, said:



"Is not this Senator Bl ckburn of Indiana?"



The Kentuckian sprang from his seat, and glaring at his interlocutor

exclaimed angrily:



"No, sir, by ----. The reason I look so bad is I have been sick!"





"Every time the baby looks into my face he smiles," said Mr. Meekins.



"Well," answered his wife, "it may not be exactly polite, but it shows

he has a sense of humor."





Mark Twain constantly received letters and photographs from men who had

been told that they looked like him. One was from Florida, and the

likeness, as shown by the man's picture, was really remarkable so

remarkable, indeed, that Mr. Clemens sent the following acknowledgment:



"My Dear Sir: I thank you very much for your letter and the

photograph. In my opinion you are certainly more like me than

any other of my doubles. In fact, I am sure that if you stood

before me in a mirrorless frame I could shave by you."





NEIGHBOR: "Johnny, I think in looks you favor your mother a great deal."



JOHNNY: "Well. I may look like her, but do you tink dat's a favor?"