Life — January 25, 1883 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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> TRIE? A TRAGEDY THE PROPOSAL, OLD FARMER'S AL- MANAC. | (Calculated for the latitude of New England, ard found among the assets of a gentleman farmer,lately insolvent.) Oct. 1. Glorious day. Nov.15. Reminds usall of Heaven. Nov. 15 grows cold. Nov. 16 (morning). It grows extremely cold. Nov. 16 (evening). Win- ter sets in, Dec. 1. evening). It Winter begins. Dec. 15. “ Fine winter weather. Dec. 25. It grows wintry. Jan. 5. Blizzard. Jan. 6. Real winter now. Feb. 20. G. P. (Grand Pause.) Feb. 28. The abomination of desolation commences. May 19. The abomination of desolation goeth off in spots. May 20. Hot as perdition. May 21. Much warmer. Tuere is nothing new under the sun, Solomon an- ticipated the modern lamb in Wall street when he described the fool going to the correction of the stocks, Every man is a valet-de-chambre to his hero. TENDER greeting.—Offering a creditor payment in Trade dollars, FINALE. IN THREE ACTS. REJECTED. LITERARY NOTES. se NIMALS and Their Ma * by Sir Arthur Helps, isa new Eng- lish book. If Sir Arthur helps a Kentu animule once, he need write nothing more than an _ autobio- graphic obituary. “Tur Imperial Diction- y" is the name of an inglish work, which evil disposed American publish- ers are trying to dispose of to aconfiding public. But we do not take any Eng lishman in our Dictionary. Daniel Webster is good enough for us. We want a book with all the modern improvements, containing ‘ boom,” and “blizzard,” and “ readjust,” and other Americanisms. RAGNAROK is the Twilight of the Gods.—So says a new book. What then is Rok an’ r DeLaware’s Senatorial watchword.—Saulsbury for ever! Favorit Cannibal Soup.—A broth of a boy. OLp saws must have teeth perforce, hence the phrase, “A biting jest.” A Paris correspondent asserts that “ Sara Bernhardt is not flourishing.” ‘Then ¢s doomsday near ? comicbooks.com