Life — August 9, 1883 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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THREE OF A KIND. Ovrk highly esteemed contemporary, the Mew York Times, says that a number of the friends of John Devoy, editor of the /rish Nation, visited him in prison at Blackwell Island, and, on being shown through the institution expressed themselves as “highly pleased.” The inference? A SouTHERN Ex-Concressman had his pocket picked on a Macon Train last week, losing $5000 by the operation. The thief is said to be Macon tracks, THE QUEENS COUNTY FOX. It gives us great pleasure to acknowledge receipt of the drawings of Mr. Thos, A. Edison's automatic, reversible fox, for which letters patent have just been issued. The invention consists of the skin of a real fox, stuffed with anise and caramels, which, by aid of a powerful electro motor, concealed in the hindlegs, will lead the hounds a chase of exactly six miles and then lie down and curl up. A streamer of pulu, in imitation of a real tail, is serewed in appropriately and may be detached and. given away asa trophy. The retail price of the animal is $16, forty extra tails included. Four of these automatic foxes are now used by the Queens County Hunt. THE POETRY OF THE MILLENIUM. HE thingness of which is the whereness of the who; An old woman lived with her kids in a shoe. Multum in parvo, vox populi Dei ; Walt Whitman's fame was considered too fly. Green apples, green peaches will make the boy sick— The Lily of Jersey Must learn how to kick. The boy who plays hookey too often at school, Will think his dad’s brogan the hoof of a mule. R for an oyster, all months for a clam, The day has gone by for Mary's dude lamb. In days of the vista a man was a fool, Who challenged a like one to fight him a duel. A corer in pork Is a very bad thing, When the cornerer feels the relapse of the swing. Prize fighting eschew, let the past have its day Of fisticuffs brutal and breadbasket play. If you want to be wise, remember the adage— “ The days of the old was considered a bad age.” H. S. Kecier. REGARDLESS of expense—the man who can “hang it up.” “Music by the band "—an organette’s. Tuis paragraph is like certain convicts—“‘in for Lire.” To THE “bitter” end—the searcher for a cock-tail. GENEROUS to a fault—the owner of said fault. A STANDING “ store Indian. A park horse—the night- mare, A KniGuT of the razor—Sat- urday night. THE verge of death—dic- verge. ad "—a cigar- comicbooks.com