Life — December 27, 1883 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: oenold Holiday Exhibition —or— CHOICE ORIENTAL - FINE RUGS We are now offering the largest purchase ever made in the above goods, and are confi- dent that Buyers of choice Holiday Presents will find an inspection of them exceedingly interesting and profitable. We are enabled to offer them at exceedingly Low and Satis- factory Prices. An examination is respect- fully solicited. Prsadoray L 1 9th él. NEW YORK. 1 willnevee buy any but And I wil never sell any HARTSHORNS ROLLERS — but HARTSHORNS! GOSSAMER GARMENTS FREE | To any renter of this paper wi try to Gar Retoer Wore ee this eut and return with £5 cents to pay cout, portage, ete, Boston Supply Co., Dover Street, Boston, Mass. ‘yea eat Artistic Presents. Messrs. M. KNOEDLER & Co. invite attention to their fine collection of Modern Oil Paintings, Water Color Drawings, Engravings, and other art products suitable for Holiday presents. The list of paintings comprises the works of all the best known artists of the day. Goupit GALLery, OPEN EVENINGS, Common Sense Binder FOR BINDING - LIFE: Cheap, Strong and Durable, Will hold 26 numbers. Matled to any part of the United States for $1. Address, office of ‘+ LIFE,” 1155 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. WILLIAM POLLOCK, BANKER AND BROKER, No, 25 Pine St., N.Y. All issues of Government Securities, Bank Shares, Rail- way Stocks and Bonds bought and sold on commission or ihe, camed on a margin. Special attention given to lavest- low Interest ‘on deposits. WILLIAM POLLOCK, Memper New York Stock EXxcnance. ments. viedridpshall rient and well tried curative for r Called by Dr. J. von Liebig ‘a Treasure of Nature,"" on account of its high degree of Chlorides. Recom- mended as a mild ape- lar use by such medical authorities as «Sir Henry Thompson, Virchow, Frerichs, and others. NATURAL BITTER-WATER. Cures constipation, headache, orders of stomach and bowels, gravel, gout, contion, the blood. digestion, hemorrhoids, chronic catarrhal dis- iseases peculiar to females, and impurities of To be had of all leading Grocers and Druggists everywhere. Press of Gilliss Brothers, 75 & 77 Fulton Street, N.Y. A STORY FOR LITTLE FOLKS WITH A MORAL FOR BiG FOLKS, ‘ ST. NICHOLAS. * TWAS the night before Christmas, but not as of old» In song and in rhyme we have often been told, When big folks and little folks laid d8wn their heads In gentle quiescence to sleep on their beds. Oh, no! for the boys and the girls stayed awake During most of the night, preparation to make To be happy and merry in various ways On the best and the brightest of festival days, he night was far spent and the day was at band With all of the patience they had at command, ‘They wanted to see with their eyes and make proof That St, Nicholas verily rode on the roof In his cunning device of an old-fashioned sleigh And came down the chimney the regular way. Hark! Hark! the bells jingle, and here comes But what is the matter? bes see his new tric He comes by the way of the chimney no more, But halts with his reindeer right down at the door. With care he alights and remarks, "* Now, you sec, ‘No more of that old chimney nonsense for me. “ Last Christmas, at midnight, my team ran away * And suddenly tossed me clear out of my sleigh. t wounded my head and it fractured my leg; ‘ow show me compassion and pity, I beg. used to be spry; now I can't do'as much, ‘or I'm limping around on a cane and a crutch, yor six weary months I was laid up in bed, “* With the break in my leg and the gash in my head, But received all that time fifty dollars a week, “Which kept me contented and happy and meek. he UNITED STATES MUTUAL ACCIDENT plan fakes pleasant provision for every wise man. “How thoughtful | was when 1 took itin time, * And how happy [ am now to tell it in rhyme! For ten thousand dollars my life I insured, “ And thus Mrs. Nicholas, too, is secured, So th: ‘another mishap, I step out, “That old lady will then, beyond doubt, “Continue the business, still at the old stand, “With such a cash capital safely in hand, * Yes, yes! Here are trinkets and goodies and toys * To stuff up the stockings of girls and of boys. > © Bue I've far better business than this, you may know, s I drive in my sleigh o'er the crisp, ‘crackling snow, Jive these policies, please, to papa aod mamma, ‘And mention what elegant presents they are.” Then St. Nicholas hobbled again to his sleigh, And took hold of the lines in his old-fashioned way, Ane shouted with ne shouted w » a8 he drove out of sight, “Get an Accident olicy! Merry good-night.”” ass Re Prrcian, Secretary. j20 Broadway, New York. Es "ae Insure against Accidents in the Old Reliable, the United States Mutual Accident Association, 320 and 322 Broadwayy. New York. The Oldest, Largest, Strongest and Surest Mutual Accident Association in the World. Saves to its members one-half the usual cost of accident insurance. Every valid claim paid immediately upon receipt of proofs.” Membership Fee, $4. $sooo Accident Insuran with $s Weekly Indemalty. costs about $12 per annum! $10,000 Insurance, with $50 per week, at corresponding | rates. To become a Member, write for Circular, and Applic tion Blank, fll out the Application, inclose $4 and f ittotl retary, hich i i 5 the Secretary.on receipt of which policy will be | Cxtarces B. Pret (of Rogers, Peet & Co.), President, | James R, Prrcner, Secretary” comicbooks.com PURE RIES SPLINE OE Pee a ED TET