Life — March 27, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. EV. J. P. N-N.—If our memory serves us it was not Moses | who wrote ‘‘ Numbers,” but Matthew Arnold. Baron TENNYSON.—Your poem on ‘ Spring ” will parse, but at present we are not paying more than five dollars a line for | poetry, and accordingly it is declined with thanks. ANTHONY C——kK.—We heartily approve of your suggestion to drape the statues of Venus in our museums and picture gal- leries with crinoline and balbriggans. The height of art is to conceal art. Mr. RicHaRD G——T W——e.—It seems probable that the slang phrase, ‘‘ I'll knock the spots out of you,” has a classical origin and significance. Literally, to knock the spots out of a man is to annihilate him. Annihilate is derived from nihi/um, and nxihilum is compounded of mi and Ailum, the latter meaning almost anything you please. Enough is now known to enable Macaulay’s schoolboy to discover the logical nexus between the colloquialism, ‘Ill knock the spots out of you,” and the word nihilum, from whence we get the expression. U. S. G—r.—It is hardly credible that the leaning tower of Pisa is the tower of Babel; and, if so, we do not know what machinery the ancients employed in removing it to its present site. We cannot, verify the quotation from the Sagan af Agli Skallagrimssyni or enlighten you in regard to the original form and attributes of the living antecedent of the protoplasm. We refer you to Joseph Cook. RENDER: VNTO $CIS§SOR$ THOSE THINGS “WHICH ARE SCISSORS A CHICAGO man got hold of the wrong jug the other day and took a big drink of a mixture of kerosene oil and muriatic acid. Then he accused the servant girl of stealing his whiskey and pouring water in the jug to conceal the theft.—Bismarck Tribune. “Yes, you may come again next Sunday evening ; but "—and she hesitated. " ‘* What is it, darling ?_ Have I given you pain ?” he asked, as she still remained silent. ‘‘ You didn’t mean to, I’m sure,” she responded ; ‘‘ but next time please don’t wear one of those collars with the point turning outward."—Amherst Student. M. Dauper takes his notebook everywhere. Once it is related he had a sentimental and dramatic scene with his wife, concerning which he remarked : ‘* This seems, my dear, like a chapter that had slipped out of a novel.” ‘It is more likely, Alphonse,” was the reply, ‘to form a chapter that will slip into a novel."”"— The Tribune. DANIEL WEBSTER once proved that he was the handsomest man in New England. ‘‘ Boston,” said he, ‘is the handsomest town in New England, Tremont is the handsomest street in Boston, Scollay’s are the handsomest buildings in Tremont street, Christopher Gore's office is the handsomest room in Scollay’s building, and Iam (now) the handsomest man in Christopher Gore's office—ergo, I am the handsomest man in New England.”—Free Press. NOT IN THE SERVICE. 7" SoME heartless wretch caught two cats, tied them by the tails, and flung them into the cellar of a Connecticut church. They kept pretty quiet till about the middle of the sermon, when they began to com- plain, and the pastor sternly remarked: * Will the choir please wait till its services are required ?” And the choir denied making any noise; and finally, after long search, the sexton found and removed the cats. And everybody is laughing at the choir, and the way the members thereof are mad at the pastor goes ahead of the wrath of the maiden ladies who owned the cats.—Bos/on Post. HENRY HOLT & CO, N.Y.,, HAVE READY LIFE AND POEMS WALL PAPER. “ Dio Lewis's. Monthly is the grandest Magazine we have ever seen.” Normal Teacher & Examiner, Send 6 cents in stamps for a sample copy OF THEODORE WINTHROP. Edited by His Sister, 12mo, with portrait, $1.50 CALLED BACK, A fascinating novel, by Hugh Conway, 16mo. Leisure Hour Series, $1.00 Leisure Moment Series, 25 cls. IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL SERIES. | | No. 2.—THE PAGANS.. By ARLO Bates. r6m0o, $1. THE FINEST CLOTH OF GOLD | “Straight Mesh ’”’ Cigarette NOW READY. WM. S. KIMBALL & CO., Decorate and Beautify your Homes, Offices, &c. Quaint, RARE AND CurRIous PAPERS BY EMINENT DECORATIVE ARTISTS, I Close Figures given on Large Contracts. If youintend to sell your house, paper it, | as it will bring from $2000 to $3000 more | after having been Papered. Samples and | Book on Decorations mailed free. | | H. BARTHOLOMAE & CO., MAKERS AND IMPORTERS, 124 & 126 W. 33D Sr., (near B’way,) N. Y. | All histrickstanght | by bis assistant. Ad- | | dress Walter Bake | 8) University Pl. EVERY OTHER SATURDAY of this week, has a sermon by Brooke Herford, a | charming Story—the ‘Little Grey Gossip ;" | two other Stories; an account of the early | 542 BROADWAY, | Abolitionists, &c. A. LORING’S and news- dealers. | Dio Lewts’s Monthly $2.50 per year. 25 cents a copy. For SALE BY ALL DEALERS. Agents wanted. Send for terms. FRANK SEAMAN, Pudfisher, New York. ‘A SKIN OF BEAUTY 18 AJOY, FOREVER. Dr. T, Felix Gouraud’ Oriental Cream’ or Magical Beautifier Kemoves Tan, Pimples, kes, Moth Patelies, Kame and Skin PURIFIES as well as Boautifios tho Skin. No other cosmetic will doit, test of thirt and fe ti Brvperly made Accept no counterfeit of the haut ton (a patient) T recommend ‘Gouraud” e least harmful of ‘all the Skin. Preparation He will ose siz. soonths tstug it every Subtileremoves uperfuons hy reieboue te M. RAUD, Sole Prop. 48 by all alate Paicy Goods Deniers, EXvoughou! the U. S. Canadas and Europe, Bowers ot base imitations, $1,000 Reward for arrest and proof of any one selling the same, One “Also Poudre jury tothe skin. NY. comicbooks.com