Life — July 3, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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NOWADAYS. HE is a nowadays maiden, And he a most commonplace swain ; She, with her beads and her buckles, He, with his bangs and his cane. She, a pretty New Yorker, He, a Columbia man ; Each struggling for social successes As only a New Yorker can. But they meet, and they love, and are wedded In a way just as true and as good As if they were Darby and Joan, And in old time simplicity wooed. F.C. A GREAT wag—a dog’s tail. A SAFE-GUARD—the time-clock. ee EAR Logie: I like your letter very much. I began it last week and finished it to-day. The only criticism I have to make is that it contains just a little too much platform —for a Vice President’s acceptance. Then again, while your grammar is original and striking, it is too complicated for the ignorant to understand. I would suggest your boiling it down a little. Suppose you merely say ‘I accept.’ Then, don’t you see, J can put in the rest.” J.G.B. RENDER: VNTO $CI§SOR$ THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE SCISSORS - if N placing Logan on the ticket instead of nominating a colored man, the Republicans wished to acknowledge the war record of ahero, Every Confederate knows what a panic fear seized the Southern regiments whenever the voice of Logan, thus addressing his men, was heard upon the austral_ breezes: ‘‘ Fellow-soldiers ! the eyes of the world is onus! I hope nobody won't give no quarter in the battle to-day! _I don’t propose to give no man a show! Their graves is dug! Forward, march !—Louisville Courier-Fournal. Epi asks : ‘* Will you please send me a receipt for a nice home-made pie?” Yes, Edith, we will send the receipt in the very first mail after we receive the pie.—Boston Post. “Sir down in front,” cried some members of an audience at a Decoration Day matinee, as,a professor of grammar stood up to take asurvey of the house. ‘Cannot be done. It’s a physical impossibility, constituted as I am,” replied the professor. “Sit down, sir,’ said the policeman. ‘‘ Ah, now you talk, sir, But when these gentlemen asked me to sit down in front and leave my back standing up, you—” “Sit down,” yelled the audience and he squatted.—_Vews. THEY HAD MET BEFORE, A young man who had been following a lady through Thirty- seventh street drew alongside of her at Fifth avenue, lifted his hat and observed, ‘‘ Have n't I met you somewhere before ?” “Once I think,” answered the lady.‘ I knew it,” said the young man, with a self-satisfied smile ; “and you ‘ve been in my thoughts ever since.” ‘I thought you had not noticed me particularly,” said the lady : ‘I met you two weeks ago at your wedding. | Your wife is my cousin."—. Y. Sun. Henry Holt & Co r Co. HAVE JUST READY: LIFE OF JOHN KALB, Major General in the Revolutionary Army.’ ,By Friedrich Kapp. ramo, $1.75. THE MISTRESS OF IBICHSTEIN. By Fr. Henkel. ‘Translated by S. E. 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