Life — July 10, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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HEREAFTER. WO sons of the Emerald Isle were standing the other * evening on Adams Street. One was evidently a fresh arrival in this country. They were watching the lightning- bugs. “What’s thim little divils, Dennis ?” “Thim’s lightnin’-bugs.” “ Phwat’s that ?” - “Thim’s the sowls of all the Englishmen that iver doyed. When owld Nick gets a howlt of them, he toies a bit of doi- namoite tir their tails and sends them over to Amerriky to see how happy us Oirish is over here !” “Faix, his majesty is a moighty just man. He knows just how to trate them. He must have been born in the owld sod himself!” WHO says that the war vessels of the American Navy are not fast? Goto! Some are so very fast that it is impossi- ble to move them. NAVY PLUG—a horse marine. NOTE to contributors—LIFE is short. ILLicit distiller’s motto—Make away while the moon shines. A VOTIVE offering—something that comes to pass about election time. 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