Life — July 17, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE-: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Marguterite—No, child, we cannot publish your poem. Not that-it is bad but it has already been-perpetrated in our columns. R. P. Fl-w-r—1. No you were not quite so big a joke as | Butler, but-almost Bud, dear, almost. 2. We. are not cer- tain but we think it is called the Salt River Pavilion. R. B. Hayes, of Fremont, Ohio, can give you full particulars. S-s-n B, An—ony.—1. They will} be worn looser next year. 2.-No itis not hone'sott gud mal y pants. John.L. S-l-q-n.—It sometimes comes in bottles, though not often. 2. Rutherford’s was not of so malignant a form. 3. Mr. Edmunds js said to have:been infected with the same germs. | ¥. G. B.—1. The quotation you seem to want is, “The - Times are out of joint.” 2. No, we hardly think the White House will be. ready for your occupancy next March. 3. Unfortunately Vennor is dead, so we cannot say certainly, but we rather opine that the chills will strike somewhere about Nov. 5th. Irate Subscriber —We would really like to swing out for Blaine as you desire, but not being of such accommodating principles, as for instance characterize Hon. Ben Butler, Gov. Hoadly, and other Independent Democratic Republicans, we really. must bid an affectionate farewell to your $5.00 and manage to scrape along somehow without it. RENDER: VNTO SCISSORS THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE $CISSORS + ARL SCHURZ continues to flock all by himself. He is excellent company for himself this warm weather. Both he and himself are on such good terms with Schurz.—Philadel- phia Press. _ACALCUTTA paper tells of a railway station agent in India who recently sent the following dispatch to headquarters: “Train just, due, ‘Tiger jumping about the platform. - Please telegraph orders.” 5 ‘* Loox here, waiter,” cried Crimsonbeak, who was. stopping. for a few days at Coney Island; ‘‘this ham is not as good as what I got l.ere last summer.” “I don't see why,” replied the waiter, in some surprise ; “it’s the same ham, sir.” Crimsonbeak leaves without partaking, and wondering why he didn’t think of that before.— Yonkers Statesman. Ii a barn blows down there will be a diagram of the premises ; view of the barn before being blown down; view of the barn while being blown down ; view of the ruins; interview with the hired man, who says he always knowed it was going to blow down ; in- terview with owner, with his and other theories on. barns blowing down; interview with Professor Mugwump, the distinguished Chi- cago savant, with his views as to the reason why barns blow down rather than up ; comparative table of barn mortality in this and other States for the last forty years, showing percentage of barns blown down compared with the illiterate vote; history of barns from the earliest times to the present ; statement of loss—$soo. —San Francisco Argonaut, Henry Holt & Co. HAVE JUST READY: LIFE OF ¥OHN KALB, Major General in the ramo, $1.75. THE MISTRESS OF IBICHSTEIN, By Fr. F Henkel. Translated by S. E. Boggs. z6m0, INE RTS. Leisure Hour Series, $1.00; Leisure Moment Series, 30 cents. 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