Life — August 14, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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A FRUITFUL EXPERIENCE. N the outskirts of a pic-nic, in the shelter of a rock, deserted by all his comrades, sat a small boy, and on the ground at his side lay six.or seven pieces of the rind of a large fruit, which was a mottled green color on the outside, but within, a crispy pink. Was the little fellow glad the heat of the day was over? No. Was he happy because he had found a robin's nest before lunch and was even then sitting on the eggs? He didn’t give a hang. His eyes were closed as if he slept; his little hands were clasped over the region of his heart ; he was sad ; in fact, he felt melon-colic. From time to time the distant din of clashing knives and forks smote faintly upon his ear, and anon were wafted to him the frenzied cheers of the pic-nickers as they crowded around the mistaken young man who had put powdered sugar on his hard-boiled egg. He did not move when he heard the triumphant shouts that proclaimed the discovery of a basket of Delaware peaches,—it was not because he knew they were green, but because he could n't eat another thing to save his life. That night a small boy, footsore and weary, dragged him- | self up to the door of a farm house and knocked for admit- tance. He was all that was left of them—left of sicks hun- dred. The only remnant of the host that had fallen victims to the pitiless peach; saved by his own voracity. CARLSBAD. ay RENDER: VNTO SCI $§OR$ THOSE THIKGS WHICH ARE SCISSORS « THROES, HEN lovely woman takes a notion With a brick to hit a cat, A burning house, a raging ocean Were a far safer spot than that ! Seize her quick, secure and bind her, Ere the missile dire she throws ; Or, ‘tis like, some one behind her Gets it full upon the nose. —Free Press, “So you call that well water ?” remarked the stranger, spurt- ing the offending liquid from his mouth. ‘* Great Scott ! how must it have tasted when it was ill?”"—Boston Transcript. STEPHEN WHITLOCK, aged 18 years, of Lyons, N. Y., ‘after eating a quart of peanuts, two quarts of cherries, pits and all, and drinking several glasses of ice-water, died in great agony.” The cause ad his death is unknown, but heart disease is suspected.— Norristown Herald, ‘©THE moon is waning,” Elfrida iting a little closer to Ethelred to keep off the malaria. ** Yes,” said old Sir Marmalade, her sire, who crossed the piazza at that moment; ‘‘and the swain is mooning. Haw, haw, haw !" and he was gone, Ethelred shuddered and drew Elfrida to hi de until she had to breathe in her mind, ‘* Thank Heaven,” he said, earnestly, ‘* that the moon is not waxing! I tremble to think what a joke it might have suggested to him !"—Brooklyn Eagle. HENRY HOLT & CO,, N. Y., HAVE READY The Baby's Grandmother | puke By L. B. Walford, author of * Mr. Smith.”” 16mo, Leisure Hour Series, $1.00 5 Leisure Moment Series, 3 cents. No. 719 SIXTH AVE.. Among the Chosen. | An American Novel. | 16mo (American Novel Series, No. §), $1.00. as well as “ Dio Lewis's Monthly is the grandest Magazine we have ever seen.” Normal Teacher & Examiner, PURIFIES Send 6 cents in stamps for a sample copy Dio Lewis's Monthly | $2.50 per year. For Save py ALL DEALERS. Agents wanted. Send for terms. FRANK SEAMAN, Publisher, 542 BROADWAY, 25 cents a copy. ladics will use the least harmful of all th pa veperfi |OUR AUD, 8 ‘Dregaiste New York. boeinaa GRADY & McKEEVER, tate RENNER & COMPANY, ‘FINE ARTS. Designers and Manufacturers ot EVERY DESCRIPTION OF PICTURE FRAMES, A SKIN OF BEAUTY 18 Dr. T, Fells Gi Oriental Cream or Magical Beautifier ‘Skin Preparatio 0 Skin. tle will taat six months wsing it every dey. moves jeoes Cavanagh, Sanford & Co., SIN | Merchant Tailors, and Importers, 16 West 23d STREET, . New York. | Opposite sth Ave. Hotel, NEW YORK, All the latest London Fabrics regularly imported. AJOY, FOREVER, | GEORGE MATHER’S SONS, Rae ines PRINTING [NK, he 60 Joun St., NEw York. This paper is printed with our cut ink, rallar name. | The <ietie ton (e patient A a sOobrend’ Greene as na.” One bot Also Poodre lary tothe skin. ») ue MANUFACTORY without {i Prop. 48 BELFAST. IRELAND vancy Goods ‘arrest and proof of any | KIN ‘Aempeoig ef ‘SSO ‘H AUNSH comicbooks.com