Life — September 18, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: M. Begar, the eminent French scholar, who is in town, says that “ze nation of the Chine vill soon be zat it vill bite | ze dust. Le Franche air Ferry confidant of success, and after the China it haf been broken, zen ze Angleterre may beware! Ha!” This confirms our statement that the English will soon be embrogled to a very great extent. CARLYLE SMITH. THE Chicago Current promises to publish a banker's reply to the conundrum, “ Where has the money gone?” That 's an easy one. A good deal of the money has gone to Canada of late, in company with certain bank officials. And what is more, it appears to stay there. HIGH-WATER mark—your chin. DISTRESSING NEWs—The ex-Empress Eugenie has gone to the bad—Carlsbad. “YEs, sir,” said Mrs. Partington, speaking of one who drank himself to death—“ yes, sir, dissolution has brought many a man to the grave. THE Absconding Cashier Epidemic has broken out again with alarming virulence in many sections of the United States. Would n’tit be a prudent recourse on the part of the Canadian authorities to establish quarantine stations at the frontier ? BOYS’-BOOKS. THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE. Ralph, the Drummer Boy. | A story of the Days of Washington. By Louis | Rousselet. Translated by W. T. Gordon, Illustrated. FINE Designers and amo. $1.50. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF PICTURE FRAMES. No. 719 SIXTH AVE., FACTORY, 218 W. 42d STREET. THE WAR FOR THE UNION, Captain Phil. A. Boy's experience in the Western Army during the War of the Rebellion. By M. M. Thomas. rao, $1.50. HENRY HOLT & CO., New York. ____— | “ Dio Lewis's Monthly is the grandest Magazine we have ever seen.” Normal Teacher & Examiner, | unless purchased from Send 6 cents in stamps for a sample copy Dio Lewis's Monthly $2.50 per year. 25 cents a copy. For Sate py ALL DEALERS. AGE three | old, all sold Agents wanted. Send for terms. | uncolored, unsweetened. FRANK SEAMAN, Pubéisher, 542 BROADWAY, H. B. KI RENNER & COMPANY, DEALERS IN, No one can furnish “Old Crow” Rye Sour-Mash Whiskey We have taken every barrel made since Fanuary, 1872. We have also HERMIT- New York. ! 69 Fulton St. & Broadway and 27th St. 19 RENDER: VNTO SCISSORS THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE SCISSORS - JUST FOR FUN. lingered, in the act to part, E W The last word still unspoken, By the quick beating of my heart, ‘The silence faintly broken, So beautiful she seemed and pure— Ab, me! how I should miss her ; Unable longer to endure My wish, T asked to kiss her. A blush of deepest rose o'erspread Her face, as if to mask it, As, with a woman's art, she said, “Why, Frank, you should not asé it.” —The Century, THE latest slang political term is ‘‘ doodle-bug.”” A doodle-bug. is a sort of a cross between a mugwump, a Gentle Hermit and a | genuine native dude. He imagines he carries the future of the country in his breeches pocket, and sits up nights thinking of the transcendent importance of his vote. On election day he fails to vote, because he doesn’t want to fall in line with a lot of rough men.—£x, A younc wife who lost her husband by death, telegraphed the sad tidings to her father in these succinct words: ‘* Dear John died this morning at ten. Loss fully covered by insurance.”"— Farmers’ Almanac. LATE HEIDSIECK Of World-Wide Renown. ARTS. Manufacturers ot New York. PERFECTLY PURE. PRONOUNCED PERFECTION. us. Contains only 9 ys per cent. of Natural Spirits. fo seven years absolutely pure, OAL aN pit gre MANUFACTORY BELFAST, IRELAND THE RK & CO., “AN ‘Aempeolg cf SSOU ‘H AUNSH comicbooks.com