Life — May 14, 1885 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: THEY ALL DO IT. HE stood beside the counter, The day he'll ne'er forget She thought the muslin dearer Than any she'd seen yet ; He watched her playful fingers The silks and satins toss, The shopman looked uneasy, And felt a little cross. “Show me some velvet ribbon, Barege and satin turc,” She said, ‘I want to purchase !" Then gave the goods a jerk. The shopman, all obedience-- Brought satins, silks, and crape ; At length, with hesitation, She bought a yard of tape! —Tid-Bits. Ir Tennyson can write such a frightfully poor poem on the English navy, it is heartsickening to think what the result would have been had he written about the United States navy.—PAila- delphia Times. | ing came, an | guest: “Hock or inferior sherry ?” 279 Tuey did not often give dinner parties (says a contemporary), and never gave a large one; but at the little reunions to which they did invite their friends they liked everything the best. So, on the afternoon of one of their choice little feasts, the host summoned his boy-in-buttons, and said : ‘*Now, John, you must be very careful how you hand round the wine.” “Yes, sir.” “‘ These bottles with the black seals are the best, and these with the red seals the inferior sherry. The best sherry is for | after dinner; the inferior sherry you will hand around with the hock, after soup. after soup.” “Yes, You understand—hock and inferior sherry rfectly,” said the boy-in-buttons, And the even- the guests came, and everything was progressing admirably till the boy went around the table asking of every Everybody took hock.— Argonaut, A Tie THAT Upset Two Fonp Lovers.—There is a boy in Peckham that ought to be punished. Last Sunday evening he crawled under the ‘sofa, and, when his big sister and her young man were sitting as close together as possible, adjusted a slipknot round their feet. 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