Life — August 27, 1885 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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AE SARS AT WiLL RANT was not a man to waste powder. When he received news of Sherman's capture of Atlanta, he was besieging Richmond. He at once telegraphed Sherman: ‘I have just received your dispatch announcing the capture of Atlanta, In honor of your great victory I have ordered a salute of shotted guns to be fired from every battery bearing on the enemy. The salute will commence within an hour, amid great rejoicing.” At the “hop” of a summer hotel some of the natives had been invited in, A young lady being solicited for a round dance by a son of the soil, and noticing with dismay that he was about to grasp her waist with a large and perspiring palm, she asked him if he would not kindly use his handkerchief. ‘*O yes, marm,” said Hayseed, pleasantly, and applying the article to his nose, he sounded a cheerful blast that shook the chandelier, A Kentucky Congressman’s pretty daughter visited Washing- ton recently, She went up to President Cleveland upon the occasion of a White House reception, and said: ‘I'll bet a horse you don't know who Iam.” The President was equal to the occasion. ‘' No,” said he, “I don’t know who you are, but I'll bet a horse you are from Kentucky.” ‘* Shake,” said the young lady, and she has been on good terms with the President ever since. THE MESSENGER-BOY SINGS. ‘Tue mirth and fun were at their height, The pleasure without alloy, When the merry company called that night For a song from the messenger-boy. And he blithely sang the good old song That in youth we used to know— Sang in a voice both clear and strong, **Go slow, young man, go slow !"” —Boston Courier, A FACETIOUS mob out West, who pulled a horse-stealing Indian to the top of a telegraph pole by a rope around his neck and left him there, hung a card on his hat bearing these words: ‘ High, the poor Indian."—Aferchant Traveller, THERE is something suggestive in the fact that the Queen sent Sir Peter Lumsden the Order of the Bath as soon as he returned from his forced march from Herat to Astrabad—a march that occupied thirty days; and during which, according to his own report, Sir Peter did not change his clothes, — 7exas Siftings, Ir is told by the Boston Xecord that Lord Tennyson and his family, including his little granddaughter, were dining at Osborne by invitation of the Queen. During the meal the bread plate ran low, and the Queen took the last piece. Thereupon the little Tennyson girl, who had been taught that it was bad manners to take the last piece on the plate, pointed her finger at the Queen and said, scornfully,* Piggy, piggy, pig!” The guests expected that nothing but decapitation was in store for the child; but the Queen came nobly to the rescue, ‘You are quite right, my dear,” said she; ‘*nobody but the queen should take the last piece on the plate.” Good New Light Reading IN THE Leisure foment Series A FAMILY AFFAIR. B: Hugh Conway. 30 cts. MADAME DE PRESNEL. By E. F. Poynter. Cashmere Bouquet KRAKAUER, Ladies’ Tailor and Habit Maker. 4 EAST 21st S And Bellevee Ave., report. Would inform Ladies that he ‘will during the months of June, ets, CARRISTON’S GIFT, ETC. By Hugh Conway, With a portrait of the author cts, A MILLIONATRE’S COUSIN. By Emily Law- less. as ets. A SECOND LIFE. By Mrs, Alexander. 35 cts. THE DYNAMITER ; on New Aracian Nicuts. Second Series. By. R. L. Stevenson. 30 cts. 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