Life — May 20, 1886 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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AT SeISORS AT NvLL COINCIDENCE, T HE angler to the brooklet hies, Puts on his hook the tempting bait OF wri; ling worms or gaudy flies And for the troutlet lies in wait. Next day, when by his friends besought * The nature of his luck to state, He tells what heavy fish he caught, And as before, he lies in weight. —Boston Courier, “* Lancetor,” asked Elaine, looking up from the Zagie, '* how do strikers ‘kill’ an engine? I can’t understand it at all.” “Easy as lying,” replied Lancelot promptly.‘ You just climb over the tail-board into the cab, ‘open the blow-off cock by lower- ing the connecting rods until the crank-pin is level with the cross-head of the fulcrum connections, push in the brass throttle- ratchet till it reaches the crown sheet, which lets the water-glasses fall into the fire-box——"" ‘Ob ! now I see,”’ she said, joyously, ‘‘ and of course that puts out the fire. But, Lancelot, if I knew as much.about engines as ou do, I wouldn't stand at the ribbon counter another d ’d just go out where the strike is and be a president of a rai road myself.” And Lancelot kissed her and said he would, just as soon as his new tennis suit came home.—Boston Post. ‘cess at poker. 293 MRS. CLAY'S TOLERATION OF POKER. ATTORNEY-GENERAL GARLAND confesses that he is not a suc- Henry Clay was more fortunate. He used to have card parties at the Ashland homestead and it is not on record that the speculation wasa bad one. One day a young lady visitor from the North, towhom the sight of the poker tables was rather an alarming one, said to the wife of the statesman : “Mrs, Clay, does n't it shock you to see your husband playing cards so much in his own house?” “Oh, no,” replied the benevolent old lady innocently, “he most always wins."— Washington Hatchet. “Ler me see some of your black kid gloves,” said Mrs. Snaggs to a clerk at a Fifth avenue store. “These are not the latest style, are they?” she asked, when the gloves were produced. © “Yes, madam,” said the clerk, only two days.” “*T did n’t think they were, because the fashion paper says that black kids have tan stitches and vice versa. I see the tan stitches, but not the vice versa.” The clerk explained that vice versa was French for seven buttons, and Mrs. Snaggs bought the gloves.—Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. “We have had them in stock It is a wise railroad stock that knows its own par.—Boston Beacon, Tue New York 7+ibune believes the Panama canal will be completed in the time allowed, because M. de Lesseps is “ mov- ing heaven and earth”’ to accomplish thatend. M. de Lesse, would get on faster if he would move less heaven and more earth. HENRY HOLT & CO. a9 W. Twenty-third St., N. ¥. HAVE JUST PUBLISHED The Only Authorized Edition of THOMAS HARDY'’S NEW NOVEL The Mayor of Casterbridge. Leisure Hour Series (author of Foe.” HENRY HOLT & CO. HAVE JUST PUBLISHED } 5 Beaton’s Bargain. ‘A London Society Novel. By M The Wooing O "etc.). Firtm THOUSAND NOW SELLING. Leisure Hour and Moment Series, $1 or as cts. —San Francisco Wasp. LADIES’ TAILOR, HABIT MAKER and HATTER, Leisure Moment Series. . 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