Life — August 12, 1886 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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A fe ORS AT NvLLy T was a Maine girl of whom the story is told that she refused ] to marry a most devoted lover until he should have amassed a fortune of ten thousand dollars. After some expostulation he accepted the decree and went to work. About three months after this the avaricious young lady, meeting her lover, asked : “Well, Charley, how are you getting along ?” “Oh, very well indeed,” Charley returned, cheerfully, got eighteen dollars saved.” The young lady blushed and looked down at the toes of her walking boots, and stabbed the inoffensive earth with the point of her parasol. ‘I guess,” said she, faintly—‘* I guess, Charley, that ’s about near enough.”—Harger's Bazar. “T've City Cousin: See here, Mr. Joseph, I don’t want to walk home with you with those horrible pants on. Joseph : Gosh! the folks would raise old Ned if I took them off. Judge. Ir has been noticed that star actors habitually content them- selves with a weak support. Probably that explains why Henry Irving does n’t get himself a new pair of legs.— Yonkers Gazette. LANDLADY (to new servant): I hope, in cleaning the rooms, you always take care to sweep under the bed. Martha: Yaas indeed, ma’am, I allus do, ’cause, yo" see it's much easier den c'lectin’ de dirt wid a dust-pan.—Harper's Bazar, 97 WILLING TO COMPROMISE, ‘WILL you please give me a dime?” said a tramp. ‘I am blind.” “You can see out of one eye as well as I can,” replied the gentleman importuned. ‘‘ You are only half blind.’ “Then give me half a dime,” said the tramp.—Harper's Bazar, STUDENT : We treated the patient in the most approved way. Doctor: How? Student: Well, we put him on milk diet, then we put him on wine, then we put him on the electrical treatment, then we put him on quinine and now— Doctor: You will put him on ice.—Hotel Mail. TEACHER: Hans, name three beasts of prey. Hans: Two lions and a tiger.—German, NEW YORK PRECOCITY. 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