Life — June 16, 1887 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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341 HOW SHE, MIGHT PRAY. A CALIFORNIA woman who had $30,000 up as margins on stocks | went to her pastor and asked : A PLEASANT SURPRISE. ME: M—, a wealthy banker of the Chaussée d’Antin, applied the | “other day to a money-lender to advance him 50,000 francs on his | wife's diamonds, for which he had paid 120,000 francs. ‘You can | take out the jewels and get false stones mounted in their place. I don’t wish it to be noticed.” ‘My dear sir, that has been done already,” replied the usurer. ‘Your wife has had the start of you, for I bought the diamonds from her last year."—Petit Journal pour Rire, WAR WITHOUT BLOODSHED. A GERMAN now residing in America has invented a rifle-ball, the universal adoption of which would greatly tend to mitigate the horrors of war. Its outer shell is composed of a very brittle substance, which breaks into pieces on coming into contact with the object at which it is aimed. It contains a chemical compound which renders the person struck by it insensible for the space of twelve hours, without showing any signs of life beyond the beating of his heart. ‘In this condition the fallen are lifted into carts and conveyed away as prisoners.— Humoristisches, “« Dip you see my picture in the paper to-day, dear?” inquired a young merchant who had just been made a town-councillor, “+ Yes, T did—and—and"— Here his wife burst into tears. the matter? Why does it make you cry?” “Why, Jack, I'm so disappointed. If 1 had known you looked like that I'd never have married you.""— 7 id-Bits. “Do you think it would be wrong for me to pray for stocks to go » “Certainly I do,” was his reply. “Well, what shall I do?” “You might pray that they shouldn’t go down, ma’am."—Walt Street News. BETWIXT AND BETWEEN. ‘* Brown, what are Blivens’ politics ?” “He takes a neutral point-of view.” “ How is he in mortality ?” ‘Oh, well, in that he’s neutral too.” —Detroit Free Press. Me., has a bank cashier who has been in one bank fifty-three straight years. People who ask why he hasn’t made a grab | and run away are informed that the money in that bank is counted “Why, what's | every night —Detrott Free Press. THE ex-Queen of Spain is worth about $7,000,000, and she is. spending it at the rate of a million a year. The time when she will be obliged to open a laundry and work fourteen hours per day can be figured to a week.—Detroit Free Press. “Gaze upon that pure, beautiful evening star, and swear to be true while its light shall shine! Swear, my love! Swear by Venus!'* exclaimed a youth in impassioned accents. “How stupid you are!” answered the Girton girl, ‘That is not Venus. The right ascension of Venus this month is rsh. 9m. ; her declination is 17 degrees, 25 minutes south, and her diameter is 10.2." —hixchange. REMOVAL! }. To Tourists, Travelers and Sportsmen. | BSENCE from home always brings its annoy- | ances, especially in the matter of insuring a Supply of clean linen. | ‘The sepa way to secure this, and to feel that a fresh and spotless collar or pair of cuffs is always available, is to weep a supply of what are called “LINENE” They are comfortable and genteel, and Rie many advantages are obvious to the experienced traveler. While it is not our desire to sell the LINENE goods direct to the consu- mer, we shall at any time be most happy to send samples. A sample collar and pai of eutisis sent to any address on receipt of six cents, when goods can- not be obtained elsewhere. Illustrated Catalogue free, Address the REVERSIBLE COLLAR CO., 27 Kilby Street, - Boston, Mass LADIES’ Palmer House, Chicago. De Nt Lapa Co 0 pmsl CELEBRATED HATS ROUND HATS. 178 & 180 Fifth Ave., bet. 22d & 23d Sts.. un ™ and 181 Broadway, near Cortland St.. NEW YORK. ots Chestnut St., Phila THE ENGADINE The Offices of “ ‘LIFE ” have been removed to No. 28 West 23d St., (N.Y. All communications should be addressed there in future. FFRAKAVER | LADIES’ TAILOR, Habit Maker and Hatter, Bellevue Newport AND Lundborgs Perfume EDENIA. | Lundbord's Rhenish Cologne. Bouquet, Atkinson's New Perfume, This superb eae sweetly recalls fragrant Swiss flowers. ht jewels in a setting of perpetual snow. oH ose ay U | At Sct "DRESSING \As it witt NOTINJURE them 19 East 21st St., N.Y. A Riding Habits cut on new safety principles. Braided UINTANIN, Gowns, Com, Jackers ana 1 it is Isters in original designs. bil Riding Hats from the lead- ing London Manufacturers, KIMBALL'S SATIN People of refined taste Re (SRS iesire exceptionally fine cig- We A jarettes should use only our fJstraight Cut, put up in tin packets and boxes of 1 $08. and 1008. 14 Prise Medals. WM.S. KIMBALL & CO. CROSBY’S VITALIZED PHOSPHITES. Strengthens the intellect, restores lost functions, builds up worn-out nerves, promotes good digestion, cures all weaknesses and nervousness. 56 Wasr asrx Street, New York. For Sate sy Druaaists, or Mart, $1.00. comicbooks.com