Life — August 4, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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AUGUSTUS. OST merrily now do the humming-birds hum, In glory now trampeth the tramp ; The Vassar girl lays in her next winter's gum, And the National Guard is in camp The dog is quite wary when walking the street Lest he draw near the dog-catcher's side, And Coney Isle’s thronged by the million feet Of the crowds who've let business slide. Indeed, there is much to delight and disgust us In the month that is known unto fame as Augustus. «6 DSHAW, 1 Mrs. Spriggins, “them Indian fellahs Queen's Jubilee, addressed a poem to H.I.M. the Queen, Even an injun ought to know that the Queen's a HLELR.” THE EFFECT OF MERCURY UPON THE BLOOD. Hot? not a bi “One hundred and five! — “* Well, it's hotter than. it, Beautiful day!" be itt’ Tthoughe.”* ] R. GOULD is respectfully informed that there is one class of futures in which he cannot speculate. Indeed, if all we hear of Mr, G. is true, his future is not a matter of speculation, but of settled fact. HE old cuts representing the Mayflower, Genesta and Galatea are being cleaned off in newspaper offices to be reissued as the ZAss//e and Volunteer. Economy is wealth! BOOK on Heraldry says ‘hat all the sons of an Earl are Honorable. Considering the present generation of Earl's sons, we fear this is a typographica! error. . . . PHILOSOPHER of our acquaintance s: York is, Chicago is to be, and Boston has bea UFFALO BILL is the British Lion just now, w' clearly shows why the British Lion is in such spirits. . . . N O, JOHN HENRY, a Bourbon Democrat doesn’t show a Rye face when his party is,defeated at the polls. . . . E GLISHMEN are not prone to accept rumors, and they are quite decided not to believe the reports of Stanley's death till they hear from Stanley himself. AKE SHARP has applied for a stay, and he is likely to J get it. The stay will be four years long and of full width. * * . N° one has yet met the man who would refuse a dollar because it is worth only 79 cents, . . . CORRESPONDENT suggests as a mode of reducing the surplus that the Republican party be restored to office. When Mr. Blaine returns from abroad, whither he has gone to escape the solicitations of a large majority of our citizens to assume the reins of government, we will lay the suggestion before him. * * * MONG the officers in King Milan's cabinet are M Milojkovics, M. Visibjevics, M. Vacumovics and Gen. Bogitchevics. This, together with Queen Victoria's Jubilee, seems to point to 1887 as a great year for Vics A CAUTIOUS OFFICER. HE U.S. cruiser A(/anta set her sails early in the morn- ing and put out to sea for a little gun practice. As soon as she was anchored at a safe distance from shore, so that no property could be injured by flying cannon-balls, one of the officers called the Bo’sun to him and asked: “ Bo'sun, have all the men put on their life preservers ?” “ Yessir.” s your life insured ? “Itis, sir.” “ Are the boats lowered ?” “ They be, your woshup.” “Have the men said their prayers and made their wills?” “ They have, your honor. “Then touch off that gun. AY GOULD must intend setting up as a rival to Berry Wall. . The papers last week were full of his spending a million on ties. comicbooks.com