Life — December 29, 1887 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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LIFE SCRAPS. FTER a recent French duel one. of the participants was bitten by a dog on his way home. T requires a clever surgeon to dress wounded vanity. . « . NLY matrimo- nial matches are made at the Sulphur Springs of Virginia. * . . IVORCE seeking women do not trust in Providence, else why do they locate at Newport? OR obvious rea- sons a bookseller should not be much of THE VERY LATEST. a bookkeeper. the King intimated his royal disposition to dispense with the Chum for the time being, and that individual retired to the Quirinal, where King Humbert was found swearing off monasteries and Catholic intervention in temporal affairs generally. ‘The Pope, gaily clad in a red waterproof cloak, trimmed with beads and decorated with a hand-painted resume of biblical history on the back, welcomed the Chum at the Vatican, He told his visitor in confidence, that as Pope he could not swear off, on, or in any other way, but he had resolved to secure a dispensation whereby he might dispense with Dr, McGlynn, King Humbert, Justin D. Fulton, and the County of Connemara, which was six months in arrears with its Peter's Pence, The Czar was found in an unhappy frame of mind. He had been blown up twice on New Year's morning—once by the Nihilists and once by his wife—and he was superstitious enough to believe that if he began the year this way he would keep it up to the very end, He evinced a willingness to swear off dynamite and bomb- proof clothing, if affairs of state permitted, but he gloomily admitted that the out- look therefore was not exactly roseate as to its bue. ‘The day's work was finished with calls on Bismarck and the ‘Sultan, who were not in, however, when the Chum arrived. ‘The former wasoff on a hunt for French- men on German territory, while the Sultan had taken an early train over to Smyrna, it is supposed, to propose marriage to a young ladies’ boarding-school in that vicinity From this the Chum infers that Bismarck and the Sultan do not intend swearing off for 1888, Carlyle Smith, A REMARKABLE CASE. R. D, GOURMAND, who has beefi suffering from dyspepsia the last fifteen years, died this morning, making jocular remarks as he passed away.—Exchange. Shades of Carlyle! this is a most remarkable tale. How a dyspeptic man comes to die jesting, we fail to comprehend. : THE NEW THROUGH TICKET. q [1440 $SIINO WOVSSWd SNONNILNOD SSW1D LS¥I4 INO WOI GOOD th N@JMLIa “SONEM 20 MIVE . QNO ONY EUVH INO O8 TLLOUT 19V0OVE IVNOCWAT INT] NMO SLI GNOU ALITIGISNOdSIY ON | jp WPT, "ODN ONY G2sHVLE GINS ATT SNOLLEINOD DNUMOTIOS 341 OL .L3aranS “ASIAVuVd av WHD-V TOOGOIN yO MOUL SILL OTM AV QLVM G2NGTU ATL 20 AVZIA NI | VLD ISSUED BY THE A BCE MN-GRR Soe eee @ADAN TRANSETER CO. VA GOLDEN ST. FERRY. ‘VOID IF DETACIIED- BOHM INR Constnarne BRANCH) SPRINGFIELD RIVER JORDAN. VOID If DETACHED. ¢omicbooks.com