Life — January 19, 1888 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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“LP E Al A younc lady, visiting for the first time in the country, was alarmed at the approach of a cow. She was too frightened to run, and, shaking her parasol at the animal, she said in a very stern tone: “*Lie down, sir; lie down !"—Calcutta Times. oR HE teacher, a lesson he taught T ‘The stealer, he stole ; The heeler, he hole; And the screecher, he awfully scraught. Av WLLy ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE. The preacher, a sermon he praught, SH Washington Crit NOT SO A PROBLEM, HE (af @ late hour, with deep tenderness): How can I leave thee ? Really, Mr. Stayer, I can’t tell you, 1 wish I could.— VERY EXPENSIVE AFTER ALL. RFAL estate is worth $1,000 a foot in Chicago, but it must be The long-winded speaker, he spoke ; The poor office-seeker, he soke ; The runner, he ran; The dunner, he dan; And the shrieker, he horribly shroke. The flyer, to Canada flew; The buyer, on credit he bew; The doer, he did; The suer, he sid; And the liar (a fisherman) lew. The writer, this nonsense he wrote ; The fighter (an editor) fote ; The swinner, he swam ; The skimmer, he skam ; And the biter was hungry and bote.— Woman, remembered that it is a Chicago foot.—Arcola Record. CURING A SICK MAN. ‘As soon as the German Crown Prince was “given up” by the doctors he began to grow better. cure a man if they only go about it in the right way.—Chicago Times. This shows that the doctors can PHYSICIAN (to patient): Your case is a very serious one, sir, and I think a consultation had better be held. PATIENT (too sick to care for anything): Very well, doctor, have as many accomplices as you like.—Zock. Two old sports accustomed to catch the granger at poker are laying against one another. Pere “What's yer outside: card? San Francisco Chronicle, aces.” “T'llcall you. What ye got?” * Four I've got four aces myself."— “« A SEA-GREEN glass vase, nine inches high, supposed to be thirteen hundred years old, has been found in Bologna.” That settles it. 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