Life — January 26, 1888 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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THE STRICTEST CONFIDENCE. ENTIST: Oh, madame may be perfectly easy in her mind. We dental surgeons always make a point of observing the strictest confidence. Only last week, for instance, I supplied Countess Pampmann and Baroness Borgheim with a complete set each, and not a soul living knows a word about it.—Afunchener Blatter. Younc Man (¢o editor): What do you think I ought to get for the poem, sir?> + Epitror: You ought to get ten dollars— YOUNG MAN (overjoyed): Oh, that is fully as much as I expected. Epiror: Yes; ten dollars or thirty days. That was more than he expected.—Epoch. To get an exact idea of the minimum rate of speed, send a Phila- delphia messenger boy for a gallon of molasses in January.—Zpoch, DR. McCGLYNN accepted the purse raised for him. There was some doubt expressed that he might not be willing to take it; but the man who expressed the doubt was recaptured before he got very far from Ward's Island.— Puck. Proup FaTHER: I believe, my dear, that that baby knows as much as I do. MOTHER (gazing at the infant): Yes, poor little fellow.—New York Sun. 55 SOME OF MORITZ GOTTLIEB SAPHIR'S WIT. ““Wuar® is the greatest miracle in the Bible?” Saphir asked a young lady at a party. ‘Without giving her time to reply, a forward coxcomb answered : ‘That Elias was not burned when he went to heaven in a chariot of fire.” “No,” returned Saphir, ‘that Balaam’s ass spoke before it was questioned.” ; SAPHIR was presented at a ball to an extremely haughty lady of rank, who remarked with a patronizing smile: “I believe, sir, I have already seen you somewhere.” “Very possibly,” he replied, ‘I often go there.” “1 won't make way for a fool!” cried an envious scribbler, on meeting Saphir in a narrow passage, where at first neither seemed disposed to give place. “Oh, I will, with pleasure,” replied Saphir stepping aside and bowing courteously. “Twas born on the very day that Goethe died,” said a conceited author. , “Both events were a misfortune to German literature,” com- mented Saphir.—. 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