Life — April 5, 1888 — page 15: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

> LIFE: THEIR USES. + JER MAJESTY,” writes a London correspondent, eats a state dinners without gloves.” The reason for that is at once apparent. It enables Her Majesty to get a better grip on the wing of achicken, In wrestling with the common hen of commerce at the dinner-table, she must be handled without gloves, or the battle is lost. Gloves would also be very much in the way when Her Majesty desired to clutch an ear of corn by each end, the tip and lobe, so to speak, while she gnawed at it amidships.’ You see, there are a hundred emergencies that might arise during the progress of a state dinner wherein gloves would be in the way.—X. J. Burdette. “1 atways liked the Episcopal religion best,” said Bill, as he eyed a pretty girl with her morocco-bound prayer-book in the horse- car. ‘If you are an Episcopalian, you get credit for going to church not only while you are there, but all the way going and all the way home."—Somerville Journal. IN a recently-published poem, James Russell Lowell speaks of ‘*champagne in the air.” There is some disappointment felt because he did not mention the locality in which he had discovered this in- spiring atmospheric phenomenon. Doubtless it was in a country where the climate is extra dry.—Scranton Truth. “You sketch with a free hand, Miss Backbay,” remarked the Professor, who had been critically examining her portfolio. “Entirely free,” said the Boston young lady, as she cast down her eyes in soft confusion, and waited for the Professor to follow up the opening.—Chicago Tribune. 201 SENATOR BERRY, of Arkansas, tells his friends of a trial for assault in his State, 'in the course of which a club, a rail, an axe handle, a knife, and a shot-gun were exhibited as “ the instruments with which the deed was done.” But it was also shown that the assaulted man defended himself with a revolver, a scythe, a pitch- fork, a chisel, a hand-saw, and a dog. The jury, Mr. Berry says, came to the conclusion that they’d have given a dollar apiece to have seen the fight.—Kansas City Journal. JeALous of Mr. Howells’s affection for Buffalo, the Boston Globe says that the noted novelist and essayist has decayed. But, if this is true, it happened elsewhere than in Buffalo.—Buffalo Express. Ir has just been learned that the tree which the woodman spared was achestnut tree. Public feeling is very strong against the man, and, if caught, it is quite likely he will be lynched.—Zpoch. BARBER (fo customer) : Have you heard of the bad scrape young Brown has got into? Customer: Why, no; when did you shave him last Epoch. Tue valued New York Lire asserts that Chicago used to rhyme “Goethe” with “teeth” until the Renaissance set in, since which epoch it has rhymed it with ‘‘dirty.” This is hardly fair. In a poem read recently before the Hyde Park Toboggan Slide Lyceum the following couplet occurred : “ Until, at last, John Wolfgang Goethe Was gathered home, upward of eighty.” . —Chicago News. “Yes, these rooms are certainly very elegant, my dear,” Mr. Gould remarked to his wife on reaching his apartments at the great hotel at St. Augustin “but”—and here he tried to move a chair toward the window—‘'I can’t uncerstand why they have screwed all the furniture to the floor!" —New York Herald. SHOULD TRY 12 Selected Samples for trial, Post-pai on receipt of LADIES’ ens, tencents, Ask for Perry’s Planished ISON, BLAKEMAN & CO., 799 *x%30'¥ome"* MAETHINGWVec“IO CENTS We EON NTAINS Sh ® BOX. C ROUND HATS. 178 & 180 Fifth Ave., bet. 22d & 23d Sts., and 181 Broadway, near Cortland St., NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. ANNUAL SPRING EXHIBIT a) PLEASURE CARRIAGES. ‘Nez 4 Uses of Highest Grade Pleasure COPYRIGETED. CELEBRATED HATS Vehicles are invited to view our display for the present season, em- bracing many novelties in design and finish for TOWN AND COUNTRY DRIVING. Every carriage, in its smallest de- tail, built on the premises under our 9x4 Chestnut St., Phila. | personal supervision. JOHN PATTERSON & CO., BREWSTER & CO. (OF BROOME STREET), BROADWAY, 47th to 48th STS. RHENISH Fe Cologue: UNDBORG’S PERFUMES make appro- priate and acceptable gifts. They are put up in neat attractive packages of various styles, and are for sale by all dealers, LADD & COFFIN, PROPRIETORS AND MANUFACTURERS, 24 BARCLAY STREET, NEW YORK. Tailors and Importers, Patterson Building, Nos. 25 and 27 W. 26th St., NEW YORK. People of refined taste de- siring specially fine Cigarettes should use our Satin, Four in Hand, Athletic and Cupid. Straight Cut, Hand Made, from the best Virginia and | Turkish leaf. Peerless Tobacco Works. Established 1846, 14 Prize Medais W. S.Kimball & Co Rochester,N.Y. Only Place of Business. ~. RAVEN : GLOSS SHOE = DRESSING. Best for Ladies’ use. Contains Oil, Preserves Leather, Is Economical. Insist upon having it, FUN cans eee ‘two cent. CAPITOL CARD CO} 7 Columban, Ohio. Wo GEV. MATHER’S SONS RINTING INK f 60 JOHN STREET, N. Y. THIS PAPER IS PRINTED WITH OUR SPECIAL - LIFE - INK. CARDS Seictiermn Pistereore comicbooks.com