Life — October 25, 1888 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- 237 Youxc Wire: Before we were married, George, you never smoked in my presence. 5 ‘Younc HUuSMAND: I know it, my dear, and you never wore curl- y OR AT WLLy ; papers in mine.—Boston Beacon. A FRENCH FORM. DONT write a triotet unless You really have to do it. Such style of verse can't but depress— (Don't write a triolet) unless Tue Actor: Ah! it's all very well for you fellows to talk about my being the pet of the public, the idol of the aristocracy, the spoilt child of royalty itself! 1 admit all that; but remember that my art dies with me, whereas your pictures, your poems, your speeches re- main to show the twentieth century what—a—what— Tue Painter: What overrated duffers we were in the nine- teenth, eh? Whereas, you'll never be found out, old man, So you score again! You have been hired by the press THe STATESMAN AND THE PorT: Hear! Hear!—Punch, To * Bah" and * Pooh” it. Don't write “A Triolet” unless ; ; Baotey: Have a cigar, Bailey ? You are so confoundedly hard up that your wife and children will BatLey : Don't care if 1 do. have to go to bed hungry if you don’t do it.—Evening Sun. They're some I won on the result of the Maine election. ““T've brought back that ring I took yesterday on approval,” he said to the jeweler. ** What was the trouble; didn't it fit?" ** No,” he said, sadly, ‘1 thought—well, that is—well, you see, I bought it for a certain finger, but she wouldn't wear it on that, so I've come back with it."—/ewelers’ Weekly. Baitey; I—er—don't believe I care to smoke this morning.— The Cartoon, SeNATOR Evarts has at command a sententious humor that is rarely hinted at in such of his oblong periods as are most familiar to the public. A correspondent says that he remarked of Rhode Island that ‘it was settled by the Dutch; the Yankee settled the Dutch ;" Wire: Why, John, what made you get such a little umbrella with and of certain Christians who landed in New England: “They so much handle? Huspanp: That handle's solid silver. praised God and fell on their knees—then they fell upon the abo- rigines.” The.ex-Secretary also sent to Bancroft this letter: Wire: Yes, but you can't put the handle up when it rains, “DEAR Bancrort,—I am very glad to send you two products of Husuanp: Well, I'd like to know if I didn’t put it up for $5 my pen to-day—a barrel of pickled pig pork and my eulogy on Chief- —Ex. during the last wet spell ?— Washington Critic. Justice Cha Dr. D. G. Brinton, Philadelphia, says : ** After trying any number of soaps, we have settled down on Packer’s Tar Soap as the best of all, whether as a toilet or a sur- gical soap. It is remarkably pure, cleansing, and healing; it is excellent in a large variety of skin diseases, among which we particularly name seborrhaa of the scalp, dandruff, chafing, and itching, all of them very common and very obstinate. It contains the balsamic virtues of the pine in a high degree, and is soft and refreshing to the skin.”— Vide Medical and Surgical Reporter, Phila, SRNL PERFUMES EDENIA {9 Bast 24st St., is New York. CELEBRATED HATS t 6 - Re re NEW LADIES’ ROUND HATS. \ /,}) CLOTHS. 178 & 180 Fifth Ave., bet. 22d & 23d Sts., ; and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St., NEW NEW YORK, 2 ; Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chestnut St., Phila, JOHN PATTERSON & CO., Tailors and Importers, Patterson Building, Perfumery Guerlain. Nos. 25 and 27 W. 26th St.. THE BEST. Most Delicate. Most Lasting. NEW YORK. Sold by PARK & TILFORD AND ALL FANCY GOODS DEALERS. CC.BRIGGS X02 5 APPLETON ST. BOSTON MANUFACTURERS OF SQUARE: -6--UPRIGHT big” PIANO FORTES ba GRACEFUL DESIGNS «+ SOLID ONSTRUCTION SS7 MATHLESS TONE +> BEAUTIFUL FINISH. comicbooks.com