Life — May 9, 1889 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: FEKSPRS Mi WLy (Butchered, with apologies to Oliver Goldsmith, Esq.) LL fares the club, to politics a prey, Where gents accumulate and men decay. —To-Day. He came home If you can stop Mrs. Grimes: Johnny has been fighting again. with his coat ripped up the back and a black eye. his fighting I wish you would do it. I can't. MR. G.: I'll make a prize-fighter of that boy. stop him nothing will.—Chicago Herald, Tf that doesn’t “Tsay! You Aave improved that foot these last few weeks! I should go on drawing the human foot, and nothing else, if 1 were you, Brown—anyhow for another two or three years or $0.” “Oh, thanks, awfully! And then?” “Why chen you might be a shoemaker, you know, and get an honest living !"— Punch. Emity: It is delightful to feel that one is so near home. We ought to sight Sandy Hook this afternoon. Dora: Shall we? How delightful! Don't tell me which he is. I can always pick out a Scotchman out of a hundred.—Pick-e-Up. CELEBRATED HATS AND LADIES’ ROUND HATS. 178 & 180 Fifth Ave., Packer’s Tar Soap used as a Sham- oo will work wonders in curing andruff and Itching, and preventing Baldness. 25 cents. Druggists. Palmer House, Chicago. Walter M. 2 and 2-pound Packages by MAIL in Elegant Metal Boxes 31.00 per Pound. Larger Packages by Express. PERFUMES Retail Branch, 45 and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St., NEW YORK, Chocolates =: 277 Barner (0, first comer, in hand): Shave, sir? (Zo second comer): Take achair, sir. I shall be disengaged immediately. « SMITH (first comer, who has recognized in the glass opposite that i Gs that fellow Brown, his rival and enemy): Yocas f aish to be shaved, aad—ah—then I should like my head washed—shampooed, y'know—and afterwards my hair cut, and—carefully curled !!—(7aé- teau.)—Punch, “You look tired, Miss Brown; too much dancing ?” “Oh, dear me, no! but we gave what is called an ‘engaged din- ber’ last ‘week, where eight betrothed couplestwere invited, and afterward they retired to eight different corners of the two rooms and whispered all the evening, and it reminded papa and mamma so much of their courtship they went out and sat on the stairs and left mealone, Do you wonder I still look tired ?"—Funny Folks, AMATEUR HUBERT: Me lud, five moons were seen to-night, four fixed and the other did whirl! MUFFLED VOICE FROM THE AUDIENCE: bromide 2— Pittsburgh Despatch. Youno Boston WIFE (at meat sta//): 1 really don’t know what to get for dinner to-day. Butcuer: Why not try some of these mutton chops? Gocd, healthy food; eighteen cents a pound, Ye Boston Wire (puts hand to forehead): Let me see. BuTcHEer: What—the chops? Here they are. Youxo Boston Wire: No; I was thinking. : About th £: No; I wasshinking whether you ought not to have said wholesome instead of healthy.— Yankee Blade, Did jever—hic— try PARIS EXPOSITION! HE CHEQUE BANK issues Cheques, either singly or put up in Books, for the special use of VISITORS. tothe PARIS EXPOSITION, who can cash the same at upwards of seventy Banking Houses, situated in different parts of Paris, without charge. Visitors’ mail matter can be addressed to them, care of the Société Générale, 4 Place de l'Opera, opposite the Grand Hotel, where English is spoken. Every Cheque that is issued by the Cheque Bank is EQUAL TO CASH, as Bank Notes are, for the Bank's Capital, Guaran- tee Fund and Customers’ Balances are invested in British Government Securities, or held in Cash in the Bank of England, and can be cashed in every town in Europe without charge. For Handbook containing list of 2,500 Banking Houses who cash the cheques /ree of charge, and list of 250 of the principal hotels in Europe who accept them, apply to agents of ‘ CHEQUE BANK, Limited, CAPITAL, £100,000, GUARANTEE FUND, £27,000. TRUSTEES: The Right Honorable John Bright, M.P. The Right Honorable Earl Beauchamp. E. J. MATHEWS & CO., Bankers, No. 2 Wall Street, New York. bet. 22d & 23d Sts., 914 Chestnut St., Phila. Lowney’s World. and Bon-Bons. West St., Boston EDENIA Goya Lily. --PIANOS t Cr BRIGGS &Ce 7 APPLETON ST. BOSTON MASS, MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND: -SQUARE--6--UP! > GRACFULDESIGNS -* SOLID (NSTRUCTION + SY MATHLESS TONE + BEAUTIFUL FINISH. comicbooks.com