Life — June 6, 1889 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE: F SKSeRS A DLL HE naked hills lie wanton to the breeze ; The fields are nude, the groves unfrocked ; Bare are the shivering limbs of shameless trees ; What wonder is it that the corn is shocked ? —Saturday Evening Gazette, Ir has pained us much to note that certain of our contemporaries speak in a somewhat uncomplimentary tone of Queen Victoria's economy. They seem to forget that her gracious Majesty has a large family.— Philadelphia Call. BiBLicaL INFORMATION: Sunday school teacher —‘ We are told here that the prophet rent his clothes. Why did he do that ?” Tommy SPAULDING: P'raps he couldn't afford to buy ’em.”— Pittsburgh Chronicle. Iv is better to give than receive— when the gift is a cheap cigar. — Burlington Free Press. “T aM not a business man, you see, and I should be glad if you would enlighten me as to what'is meant'by double entry?” “By double entry we mean two sets of books, one of which may Cora: What induced you to tell Mr. Merritt I went to the party last night with George? LITTLE JOHNNIE: A quarter.—Harper's Bazar. ComMANDING OFFICER: So you want:to marry Private Malone’s widow. She is old enough to be your mother. Surely a smart young fellow like you could find a nice young girl who would take you. Private T. ATKINS: Young girls is well enough, sor, but I likes my dinner ’ot, and I noticed Private Malone always ’ad ’is dinner ‘ot, so I ‘opes as you'll give me lave, sor.—London Judy. SALESMAN (in clothing store): The gentleman who ordered the check suit this mornig has sent it back. PROPRIETOR : What's the matter ? SALESMAN: Says he doesn't know the house, and prefers not to take so large a check unless it is certified. —Detroit Free Press. WE weren't there, but we never had reason to doubt the veracity of the gentleman who informs us that Senator Sawyer the other day witnessed for the first time in his life a game of baseball as played by professionals, At one point in the game the man at the bat knocked the ball away over the heads of the outfielders, and the crowd cheered until Senator Sawyer felt the warmth of enthusiasm rising in his own bosom, “That's too bad,” he finally said to the gentleman beside him. ** What's too bad ?” ‘Why, it’s too bad they didn’t have a man there to catch that ball. By George,” said the Senator warmly, ‘if 1 were manager of that club I'd put three more men out there in the field if it cost be produced in court, if required, but not the other."— Der U/&. $2,500 a year."—Washington Post. Packer’s Tar Soap used daily, is A Hygienic Luxury, promoting a clear, soft, smooth skin, healthfyl scalp and hair. 25 cents. Druggists. Quudbore PERFUMES EDENIA and Goya Lily. CELEBRATED HATS AND LADIES’ ROUND HATS. 178 & 180 Fifth Ave., bet. 22d & 23d Sts., and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St., NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. CASWELL, MASSEY & CO. 578 Fifth Ave., and 1121 Broadway, N.Y. and Newport, R.I., 914 Chestnut St., Phila. call attention to their two new perfume powders, “Double Violet,” AND “White Heliotrope.” A single trial will prove conclusively their lasting and delicate fragrance. The most refined taste cannot object to the use of these sachets in writing desks, and among handkerchiefs, laces and under- wear.’ 50 cents each, EXPOSITION! HE CHEQUE BANK issues Cheques, either singly or put up in Books, for the special use of VISITORS to the 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 free 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. PIANOS : C.C.BRIGGS & 62 7 APPLETON 5ST. BOSTON MASS, MANUFACTURERS OF GRAND: -SQUARE- -©-- UPRIGHT GRACEFUL DESIGNS ++ SOLID (NSTRUCTION : MATCHLESS TONE ++ BEAUTIFUL FINISH. comicbooks.com