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

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> LIFE: ORS AT NvLLy WHY NOT? JUST now bright flowers of various hues, The citizen he grows ’em ; The girl puts on her tennis shoes And wears a dress that shows ’em. —Boston Courier. “T ONCE lost $450 in a single moment from stage fright,” said America’s greatest elocutionist. ‘‘How so? Lose your engage- ment?” ‘*No; it was in Montana, and the road agent who stood at the stage door when they stopped us took my overcoat and the season's receipts.” — Brooklyn Eagle. JuDGE: You were arrested for walking on the grass in the park, and that, too, right near a notice warning you to keep off. AccusED: Yes, I'm near-sighted, you know, and I couldn't make out what the sign was, so I went over on the grass to read it and was arrested.— Omaha World, BacLey: I saw a melancholy sight a few days ago, a messenger boy standing pensively on a street corner. Foc: That's nothing. BaGLey: No; but some one had hung on the boy’s back a sign that read: “Will move about May 1.”— America. 351 “WHAT makes you so thoughtful to-night, George?” asked Nellie. “Well,” said George, as he threw his eyes up to the ceiling and took a fresh hold upon her slender waist, ‘I was thinking that if your mother was willing to become my mother-in-law, I would like it very much.” “You would?” “«T would indeed.” «Then if it will afford you any satisfaction I can inform you that I am quite willing that she should and that she is also quite willing to act in that capacity in a quiet and unostentatious manner.” And thus under the silent stars the arrangements were concluded by which two lives hitherto running apart are to be blended into one, and a youth hitherto his own master is to stoop under the yoke of a mother-in-law.— Boston Courter, “Captain,” reported the officer, as he came up from below, pale with fear, ‘the water is gaining on us, We must lighten the ship!” With ‘the presence of mind that distinguishes the true hero from the craven in the hour of peril, the captain instantly called all hands on deck. “Men,” he said, and his deep voice rang out clear and strong over the wild waste of waters that threatened to engulf the stately vessel, ‘‘ throw those things overboard !” The sailors went to work with the energy of despair. 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