Life — February 27, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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LIFE I YIQSRS AT NLL, THE DINER OUT, LAST night 1 met my friend of wealth, ‘And with him went to dine. Although I think I drank his health, I'm sure I drank his wine. —Scranton Cricket. Visitor (at a Virginia hospital during the war): Janitor, what do you do with the arms and legs that are amputated here ?, “* Well, Marsa, to tell de troof we most in giner'ly saves ‘um a day or two, and den we buries ‘um wid de bodies." St. Louts Life. Carrie: I know George loves me and wants me to be his wife. Hattie (Aer bosom friend): And how do you know ? Carrie: Because he has taken such a strong dislike to mamma, —&x. RAILROAD PRESIDENT: I am delighted to hear that you took a trip on our Great Western Limited-Palace Car Hotel-Barber Shop- Library-Bath Room-Pullman ‘xpress. Nothing lacking, was there ? OLD FRIEND (who had an upper berth): Yes—elevators.— Cin- 127 Frep: Why, Charlie, I thought you were getting on so well with rich Miss De Hoofe! She's cut you dead. Cuar.ie: Yaas; she told me at Christmas I might send her enough candy to fill her slipper. I sent her four pounds, and she's never spoken to me since !— Funny Folks, YeLLOWLY: That's a fine picture you have got there, Brownly. Brown y : Well, I flatter myself that it is, you know, ‘Is it one of the old masters, do you think?” “Well, I ain't exactly sure, but I'am going to have the opinion of a friend to-day ‘on the matt ** Indeed | a connoisseur ?”* “Why, I should say so! Pshaw! man, he’s been in the tea busi- ness for twenty years and knows everything about pictures."— Bosfon Commercial. Tutor: You will discover, I am sure, the many advantages the Greeks enjoyed as compared with the present age. FRESHMAN: The only advantage I have found yet is the blessing they possessed of not being obliged to learn Greek.— Boston Beacon. Doctor: Well, my fine little fellow, you have got quite well ain, I was sure that the pills I left for you would cure you. How did you take them —in water or in cake? “Ob, I used them in my blow-gun 1"— Ex. Rey. DR. PRIMROSE: So you lost your leg saving the life of a fel- low being? You are a hero. cinnaté hue Vaonawt: No, sir. I was a chump.— Pittsburg Town Tale, Fine Complexion,| “1 am perfectly delighted with Packer's Tar Soap. I have used less than two cakes and my skin has be- come so soft and fine already that I can well hope for a complete restora- tion of the fine complexion I thought lost. I find the soap most refresh- ing and delicious for the bath. It gives one such a sense of exquisite cleanliness after its use.” * ® * (Ex- tract from a recent letter.) Packer's Tar Soap Is sold by Druggists, 25 cents per cake. PERFUMES EDENIA Goya Lily. PARIS BXPOSITION, 1888, THE HIGHEST AWARD (THE COLD MEDAL) For Furs and For Garments CELEBRATED HATS, are Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets And The Dunlap Silk Umbrella. 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. aad & asd Sts, and 18 Broadway, near Cortlandt St, NEW YORK, Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chestnut St., Phila. (Agencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1889. Letters ax: ae CEs make cable of d Tihvelee Credits, available in Credit. 3 ‘parts of the world. Brown Brothers & Co., Bankers, 59 Wall St Drcoration Furnitur Currains WAS RECEIVED BY A. JAECKEL, Furrier, tt East (9th St., near Broadway. (33 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK HAVE YOU EVER TRIED “Whiting’s Standard Paper?” to be in good form in their correspondence. It is used by all who desire Made in rough and smooth finish. Sold by all dealers. for it. Ask your stationer New York Offices, 150 and 152 Duane St. comicbooks.com