Life — March 6, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

AN ARTIST’S TRIALS. Mammy Jane (whose sight is failing): GET DOWN DAR, CHILE, FO' YO" FALL EN BRE'K YO' NECK. WHAT YO! MAMMY OWINE SAY EF SHE SEE YO" CLIMIN’ "BOUT IN DEM FOOL CLOSE? . THE POET. LOOK into my heart and write, And that is why my verses, Instead of being sense, are light And empty as my purse is. cern! WFUL accident at the museum.” = The keoainl “What was it?” Hl | WHAT-IS “The wild dog from Borneo got loose last cae and ate up three-quarters of the ossified man ¢ while he slept.” “Does the ossified man know it?” “No; they're afraid to tell him.” HE PONIED. ROFESSOR: Who wrote Czasar’s Commen- taries? COLLEGE STUDENT: Why—er—Bohn. Can Kate Field’ 's Washington tell a lie? A BOOMERANG. sé H OW do you account for the rank immorality of Chicago?” asked the New Yorker. “We have 35,000 New Yorkers settled there,” answered Mr. Laketown. comicbooks.com