Life — April 24, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: 247 Casstus, or “* Cash” Cologne, as he is usually named, a well-known resident of’ Fauquier County, Va., recently paid his first visit to New York. He entered a dry-goods store to buy a dress-pattern for his wife. Walking up one of the aisles, he was more than surprised to hear some one in the dim distance loudly yell out ‘Cash! Naturally astonished, he looked in the direction whence the voice came, sup- posing its owner to be a friend or acquaintance. Still he could see no one whom he recognized. Wondering more and more, astonishment grew to boiling point, when, as if by’ a preconcerted signal, from all quarters of the rooom came persistent cries of ‘Cash! ‘+ Cash!” Cash!" This was more than Virginian chivalry could bear, and, as at that moment a clerk, with a locomotive-whistle voice, standing right back of him, capped the climax by shouting the name in his very ear, he turned around and remarked :“* Look here, young fellow, you folks may think you're having a lot of fun with me, but if you use my name that way again, I'll break your neck." It took the proprietor and six floor-walkers half-an-hour to convince him as to the facts of the case and that no harm was meant. ‘Tis is about the time of the year,” said Mrs, Watts to her neighbor, ‘* that the fishing fever strikes my husband. If he can get T SEISSPRS At NvLLy THE PRESENT WAY. Father may I an actress be ++ Yes,” said her doting parer, You must marry, of course, And get a divorce, But never go near the the-a-ter.” —American Grocer. A.: Come, now, you must own that you have gone partially mad on the score of gymnastics ? B.; Mad?” Why, gymnastics mean strength, health, long life. A.: That may be, but the fact is our forefathers knew nothing of gymnastics, and-— B.: And they are dead, every man jack of them !—Zugliche Rund- “ oO! schau, “You see,” said the young man who was applying for a position, **the trouble with so many men is that they lose their nerve. Now, I never do that.” “That's so; a great many men lose their nerve." “« They do, assuredly.” “And it strikes me that you must have been following these unfor- tunates around picking up what they lost.” —Washington Post. cout on the banks of some creek and catch two or three little mud-<ats in the course of an afternoon he is perfectly happy ** Indeed ? So he is fond of fishing, then ? “Fond of fishing? Why, that man is a perfect anglomaniac.""— Terre Haute Express. PROFESSOR OF MINERALOGY (a the examination) : the most diamonds found ?” Canpipate: “At the pawnbrokers', “Where are onntags-Post Fine Complexion. | “1 am: perfectly delighted with Packer's Tar Soap. 1 have used less than two cakes and my skin has be- come so soft and fine already that 1 can well hope for a complete restora- tion of the fine complexion I thought lost. I find the soap most refreshing and delicious for the bath. It gives one such a sense of exquisite cleanli- ness after its use.” # * © Jrom a recent letter. Packer’s Tar Soap Is sold by Druggists, Sundb PERFUMES EDENIA and oya Lily. 25 cents per cake. 2 CELEBRATED HATS, =aND— Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets and The Dunlap Silk Umbrella. 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 24 and 234 Sts., and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St. NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chestnut St., Phila. $B-Agencies 10 all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 188. GROSVENOR’S BELL-CAP-SIC PLASTERS Sold by the best druggists, or mailed on receipt of 25 cents by Grosvenor & Richards, Boston, Mass LOWELL CO. For perfection of quality, durability of coloring, and artistic excellence of design, these goods are unrivalled in Domestic Carpetings. An immense variety of new patterns designed by the best artists, and made for our exclusive sales only, Is now ready. An early inspection Is Invited. Prices Reasonable. JOHN H. PRAY, SONS & CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, 558 & 560 Washington Street, 30 to 34 Harrison Ave. Extension, BOSTON. New York Office, for Wholesale Only, 113 WORTH STREET. in-hand Coaches onette Phactons Dos-a-Dos English Broughams, T Carts [4 sizes Mail Phettons French Wagons Dog C AME Ferd P, French & (25 (LIMITED), Boston. Mass. ICAN REPRI MILLION, GUIET & CO., PARIS, Pour-in-hand Breaks Game Carts Russian Surreys Wagonettes French Nictert - " ‘ami ireaks NTATIVES OF ver Phatons de Dame Meadowbrook Carts Char-a-Bancs CORRESPONDENCE INVITED, comicbooks.com