Life — May 29, 1890 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE: ISPRS AT NvLLy HE WEARIES US. INE clothes don’t improve every person in spite ‘Of the fact that by some they are admired ; ‘The tailor-made girl is a joy and delight, But the tailor-made man makes us tired. —Boston Courier. BIsMARCK was no favorite with women, least of all with clever women who dared to think for themselves and imagine that they could fathom questions of state. He was never tired of snubbing strong- minded ladies, putting them down, and stamping on them. One day he paid a visit to the Russian Embassy at Berlin, where he behaved as usual, flouting even the mistress of the house, the Countess Schouvaloff herself. He took his leave at length, to the relief of everybody, and presently the family mastiff was heard barking at the great man, as he passed through the court-yard. Immediately the countess ran to the window, and Bismarck heard her voice, saying to him in a tone of gen- tle entreaty : “Oh, please, M. le Chancelier, don't bite my dog."—Argonaut. 317 Victoria is a great stickler at formality ; she will not tolerate any- thing like a breach of custom. The custom is that, whenever the queen visits a town, she shall, before leaving that town, knight the mayor thereof. The form of ‘dubbing a knight is exceedingly simple. The candidate kneels before her majesty ; she asks his name; he gives it simply *‘Andrew Jones,” or whatever it might be; the queen touches him with a sword and says: ** Rise, Sir Andrew Jones.” On one occasion, the queen was about to knight the mayor of one of the smaller cities she had been visiting. ‘The poor fellow was scared almost out of his wits. He was so nervous that when the queen asked his name, he answered : “Mr. Thomas Hopkins.” ‘Whereupon her majesty, incensed at his breach of custom and mak- ing no allowance for the poor man's trepidation, exclaimed : “Rise, Mr, Thomas Hopkins." and, throwing the sword aside, sailed indignantly out of the room.—Chicago News. ‘*Conrounn it, anyhow,” said the mother-in-law joke when the Angel Gabriel blew his horn. ‘* This is the seventeen million, five hundred and twenty-one thousand, four hundred and sixty-seventh time I have been resurrected."— Washington Post. PeppLeR: Can I sell you some patent cement, sir? Mr. SEEDIE: Cement? What do I want with cement ? PEDDLER: Well, you look as if you was broke.—Boston Courier. HODGMANS MACKINTOSHES FoR Ladies & Gentlemen Are-unequalled:for softness of fabric & Wearing qualities. Being farSupenor fo any + similar imported goods. | es furnished icahion [c role ew Broadway, corGrand Street, NEWYORK 21 W. ayd St_next door to sth Ave. Hotel. prices and 6. Crosse & Blackwell’s: FRESH FRUIT JAMS Made from English Fresh Fruits AND REFINED SUCAR ARE SOLD BY ALL GROCERS IN THE UNITED STATES. OUR CENTENNIAL EXHIBIT. GEO. MATHER’S SONS RINTING INK 60 JOHN STREET, N. Y.| THIS PAPER IS PRINTED WITH OUR SPECIAL - LIFE - INK. ~e CELEBRATED HATS, —AnD— Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets and The Dunlap Silk Umbrella. 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 224 and a3d Sts., and 18: Broadway, near Cortlandt St. NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chestnut St., Phila. $B Agencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1889. THE DOCTORS endorse it, and is not that good proof that Grosve- nor’s Bell-cap-sic is un- like other plasters; if they were like them,we would not ask you to use them— itwould not pay us. That they are dif- ferent, and relieve pain at once,always ac- complishing what we claim for them, are Sacts that you won't dispute when you try GROSVENOR'S | BELL-CAP-SIC PLASTER. Sold by druggists, or mailed on receipt of a5 cents by Grosvenor & Richards, Boston, Mass Four-in-hand Coaches Wagonette Phetons Hunt Traps Do Dos English Brougha: T Carts . Mail Phetons French Wagons Dog Carts Stanhopes, Carts, with pole aus double and tripl Spider Phatons s-a-Vis Fed F, French & Ce (LimtTED), Boston. Mass. AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVES OF MILLION, GUIET & CO., PARIS, WRICHT & DITSON, LARGEST MAKERS OF FINE LAWN TENNIS GOODS every association ‘of note inthe U.S. and “Star. waicnt @ ovTson's Omctai Lawn Ten- nis Guide, contain: Reel fes ou the Game, ete. By mail, Ibe. Send for Catalogue. 580 WASHINGTON BT., BOSTON, MARS. “LIFE” BINDER. Cheap, Strong and Durable. Will hold 26 Numbers, Mailed to any part of the United States Sor $1.00, postage free. Address: OFFICE OF “LIF 28 W. 23d Street, New York. LOUIS VUITTON’S New styles in TRUNKS, BAGS and VALISES will be found the climax of his innovations, Sold only at 454 Strand, London, W.; and 1 Rue Scribe, Paris. are of imitations, Cabriotets Landaulets Oak Derbys Road Wagons Four-in-hand Breaks Game Carts Russian Surreys Wagonettes French Victorias Pamil Park Breaks raps hea CORRESPONDENCE INVITED, Ce Char-a-Bancs comicbooks.com