Life — October 9, 1890 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: FEIKORS AT MiLLf ALAS! the season's nearly o'er; With flirting we have done; I'll see my summer girl no more Till eighteen ninety-one. For though I've bought her cream and pie ‘And every asked-for thing, Her winter fellow now will buy Her oysters stews till spring. —Chicago Evening Post. Dr. Watcor, the celebrated * Peter Pindar,” was an eccentric character, and had a great many queer notions of his own. A story is told by one of his contemporaries of the manner in which he once tricked his publisher. ‘The latter, wishing to buy the copyright of his works, offered him a life annuity of two hundred pounds sterling. The doctor, learning that the publisher was very anxious to purchase, demanded three hundred pounds, In reply, the latter appointed a day on which he would call on the doctor and talk the matter over. At the day assigned the doctor received him in his dressing gown, even to the night-cap, and, having aggravated the sickly look of a naturally cadav- rous face by purposely abstaining from the use, of the razor for some days he had all the appearance of acandidate for quick consumption. Added to this, the crafty doctor assumed a hollow and most sepulhral cough such as would excite the pity of even a sheriff's officer and make a rich man’s heir crazy with joy. The publisher, however, refused to tive more than two hundred pounds, till suddenly the doctor broke out into a violent fit of coughing, which produced an offer of two hundred and fifty pounds. This the doctor peremptorily refused, and was seized almost instantly with another even more frightful and longer-protracted attack that nearly suffocated him, when the publisher, thinking it im- possible that such a man could live long, raised his offer and closed with him at three hundred pounds. ‘The old rogue lived twenty-five or thirty years afterward GRADvORIND (fo Ais employés) : clock, time. Foreman: Yes, sir. GRADGRIND (the next day): Why, the day is one-fourth gone and nobody's at work, What does this mean ? FOREMAN (meekly): You forgot to wind the clock, sir.—Ex- change. ( ” Nobody but me is to touch that Nobody is to begin of leave off work except as it indicates the Miss Terriut: When mommer and I were in Yurrup, oh, the awfulest thing happened! There was a prince—and a count—and—and they fought a duel—about poor me—with pistols." YausLey: Ah ! were they loaded ? Miss Turkiut : No, they weren't ! They were just as sober as could be.—/ndianapolis Journal acker’s # ar Soap uP OAKLEY’S Violet of Parma Toilet Water. FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF. In & and 16 oz, Bottles. CELEBRATED HATS, Is one of Nature’s Reme- di and the IDEAL for TOILET, BATH and SHAMPOO. 25 Cents per Cake. and #8: Broadwa: Druggi LATEST Capes, Jackets and Garments. EXCLUSIVE JAECKEL, FURRIER, A. . 11 East 19th Street, NEW +» HELIO-VIOLET sachet power: For Sale by all Dealers. YORK. Received the Grand Gold Med- al at the Paris Expo- sition, 1889. —aNp— Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets and The Danlap Silk Umbrella. 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 22d and a3d Sts., near Cortlandt St. NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chestnut St., Phila §8- Agencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 188. Queen Cologne. in 4, 8 and 16 oz. Bottles. Cream of Cucumber Toilet Soap. FOR THE COMPLEXION, Camelia Soap. Maor py THE OAKLEY SOAP anp PERFUMERY CO. STYLES. FASHIONABLE HAIR. We will mail goods to re. liable parties throughout the United States for ap- proval. The newest styles and best of goodsat lowest prices, No money required until they are received. No obligation to keep goods if unsatisfactory ¢ ‘Send forcirculars. JOHN MEDINA, 463 Washington Btreet, - Bestea, Mass. comicbooks.com