Life — December 25, 1890 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: TWO VIEWS OF THE SUBJECT. He (excitedly): Waxcir! Pt sce TL ukakn ose or CONFOUNDED Kopaks! She (quietly): Possmi.y, KNow, Hose: MY BROTHERS ALL HAVE THERM, vou HAT is the chief characteristic of the chump ?” * He doesn’t know that he is a chump.” SIDORE COEN: mudder ! Mrs. COEN: You vill never be a schmart man, Issy. Dere is more gustomers in de udder blace. I vud like to have a store in heaven, AMOR ET DORA. LTHO™ thro’ Winter's frosts and snows Young Cupid all unheeding gocs ; And when the Summer heats oppress He minds them even less — Yet as he flits near Dora's eyes, Alas—with heat he nearly dies; And when he ventures near her heart I's icy coldness makes him smart. Witham Barclay Dunham, NOTED. HE: Mr. Studley must be an immensely popular man. + He is well known at all the prominent clubs, is not he ? He: Oh, yes—blackballed by nine of them, I think. What shall we do to create a sensa- REAT EDITOR: tion to-morrow ? AssISTANT: Bring out the paper without a sensation in it. Superintendents WVA1, MY MAN, WHAT CAN TL bo FOR YOU ? Man: SEXENTEEN VEAKS AGO YOU MAD IN YOUR EMPLOY AMES SENGER BOY EY THE Name OF RRUTUS Ross! Supt, (sadty): Linn, Man: Oxy. wKiGieE MAY MORNING YOU SENT HIM WHTHE AN Me FORTANT MESSAGE TO FOURTEENTH STREET. Supls Lin Qausiagly SevENTEEN VEARS AGO ! Man: WELL, SIX VEXRS AGO HE DISCOVERED THAT THE PARTY FOR WHOM THE MESSAGE WAS INTENDED HAD DIED, AND TO-DAY HE KINGS HACK THE LETTER UNOPENED, Supt: Tuer you awe— Man: BRUYUS Ross, 1 YOUR SERVICE, fable and sivoons from over-exertion.) (Flings letter down on comicbooks.com