Life — March 5, 1891 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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LIFE PAT SEGRS Ait WLLMG LENT. HER ervity aside is thrown, The world she deems a'sham ; In fact she has so pious grown She won't eat devilled ham.—Cape Cod Item, MoxstcNor DoxNer, Archbishop of Bordeaux, was taken to task for his friendly intercourse with the Protestant minister in that city. The very tolerant Prince of the Church replied : + Pray allow me to have the pleasure of seeing him in this world, as 1 am not so sure of meeting him in the next."— Petersburg Herald. Roscork CONKLING came into Charles O'Connor's office one day, in quite a nervous state. | **You seem to be very much excited, Mr. Conkling,” said Mr. O'Connor, as Roscoe walked up and down the room. “Yes, I'm provoked—I am provoked,” said Mr. Conkling. “I never had a client dissatisfied about my fee before.” ** Well, what's the matter ?” asked O'Connor. “Why, I defended Gibbons for arson, you know. victed, but I did hard work for him, I took him to the Superior Court and he was convicted ; then to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court confirmed the judgment and gave him ten years. 1 charged him He was con- 147 sic hundred dollars, and Gibbons is grumbling about it—says it is too much. Now, Mr. O'Connor, I ask you, was that too much 2” ** Well,” ‘said’ O'Connor, very deliberately, ‘of course, you did a great deal of work, and six hundred dollars is not a big fee; but to be feank with you, Mr. Conkling, my deliberate opinion is that he might have been convicted for less money."—Axchange. THe following is one of thetales of ** Geordie” Drummond, the veteran North End man, It is well known that up in the North the excitement over a great football match is extraordinary ; and Drum- mond says that, after the final tie in the English Cup competition some three or four years ago, between Preston North End and West Bromwich Albion, a man came into the shop of a Preston barber and threw himself down into a chair. “+ Shave, sir 2" inquired the harber. (0! Throat cut !" was the astonishing reply. lost."— Tit Bits, ** GRAND opera comes high, doesn't it ?” said her husband, referring to the price of admission. ++ It doesn't seem to come very high in the neck," she replied, glanc- ing at one of the boxes.—Norristown Herald, **North End's FONTENELLE. preferred his asparagus dressed with oil; but his friend, the Abbé Terrasson, liked it with butter. The latter coming to dine with him one day, Fontenelle unselfishly ordered that half the as- paragus should be dressed his way and the other half Terrasson's. Just before sitting down totable, the abbé was struck down by apoplexy, whereupon Fontenelle rushed out of the room and shouted to his cook: ‘All the asparagus with oil! All of it with oil !"—Argonaut. Waterproof Outfits FOR COACHMEN, OF DOUBLE TEXTURE. CASHMERE, in colors to match the livery ; also COATS and HAT COV- ERS, with plain black or white rubber surface, WATERPROOF HORSE COVERS of every description. 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