Life — June 4, 1891 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: AT SERS A Ne OUR KIND. HE knows no Latin, she knows no Greek, But the purest American she can speak ; She knows the uses of her and she ‘And the proper places of | and me. She doesn’t use big words to tell A story, although she can use them well ; In short, she’s a girl without pretense, With an'ample supply of common sense. And I'd rather have her any day ‘Than the girl who can parley voo frongsay. —New York Press, Georce: ice cream, ETHEL: What a sweet death! How truly romantic that must be! George (and she laid her golden head on his manly bosom and looked lovingly into his face), let’s go to Pulmonico's and die together. Gtorce: Can't accommodate you to-day, darling. I'm dead already — dead broke.—New York World. Groace Horcrart, who kept a famous chop-house in New York, says that on one morning a well dressed man came into the chop-house aS soon as it was opened and fell asleep in a chair. A waiter urged him to go out, but he was petulant ; so the waiter performed the regu- lation bouncing act, with a hand on the man's collar and a hand at his back. “Cone.” said the waiter, ' you'll have to go out and take the air.” He got the man out into the vestibule, at which point the befuddled chap turned upon the waiter and said: *' I'll go out because T've got to; but I'll be damned if I'll take the air."—Argonaut. I heard this morning that a girl had died after eating On a slave plantation in Cuba the rain was falling in torrents, A negro who was walking along the road carefully stowed his hat under his clothes and continued his journey bareheaded. “Why, Pompey,” said a white man, “your head will get quite wet |" “Hee, hee, hee,” laughed “the negro, ‘head massa’s; hat my own !"—Le Papillon. How much sport they do make about Philadelphia TIMON of Athens, notorious for his hatred of the human species, one day mounted the rostrum at a popular assembly, and, when the astonishment created by his appearance had subsided, addressed his fellow townsmen as follows: ** Athenians, | have standing near my house a fig-tree on which many a citizen has hanged himself. As it is my intention to erect a building on the spot, | thought I would you due notice beforehand, so that any who wish to hang themselves may do $o before the tree is cut down," —Anecdoten- Buch. Wooney : being so sleepy. : KULFINCH : I know i Woooex : I shouldn't think Philadelphians would like it. Burixcn: Oh, they haven't waked up to it yet.—£x, SoorHInG AND REFRESHING are characteristics commending covyvniexrap. CELEBRATED HATS, —anp— Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets and The Dunlap Silk Umbrella. 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 22d and 234 Sts, and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St. NEW YORK. Palmer House, Chicago. 914 Chestnut St., Phila. Bath and Shampoo. (7 Agencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1889. THE LOUISBURC, BAR HARBOR, ME. Open July +. Renowned for its superior table and attentive service | Address the manager, J. Auneer Bi . care Hotel Prunswick, Bos: Ma: i Proprict VILLE, through her Amer- tean Agents, offers for sale her charming Algiers, Amed el Kitai (the Stream of the Fort); the grounds occupy 20 acres and are laid out in the most complete manner; the Villa rivals desctintion. A complete description, price and terms will be furnished on request by G, WRIGHT & CO, Inter-Ocean Building, Chicago. DO YOU CORRESPOND? If you desire to be in good form in your correspondence, use only the fine writing papers manufactured by the ye Paper Company. You will find them to be the best for all the uses of polite society. Made in rough and smooth finish, and all the fashionable tints. Sold by all dealers in the United States. Packer's Tar Soap FOR Play and Work in the Alps; the ascent of the Matterhorn, etc. First paper in a series on Mountain Climbing. Illustrated. General Sherman's Last §; “The Old Army." Hutherto'un Talleyrand’s Reply to sors, Extracts from unpublished * Memoirs. ‘A Miner's Sunday in Coloma, from the writer's California journal of 18: ‘At the Court of the Czar ublished. Accu. Minister Dallas. ‘An Imperial Wedding,""etc. Old Virginia Homestead, by Mrs. Burton Harnson, author of * The Anglo maniacs.” Portraits and illastratio: The Education of Women, “Women at an English University,"” and other papers. eA Novelette by Btockton “The Ti ‘gun in the May Three Complete Stories Without Sentiment,” “The House with the Cross,” “A Spring Romance,” by new writers. Poems, Departments, etc. ‘Tue June Century, ready June 1, price, gscentsacopy. Tux Century Co.,N. EDENIA AND Goya leily: New York Offices, 150 and 152 Duane St. comicbooks.com