Life — October 1, 1891 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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AN EXPEDIENT. ‘nt upon my mind,” d him say said she, ** ‘twill keep the wind From blowing it away —Detroit Free Press. AN American in Paris, presenting a check at a bank, was met with “Don't an} ‘ou must be identified.” LIFE ‘ That makes no difference ; here's half a franc.” The argument was conclusive. The walter took the tip, accom- panied the traveler to the bank, and the teller accepted the identifica tion without a murmur.—Once @ Week. THERE were five hard-looking men seated on a bench in City Hall and while four of them were asleep the fifth sat looking By-and-by, along came a man who halted to ask : you men want work ? What's the pay ?” asks the fifth, after a long silence. Why, I'll give $1.50 a day.” What's the work 3” * Digging a cellar.” ** 1 don’t want it.” want a job 2" i make the pay $2.00 a day and the work picking strawberries I'll take the chance of waking them up."—New “Whom shall T get ?- The American Consul ?"—with a shade of — Vor’ World. m in his tone. Idon't know the American Consul.” The traveler objected that it was rather hard to expect of a total stranger that he should have already effected an entrée into the society graced by the teller, But the latter was obdurate. 1 had a brilliant idea. He went into a neighbori waiter to him, “Do you know the teller of that bank ?” he asked, pointing to the building * Whi doesn't your beau come to the house, Mary, instead of ask- you to go out walking with him >" I'm sure I don’t know. He is attentive enough and all that, but the traveler he don’t scem to care to come to the house.” called the Has he ever been to the house at all ?” “Only one night, and he cannot say that he wasn’t entertained, for I played and sang to him everything I knew."—New Vor’ Press. ; he stops in here every day for his lunch.” Well,” said the traveler, t you to step into the bank with ‘The waiter sh houlders. “ Hé, know you. 0 YOU OWN A MACKINTOSH ? They are very useful articles to have on rainy days, and if you wiil send to the HODCMAN Rubber Company, 459 & 461 Broady NEW YORK, you will receive a little book telling all about them. Samples of cloths also sent on request, ESTABLISHED (86!. + BUDD WEDDING OUTFITS FOR GENTLEMEN. DRESS SHIRTS, GLOVES, TIES, SCARFS, &c. Correct & Exclusive Styles. Madison Square, NEW YORK. Lowpon: Pants Orrici King Béward St 4 Rue D'Uzes monsieur, but [don’t First BRokeR: Have you heard about the very latest railway disaster? : what has happened ?”" Union Pacific stocks dropped four points yesterday.—Perrarch. a New and Original Styles in Capes, Kort Jackets, Wraps, Fur Trimmings, &c. Dsiap x { 0: CELEBRATED HATS, Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets and The Dunlap Sik Umbretia 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 224 and a3d Sts., and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St., NEW YORK, Palmer House, Chicago. ot4 Chestout St., Phila $87" Agencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 1889. “A DROP OF DEW.” (Trade-Mark.) “There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh frown roses washed in dew.” Fresh, fragrant and permanent. 50 A. JAECKEL, THEODORE METCALF CO., Bos FURRIER, THE RE METCALF CO., Boston ii ERE (Gch BT REES: p. FOUGERA & CO, - New York | Near Broadway, New York. cents per bottle. 75 cents by mail. Extract of BEEF, Used by All Good Cooks ine year round. Send to ARMOUR & CO., Chicago, for Cook Book showing use of Armour's Extract 1 8oupsa nd Sauces. Malied free. comicbooks.com ety