Life — August 18, 1892 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: ALIKE IN THE END. THEY say the baby loots like me, A circumstance I dreaded ; But the only likeness I can see, Js that we're both bald-headed. Exchange. Tue tailor never knew how he managed to get the young man to pay his bill, but it came to pass in two or three years that he did, and one day, perhaps a month after that happy event, the young man came in to see him. “What will you’ charge me,” he inquired, confidently, ‘for a suit of clothes? Something real nice, don’c you know 2?” The tailor calculated for a minute or so. “Well,” he said, ‘I guess about $375.” “What?” and the young man's mouth flew open, “About $375.” repeated the tailor cally. The young man leaned up against a pile of cloth to regain his composure. “How much for cash?” he inquired in a subdued tone. The tailor brightened up. “Oh, about $40 or $50," he said cheerfully, and the young man walked out.— THE two most absent-minded men on record are the fellow who thought he left his watch. at home and then took it out to see if he had time to go back and get it, and the man who put on his office door a card saying: ‘Out ; will be back in ten minutes,” and 2 his return sat down on the stair step to wait for himself. Exchange. “Mercy !" cried Juliet.‘ This glove is tight.” ‘1, too, should be intoxicated," rapturously responded Romeo, ‘were! a glove upon that hand."— Harper's Basar. IN the fighting before Vicksburg the command of General McGinnis was drawn up behind intrenchments ia a hollow at the foot of a hill occupied by twenty thousand Con- federates. Grant rode up to McGinnis and said: Will your men go up that hill?” “ They will go through hell, if necessary.” was the prompt reply. * Allright,” said Grant; ** they will have a chance to do it after awhile.” And so they had.—Argonaut, AT a small loch, about twenty-five miles from the town of Aberdeen, a certain Lord B, was watched while fishing by a shepherd laddie for a period of over two hours, durin which time his lordship did not catch a single fish. Getting rather annoyed, he ad- dressed the boy : I say, my little lad, do you know if there are any fish in the pond 2” “Well, yer lordship,” the boy replied, ‘*if there is ony they must be awfu' sma’, ‘cause there wis nae walter there tae it raided yesterday."— Boston Globe. “Dip you,” he inquired, in an itensely sentimental tone, “never sigh for death 2” Whose ? she inquired, with an interest and promptness that brought him back to earth so fast that he nearly lost his breath.—2xxchange. 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