Life — August 25, 1892 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- hey AT $I GPRS MAN'S SUPERIORITY. HE goes down to the dry-goods store and spends our good old dollars GS! For shirts just like her brother wears, with reg'lar standing collars; She even has her hair cut short, and tries the best she can To obliterate the difference between herself and man ; But, when it comes to whiskers—by this idea we're cheered— That we've got the everlasting bulge when it comes to raising beard ! Indianapolis Journal. (telling his lady-love—the latest—a very interesting yarn about an illness he once had) : Yes, thought I should lose my mind entirely LOVE (meekly): And did you, Mr, was a hard time, I assure you. Do you know, at one period 1 Griffin ? Lapy He didn’t quite like her question, though she did ask it so prettily. Exchange. “ BILLINGS got his pension yet ?"” “1 didn't know Billings was entitled to a “He thinks he is any way. nsion.” He claims to have contracted a chronic case of that tired feeling from reading war articles in the magazines.""—/ndianapolis Journal. Miss Pert: I've never seen Mr. Bjenks. Is he a handsome man ? Miss Fiyrte: Handsome ? Well, that's a matter of opinion. My own idea isthat if beauty were subject to taxation, Mr. Bjenks would be entitled to a pension.—Somer- ville Journal, “Pur on some more clothes, Mandy!” shrieked the elderly aunt at the watering ce ; ** folks will see you,” she added, horror-struck. “* Aunt Julia," replied Amanda, as she went out among the waves with all the trust- ful innocence of a Texas statesman, ** what are we here for ?"—Hotel Gazette. Titts is a characteristic anecdote of Rossini. On the death Meyerbeer, his nephew, Jacques Beer, composed a funeral march in his honor. In a moment of weakness, he asked Rossini what he thought of it.‘ Not bad," replied the maestro, but it would be better if you had died and Meyerbeer had written the march."— Argonaut. “« Suppose,” said the lady—"' now only suppose, understand—that you were carrying a piece of steak from the kitchen, and by accident should let it slip from the plate to the floor, what should you do in such a case 2” The girl looked the lady square in the eye for a moment before asking— “Is it a private family, or are there boarders ?” “« Boarders,” answered the lady.” « Pick it up and put it back on the plate,” firmly replied the girl. She was engaged.—Exchange. A TOURIST on a very hot day was watching al man. who, with head uncovered, was laboriously turning a windlass which most clumsily hoisted from a shaft a bucket filled with rock. Said the tourist : “ My friend, why don't you cover up your head? 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