Life — May 11, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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> LIFE : FPA SRS IT’S DIFFERENT NOW. TIME was when good old Boston Was tie literary town, But its fame is slowly falling And its toe is going down. For the West is now ascendant With its enterprising men, And Chicago beats the whole world With the product of the pen. LittLe Jounsy (reading) : at cat can see the rat, and the fat cat can get an ru JOUNNY’s SISTER (interrupting) : Indianapolis Journal. Mrs, SCOLDWELL : usband always comes home sober. Mrs. KUTE (sof voce): ress it. See the fat cat. I wouldn't allow my husband to drink as some men do. —Boston Budget. Can the fat cat see a rat? Yes; the the rat if the ratdid not run, But the cat Why, what a beautiful pastel in prose! My Sober? I should think dejected a better word to ex- Conticurry to greatness is sometimes embarrassing, as an office-seeker from Arkug found when he was ushered into Mr. Cleveland's presence, the other day.“ Mr. Pap dent,” he said, “Iam a plain American citizen who has no influence beyond the and esteem of the people of two States, aod 1 would like to be consul-general at Rim Exypt.” "Rome, Egypt, did you say 2" asked the President. ‘* Yes, sir; and Igy that I could fill the office with satisfaction to the government. I came to leave my pays, Here they are. Good-day.” ‘Good Lord !" he said, a half-hour later, when the sey of his error flashed over him; “here [| am, a thousand miles from home—caine al way to get the office, and the President thinks I don’t know that Rome is in Italy. 1a going home to-night."—Argonaut. OLb GENTLEMAN: What would you like to be when you grow up ? Boy: I'd like to be a bricklayer. That’s a commendable ambition. 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