Life — September 21, 1893 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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OL TEE © A SAD HOME-COMING. home at last and her heart is gay ; She opens her wardrobe, alack ! alack’! She finds that while she has been away The moths have devoured her sealskin sacque. Boston Courter. A VERY absent-minded member of the French Institute was reading the newspaper | in the casino at Dieppe the other day. He was absorbed by his reading, and with his left hand he unconsciously pushed the files of newspapers on the table. Each moment he sent them farther from him. Beyond the papers was an inkstand, which at last the moving papers pushed over the side of the table. It fell on the trousers of a Paris banker, who was furious at the accident. The absent-minded man offered his best excuses without appeasing the banker's wrath, who shrieked that his new trousers were ruined, “But, sir, I will cheerfully pay for them. Be good enough to give me your card, and 1 will send the money to your hotel.” ‘The member of the institute drew forth the thirty francs and handed them to dp Then he said Now that you have been paid, I hope you have too much of the delicacy of , gentleman to remain in my trousers.’ You know they are mine, and I insist upoa thes immediate delivery to me. You have no confidence in me; I have none in you. yy trousers!" In vain the banker protested against such haste. The crowd that had gattent about the disputants said the member of the institute was right, aad the banker, ase sending for another pair of nether garments, surrendered the ink-stained ones, amid laughter of the bystanders, Exchange. THe author of ‘A Man of Letters Under the Empire and the Restoration" tek, story which is an example of delicate but cutting French satire. ‘A glutton who was conspicuously over-eating at a dinner excused himself from tin. to time by quoting the poet Boileau’s well-known line, '* In eating well I praise the feos” sir,” said one of the guests, significantly, ‘you carry praise to the flattery."— Youth's Companion. A Proressor, in explaining to a class of young ladies the theory according to wtis the body is entirely renewed every seven years, said : “Thus, Miss B., in seven years you will no longer be Miss B.” “really hope { shan't," demurely responded the girl, modestly casting dowa te eyes. New York Ledger. Iv the restaurant : “The last time I ordered spring chicken here they brought me a thoroughly mai “To my hotel, sir. “I don't know you. trousers cost,” I must instantly have the thirty francs these hen. 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