Life — May 17, 1894 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: TAT SISSOR) Not long ago, Edmund Russell dawned upon a certain Western city, and the Blanks gave a large reception. Among the plans for the entertainment of the guests was a scene from ** Macbeth,” rendered by a young woman of local elocutionary fame. The head of the family was not informed of this especial part of the programme. At the proper moment the young woman personating Lady Macbeth appeared at the end of the drawing- room, dressed in a trailing robe of white and bearing a light. She moved slowly forward, an expectant bush falling upon the assemblage, The host looked up, saw, and wholly misunderstood, He hesitated only a moment, then hastened forward with hospitable zeal: ‘+ Why, Miss Smith, good evening ; I'm'very glad to see you. May I relieve you of your candle ?"—Boston True Flag. DURINo my second year at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, I hada class- mate whom it would not be uncharitable to calla dullard. One of the professors was in the habit of taking the boys unawares, and quizzing them. He said to this fellow one day : “How much is a dose of ——?” giving the technical name of croton oil. “+ A teaspoonful,” was the ready reply. ‘The professor made no comment, and the fellow soon realized that he had made a take. After a quarter of an hour he said : Professor, I want to change my answer to that question.” “It’s too late, Mr. —," responded the professor, looking at his watch, patient's been dead fourteen minutes."—New York World. “Your THE poet Tennyson could take a worthless sheet of paper and by writing a poem oa it make it worth $65,000—that's genius. Vanderbilt can write a few words on a sheet of paper and make it worth $5,000,coo— that's capital. The United States can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an “eagle bird " and make it worth $20—that's money. "The mechanic can take a material worth $5 and make it into a watch worth $1co— that's skill. ‘The merchant can take an article worth 75 cents and sell it for $1—that’s business A lady can purchase a very comfortable bonnet for $3.75, but she prefers one that 1 costs $27—that's foolishness. The ditch-digger works ten hours a day and shovels three or four tons of earth for $2—that’s labor. ‘The editor of this paper can write a check for $80,000,000, but it wouldn't be worth a dime—that’s rough.— Young Lutheran. IT was in a Latin class, and a dull boy was wrestling with the sentence, which, with a painful slowness of emphasis, he had rendered, ‘* The king flees. “But in what other tense can the verb fugit be found ?” asked the teacher. A long scratching of the head, and a final answer of * Perfect,” owing to a whispered prompting. «And how would you translate it then ?” “Dunno.” “Why, put a has? in i Again the tardy emphasis drawled out : + The king has fleas."— Waterbury American. x fugit.” ‘THERE are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they haven't any mind ; and other, that they haven't any business.— Exchange. For eale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. The Inter- ; aational News Company, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, London, £.'C., England. AGENTS. EUNOrEAN AGEXTS—Mesare, Brentano, 37 Avenue de l'Opera, ‘Saarbach's News Exchange, 1 Clarastrame, Mayence, Agents for Germany, Ausiria and Switzeriand. Irritations of the SKIN and SCALP Odors from Perspiration Speedy Relief by Using Packer’s CELEBRATED HATS, Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets And The Dunlap Silk Umbrella. FAVORITE DRESS GOODS FOR SUMMER WEAR. Many of thechoicestlines of imported Suitings are now being shown. 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