Life — May 31, 1894 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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M NvLLys Stories of the “pig-headedness ” of certain people who can sce things in no other way than that in which things seem to them, are common enough. It is probable that they are surpassed by a true story of a German woman who, after hearing well enough up to the age of about filfy, became deaf. Once, some years after her affliction had fallen upon her, this lady remarked, with perfect ingenuousness, on returning home from a trip through the city: Dear me! How singular it is that nowadays they still have hand- organs on the street, but they don't have them any more that make any noise !"— Youth's Companion. A GENTLEMAN was seen standing before a grave stone in a cemetery as if much engrossed. Another man approached and asked him what it was that so interested him at that particular spot. He replied, ‘1 was attracted by the peculiarity of this inscrip- tion.” ‘The second man bent down and read: Here lies the body of a lawyer and an honest man.” * Well," said he, ‘* what is there strange about that ?” “+1 was just wondering how they came to bury two men in the same grave,"— change. A story is told by a French paper of two provincials, a man and his wife, who visited the Louvre, in Paris “What struck you most at the Louvre?” asked one of their friends, when they returned home and began to tell of the wonders they had seen. “Oh,” replied the husband, ‘a picture which represented Adam and Eve, with the apple and the serpent.” ‘And his excellent wife chimed in: ‘ Yes, we found that very interesting, because, you know, we knew the anecdote,"—Exchange. THERE is no end to the mischief that John Phoenix, of California, is responsible for. A short time ago, while enjoying himself at the theatre, he observed aman sitting three seats in front of him whom he thought he knew. ‘He requested the person sitting next to him to “punch the other individual with his cane." The polite stranger did so, and on the disturbed person turning his head a little, he discovered his mistake—he was not the person he took him for, Fixing his attention steadfastly on the play, and affecting unconsciousness of the whole affair, he left the man with the cane to settle with the other for the disturbance, who, being wholly without excuse, there was of course, a ludicrous and embarrassing scene—during all of which Phoenix was profoundly interested in the DHROP OF COMFORT YEZ S play. At last the man with the cane asked, rather indignantly : + Dida't you tell me to punch that person with my stick ?” “Yes” “Then what did you want?” *T wanted to see whether you would punch him or not."—Exchange. The Complexion of Youth lies ina Pure, Clear Skin. 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