Life — August 16, 1894 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LI AND THEY'VE WORN HER OUT. THE, posts of the Summer Girl Sing how she moves and lives, Describe each freckle, golden curi ‘And every glance she gives. Through cottage door, By sea and shore, In bathing suit and tan, The poets chase the Summer Girl, But skip the Summer Man.—Boston’ Budget. Iv was in a sleeping-car going through Kansas. The man from the East was evi- . Tt was a remarkable fact that he had a newspaper over his lap and seemed scared to death every time the brakeman opened the door Fe let the draft turn one corner of it over. The man in the seat behind him saw him nder the seat every once in a while, and after a time made bold 1o say you lost anything ?” No.” " Atter a silence he turned his head and said : eso that I'can talk to you without turning around ?” The request was complied with and he went on : I'm lookin’ for a friend in need. You don't belong in Kansas, do you ?" “My friend, will you lean Ne Well, I want to borrow a pair of socks. The porter has lost mine somehow or her, I've hunted high and low, but they aren’t to be found, and I found that for the st time in my life I got on the train without an extra suppl: Tthink { have a'pair,” said the stranger. ‘It must be rather embarrassing to be in such a predicament away from home," be added sympatheticall Embarrassing! The worst of it is that I have low shoes on. I've gone three sta- s past my stopping place for fear the people out here would get on to my condition want to run me for Congress. '"—Chicago Tribune. FE: Quite a ghastly story is told of the British General Post-Office, concerning “ in- visible ink.” A postman had long been suspected of stealing sheets of postage stamps, but the crime could not be brought home to him. One day he was found with a square foot or two of them in his possession, and confronted with his official superiors. He maintained, as on former occasions, that he had bought them for his own use. “What ! these ?" exclaimed his chief, at the same time passing a moist brush over one of the sheets, whereupon the blood-red words, ‘Stolen from the General Post- Office,” started out like flame upon it. An eye-witness of the occurrence described it as most melodramatic, and the ingenious chemical contrivance at once brought the thief <to,bis knees, — Argonaut. THe colored people in a small town in Georgia had gathered at their church to hold funeral services over the remains of a woman who had died a couple of days before, and the ceremonies were about to begin when the bereaved husband, who was a large, corpulent man, beckoned to one of the men standing in the vestibule to follow him to the horse shed in the rear of the church. When they had arrived there the bereaved turned on him with : fonda Set Beats Moses, I wants an understandin’ wid yo' befo' dis funeral goes any ‘urder.”” “What is it, Julius 2” asked the other. ‘Las’ week, when we buried Henry Carter's wife, yo" was right at hand, Yo! crowded yo'self up to de front. When de weepin’ begun yo" set yo'self to work an’ moaned an’ took on until Henry hadn't no show ‘tall. Some of de white folks reckoned yo’ was de bereaved yo'self.” I dun couldn't help it, Juliu: yo’ couldn’t? Well, now, let_me give yo’ a pinter. Lucinda was my wife an’ nobody else's. She libed wid me an’ died wid me, an’ I'ze got to foot all de 'spenses. Now, den, when desadness begins I'ze number one from start to finish. I'ze de bereaved, while yo" is only an outsider who feels sad ‘cause I'ze left all alone in dis cold world. Yo" has got to keep shet. If yo’ go to takin’ on like yo’ did last week I'ze gwine to forgit my great loss jist long ‘nuff to turn around an’ gin yo" such a lift under de ear dat you'll reckon yo'is the subjeck of de funeral. Do yo! h'ar me, Moses" sae joes." ‘+ Den cum along, and recomember what I’ze bin sayin’, Better take a seat in the back ~ row an’ hole yo'self down, fur at de werry fust_ whoop of ‘sorrow I'ze gwine to light on yo’ wid a fo'ce of fo'teen hoss power !"—.Verw Vor& Sun. HOSTESS (af evening party) : Ithink I had better ask Miss Poundaway to play something. Host: Ob, Matilda! She's such an execrable $s: What difference does that make ? How dull everybody seems, rformer, you know. t will start the conversation all the Tater Vor sale by all Newadealers in Great Britain. 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