Life — September 27, 1894 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

- LIFE: \ TRAVELER in the South recently was ir “Lhave some of Longfellow's hair ed a quantity of coarse black hair. said the surprised traveler, “I should have thought that it would have been when a chance acquaintance 0 Then he drew from his pocket a little yc and exh Oh said the proud possessor of the relic; “‘it’s all right. [Twas in the stable day and got this where he'd switched it off against the side of his stall s that the traveler first learned that a famous horse had been named for the n, Who was a member of Congress at the breaking sat of t was really going to be a fight, he seized a musket, viyped out of Washington, and walked all the way to Bull Run, where he arrived just in me to have a hand in the fray He wore a dress coat, but he stood his ground as long as any one, ‘The rout was _ and the next morning, a good deal out of breath, he was back at the capital, of his fellow congressmen what he had seen. € you this account of the fight * asked a member from northern New York, as he joined the group. Why, [was there myself,” said Logan The New Yorker was mystified. Apparently he had not heard the news. + You were there ?” he exclaimed. ‘+ Are the cars running No,” said I the cars ain't running, but every other thing in the State of Virginia is, as near uld make out."— Youth's Companton. A HUSBAND who had been out shooting, but who had not been successful, rather gan return home empty-handed stepped into a shop and purchased a hare.“ ‘There, my dxky.” he said to his wife on returning home, e fam not so awkward with the genafter all, me see ca fine fellow 2” 1,” said the wife, as she carried the animal to her nostrils, and put it down witha grimace, tyou were quite right in killing him to-day ; to-morrow it would have "French Exchange. It was in 1847 when the Free Soil State Convention was held at Herkimer. Ther was a great gathering of Free Soil Democrats and Abolitionists, In the ballroom of thi hotel—it was called a tavern in those days—before the opening of the convention, we: gathered the leaders, who were constructing the new party platform, slating the office and committees and doing other preliminary work. Ina chair tilted against the w was Prince John Van Buren running over the manuscript of the great speech he was t deliver. Occasionally he arrested the work of his associates with an invitation to listei toa paragraph which he considered especially good. His readings each time produ laughter and applause. Finally he read a passage which excited shouts of laughter and applause. When this had died away. somebody, we believe it was the Hon. Churchil] G. Cambreling, said, “John, you ought to have that part printed in italls.” Prince Johd affected surprise at the suggestion, "* Gentlemen,” he said, "1 want you to understan that this speech is all italics !"—Ueéca Observer. “TL TELL you,” said the inspector, leaning back in his chair, ‘detective work is no] the snap it’s cracked up to be.” + Were you ever badly taken in ?” “Well, rather. The worst I was ever fooled was by a pretty, baby-eyed, innocen] looking young girl. I could have sworn she was an angel !” + And wasn’t she 2” 1 “Well, [guess not! She had a temper like a Western cyclone ; and once when | attempted to call her down, I thought an earthquake had struck me.” ‘How did you happen to discover her real character ?” “Simply enough—I married her."— ruth, | Tue late Bishop Selwyn, of New Zealand and Melanesia, was well known during hi university days as a devotee of the noble art of self defense. ' He incurred a great deal «i imosity from a certain section in New Zealand, owing to his sympathy with the Maori during the war, One day he was asked bya rough in one of the back streets of Auck land if he was “the Bishop who backed up the Maoris." Receiving a reply in th affirmative, the rough, with a‘ Take that, then,” struck his lordship in the face. | “My friend,” said the bishop, ‘my Bible tells me that if a man smite thee on on] cheek turn to him the other,” and he turned his head slightly the other way. Hi assailant, slightly bewildered and wondering what was coming ‘next, struck him again “ Now," said his lordship, ‘having done my duty to God, I will do my duty to man, | and taking off his coat and hat he gave the anti-Maori champion a most scientific thras! ing.— Home Journal. THERE is a story told of a colored girl who happened to meet a gentleman gotn, down the street and who got on the same side of the narrow walk ; then both started f the other side, and another collision wa: i ‘They then danced back and dodged} again, when the colored girl suddenly stopped and said; ‘See heah, mister, what ay dis gwine to be, a schottische or a waltz ?"— nguirer-Sun. by all Newsdealers in Great Pritain. The Inter: ws Company, Team's Building, Chancery Lape, . C., England, Aouxrs ECROrgAN AGRNTs—Mesera Brentano, 37 Avenuo de Opera, Paris; Saarbach's News Exchange, 1 ‘Clarastrasse, Mayence, Germany, Ageots for Germany, Austria and Switzeriand, Choice Diamonds Rubies, Pearls and other precious stones --at retail. Spautpinc & Co., INCORPORATED.) 5 GoovaienveD CELEBRATED HATS, —axp— Ladies’ Round Hats and Bonnets And The Dunlap Silk Umbrella, 178 & 180 Fifth Avenue, bet. 22d & 23d Sts. and 181 Broadway, near Cortlandt St. NEW YORK. Chicago, 918 Chestnut St., Pita t2rAgencies in all Principal Cities. Gold Medal Awarded, Paris Exposition, 199, State and Jackson Sts., Chicago. Ave. de l'Opera, Paris. Our “ Suggestion Book” mailed tive. “The name of the WHITING PAPER COMPANY on a box of stationery is a guarantee of excellence.” WHITING’S FINE STATIONERY. One wishing to fill alf the d be careful that one’s writing Whiting’s Stationery is the standard form for correspondence, has been for over 26 years. These papers are the most elegant made. Come in noth finish, and all the fashionable tints, At all first-class stationers. WHITING PAPER COMPANY, Holyoke, Mass. 148, 150 & 152 Duane St., New York. mands of polite society will papers be entirely correct Mills : Axy Peeresce Thar Minmau’s Cauisaya, a reliable tonic and Invigorator, introduced 1830. is not the genuine, is absolutely false. 183 Broadway.— ade, VEN nebings are finally suppressed no dose % be good news.—Pheladelphia Going away—? Business? Pleasure? Don't fail to provide yourself with a ILLIAMS’ *rAvine STICK. Williams’ Shaving Soaps enjoy a universal reputation for soft richness—coolness and never drying qualities of lather, The STICKS are enclosed in particularly strong and attractive cases for travelers’ use. Glovesfitting covers. Never break. If you have been using something else— just insts¢ for once that your druggist gives you WILLIAMS'—. Price, 23¢, mailed, post paid on receipt of bricg—it unable to find it at your drug store. The J. B. WILLIAMS CO., Glastonbury, Ct., U. S.A. Do not sell Mixed or Compounded Goods. Pi according to age. No other house can furnish **C Crow" Rye Whiskey. Sold by us uncolored, unsw¢ ened. The Robert Stewart Rye Whiskey. Bott at the Distillery. The best Eastern Rye, Sole agents the Pleasant Valley Wine Co. Sole agents for Inglenook Wines. Send for Catalogue. 69 Fulton St., Broadway and 27th St.. New Yo 40 Years in Fulton St. HB. Kirk & Go. EWIS 6. TEWKSBURY Banker, 50 Broadway, New York, Buys and sells Bills of Exchange on all parts of the worl comicbooks.com