Life — April 18, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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LAND OF DEPARTED FAVORITES. OMEWHERE in the unknown space Where cast-off worldlings land, Two hungry shapes met face to face And bade each other stand, ** Hold!" cried one, *t how came you here ? What right have you to be Comrade of * Annie Rooney,’ dear, Of * Daisy ' or * Sweet Marie’ ?” “Cease,” cried the visitant, agap, “* Nor dare dispute my claim: Make room, you faded, ancient shape, For Trilby is my name."—Chicago Record. QUEER things happen in old Yamhill. Henry Guilds boy was recently sent to the pasture to drive home a cow and calf, but in the herd there happened to be a long-legged white-tailed steer, who upon seeing the boy, started at a ten-mile gate through the woods, when he turned, jumping the creek, followed by thecalf, The boy pulled off his jacket and away he went, in the vain endeavor to either turn back ‘er separate the calf. After running a mile or so, until he was tired out and winded, he stopped short, and shaking A YOUNG woman from the treeless plains of the West had gone to Boston to a music school on her first trip East, and among the first persons she met at her boarding-house was ayouth from Bangor. As their acquaintance ripened, she told him of what had interested her on her journey. “* Why,” she said, with an exultant spirit, ‘I saw at one place in Pennsylvania a hundred saw logs in one pile.” ‘A hundred ?” he asked, with a tinge of a smile. “That's what they told me, You know, we don't have saw logs where I came from. “*Is that so? You ought to come to Maine once.” ** Do you have them there ?” “Do we ?” he replied magnificently. ‘Do we? WI my dear, young lady, saw logs"grow on trees in Maine.” “* Really 2” she asked in open-eyed astonishment. “It's a literal fact,” he asserted positively. “* Well, I don't believe it,” she contended, and, do what he could, he could not convince her that he was telling the plain unadorned truth.—Detroit Free Press. “What do you hear from Hiram?” said Mrs. Sunup. How's he doin’ at college ?” “*T ain't heard nothin’ direct,” was the reply, ‘* but it come ter me in a roundabout sort o’ way thet he is sowin’ TUE LITERARY SHOP AND OTHER Tate by James L. Ford. New Vork: George H. Rid mond The Humour 4 Sclected by Susette MT, lor. London alter "Seat Limited. New Imported by Charles Scribner's Sons. Sit Simon Vander etter and Mending {is A cetey By B. B. West. London and New York: Long Green, and Company. Love Songs of Childhood. By Eugene Field. York: Charles Scribner's $ The Play Actress. By S. Re Crockett, New Yee and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, John March, Southerner. By George W. Cable. 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