Life — April 25, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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RY ; ALL stenographers are timid, but these three head the procession, They are employed in an office on Main Street, and the other afternoon they were left in the office alone, They were each chewing lustily on a piece of “« Kiss-me" gum when the door opened and with the snow that blew in came a low-sized peddler with a large-sized beard. He started 10 say ‘* Gentlemen,” but his eyes resting that moment on the typewriter sisters, he stopped short. “Holy Moses, all ladies ! Guess I'm in the wrong place.” ‘* No, this is the place,” said one of the trio.‘ What did you want ?” * Ladies, I'm selling pants stretchers.” Now they are trying to put the blame on the peddler.— Cincinnati Tribune. I was talkin’ with an Eastern man to- day, and he says when two fellows in his section have a dispute they just go to law and sue each other for damages 3GER Ike: But how about the loser ? he get a gun and try to get even ? BRroxcno Bit: Waal, as near as I kin make out, by the time the loser hez paid the lawyers he ain't got no money Don't AT Se6ORS iT WWLLis “ BuT didn’t you tell me you were an Episcopalian?" 1 asked in astonishment. “Oh, yes,” said the old man; “I'll tell ye how itis. Last spring I went dowa to New Orleans visitin’, and while Iwas there I went ter church, and it happened to be an Episcopalian one, and among other things I heard ‘em say that they'd left undone them things they'd oughter done and done them things they hadn't oughter done; and I said to myself, ‘That's just my fix too,’ and since then I've always considered myself an Episcopalian.” “Well,” said I, as I shook the old man’s hand, “if your ideas of an Episcopalian are correct, we are the largest de- nomination in the world."—Exchange. “THE bloomer dress,” says a Western humorist, ‘is a pair of trousers very baggy at the knees, abnormally full at the pistol pockets and considerably full where you strike a match. The garment is cut decollete at the south end, and the bottoms tied around the ankles or knees to keep the mice out. You can’t put it over your head like you do your shirt nor around you like a corset, but you must sit on the floor and pull it on just as you do your stockings, one foot at a time in each compartment. You can easily tell the right side to have in front by the buttons on the neck- THE, CRUSADES. By T. A. Archer and Charles L, Kingsford. New York: G. P, Putnam's Soas London: F, Fisher Unwin. French Folly in Maxims of Philosophy, Art ond Letters. Translated and edited by Henrl Pene du Bois. New York, Chicago, Washington, Paris: Brentano's The Wind in the Clearing asd Other Poems. By Robert Cameron Rogers. New York and London: P. Putnam's Sons The Indiscretion ite Duchess, By Anthony Hope. New York: Herry y. flit jolt and Company, Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebd. By his | widow. Boston: Roberts Brothers, The Ralstons By Marion Crawford, New York an London: Macmillan and Company. Stum Stories of London. By Henry W. Nevinson, New York: Henry Holt and Company. Ronbar. By R. S. Dement. New York: Dillingham. The Currency and the Banking Law of Canade, By William C. Cornwell. New York and London: G. P, Putnam's Sons, Little Eyolf. By Henrik Ibsen, “Translated by William Archer. Chicago: Stone and Kimball. The Alphabet and Language, etc, Three Essays by Thomas Magee. San Francisco: Out of Wedlock. By Albert Ross, New York: G. W, Dillingham. A. Title — Rejected. By Octavia Cloreston, New ork: G. W, Dillingham. Garden and Forest. Vol.VU. S. Sargent New York: The G. Ww. Conducted by Charles Garden and Forest ori TAUNTON mas to buy guns.—New York Weekly. band."—Exchange, Publisting Company. eMKAGO | For mle by all Newadealers in Great Rrftaln. | The Inter ational News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, uy Preiacte 'y News Exchange, | ‘Ciarnstraso, Germany, Auta and 6 VORY SOAP No other soap is found in so GROPING IN THE DARK - Many bicycle makers are “ Groping in the Dark.” They reduce the weight of the wheels at random—and weaken them at vital points. ‘The weight of a Victor is reduced by science. Every change depends upon the record of the Dynamometer.* Others guess—We know—that the Victor is the lightest and easiest running bicycle on the market. hine is the only device ia the world by which the power used to run a bicycle can be accurately measured. We invented it and use it exclusively to perfect Victor Bicycles. OVERMAN WHEEL Co. NEW YORK. SAN FRANCISCO. BOSTON, Pacinic Coast: DETROIT. LOS ANGELES. PORTLAND, DENVER. 92s can only be accom- plished when the beard is Sort. Nothing softens the beard like the appli- cation of the rich— creamy lather pro- duced by WILLIAMS’ “soar. SOAP. PWittrams’ Shaving Sticks and Tablets sold everywhere. iz BREWSTER & CO., (OF BROOME ST.) Broadway, 47th to 48th Streets. (Only place of business.) COACH BUILDERS. The acknowledged standard for form and quality. Four-horse Traps and Road Coaches a specialty. comicbooks.com