Life — May 16, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Charter 1. “ Georce ? Yes, dear.” Do you see this scrap of pink silk “Yes, dear.” “TL want ten yards just like it. “All right, dear, Go and get it. “But I want you to stop on your way down and have it sent up. Take a good look so you will be sure to get the correct thing.” Cuarter I, ** Got any pink silk 2” Yes, sir.” Well, I want ten yards.” What kind, sir?” “ Pink, pink, pink, of course, blue or green pink, did you ?” No, sir ; but it varies in price and qualit “Send up the best you have and charge it to me. won't take it if it isn’t right.” “Thank you, sir, Anything else to-day, sir?” “That's all. Good day.” Charter HI You didn’t think | wanted George ?” “Yes, dear. I'm so glad you didn’t forget to send up the sil “I'm all right, dear.” “So you are, George, but the silk didn’t match.” “Is that so?” “Quite so, That you sent cost $4 a yard, and the kind I wanted is only 39 cents, reduced from 79. But you needn't worry. I've put the dressmaker to work on it, and you can get the other as you go down to-morrow.” Red fire and curtain. —Detroit Free Press. THE. education of the public is supposed to be advancing, but that view of affairs is evidently not taken by the editors, judging from the kind of matter which they set before their readers, which gets scrappier day by day—or evening by evening. The so-called “aews” nowadays runs somewhat as follows: Coal is black. Herrings lay more eggs than fowls do. The Emperor of Japan has got a false tooth. Water is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen. It is stated that Lord Rosebery, who is the Prime 3 owns a race horse, It is a curious coincident that yesterday was wet and that the battle of Waterloo was fought on June 18, 1815. We learn on good authority that Alexander the Great was not the originator of the electric light. It was Xerxes of Persia, who, however, did not take out a patent for it. And so on, and so on.—London Judy. ister, “ Tuis is the seventh time this morning,” said the shoe merchant, ‘ that you have told me in a voice that could not help being overheard, ‘that a woman reminded you of Trilby."” “Yes,” replied the new clerk, ‘and that's the seventh woman that I have sold a pair of shoes to,"—Exchange. THE RIGHT HONORABLE W E. GLADSTONE, y Henry W. Lucy. Boston: Roberts Brothers A San ef Mark, By Anthony Hope, New York: Henry Holt and Company. The Woman of the United States. Translated by Arabella Ward. Mead and Company. Meditations in Motley, By Walter Blackburn Hane, Boston: The Arena Publishing Company. A Literary History of the English People. Jusserand. New York and London: G. P. Sons. Lingua Gemmae. By Ada L. The Merriam Company” On the Chafing Dish and New Things to Eat. By Harriet M. Bailey, Never? By Mentor. Kita, By Raynard, ‘New York: G. W. Dillingham, The New Woman, By E. Lynn Linton, The Merriam Company. Sport Royal and Other Stories. 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