Life — August 8, 1895 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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PAT SeSGORS AT Millis TO AMARYLLIS, WHO WOULD WRITE. WHEN lovely Amaryllis speaks, Her words my homage so compel, ‘That readily for days or weeks Content I'd sit, To hear the wit And wisdom from her lips which fell. And ah! when Amaryllis sings, All conversation dies away A bird she is, bereft of wings ; Since the trolley cars in Brooklyn have been reducing the population of the city to such an alarming extent real estate men have had considerable difficulty in persuading people to move from this city over the bridge. They are beginning now to offer prizes of all sorts as inducements to desirable tenants. Some agents allow the occupants of their property car fare to and from business, while others pay the premium on their fire insurance, etc. The following advertisement from a morning paper, however, is considered the top notch reached thus far by the enterprising agents employing the prize method as a decoy GAME BIRDS AT HOME. By Theodore S. Van Dyke. New York: Fords, Howard and Huribut, Bullet and Shell. By Geo. F. Williams. New York: Fords, Howard and Hurlbut. American Steam Vessels, By Samuel Ward Stanton. New York: Smith and Stanton, Sentimental Studies And a Set of Village Tales. By Hubert Crackanthorpe. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Old Man Savarin and Other Stories. William Thomson: New York : and Company. Edward Thomas Y. Crowell EMENT. —* This evening the Rev, Mr, — will preach his farewell sermon at The nightingale, Would wholly fail, To imitate her upper A. But oh! when Amaryllis writes She hopes to conquer fame by dint Of scribbling stories, and invites Her swain to praise Each clumsy phrase, And bids him get the stuff in priot ! Nay, let an easier plan be tried, And if for sure renown you look, You've but to lay the pen aside; We'll soon declare, The maiden rare, Who never even wrote a book ! —St. James's Gazette, For sale by all Loadoa, E. Newsdealers in Great Britain. The Inter. for the inexperienced house hunter : “ Five rooms and bath in good neighborhood ; shades, ts free; in first class order and condition ; 18 minutes to New York city hall; one month's rent free and diamond cluster ring will be given to good tenant.— Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn."—New York Evening Sun. curtains and ca + Wittcn do you love most, your papa or your mamma ? LITTLe CHARLIE: I love papa most. CHaruie's MOTHER: you. I thought you loved me most. Cuartie: Can't help it, mamma. ** WHEN does the last mail close for Boston ?" asked a To! lady at a suburban post-office in the middle of the after- noon, ‘It’s just gone,” answered the attendant ; there's another at six."— Youth's Companion, Why, Charlie, I am surprised at We men have to hold together.—/Jemish Times and Observer. the parish church, and the choir will render a thanks- giving specially composed for the occasion."— Ex. Lapy oF THE House: Idon't see why you call this ‘the trolley” mousetrap ; it doesn’t look lke a trolley. SALESMAN (significantly) : ma'am.—New York World. It kills "em every time, Mauve (anxious): Tom, I refused Charlie Wallister when he proposed to me this afternoon, and he said that [ had wrecked his life. You don't think that he'll go and commit suicide, do you ? Oh, no, I don't think there's any danger that he He and I have just been playing pool “but together all the evening at the club,—Loutsville Journal. ational News’ Company, Bream Building, Chancery Lane, England, Aoxxrs. Ivory SOAP No other soap is found in so many homes. Tut Peocten & Gawart Co., Cini. COLUMBIA QUALITY always maintained. Far more Columbia bicycles than ever this year. Farmore care that no imper- fect Columbias go Pope Manutacturing Co. General Offices and Pactories, Hartford,Conn Braxcn Sronzs:, Boston, New York. Petal, “Brosh Baltimore, Wash: ay enere. Brentano, $7 Avenue de !'Opera, Ganrbach's News Eachange. 1 Clarastrame, ‘Maysace, __ Germany, agents for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, PROFILE HOUSE WHITE MOUNTAINS. Indisputably the leading Summer Resort of New England, Location unsurpassed in scenic attractions, Tart & GREENLEAF. HOTEL VENDOME BOSTON. The {deal Hotel of America, On the Back Bay Boulevard, Commonwealth Avenue. H. GReexLear & Co. CUSTOMER: Bring me some lobster salad and some cucumbers. Walter (bringing pen, ink and paper): Please write your name and address before you tackle that order. — National Hotel Reporter, THE rumor that Della Fox had lost $65,- ooo worth of diamonds in Peoria caused a lively flutter in the plate glass trust for a while.—Chicago Dispatch. Gomez: I say, was it you who recom- mended that cook to my wife ? Perez: I believe so. Gomez: Then I should like you to come and have supper with us to-night.—La Gaceta de Malaga. Bankers, Lawyers, Actors, Doctors, Clubmen, The Social Queen and Giddy Youth, Find Bromo=Seltzer Indispensable for Nervousness, Mental Exhaustion or Brain Fatigue, Headache, Sick Stomach, Sleeplessness. HALL’S MEGAPHONE. (PATENT APPLIED FOR.) An instrument to carry and receive the voice to and from a distance of one or two miles, Use at the Country Home, The Farm, The Shore Cottage, Yacht, Horse or Bicycle Race, Bte, erice complete el with Without Stand, Send for Illustrated Circular. THOMAS HALL & SON, Opricetticctricat aad Chemical Supplies: 19 BROMFIELD STREET, BOSTON. Produced by the French or natural of fermentation in bottle, Highest award at Columbian Exposition. A. J. WENHAM’S SONS, Distributing Agents, Cleveland, Ohio.