Life — October 24, 1895 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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FERPRS MT Ls 1 was strolling about in Madison Square with an artist “+Say, [had a great dinner last night,’ he heard one say, when we ran across such a ragged and woebegone specimen —_* and it cost me twenty dollars.’ of the vag that it was suggested that we secure his picture, “Many other remarks like this he heard, and the rustic It was left to me to approach him on the subject, and |_— sport decided to get into the swim too, He made up his yAl4O4! asked : mind at once to get an expensive dinner, not realizing that The Marriage Contract, By Honoré de Balzac, “My friend, do you want to make a quarter in about ten —_ the most of the money spent by the boasters he had over- ‘Ripcatation ar, Katharine Prescott Wormley. Boston: 23 : ; oberts Brothers, c I I minutes ? . heard had been for wine. Walking into a swell restaurant, Red Recavs, By Men PA: Steet; New Vor sod As to how >” he replied. he called the waiter over. *Say, look here,’ said he, ‘I want — London: Macmillan & Compai “The artist here wants to make a sketch of you. Sit an expensive dinner like the rest of the bloods. Bring me Other Timevand Other Seasons, By Laurence Hutton, still for ten minutes and I'll give you a quarter.” twenty dollars worth of ham and eggs.'""—Philadelphia New York: Harper and Brothers. «What 1 i" Against Human Nature. By Maria Louise Pool. New t do you take me fur!" exclaimed the man ashe Cad. York: Harper and Brothers. rose up. ‘*D'you think because I'm hard up that I hain’t y + ii Where Highways Cross. By J. S. Fletcher. New Sen oun AN excited individual climbed three fights of stairs in JtHere {Viehways Cross, By JS. Fletch “ “ thy ‘ Great leaps and yelled : Wild Rese. Francis Francis, New York and 4 iWhats the matter withyou? Wesimply wantto mabe Evie the editor?” London: Miccmilfantand Company. x istinetion. The Wonderful Visit. By H. G. Wells, New York “1 know it, and that’s what I kick on. You make a verse arte calrertibe demande shaking a paper 2% Lendon:. Macmillan and Compan sketch, It gits into the papers and then into the hands of - : i , The Nimble Doltar. By Charles Miner Thompson. , athe in his hand at arm's length. Roston'and New Vork: Houghton, Mifflin and the police, By and by my ambition incites me to rob a "404m there! piped an indisereet office boy who had any. bank or pick up some other good thing, and there is MY 1.05 hired to answer che telephone AU Men are Liars, By Joseph Hocking. Boston: picture to trip me up and lay me by the heels! No, sir— piped enone: . Roberts Brothers, Bot much fin taoced and henieey nad dead broke har The man with a grievance bolted into the room designated “ivy Sister Henrietta. By Ernest Renan. Translatica r : er mer 5 without knocking. He shoved the paper under the editor's’ by Abby L. Alger. Boston: Roberts Brothers. mm no chump to sell myself for aquarter of adollar!"— 0.4. and, pointing to a marked portion, exclaimed : Deg Stories, New York: Macmillan and Company. Detroit Free Press, «Read that 1" The Delectable Duchy. By “Q." New York and ead that t London: Macmillan and Company. The editor read, ** Mrs, R.—" Oxford and Her Colleges. By Goldwin Smith, D.C. L. night telling stories. One of them related this: I know of “That's my wife,” interrupted the angry visitor. New York and London: Macmillan and Company. a fellow who had spent a very quiet life ia the country and “ Mrs. R.,” continued the editor, “ gave a violet luncheon _—— had never been to the city, Coming into a little money, he to her friends yesterday.” A COUNTRY paper declares that “Mr. Johnson, a suddenly developed a desire to be a sport, and immediately “What's the matter with that ?” asked the editor. farmer of our village, on returning to his house the departed for the city. It was his habit after arriving to‘ What's the matter? Look at that!" And he indicat- other day found in his ground floor bedroom, the door lounge around the corners in the central part of the city, ed the word. of which had been left open, a cow, probably astra; and he naturally heard the gilded youth talking about the ‘The editor, with sinking heart, read “violent luncheon.” The conjecture expressed in the last two words may amount of money they spent. —Indianapolis News. be set down as, on the whole, a fair one.—Exchange. a BS tours ‘The Inter. qrnse Aces patigaal News Company, Bream Bullding, Chancery Lane, Pars; Lenden, E. 0., Engiand, A Germany, Agents ISS DEVEREUX OF THE MARIQUITA, By 44 "Richard Henry Savage. Chicago and New York: F. Tennyson Neely. From Dreamland Sent, By Lilian Whiting. Boston; Roberts Brothers. The Horseman's Word. By Neil Roy. London and A TRIO were sitting on the post-office guard rails last Evnoraax AcurreMemra, Brentano, $1 Avenue de! 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