Life — November 28, 1895 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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As she stepped into a Clark street car every man in it turned to look at her; she greeted another girl effusively and sat down beside her. “Oh, Dora, I've had such an experience,” she panted, as she cast a coquettish glance at the young man opposite. “You always are having experiences,” grumbled her friend, ‘‘and nothing ever happens to me. It all comes of having those big, appealing eyes and that timid air, when you're not even afraid of a mouse.” “Oh, but this was really an awful experience, and I've a mind not to tell you a word about it.” “If you don't I'll think it is because it is too bad to tell.” “Ob, you mean thing ; but I must tell somebody, and I know all your secrets, so you won't dare to tell.” “Go on then ; but don’t expect me to sympathize.” “Well, you know, I went with mamma to the dentist's to-day and—" “Oh, it was the dentist, was it?” “Not at all. I had my lovely new silver-handled umbrella with me, and I leaned it against a chair in the waiting-room, determined not to lose sight of it. A few minutes later in came a splendid looking fellow, with such a moustache that I couldn't help smiling just a little at him.” “OF course." “Well, he leaned his cane against the same chair, and it knocked my umbrella down. We both stooped to pick it up, and our hands met, and he said, ‘Pardon me,! and I blushed, and said, ‘ Thank yo “T hope you had the grace not to look at him again.” “ Well-er, only once or twice, and each time he was looking at me in such an admir- ing way. At last mamma came. As we went out I forgot my umbrella, and had to go back for it, and oh, Dora, he started up and seemed about to speak, and I just flew out to where mamma was waiting. I knew I'd never hear the last of it if she caught me.” “And serves you—" It isn’t Raally Necessary Omo0=Seltzer Registered Trade Mark When you buy Handkerchiefs at Jewelry. Sterling Silver Novelties, at $1.00 each. Dressing Combs, 7% inches long, with Ster- “THE LINEN STORE,” to ask the question, “are these pure linen?" because, exclusive of silk, there is absolutely no “Oh, and Dora, when we got out I looked back and he was actually following “I hope you—" “1 did until mamma told me she was not walking for a wager, and at last he ay up tous and lifted his hat.” “What impudence !” “He was holding out something to me and saying : ‘I beg your pardon, mis, this is your umbrella, and—'" “You don't mean to say—" “Ido. Thad been carrying his cane down the street and he had been chasing z get it back.” “Well, I never,” said the other girl.--Chicago Tribune, Durino the silver excitement in Gilpin county, Col., before Senator Teller agi to the toga, a Mexican was arrested for robbing the sluice boxes. It was not the time this Mexican had betrayed this sluice box weakness. It was readily decided» the proper thing to hang.him, Teller took a prominent part in the debate which prec the Mexican’s stringing up. He said he very much regretted the suspension of this i can, but, like the rest, he was in favor of it. Teller wanted to give the doomed ca} chance to pray, but the Mexican declined, and Teller started in to give him wht miners called ‘ta good send-off.” After recounting the man's crime as an excuse for hanging, the petitioner said: ‘ This man is unfit to live ; he cannot associate with est people; he is an outcast, the very worst man in all Gilpin county—and, so, oh Le take him to thyself.” The Mexican was then hanged.—San Francisco Post, “THE true journalist,” said the observing man, ‘takes an artistic pride in a long story short, I suppose.” “That's where you suppose wrong,” replied the New York reporter. paid by space. 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