Life — January 16, 1896 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: LIFE’S COMEDY. HE first number of Lire’s ComEepy will be issued on February 1, 1896, and thereafter every three months, namely: May ist, August 1st, and No- vember 1st. It will contain 32 pages of beautifully printed illustrations on heavy calendered paper, with a specially decorated cover, printed in colors. Price Twenty-five Cents. Subscriptions One Dollar a year. Postage paid. Drawings by Gibson, Wenzell, Van Schaick, Johnson, Sullivant, and others. THE FIRST NUMBER, ISSUED FEBRUARY 1st, WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE AMERICAN GIRL. MITCHELL & MILLER, PUBLISHERS, 19 & 21 WEST 31st STREET, - - “T WANT A CLEAN SHAVE, AND HAVE YER GOT ANYTHING THAT WILL KEEP WHISKERS FROM GROWING ?” NEW YORK CITY. It is related that on one occasion Senator Edmunds was standing with a visiting English statesman on the high steps at the west side of the Capitol, look- ing down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Treasury Department. The stranger had seen much to interest and amuse him in Washington. ‘* You have a wonder- ful country and a wonderful people here, Mr. Senator. Nothing can be impossible with such go-ahead inhabitants,” “Oh, yes,” said the Senator, ‘some things are impossible here. It is im- possible to march a brass band down that avenue and have a crowd of colored people go in the opposite direction at the same time." — Pittsburg Bulletin, THEATRICAL MANAGER (breathlessly): Are you busy ? DRAMATIST: Not very. “Well, everybody is talking about a book called ‘The Pastor's Wooing, and I want a dramatization of it right away. Can you do it?” ** Dramatize ‘ The Pastor’s Wooing ?’” “Yes, that’s it. Work in a few elopements and murders and that sort of thing, you know, and a prairie fire and a cyclone—got the machinery all ready —and put in alow comedy part for Jinks, he’s the best stage Irishman in the country you know, and last week I got two of the funniest trick mules you ever saw. Big bargain, too. Work them in somehow. I'm in a hurry. See you later."—Pittsurg Comet.