Life — April 23, 1896 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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- LI FE> Always Afppetizing. ‘At times when you relish nothing, a cup of Bouillon made from Extracto BEEF gives a feeling of comfort and drives away fatigue. Its mak- tite, fumeren the appent, boiling water and Tee aoe ater of a moment, Requires only the addition ol tag, er ealt. Sead for our little book “Culinary Wrinkles.” apc! Armour & Company, Chicago. National Bicycle Board of Trade AFRAID OF VICTORS! Highest Tribute ever paid to a Bicycle! New York, March 25th, 1896 Ww. C. Pawley, Sec. Jersey City Y. M. C. A. The National Board of Trade of Cycle Manufacturers hereby sanctions a public exhibition of cycles, acces- sories and sundries, at the Y. M. C. A., March 27th and 28th. . This sanction is granted on the express under- standing that no exhibition of VICTOR BICYCLES will be permitted. Yours truly, R. L. COLEMAN, President. (Sinction granted for cycle show at Fersey City.) Acknowledged at last by our competitors : That Victors cost more to build. That Victors are made of better material. That Victors show better workmanship. That Victors run easier. That Victors wear longer. That Victors are worth more than other bicycles. Why not ride the best? OVERIIAN WHEEL CO. Boston. Detroit. Los Angeles. Portland, Ore. LIFE BINDER, Cheap, Strong, Durable. New York. San Francisco. Denver. WILL HOLD 26 NUMBERS. | Mailed to any part of the United States for $1.00. Address Office of ‘‘ LIFE,’’ 19 West Thirty-first St., New York. THE lordly, Englishman who came to] this country on a touring trip was giving his| |impressions of what he had seen and heard. | | He was of the opinion that American edu-| | cation is very defective. | “For instance,” drawled the Briton, “I hear you say, ‘Where am I at ?’ instead of ‘Where is me ‘at ?!"—Louisville Com- mercial. | Our marble dealer, C. C. Dunkelberg, | is a hustler. Yesterday he left for Ver- mont to fill an order for seventeen granite monuments sold in this locality, ranging in price from $285 to $1,000. This is an evi- dence of business which, in these times, is encouraging.—Gouverneur Free Press. | AN Atchison man recently caught three| diferent men kissing his wife, whereupon he went toa lawyer. ‘You have very good grounds for divorce," the lawyer said. ‘1 don't want a divorce,” the citizen replied ; “T want to get out an injunction to make them quit it."—Kansas City Star. A FEMININE friend of Mrs. Carlyle, call ing one day in Cheyne Row, met Carlyle on his own door-step, his head bent, and| perplexity and annoyance wriakling his| philosophic brow. The sage only bowed, | and went on his way down the street. The servant showed the visitor into a darkened room, where there were to be seen the de- | bris of tea and the prostrate form of Mrs. Carlyle on the sofa. | “Did you meet Thomas?” demanded jthe wife, in a voice which showed unmis- takable traces of a recent domestic storm. “Yes. He was going out, I met him |onthe door-step, looking very sad. What's the matter, my dear?" ‘The matter!” cried Mrs. Carlyle from the sofa, with sparkling eyes; “I've been two days on this sofa with a sick head- ache, and he's only this instant come in and asked me what ails me! And—well, I've just thrown my tea-cup at him !"— Argonaut, Hipevosut is one of the greatest men in Japanese history. His relics are as| numerous as those of Washington. In a monastery not far from Yokohama the guide shows the visitor a skull which, it is de- clared, is the veritable headpiece of the great departed, Phillips Brooks saw this relic when he} was in Japan. “Why,""said he, “I thought Hideyoshi had an enormous head. This skull is very small.” “Yes,” said the guide, “but that was when he was thirteen years old!"—New) | York Press. | THe late Rev. Dr. William L. Brecken- ridge, of Kentucky, used to tell this story of an Irishman who desired to have a letter written home to his friends in the old coun- try. It was ata time when provisions were so abundant in the West as to be almost without value. After mentioning a good many things! that he wished to have written to his friends | in Ireland in regard to America, Patrick| said : “Tell them that I get all the meat Ican cat three times a week.” | ‘*And what do you mean by that?” asked the writer. ‘Don’t you get all the bacon you can eat three times a day ?”* “Yes, your riverence,” was the prompt reply. “Well, then, what do you mean by writing to your friends in Ireland that you get all the meat you can eat three times a |week 2” | “Faith,” said Pat, “and ¢Aa¢ is more] than they will believe."—Youth's Com-| |panion. | Unequalled in Strength ‘The high-carbon steel and nickel steel used in the tubing of Columbia bicycles have no equal in their power to resist the strains to which a bicycle frame is it. This tubing is all made in the Columbia mills especially for Columbias Standard of the World Columbias in quality and con- Struction ave In a class $100 by themselves. to all alike The Columbia Catalogue, handsomest art work of the year, is free from'the Columbia agent, or is mailed for two 2-cent stamps. POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Co Columbia Branch Houses and Agencies are almost everywhere. IN THE NORTH- west CORNER In the upper left-hand corner, Editorial page, is the position given NET CIRCULATION FIGURES every day and week in the year forthe DAILY and SEMI-WEEKLY EDITIONS of The St. Louis Republic. NET Average Daily, Feby., 65,068 “—“" Semi-Weekly,, 119,545 SIGNS OF GOOD TIMES. The Total Amount of paid advertising printed in all the English papers of St. Louis during the first three months of 1896 exceeded that of 189s. THE REPUBLIC stood first in number of columns rinted, as well as in mak- Ing the greatest gain over 1895, that of 878.89 col- ums. comicbooks.com