Life — June 18, 1896 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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HELP IN SIGHT. Oh, potent seniors! wherefore pause And knit each reverend brow, In solemn study o'er the laws To which mankind must bow ? Why contradict and storm and flout ? Just wait a bit, we pray, Till Phylhs brings her essay out On graduation day. Financial cares we long have felt, She'll pilot us straight through— The gravest problems then will melt, Like summer hail, to dew ; So wherefore trouble with a doubt Your heads already gray, Since Phyllis brings an essay out On graduation day ? —Washington Star. RAILROAD PRESIDENT: I want you to make room for that idiot nephew of mine who has just come from college. MANAGER: What does he know about railroads ? “ Absolutely nothing.” “Good. I'll put him at the head of the Informa- tion Bureau."—Town Topics. Mauve: Brother broke an iron bar with his two hands yesterday. CLacbe: That's nothing. My brother broke four men with one hand last night.—Detroit Free Press. For ealo by all Newadeaters in Great Britain. national mpany, London, F.C, England, Aoesta. Lord Daroax, before departing for India, be- thought him of an old historic ruin which stood on his estate, Summoning his steward, Dan Mulligan, he showed him with his stick where he wanted a protecting wall built round the ruin. On returning, the first thing he did was to look for his castle, but it was gone. Finding his steward, he asked him where the castle was. Dan said: ‘Sure, an’ that ould thing !— pulled it down to build the wall wi Moments. why I London Spare “You do not go out often to dinner, Mrs, Wadding- ton?” “*No, I don’t think the best dinner on earth is suf- ficient compensation for making oneself agreeable for three hours at a stretch,"—Chicago Record. Tuey have a regulation at the Penge Free Library by which any member wanting a particular book, and the same not being in, can, by paying a penny, secure the next turn, and on the book coming in, the librarian sends him a notification per post card. A member wanted one of Jepson’s works and de- posited his penny in the usual way, and received a card in due course. The member is a married man, and his wife took in the card, This is how it read : “Mr. — is informed that ‘ The Girl He Left Behind Him’ is now in the library, and will be retained for him until Thursday morning next."—London Tid-Bits. THE DAUGHTER OF A STOIC. Atwood Pratt. The Witch of Whityford, By Gratiana Chanter, Rome, By Emile Zola. on ea ow as eee By Alphonse Daudet. Lop. ent & George's Mother, S Stephen Crane. London: Edward Arnold. Js Life Worth Living? By William James. delphia: S. Burns Weston. The Way They Loved at Grimpat. Esler. New York: Henry Holt & C The Truth Tellers. By John Strange Winter. delphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, The Century Mlustrated Monthly Magazine. LI. New Series, Vol. XXIX. How, Women Love, and Other Tales, By Max Nordaz ew York and Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely. The Broken Ring. By Elizabeth Knight Tompkis s New York and London: G. Putnam's Son New York as Phil. By E. Rentos Phih. “ Wuar bait do you use,” said a saint to the devil, ** When you fish where the souls of men abound ? * Well, for special tastes,” said the king of evil, “*Gold and fame are the best I've found.” “* But for general use 2" asked the saint. ‘ Ah! thes,” Said the demor, “I angle for man, not men, And a thing I hate Is to change my bait, So I fish with a woman the whole year round.” John Boyle O'Reilly. ‘Tuts is the season of the year when you can get wh: you don't want real cheap.—7exas Sifter. The Inter. Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, Evnoreax AQuxts—Mesara Brentano, $7 Avenue de V’Opers, Paris; Saarba: change, 1 Clarastrasse, Germany, Agents for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. ch’s News. 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