Life — November 12, 1896 — page 18: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

* LIFE: “VIN MARIANI | MARIANI WINE—THE IDEAL FRENCH TONIC—FOR BODY AND BRAIN. “VIN MARIANI IS AN EXQUISITE WINE, A DELICIOUS REMEDY —PLEASANT TO THE TASTE ANO BENEFICIAL TO THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.” COQUELIN. Write to MARIANI & CO., for Descriptive Book, 75 PORTRAITS. OF MW UReT” — Indorsersents and Autographs of Celebrities. YES Other railroads HAVE made as high as a mile a minute for SHORT SPURTS, with light SPECIAL Trains, but the New York Central’s Empire Panis: 41 Bd. Haussmann. Lowpos : 239 Oxford St. MR. WENZELL’S NEW BOOK 66 IN VANITY FAIR,” 1S FOR SALE AT THE OFFICE OF “LIFE,” 19 WEST 31st ST., N. Y. State Express, a REGULAR train weighing 525,000 pounds, has been running EVERY BUSINESS day for nearly five years. The speed of this train now averages 53 1-3 miles an hour for the entire distance between New York and Buffalo, 4:0 miles, including four stops and twenty-eight slow downs. | Over certain portions of the line the regular time of the Empire State | Express considerably EXCEEDS a Price FIVE Dollars. mile a minute. The level, straight line of the New York Central, its solid road-bed, four tracks and block signals, in connection with the highest type of motive power, combine to develop the highest speed with safety and comfort. November 12, 14 CANNOT make a silk purse from 4 sow’s ear, neither will you find a decent whiskey among any of the imitations of OLD CROW RYE. ‘The imitations are very in. jurious to health while the genuine will surely bereft you. The genuine has the word * RYE” in large red letters on label, and our firm name on case, cork, capsule and label, YOU BOTTLED ONLY BY H. B. KIRK & C0. (ESTABLISHED 1853), 69 Fulton St., N. Y., Also Broadway and 27th St. JAMES L. McEWEN TAILOR, LIFE BUILDING, 19 WEST 31st ST TELEPHONE CALL, 1760 R AGENT FOR SMALPAGE & Son. HAVING Just received a complete line of new importations, 1 would invite inspection of the same. Respectfully, JAMES L. McEWEN, LIFE’S COMEDY. HE fourth number of Lirr’s Comepy is now ready. It contains 32 pages of beautifully printed illustra- tions 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, Toaspern, Van Schaick, Johnson, Sullivant and_ others. THIS NUMBER IS DEVOTED TO OUR BACHELORS. MITCHELL & MILLER, puBLisHERs, 19 and 21 West S3ist Street, . - New York RICHARD K, FOX PRESB, REW YORK. comicbooks.com