Life — November 18, 1897 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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UR 8] Unless All Signs Fail. ss HE ex- pressman has just called at the Twickenhams’ next door and left a football, a wheel, two base- ball bats, a pack- age of sweaters, a pair of spoon oars and a bundle of golf sticks.” “Then their daughter must be home from col- lege and her ed cation finished AN AFRICAN LINE-UP. In the Menagerie. *€(>OME on,” said the first flea, as he hopped from the brown bear's left foreleg; ‘come over and join me at a short golf game.” “Golf!” exclaimed the second flea, hastily taking a bite of hyena; “where in the realm of Barnum are we to play golf?” “Why,” said the first flea, ‘‘over on the lynx, of course.” A Sudden Release. ‘€N TSS KITTISH—dear Nellie, Iam your slave,” said young Mr. Dolley, in a sudden avowal of love. “Consider yourself emancipated, Mr. Dolley,” replied the young lady. A Note from the North. A YOUNG, muscular, fully - developed grizzly bear limped painfully into the Parental den at the foot of aglacier. One eye was closed, three of hisribs were broken, his right shoulder was out of joint, and the fur was gone in large patches from various parts of his burly carcass, His fond mother looked at him as if she would like to ‘feat him all up.” ““What is the matter with you?" she growled, tenderly. ‘Has an avalanche wiped its feet on you, or did you meet a mythical Wendigo in your travels?" The young bear ejected several teeth that had been loosened in the shock, and whined brokenly. “*Thardly know. 1 am still feeling dazed, You know I have been living on miners most of the time since the Klondike boom began. Well, this morning I stalked a fine specimen up a lonely creek, and when I knew I had him cornered I made a rush at