Life — November 25, 1897 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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THEN AND NOW, “With you,” he cried, “to cheer me on, I'll brush all obstacles away, And scale the height whereon is fame, And all the world shall praise thy name And envy you, some day.” Ah, that was many a year ago! He hasn't scaled the height. But if—oh, heaven!—if he were Not sorely handicapped by her, He often thinks he might, —Chicago Record. Fro a Paris paper we take the following conversa- tion in a police court : The President: It appears from your record that you have been thirty-seven times previously convicted. The Prisoner (sententiously): Man is not perfect. —London Globe. “« My wife's health is excellent now,” “What has cured her?” “TL told her I would allow her so much a month to pay her doctor's bill and buy her gowns; she is now dodging the doctor right along."—Chicago Record. A youno girl, an ardent admirer of Madame Melba, ata reception given for the latter was so completely overcome when it came her turn to havea word with tne prima donna, that, blusbing crimson and looking up with a sweet smile, she murmured: ‘ You sing, I be- “Ou, I guess we have our experiences,” laughed the fire insurance agent. “We are just like others who have to deal with allkinds of people. ‘*Take the smart Alecs, for instance. They give us a whirl once in a while, but we generally manage to get as good asa draw withthem, It was only last fall that one of them came in and wanted me to insure his coal pile. Of course I caught on at once, but I made out his policy and took his money. In the spring he came around with a broad grin on his face and told me that the coal had been burned—in the furnace, of course. I solemnly informed him that we must decline to settle the loss. He said he would sue. I told him to blaze away, and I would have him arrested as an incendiary. That straightened his face out, and it cost him a tidy little supper for a dozen of us just to insure our silence. “One shrewd old chap had grown rich out of our company, and when he had built an elegant new store and stocked it with goods he came to us again for insur- ance. I refused him, but he was persistent, and I finally assented on condition that he hang a gross of hand- grenades in the place. After I had seen them properly distributed I sent an old chum of his up to get the real lay of the land, for I was still suspicious. This is what the cronies said to each other: “What is them things, Ike?" ‘ Hand-grenades.’ What's hand-grenades ?' “*T don't know what was in ‘emat first, but they're full of kerosene oil now.” ** We cancelled the policy."—Detrout Free Press. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS: NEW YORK, Capital Courtship. By Alexander Black, Old Creole Days. By George W. Cable. E. P, DUTTON AND COMPANY: NEW YoRK, What Dress Makes of Us, By Dorothy Quigley, _ The Echo-Maid, and Other Stories. By Alicia 4s| pinwall. aA COPELAND AND DAY: BOSTON. Victory, and Other Verses. By Hannah Paz; Kimball.” in| Memorial Day, and Other Poems. Burton. HOUGHTON, MIFFLI By Richy AND COMPANY: BOSTON ayxp v YORK, The Juggler. By Charles Egbert Craddock. Gondola Days, By F. Hopkinson Smith. Men in Epigram, Chicago: A. C. McCi Company. The Fourth Napoleon. By Charles Benkam, Cy cago and New York: Herbert S, Stone and Compary. A Hero in Homespun. By William E. Barton, Boy ton, New York and London: Lamson, Wolffe at Company. FB as WARNING. T has come to our knowledge that certain cishozer| parties are taking the centre cartoons from isns of Lire, having them framed, and selling them unée| the pretense that they are the regular hand-prits| drawings. The deception is so apparent that the mee| cursory scrutiny will reveal it. Many innocent and unsuspecting persons may, ber, ever, be fooled, and we therefore take this method ¢ impressing upon all the fact that the origina! hess. printed proofs can be obtained only at the office d Lire and nowhere else. lieve 2"—Philadelphia Public Ledger. For sale by all Newsdealers tn Great Britain. The Inter- Company, Bream’s Building, Chancery Lane, England, AGENTS. pers, mortaN AQENTS—Mouare, Brentano, $7 Avei larasti ence, nue de 10) Paris bach’s News Exchange, 1 rane, May Germany, Agents for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Traveler who would thoroughly enjoy his toilet and bath must carry a half cake in his toilet case. RUINART. 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