Life — December 2, 1897 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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FAT fel A WARNING. From early morn till dewey eve, Scarce stopping for a meal, Through lanes and roads this maiden sped, Perched high upon a wheel, At last she flew to realms above, But there—oh, sad, sad fate !— Shefound a sign, ‘* No wheels allowed,” A-hanging on the gate, “Oh, let mein, kind saint!" she cried; But Peter said, ** No, no; You've brought your wheel; if you must ride, There's a cinder path below.” —L. A.W. Bulletin. A Texas judge was robbed of a horse, not long ago, and the thief, being apprehended, was brought before him for trial. The judge eyed the prisoner with deep satisfaction for a minute or so, and then delivered himself of the following : “Owing to a personal pre- judice, the court will not hear this case. It will be tried by the bailiff, who will find a verdict in accord- ance with the facts. In the meantime,” he added, im- pressively, ‘the court will go outside and bend a rope and pick out a good tree." Argonaut. with a friend in Unter den Linden, and In the course of a discussion on the Kaiser's conduct committed a griev- ous error of Majestats Beleidigung. “The Emperor'sa —— fool," he exclaimed, whereupon an English-speak- ing police officer tapped him on the shoulder and said, ** You must come mit me to ze police station.” ‘* What for?” asked the Englishman, ‘Mein herr did call ze Kaiser a — fool,” replied the man. ‘No, no,” urged the cute Briton, ‘it was the Russian Emperor | was talking about.” ‘* Dat vill not vash,” went on the con- stable; dere is no Emperor a fool except the Ger- man Emperor.” After which, Dame Rumor has it, the police officer and the Englishman agreed to keep each other's secret, and parted on good terms. —Westminster Gazette, “* Dip the doctor do anything to help your rheuma- tism?” “I guess so. Anyway, it has gained on me steadily ever since."—Detroit Journal, WARNING, T has come to our knowledge that certain dishonest Parties are taking the centre cartoons from issues of Lire, having them framed, and selling them under the pretense that they are the regular hand-printed drawings. The deception is so apparent that the most cursory scrutiny will reveal it. Many innocent and unsuspecting persons may, how- WAY AND WILLIAMS: CHICAGO, [re Teacup Club, By Eliza Armstrong. fibhins gp gyn By Elia Me Peattie. e Muses Up to Date. tt a and Roswell hraftia Held, a en Ste Deter Night m Acadie, ‘ate Chopin. Lites Galtant ‘Lady. By Kate MM. Cleary, COPELAND AND DAY: BOSTON, Vivette. By Gellett Burgess. Out of the Silence, By John Vance Cheney, Middleway, By Kate Whiting Patch. . HARPER AND BROTHERS: NEW YORK AND Loxpox, The Great Stone of Sardis, By Frank Stockton, Schoolboy Life in England. By John Corbin. The Kentuckians. By John Fox, Jr. F. TENNYSON NEELY: NEW YORK, The Invasion of New York, By J. H, Palmer, Through Field and Fallow, By Jean Hooper Page, DODD, MEAL AND COMPANY: NEW YORK. A Daughter of Strife. By Jane Helen Findiate, y Stories of Famous Operas, H. A. Guerber, Maktsplare Kalender, es DOUBLEDAY AND MCCLURE COMPANY: NEW YORK, Tales of the Real Gypsy. By Paul Kester. The Mistress of the Foundry. By Earl Joslyn, Yankee Ships and Sailors, By James Barnes. New York: The Macmillan Company. Jn bortia's Gardens, By William Sloan Kennedy, Boston: Bradlee Whidden, London as Seen by C. D. Gibson, New York: Chis, Scribner's Sons. Society to Encourage Studies at Home. Cam bridge: Riverside Press. ever, be fooled, and we therefore take this method of impressing upon all the fact that the original band- printed proofs can be obtained only at the office of Lire and nowhere else, A Goon (and true?) story is going the round which shows to what extent the violent ebullitions and caprices of the German Emperor are regarded in his own coun- try. An English gentleman, it appears, was walking His Grace of Osmonde, By Frances Hodgson Bar nett, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, King Washington: a Romance of the Hudson High lands, “By Adelaide Skeel and William H. Brearley, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Yor sale by all Newsdealers in Great Britain. Tho Inter. national News Company, Bream's Building, Chancery Lane, Londen, E. C., England, Agrsts. Evnoreax AGENTs—Measra. Brentano, $7 Avenue de 1" tra News Bxchange, eae Paris; rae, Germany, Agents for Germany, Austria and Switseriand, The quality of the soap at even Sterling Silver For Christmas . 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