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

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A LYRIC. A new Georgia poet “is in our midst.” He sends this charming yric to the Constitution, with the statement that it is “one of a thousand” he has written, but the has ever submitted for publication, It is as fol- * My love has eyes that are as blue As Lam when a note falls dui Her face with love lines abounds: I think she weighs two hundred pounds. Her smile far more than gold is worth; “Tis wide enough to light the earth! Thear the falling of her feet A hundred yards adown the street; She sets my happy heart to drumming And the whole world shakes when she’s coming!" Atlanta Constitution. Ir was a negligence case, and a good-humored Irish- man was a witness. The judge, lawyers and everybody else were trying their best to extract from him something about the speed of a train. “Was it going fast?" asked the judge. “Aw, yis, it were,” answered the witness * How fast !* “Aw, purty fast, yer Honor.” “ Your little Jim seems to be popular with the other small boys.” “Popular? The other day he asked if he could give each of his boy friends an apple, and when I came down stairs the entire barrelful was gone.” —Detroit Free Press “Axo,” were the concluding words of the professor's lecture to the medical students, “do not promise too much, I knew a physician of real ability who promised a patient, whose legs he had just amputated, that he would have him on his feet within two weeks."—Tit-Bits. A sow famous physician relates that early in his career in the city where he was located there resided an ly physician, who was always ready to give him wholesome advice. One morning the young practitioner was called to visit a man who was very sick. On his way he fortunately happened to meet his old friend, the doc tor, and, as usual, he had something of importance to say. 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