Life — February 3, 1898 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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“BUT IP 1 KISS YoU 0: “ou, Some Newspaper Germs. ROFESSOR HARRY T. PECK says we have no humorists in this country. — Memphis Commercial Appeal. Professor Peck himself.—Nevw York Sun Never! forgets The operation wassuccess ful but the patient died. Stomach Special from St Louis. Ther than death re things worse The to labor un Ving le er the impression that there are not already enough ob- solete laws on the statute books, Star. But then politicians lature seems Washington Virginia is the mother of Mr. Depew ix gradually getting located, The New York World has now utilized his publ utterances in the compilation of a Boston Herald. comic almanac. He has been there for some time. a pretty being the record at sunrise and thirty-six degrees at noon.—Boston Transcript. Below Ian Maclaren’s Aterican trip ac The United States is now mplished something, anyway Yes, TH “wHor’ “YOU—ANOTHER TIME.” PRE WILL. sending gawf sticks to Scotland,— Press. Better still would follow the sticks. r York if some of his followers A sign on an East side news-stand reads, “Fresh Daily Papers.” This is all right. and some bad. Some eggs are good Iceland's geysers never shoot their water higher than one hundred feet, while some of our Yellowstone geysers go more than three rening Post Here is another instance of ¢ times as high. pulsive contemporary’s propensity boast of the superiority of American institutions. Try to correct this fault, neighbor. It makes you appear ridieu- lous in the eyes of persons of real culti vation who have seen the world in interesting deliv- I P appears from erance about the Emperor William, published in the Erening Post, that the secret of the astonishing things that he now and then is, first, that he hasa lively imagination, which runs away with bis tongue when he gets on ‘ond, that he has a very city for strong drink, and exhilarated. His recent address to his brother Henry, for example, which set all Christendom on a broad grin, was made at a banquet, when says his legs, and, se limited cap is casily WILL BE ANY THE WISER.” the Emperor's emotions had been stimu- lated. As for Brother Heary’s prepos- terous reply about the ‘consecrated person,” that is attributed partly to Henry's immense admiration for his big brother, and partly to the fact that Henry's judgment is nothing to brag of, anyway, his speech, which was unpremeditated, was the best he could do off-hand. Whitelaw Reid. IIIS gentleman is proprietor of the New York Tribune, a newspaper once ed- ited, and by Horace Greeley, Atone time Mr, Reid emerged from the obscurity of the Tribune office to run for Vice-President, Mr. Reid has money enough to support a farm, and when not at work in the fields, or entertaining future Presidents at his Adirondack caravansary, he sleeps at the office and writes editorials, Asa sum mer resort Mr. Reid has no equal, the tem- perature for acres uround him being sta tionary at slightly above zero. He is very fond of music, and delights in throwing missiles at the Sw»'soflice cat, rarely hitting the object aimed at, He is the author of ks, among others: “ Hints on Circulation, with Methods of Avoiding the “Three Weeks in Politics,” “The Uses avd Abuses of Wealth,” “Weighed and Found Wanting,” “The Errors of an Embassador,” “The Ed- ible Crow,” and “Horace Greeley Undon and les,”