Life — October 20, 1898 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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THE HOWLING DERVISHES. ‘The dervishes are howling on the Nile, ‘They are scampering across the burning plains; ‘They are giving stall attention unto style, And most of them are full of shooting pains. ‘The old Khalifa's going ike the wind, And beads of sweat are dripping tro The members of the harem they are hi And yelling at him, “ Pa, you watt for us Cleveland Leader. Lapy Visrror: What a pretty baby. How Mamie (aged ster): 1 ain't quite sure, m bim about @ year.—Rrooklyn Life. behind, id tx he? we've had SHE Was a pretty little miss with black eyes and plump, red cheeks, and she walked up to an officer at the depot, and asked: ere Pred Is?" * repeated the ofticer perplexed. “Then the pretty little girl stood on tip-toe and whispered something Into the officer's ear, and he smiled broadly and Then he Jumped into a car and presently there lasned forth a palltd-faced, emactated youth who looked as though bec had been handsome, but that was before he let bis thin, scraggy beard grow, The emactated soldier boy and pretty girl greeted each other with exclamations of pleasure. Then she sald: “ What a horrid beard 1" last seen he was still expiaining that having ne Tazor he could not remove the whiskers from bis face. But he did not need toexplain, It was all right anywa, —Inter-Ocean, sale by all Newsdealers in Great Hrit i ‘The Inte national company, Bream's Building, 6 “Excuse me,” exclatmed the timorous man, “but may Idisturh you for afew minutes on a matter of considerable Importance to myself and possibly of some concern to yout” No, sir!” replied the disagreeable citizen.“ Not unless you promise not to waste as much time talking business as you do apologtzing."—Erening Star. Abarat Dewey apparently thinks that there are better names for ships of war than Harvard and Yale, He recently remarked that, since the Navy Department was giving the names of educational institutions to ships, he would follow sult, Two microscople gunboats captured from the Spants! called the Callao and Leyte, he has dectded to re-christen, and he suggests that the first be called The Phitadetphia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the second The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.—Argonaut. A New Onteaxs drug clerk wanted to enlist in the United States Navy. He was an effictent druggtst, but stren- nously disliked undignified haste, In fact, his tendency to taking everything slowly and with dignity had sertously stood in the way of his advancement even tn his own particular calling, and {t was partly for this reason that he wished to th y In what capacity do you wish to enlist?” asked the officer, very rtskly. As a druggist, str,” answered the applicant. “Can't do It; we'll have to ship you as a landsman.”” “What does a landsman have to do?” questioned the applicant, doubtfully. * Anything he Is told to do, and do tt d—d quick, toc ‘The druggtst’s assistant stifled hts thirst for fame on the briny deep with startling alacrity after having received this answer.—/nter-Ooran, cery Lane, KM. RUSS Tile Hone Tree. By Abert Bigelow Paine. by J. M. Condé. Curano de Bergerac. A play In five acts, by Edmond Rostand, Translated by Gladys Thomas and Mary P. Guille. mard. : NRW YORK. 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