Life — November 17, 1898 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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PASSING OF THE POSTER GIRL. ‘The poster girl ts passing fast, Her vogue on earth ts Her violet lips and greenish hatr We soon shall see no more. Mer wobbly waist, her twisted arms, Her stating eyes and hands, Are fading from these smudgy sktes, To other grotexque lands. Oh, ere you die, welrd poster girl, While yet for speech there's room— Say, when y murted, would you like A plnk and parple tomb? —Pittshurg Bulletin. AMATEUR Port: How's this line of my * Ode toMy Sweet- heart "—" Thy bright eyes outrival twin diamonds"? His Sisren: Make it Thy rivals shall eye thy twin dia- monds" and she ts yours forever.—Jewelers’ Weekly. Tue late Prince Bismarck stopped one day at an ton in the [lack Forest and called for a cup of chicory. The aston- ished landlord brought him about a gill, “That's all I have In the house,” he sald. “ Are you sure?” asked Bismarck, Yes, mein herr.” “Very well,” sald the Prince, throwing the stuf? away; “pow make me some cotfee."—Argonaut. Ex-Goversox PRocrox KNorr and @ Danville lawyer were discussing the rival claims of Sampson and Schley to the credit of smashing Cervera at Santiago, The lawyer took the ground that the honor was Sampson's alone, and showed & tendency to Ignore Schley. The Governor listened.“ Your position on this controversy settles a point of consclence that has worrled me many a long day,” he sald. “One day, many years ago, I was walking through the woods with a boy friend when we saw a rabbit run Into a sinkhole, We stood around awhile, and I left to get some fire to smoke him out, telling the boy to keep watch while I was away. When I got back the boy had the rabbit. I promptly took it away from him, claiming that it belonged to me because I had told him to catch it if it came out, That was fifty years back,” continued the Governor, “and you are the first man who has ever agreed with me that the rabbit was mine."— Wave, Livre five-year-old Floste had observed that fish was Always served for dinner euch Friday at her home In the city, but she bad missed {t during a two weeks' sojourn tn the country. “Grandma,” she querted, “don’t you ever have Fridays In the country t”” “Of course we do,” was the reply; “but why do you ask?” “1Canse,” answered Flosste, “they don’t smell like the Pridays we have in town." —/"tisburg Bultetin, Ix the House of Commons there once arose @ discussion over the killing of a Tipperary landlord, an effort being made to show the crime the work of a secret soctety. Vincent Scully entered the discusston In warm praise of the deceased “He was much beloved by the peasantry,” he sald. “He Aistributed food to the starving, and, Mr. Chairman, no man had a less right to be’ murdered."— Ware. ‘Tux trial of adoctor’s sult was published in a Connecticut newspaper some years ago, In which a witness was called for the parpose of approving the correctness of the doctor's bill. The witness was asked by the lawyer whether the doctor did not make several visits after the patlent was out of danger. “ No,” replied the witness, “I considered the patient tn danger #0 long as the doctor continued his visits.” —The Sanitarian. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ; NEW YORK. T° Bashfut Earthquake, and Other Fables and Verses By Oliver Herford. The Lost Word, By Henry Van Dyke. Frontier Stories. By Cy Warman. Red Rock. By Thomas Nelson Page. The Workers. By Walter A, Wyckoff. Wita Animals I Have Known. By Ernest Seton Toomp- son. The Billy Goat, and Other Comtcatities. 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