Life — January 5, 1899 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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: (i Tne late Mr. Justice Keogh was in the latest years of his eventful career aMlicted with falling memory. On the occa- sion of a bar dinner” at his house he went upstalrs to dress, but did not reappear. ‘The company sat patiently for some il atiengtlh—Just as thelr hunger was getting the better iF man «dan emissary was despatched to hunt np the missing Judge—his Lordship appeared and explained with many apologles that, Imagining that he was retiring for the night, he had undressed and got into bed. After an hour's sleep he awoke, when It suddenly struck him that he had not yet dined, on which he hurried dowa to hts guests, He once attended a representation of “Macbeth,” in the Galety Theatre, Dublin, It will be remembered that the witches, in reply to the Thane’s inquiry what they were doing, declared they were doing “a deed without a name.” Catching the sound of the words, and no doubt Imagining he was on the bench in the Four Courts, Keogh exclaimed, to the astontshment of the audience deed without a name! Why, It’s not worth sixpence | "—Exchange. ‘Tur Marquis of Englesey, who died recently, was one of ‘the last of the great race of English e/eens, But in the course of time he retired within his ancestral fastness at Plas Newydd. There, one day, a fire occurred. Thereupon he ordered that a quantity of hand-grenades be sent down from London. When they arrived the butler was iustructed to string them over the house, But thongh the house Ix large, such was the quantity ordered that after the stringing adozen remained. “What shail I do with them?" the butler aske Perplexed, the Marquis pondered. And as he pondered, suddenly one after another there surged before him the un- hallowed eplsodes of anterlor years, Sadly yet advisedly he answered: “ You may put them in my coftia."—Argonaut, OR) Av PROBABLY no dog has ever rendered such signal military service, or been so honorably recognized, as the celelrated poodle, Moustache, who shared the victorious fortunes of the French Army through most of the wars of the Consulate and of the French Empire. He won spectal honors at Marengo, and was decorated on the battlefield of Austerlitz by Marshal Lannes, as a reward for having rescued his regimental standard from an Austrian soldier when in the act of snatch- ing it from the grasp of the standard-bearer, as he fell mor- tally wounded. The plucky poodle drove oif the assallant, and then, seizing the tattered colors In his teeth, dragged them trumphantly till he reached bis own company. —Vournal of Zodpholy. A TRACHER In one of the Cleveland pubic schools sald to the class in Engilst composttion: “I wish evers member of the class would write out a conversation between @ grocer and one of his customers, Introducing some pathetic incident or reference.” Among the compositions handed in was the following by a sweet little girl: What do you want?’ asked the merchant. “The lady replied: * A pound of tea.* “Green or black?’ asked the merchant. “+1 think I'll take black,’ she sald; ‘it's for a faneral,’ Exchange. . GREENE: Do you believe there ever was a perfect Guay: Yes, 1 know of one. There's Mrs. Brown, Whose gowns ure so much admired. She can pay one hundred dollars for a dress and tell her husband that it cost only five dollars, and that she gave the other ninety-Qve to the poor, and he'll belleve It, He 1s forever telling how charitable bis wife is, and how well she can dress on next to nothing. Boston Transcript. P. TENNYSON NEELY : NEW YORK AND LONDON, Neo York. By kdgzar Fawcett. Bismarck. By Ferdinand Sonnenburg. Tran-latet by Ida L, Saxton and Grace II, Webb. The Love of the Princess Alice. By Frank K. Scribner, The Triumph of Yankee Doodle, By Gitcon Wille's, The Viciove Virtuo, By Louis Lombaid. The Mind Reader, By L. M. Phillips, M.D. The Woman Proposes. By Charles E. Leibold. In the Saddle with Gomez, By Captain Mario Castilla Wife or Maid? By M. Douglass Flattery. A Duel of Wits, By E. Thomas Kaven. Forest Lily. By James Donald Dunlop, M.D. Little Ethel. By Puilip H. Smith, Two Washington Dulles. By Lester M. del Garcia A Country Tragedy. By F. Cameron Hall, Manila and the Philippines, By M. A. Hamm. 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