Life — March 30, 1899 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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The World’s Progress. RS. BRAZON CUTTER and her daughter Souffle have colds in their heads. Mr. “J. Parvenu Pleb is similarly affected. English papers please copy. That was a very jolly SON party the other night at aey Mrs, Fred Bullifun’s. Jim- jam Hopper and the Hoopie-Tupp Gaddors were in high spirits, and all became higher as the night wore on. Billy Korkur and Mrs. Reggie High- jynks danced a dance that made the ceiling shudder. Ned. Brassey sang Some songs that are not in the P8alm-book, and. everybody had a time to be remembered. The only unfortunate occurrence was Mrs. Dethon Jewells receiving a kick in the back of the neck —accidentally, of course--from Mortimer Tuph. Mrs, Olfa Show gives a bigh tea in May. Among those present will be many who are not elsewhere. Why is it that Jean de Reske takes so little interest in our fashionable society? T. Fatuous Chumpp says these opera singers are all ordinary people. Mrs Dressta Kyll wascharming at the opera. Her clothes are real. In the very next box, Mrs. Van Damme Expensse and Mrs. O. Howe Vulg were often scen. It was a soul-stirring sight and the audience cheered repeatedly. OWE OP OUR STRONGEST MILITARY (0)CENTRES DURING THE LATE WAR, WHAT'S DE MATTER, BILL? WASN'T DE DORG CualwED?"* “YEP; BUT I GUESS IT WAs ONE OF DEM ENDLESS CHAINS.” A Person of Interest. EPORTS tbat reach this of- fice leave little doubt that Surgeon-Gen- eral Sternberg’s record in the late war is in mel- liflucus har- mony with Mr. Alger and the beef. Under Gen- eral Stern- berg’s man- agement, 80 tospeak,t..emedical supplies were in- variably absent and the wounded got on without them, or died. All of which has tended to injure both Mr, Sternberg and Mr. Alger. Mr. Alger is pretty well known by this time, but it docs not follow that all his friends are like him. General Stern- berg has abilities. As far back as 1882 this earnest searcher was already at work, To quote his own words: I have demonstrated by repeated experiments that my saliva, * * * injected into the sub- cutaneous connective tissue of a rabbit, luvart- ably produces death, usually within forty-eight hours, ¢ ¢ © Lthink Iam quite safe in statiog that T have repeated the experiment at least twenty-tlve times with my own saliva. 1 beg those who undertake to repeat my experiments to observe that my sallva produced resnits recorded. The sallva of four students, residents of Raltimore, gave negative resulta, © * # In my experiments the rabbits were commonly found dead or: dying on the second morning after inoculation. In spite of these brilliant experiments and their importance to humanity, sus- picious natures still have doubts. That