Life — July 20, 1899 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Vittaae Gossir: Did ye ns owd Sally Sen dead? ‘Er what's bin pew-opener up to Wickleham nigh on fifty year. ‘ ™ ATIKIST (solemnity): Al see what comes | unch, FOOD FOR BABIES urishing and sultable, and hy meant a food which a child will properly digest late. Gail Borden Eagle Brand ¢ wed MUK for forty years has teen the leading Infant food, Hook entitled “ Bables” sent fre MoNst2ck CALINO took bla son to see the antinals at the Zoo, The young tan asked: “14 It true, papa, that orang: utans cannot endure our citmatet” “They endure tt perfectly, ny son,” was the reply, “* but they have to be stuffed finst."—Youth's Companton, THE THORNDIKE, BOSTON. Quiet, and used by the best people. Most accessible of all Back Bay hotels. | “ AND a she really the tralned singer she clatms to bet | “Beyond a doubt. She can «ing * "Through the | Rye" so that nobody can tell what {tls without looking at the programme." —Exchange, Wate Chauncey M, Depew wasat the Omaha Exposition, he and President Callaway of the New York Central chanced to go lato a booth on the Midway Plaisance, It was a tame entertalument, and thelr stay would have been very brief except for the fact that they had scarcely taken thelr seats before there began a steady Inpourtng of people, which con. tinued unti the «mall auditorium was crowded. Half an hour's waiting failed to reward thelr patient expectancy, however, and Mr, Callaway suggested that they move on. Just then ex-Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterllng Morton pushed bis way through the crowd, and extending bis hand to Mr. Depew, exclaimed: * Well, Doctor Depew, so you are really here! I thonght that ‘barker’ was lying.” “ What do you mean?” inquired Mr. Depew. “Why, the ‘barker’ for thts show Ls standing outalde and Inviting the crowd to ‘step up lively * and pay ten cents for the privilege of seeing the ‘great aud only Chauncey M. Depew. Argonaut, REFRESHING—NOURISHING—SATISF YING. ‘The verdict given Cook's Imperial Champague Extra Dry, by connotsseurs, Mrs. RiLey: Are yez on callin’ terms wid our neigh: bor? Mus. MURPHY: Av coorse Lam, She called me a thafe, and | called her another. Exchange, iy should I marry you?" she asked, coldly. Well, of course,” he repited, viclously, “ you ear be an old matd If you wish."—Phitadelplia North American. HOTEL VENCOME, BOSTON. Accessible location, excellent table, prompt service, A rARnoT, in remote country district, escaped from tts cage and settled on the roof of a laborer'’s cottage. When tt had been there a little time the laborer caught sight of 1. 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