Life — September 27, 1900 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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AT @ small seaport town, @ star actress of the third magnitude appeared as Juliet. “ Tcannot do Justice to myself,” she sald to the manager, “if Ido not bave s limelight thrown on me when 1 appear at the balcony.” “We ain't got no Hmelight, miss, but I think we coald get you a ship's bluelight.” reptied the obliging manager, and to this the lady agreed The lad who went to the shop to buy the bluelight brought hack a signal rocket, which was given to him by mustake, The prompter took the rocket In good falth. Romeo “He jests at sears who never feels a wound." (Jallet appears, Prompter lights the match.) * But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" (This was the match lighting the fuse.) + Arise, fatr sun!" ‘The sun, or, rather, the rocket, did rise, with @ terrific hiss, Juliet was knocked of the balcony, the fly borders were set on fire, and the theater was filled with sulphurous amoke, while the audience, which was fortunately ® small one, made a stamperte to the doors, Since then * Romeo and Juillet’ has always been looked upon in that town asa dramatic work that could not be wit- heased without personal danger. — New World. A stony, not merely amusing, bat absolutely tre, Is told by Sir Weiyns Reid. It relates to an incident observed by @ distinguished public man, who has risen high tn the service of the State. On the day on which he first British Government office as g Junior clerk he was @ wituess of @ scene which filled him with amazement. An elderly man, who was seated at mnother desk In the same ~oom, suddenly rose from bis seat, dragged hia chair to the entered a certain I SEIGORS AT NLL replace, and, setzing the poker, attacked the offending plece of furniture with what seemed to be mantacal fury When he had broken @ leg off the chair hix passion seemed to be exhausted. He fung the damaged chatr into a corner of the room, and, getting another chalr, calmly re- sumed his work as if nothing had happened. ‘The juntor clerk, on leaving his work that afternoon, ventured, with the hesitation of # novice, to ask another clerk who had been a witness of the scene, what It meant. “ Is Mr, X. subject to attacks of this kind asked. “Mr. X.1°% was the response, “There was nothing the matter with him You see, one of the castors had come off his chair, and the Treasury won't replace castors ; they will repair nothing less serious than a broken leg. So he broke one of the legs, and now be will get the castor put on again 177 — Exchange, Two ministers, a Baptist and # Methodist, met at the Kansas City Convention and fell to joking. Suld the Baptist preacher to the Methodist : “TL auppose you know that Bryan has turned Baptist?” No," gasped the Methodist preacher, “that can't be.” ‘evertheless, that's true,” sald the Baptist, “On, no,” said the Methodist preacher, recovering him- self, “no, that can’t be true. Why, to be a Baptist, you have got to be totally Immersed, haven't you? “Certainly,” said the Baptist. “Well, then, It can't be tne," sald the Methodixt ; “do you suppose that Mr. Bryan would consent to disappear from the popular view so long as that?” — Wave. ANTHONY Hore HAWK1xS belleves very much In men of letters standing by each other, and he has worked tre- mendously hard to help on the fund which the Authors’ For sale by nation iding, Chancery Lan Britain. ‘The Inter- Society, of London, Is trying to accumulate, from which |) penstons are to be pald to authors whose Itterary merit hag |) not brought them a corresponding income, and who view |) increasing years with fear, Recently an unfortunate writer, Fy who visited Mr. Hawkins at his rooms in Buckingham Street, by the Embankment Gardens, exclaimed, on leaving with something In bis pocket : “oh, sir, I feel that Providence must have sent me to your" And the reply came, with a twinkle tn his benefactors eye: “Let us hope, however, that Providence will not acquire the habit of doing 80." — Argonaut. 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