Life — August 8, 1901 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Let us be Joyful! Once again The merry summer time ts bere | The daistes gilnt across the plain, The hum of Insects soothes The Iceman leaves a tiny speck, Soon melted in the morning glow ; Your collar wills abont your beck Just as tt did solong ag: The fly now dodges from your face And laughs to see you smite sour cheek ; You Ond a summer boarding place ‘That charges all you carn per week. You stand up in a crowded car, And soon are crushed, a total wreck And some one with a strong cigar Is dropping ashes down your neck ; So come, and jotn the glad refrato ‘That echoes distantly and clear, Let us be Joyful! Once again The merry summer time Is beret Washington Star. A cirar ack butcher brought bis cart to a standstill In Petticoat Lane. A miserable old woman eyed closely the heap of bones and gristie which was referred to by the batcheras joints and steaks. She was evidently very poor Indeed, as she hesitated 10 pay threepence for a scaleful of “selected bits “Ere, ‘ave ‘em for tuppence,”” growled the but Too much," sald the woman *Ave “em at @ penny Stilt the woman hesitated There was a look of pity, mixed with disgust,on his face as he yelled Hil too meh? you sneak “em her, ‘Ere, tang it! Vilturn me lack while London Spare Moments, Tue late Bill Nye’s Indorsement of life insurance 1s probably the most characteristic paragraph to be quoted from bis writings : “In these dass of dynamite and swift-changing Prest- dential administrations, and dark tunnels through which an engineer goes groping his way at twenty-five miles per hour; these days of tumbling signs of the times and tipsy telegraph poles, live wires and dead repairers; these days when the politician and the dead'y bridge policeman with bls pul 1 down together (under the Influence of the same stimulant lays when death larks In the alr we breathe, the earth ¢ tread, the food we eat, the water—the water we Lathe In—1 say It bebooves us to look well to our Insurance and our fature state, and I take pleasure In certifylog and saying to whom these presents may come, that since | became fully insnred, my health has improved so much that Its a subject for profound congratulation on my own part, and the deepest disgust on the part of those who would naturally inherit my vast wealth.""— Exchange. Moy. Joser I. Choate 1% as celebrated as a post Prandial orator as be sas alawyer. At one of the dinners of ihe New England Society of New York, be once proposed the following toast : Woman, the better half of the Yankee world—at whose tender summons even the stern Pilgrims were ever ready to spring to arms, and without whose ald they never could have achleved the historic ttle of the Pligrim Fathers. The Pil- grim Mothers were more devoted martyrs than were the Pligrim Fathers, because they not only had to bear the same hardships that the Pligrim Fathers stood, but they bad to bear with the Pilgrim Fathers besides.""— Argonaut. “Sam ELDER told the doctors some pretty good stories the other afternoon at the Massachusetts Medical Society dinner about thelr own professton. From the way his bearers Newsdealers in Great Britain. The tot 's Building, Chancery La langhed [should think the yarns were about « Was about an old practitioner, Who because of sears had relinquished all of his out of:town practice young assistant. One night the older physician was cu on by two men ina buggy, one of whom w to come to lis house, elght miles away, and who was very ill “She will have no one but you, doctor, “Well, FI go for ten dollars, and not a the doctor. A whispered consultation went on tn the carriage, ay Aoally the physician heard a votce say “Better pay the ten, It's a good deal cheaper iq borying her."* And the doctor got his money.—Loston J new, adr be d bis we sald the mag ronal A. YOUNG matron of New York tells the following jad of ber Lridal attempts at housekeeping, She liad empingea greenborn as a servant, aud spent many weary hours tess ing her the way things shoald be done to be in the cere style. 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