Life — March 27, 1902 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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5.—Mr. Izzy Kaplootzen and Mr, A. Ploteky, In their castorial racing type, “The Chariot of Isracl,"* were interrupted by a common pedestrian, who had the frightfal nerve to remonstrate with them, It 1s a pleasuro to note that the two gentlemen succeeded in administering tothe mlecreant ‘sound and well-merited rebuke, turning him over to @ guardian of the public safety afters wards, ‘The motor was untojured. ‘THR EUROPEAN INVASION OP AMERICA.” would not take it up! Van Buren contemplated him in tho most indifferent manner, and coolly aid," Well, now, what have you been doing? "— From A Budget of Anecdotes. William Black. wood and Sone, Edinbargh and Lon- don, 1887. Nempen i. An actor who had left his wife without any money in London, wrote glowing letters from America, bat still no sup plies, One of these letters was read ‘aloud in tho greenroom of the Hay- market. “ What kindness} “exclaimed Douglas Jerrold, with strong emphasis. “Kindness 1" ejaculated one of the actresees indignantly, “when he never sends the poor woman a penny.” "Yes," eald Jerrold, “unremitting kindness —From Forty Years’ Recollections. By . Mackay, Chapman and Hall, 1877, Newuen 62. Philip IT. sent @ young nobleman to Rome to congratulate Sixtus V. on his exaltation, Sixtus was dissatisfied at eo young an ambassador being sent, and, with bis usual frankness, raid, ‘Does your master want men, that ho sends to me a beardless ambassador?" “Lad my sovereign thought," replied the haughty Spaniard, ‘that merit consisted in a beard, he would have sent you a goat.” —From The Book of One Thousand 255 Anecdotes (p. 184). Compiled by M. L. Byrn. Jewett and Company, Boston, 1855. Nuwsen 63, Thavo heand a story told of Murphy, but which really hap- pened to quite another man, a resident in Kerry, who dearly loved a lord, and lost no opportunity of talking of his great acquaintances. At adinner-party where thero were several Roman Catholics, daring a conversation on the subject of fasting, this gentleman eald, * It 1s very atrango how little Catholics in the higher ranks mind tho fast daye. I was dining at the Duke of Norfolk's on fast day, three weeks ago, and there wasn't a bit of fish at dinner." I suppose, eald Pat Costello, ** they had eaten It all in thedining-room."* — From Serenty Years of Irtsh Ae, Macmillan and Com- pany, New York, 1604, Nompgnr 64, While I (Heinrich Heine) was standing before the cathe dral at Amiens, with a frlend who with mingled fear and pity was regarding that monament— bailt with the strength of Titans and decorated with the patienco of dwarfs—ho turned to meat last and inquired, “* How does it happen that we do not erect euch edifices in our day?” And my answer was, “My dear Alphonso, the men of that day had convlo- tions, while we moderns have only opinions ; and som-thing more than opinions are required to build a cathedral." From Library of the World's Best Literature, Vol, XVII. ‘Tho International Sockety, New York, 1607. s RocEston has acquired his fortune, I imagine, just because he knew just how to save his money.”” “*Nonsense! It was because he knew just how to spend it.”” Mr, Boundtail: MY, MES, MOUSE! OLD HOUSE YOU LIVE 1X, Are, Mouse ? WHY, MR. ROUNDTAIL, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE, OLDER THIS KIND OF COTTAGES BECOME THE BETTER THEY ARK? ‘WHAT 4 BROKEN-DOWN TT might be just as well if some of these masterful men would consecrate themselves before they go out after the coin, instead of waiting until after they get it. comicbooks.com