Life — October 19, 1905 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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This Bubble World. HE, odd thing is that the American is to hoot at Punch, which as a collection of humor has beaten us in every way for fifty years. Atlantic Monthly. Surviving readers of the Atlantic knew she was somewhat behind the procession—but not fifty years. Wake up, Sister! Aad Francis Hendricks is still Superintendent of Insurance and Gottfried Welti goes to jail for steal- ing a $2.32 premium.—New York World. That's where Hendric than Welti. He knows what boys to play with—clean little boys like Harri man, Depew and McCall. is smarter It is now considered absolutely necessary to spend a short time at the Hot Springs between leaving the summer resorts and getting one’s city houve in order, of in resting after a succession of house parties at one’s own country place—. Vork Herald. Necessary for what? The poor on the East Side would like further particulars. Cornelius A. Jackson, a towerman at Fifty-third Street and Ninth Ave- ave, and Paul Kelly, a motorman, were yesterday held responsible by a Coroner's jury for the disaster on September 11, at that point on the “1” road, in which twelve persons lost their lives. —Daily Paper. Our congratulations to the President, Superintendent and all the higher officers of the road, who were in no way responsible. Yale claims Chauncey Mitchell Depew.—Vew York World. So does the Equitable. Four hours later, be broke down, and in a flood of tears told the complete story of his crime.—Vew York Herald But who was it? Harriman? Loomis? Morton? Ryan? Hendricks? But the record in family numbers is believed to belong to Scotland. It is that of a Scotch weaver in the seventeenth century, whose wife bore him sixty-two children, —New Vork Globe. Pooh ! Lire hastwo hundred children every fortnight—at his farm. A practical politician is one who can induce + only 100,000 ants in the largest hills, -LIFE- the other man to put up the expense of the cam- paign, ~AManta Jowrnal, We grow mercenary. Tbe next thing we shall hear it said that a practical Christian is one who makes the other Christians pay. The government (of Russia) is having a square mile of ground surrounded with a spiked iron fence, where the Czar may exercise in safety.— London Daily Mait. Millions for de fence, but not one cent for tribute ! M. Emile Yung of Geneva finds that there are stead of 00,000, as estimated by M. Forel and Sir John Lubbock, M. Yung ingeniously suffocated all the ants ina great hill with carbonate of sulphur and afterwards counted them.—/aris (/iustration. Well, what are ants for, if not to serve the purposes, however trifling, of 465 man, who alone is created in the image of his Creator ? People taint themselves for money, but the money isn'ttainted. Even if it were, it would take off the taint to apply it to a good purpose.— Brooklyn Eagle. A stolen horse is never anything else than a stolen horse, until its rightful owner is made good, but, of course, philanthropists in our day mostly don't steal horses. A North Carolina Baptist preacher declares that some men would pot attend church if the preacher should stock the baptistry with speckled trout and give them the privilege to fish.— Houston Post, ‘This would afford no opportunity to lie about the number and size of the fish caught. There is justice in all things, SNAPSHOTS IN HADES. Megaphone Orator THIS LARGE OVERCROWDED BUILDING IS THE HADES JAIL—OcCURIED BY PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NAVE BREN IN JAIL ON EARTH BUT WERE NEVER POUND OUT. comicbooks.com