Life — January 11, 1906 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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MILLIONAIRE'S life is full of perils these days. If he escapes the chorus girls he is pretty sure to be a director in a life insurance com- pany.— Chicago Journal. Or be lured into becoming the patron saint of a univer- sity in Chicago. An editor ia Wisconsin recently began worrying how he would get his shirt on over his wings after reaching Paradise.—Stam/ord Mirror, Another case of misdirected energy. ‘The thing for him to worry about is how he's going to smuggle in a jug of ice-water and a suit of asbestos overalls. e To the question of what it costs to live in New York there is the flippant but often accurate answer: It costs a great inany persons much more than that.—Vew Vork World. Moreover, we are taught by example to be sure and get it; honestly if convenient, but— get it. é All one gets.”” ke it a capital offence to lynch fore cigners in that State.—Kochester Post islative effort worthy of the lawmakers who made to make the Con- y members forget what they tesburgh Dispatch, And some of them never knew. were elected for in two years. It is now alleged that insurance offic with policyholders Ratt . Despairing of godliness, they tried for the next thing to it. nity have issued a proclamation abolishing This community may be a reincarnation of the late Colonel Robert Ingersoll. aR Let the people of New Vork rid themselves of any idea that Thomas F. Ryan has sold out his street railways to August Belmont. On the contrary Ryan has swallowed Belmont. 1 Vork World. And we, in turn, are expected to swallow Ryan. Q Shakespeare's “Julius Cassar has recently been acted for the first time in Rome.— aston Transcript. Probably a double murder. 59 Tt appears that the stork made 5,000 visits to New York last year.—Stamford Mirror. Pretty good for the stork, but as an increaser of population be doesn't hold a candle to the foreign steamship companie ) The police learned that the man recently came from Ithaca and that he had been without food or fg for days. —New York World, He's a bad man, What a moral abyss between him and, well, Harriman, for instance. Mme, Gadski’s voice isa marvel, Prima donna gives long song recital without Fork Wordd. Pooh! We know after-dinner speake: voices began before Mrs. Gadski was born; and they are still gaining in strength. bes A well-known cullector of works of art offers his pictures to the nation, and not only that but is willing to provide ahouse to putthem in, Yet Congress hesitates.—New Vork Evening Sun. Congress has nothing to do with it. Mr. Freer offered his collection to the Trustees of the Smithsonian Institute. He knew Congress ) Chicago spent over $15,000,000 for Christmas presents this year. Chicago It's a matter of tradition that it takes a good deal to fill a Chicago girl’s stocking Ace ished oculist, writing to Phe Z Lancet ovly ne person in ten has perfect vision. Cincinnati Commercial. Atlast we have scient reason for the inability of a large number of persons in active business to distinguish between mewn and tui. THE DESCENT OF MAN, comicbooks.com.