Life — March 5, 1908 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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WHAT'S IN A NAME Not a bison roams the streets of Buffalo, ‘There are men in Richmond who are poor, indeed ; St. Louis isn’t saintly, as you know, And some of Reading's people cannot read. At Dayton there are nights as well as days, While Fredericksburg has many Jims and Jacks: Tis little mirth that Jolict displays, Aad peace reigns o'er the scene at Battle Axe Lippincott’s Magazine. HEARD IN CINCINNATI Cestomrn: Waiter, give me a Roosevelt sandwich Warr (lo the head chef): An order for calf brains and A ppeal to Reason. tongue Most interesting country round about here. c ruins? First Visrros Have you seen t Srconp Visttor (sho has just patd his dill): Yes; | suppose you mean the guests leaving this hotel.—London Tit. Bits At a country fair out in Kansas a man went uptoa tent where some elk were on exhibition, and stared wistfully up at the sign. I'd like to go in there,” he said to the keeper, “but it would be mean to go in without my family, and I cannot afford to pay for my wife and seventeen children." ‘The keeper stared at him in astonishment. “Are all those be gasped. “Every one,” said the man. said the ‘m going to bring the elk out and let them see you all."* nue children? “You wait a minute keeper. ** A ppeal to Reason. trgonawt name. Lire is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year; to Canada, 52 cents. Single current copes, 10 cents. Back numbers, after three months from date of publication, 25 cents. 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Sam was a fine swimmer, but was not very bright, while Hiram was bright enough, but could not swim a stroke When Sam found himself in the water he struck oot lustily for the shore, while Hiram clung to the overturned shill As soon as Sam reached the shore he was about the water again, when a man standing near said, “What going back into the water for? You just swam ashe Sam paused a moment, then said, “Wall, I hed to sa first; now I'm goin’ back to fetch Hi!” And he proceeded to bring Hiram ashore. —Harper's nthe plon myself Monthly, ALL THERE BUT THE TAIL Dressed in the latest and most approved motor cycling cos tume, with goggles all complete, the motorcyclist gaily toot tooted his way by Regents Park toward the Zoo. Suddenly be slackened, dismounted, and said to a small, grubby urchin “I say, my boy, am I right for the Zoo?" The boy gasped at so strange a sight, and thought it must be some new animal for the gardens. “You may be all right if they have a spare cage,” he said, when he could find his tongue, “but you'd ha’ stood a far better chance if you'd ‘ad a tail!""—Anszeers. SATAN TERRIFIED There is as great genius displayed in advertising as higher branches of literature. No problem daunts the mod advertising man. In the window of a little book store in Eighth Avenue, New York, was recently heaped a great pile of bibles, marked very low—never before were bibles offered at such a bargain; and above them all, in big letters, was the inscription: x trembles when he sees Bibles sold as low as these.” Woman's Home Companion. FELLOW FLIPS ‘That is, the confidence England, Acrsrs. Brentano's, 37 Ave. de !' Opera, Paris also at Saarbach'’s News Exchanges, 1. New Coventry Street, Leicester Square, W., London; 9 Rue ‘St. Georges, Paris; 1, Via Firenze, Milat Mayence, Germany. 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