Puck — April 1877 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Two men were sitting together in a smoking car on the Danbury Railway the other morning, when one of them observed to the other: “T lost as likely a colt as you ever saw, last winter.” ‘After a pause the addressed party inquired: “Did it die?” “Die?” repeated the loser, somewhat resent- fully, “ how-could I ’ave lost if it hadn’t died ?” “J didn’t know but itslipped through a crack in the floor,” said the other man in an injured tone. Both lapsed into silence after that.— Danbury News, Ir is almost impossible to view the rear ele- vation of the stylish young man’s shirt-collar without thinking of the business revival that would take place, if our merchants could utilize this white expanse for advertising purposes.— Worcester Press. Girts, don’t be afraid to work. Ruth glean- ed in the harvest-field and got just as good a ; Boaz any girl in the neighborhood.—Zaston Free Press. ‘THe manufacturers of the jewsharp are be- ginning to get frightened at the success of the telephone. It will drive their musical instru- ment out of the market altogether, they say.— Philadelphia Bulletin. Fascinatinc female music teacher, to admir- ing young gentleman pupil: “Try that again, Mr. C—"” Pupil—“Do, Re, Mi—” Teacher — That won’t do. You do not hold on to Mi long enough.” Pupil (wistfully)—“T wish I had | a chance to.” —Eachange. Fasuton journals are discussing the proper height of feminine hose." We should say that a altitude.— Norristown Herald. AN exchange asks Judge Devens how many children he has, and the Chicago Zimes wants to know when Judge Devens was married. Hereafter we shall insist that questions be put in their regular order.— Rochester Democrat. Auexis and his terrier went to a photo- gtapher’s and were “took,” in every city they visited. ‘The Duke is easily distinguished from the terrier by his princely air and a standing collar.—Burlington Hawkeye. WHENEVER a man, who has been arrested for being “tight,” calls at a New Orleans newspaper office, and asks to have his name suppressed, they call it “A Suppressed ‘Tightem,” and pub- | lish it anyhow.—Z/izabeth Herald. “Mrs. Parr, of this village,” says a Wiscon- sin exchange, “has had no less than seventy attacks of illness during her lifetime, and still lives.” She must be one of the “ Brave Women of Seventy-Sicks.”.— Commercial Advertiser. “Tue singing in Soldene’s new opera of Poulet and Poulette is said to be really henchant- ing.”—Boston Traveller. It probably consists of lays.— Worcester Fress. Waar lovers swear—To be true until death. What husbands swear—Unfit for publication. | —ZLondon Yorick. WARE ROOMS: 109 & 111 East 14% Street, 4 NEW YORK. little above two feet would be about the correct L. SOMBORN & CO., No. 12' Vesey St., adjoining the Astor House, New York. IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN WINES. BRANDIS, &o. ‘Sole Agents tor the | APOLLINIS NATURAL SELTZER. | HOCK & MOSELLE WINES from L. Somponx, Frankfurt a. M. AMP OF MAAGBITTER spRRwERG-AtuRECHT, Rheinberg. PARISER’S CRYSTAL PALACE, 252 BOWERY, Between Prince & Houston Sts,, RESTAURANT ‘A LACARTE AT ALL HOURS. CHESS, READING ILLARD ROOMS. ar- The leading Eur Il languages on file. The finest Wines, Li ser, Ale and Cigars. The public is respectfully invited to visit this model establish- REMOVAL. NEW YORK. THE Cart INTERNATIONAL | HAS REMOVED | No. 699 BROADWAY, | 8. LIEDER 8. Corner 4th Street. PERFECTION. '/BOKER’S BITTERS. L. FUNKE, Jr., Sole Agent, No. 78 Joun Srrei M.KRICKL’S PAT. MET SOLE MANUFACTURERS, ALSO MPRS. oF STAIR RODS & STAIR BU =" PATENT COVERS [Fok FILING “Puck” PRICE $I.00 EACH. FOR SALE AT “PUCK” OFFICE, 13 North William Street, New York. or “PUCK” Can be supplied on demand. ADDRESS, Willmer & Rogers NewsCo., or, 31 Beekman Street, New York. Publishers “Puck” 13 North William Street, New York. comichooks.