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

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WaEN a new pedestrienne makes her debut, the Boston newspapers call it “bounding from sedent obscurity into the arena of peripatetic celebrity.” Ifa tramp with an empty stomach should be hit by a cold potato, they would doubtless refer to the occurrence as the im- pingement of an athermal, esculent, farinace- ous tuber upon the victim's stomachic vacuity.— Worcester Press. ; Tue Springfield Repudfican thinks the Indian should be ‘‘ harnessed to the plough.” The idea is. a good one. The deep voice of the stalwart farmer, shouting: ‘Whoa, back, gee, Feeble- bear-with-a-sarcastic-expression,” and: ‘‘ Back, now,Crow-with-a-sawbuck-on-both-arms” would be sweet, rustic music to mingle with the low- ing of the distant Durham bull. —Courier- Journal, Wuat we can’t aaa out is why the best clergymen in the world frequently lose their voices from exposure to night air, while a cat never does.—Rome Sentinel. “Woman shot at a’colored ball,” says an ex- change} but we areleft in the dark as to whether she hit it or not.— Yonkers Gaselte. PARISER S CRYSTAL PALACE, 252 BOWERY, Between Prince & Houston Sts., RESTAURANT ‘AUACARTE AT ALL HOURS. 8, READING AND BILLIARD ROOMS. NEW YORK. ‘Tue kind and gentle breeze that fans our eerie cheek, and moves the timid violet to our notice, is the same power that lifts the coat-tail of the youth of the land, and betrays a light-colored patch set in the seat of a black pair of pants— a monument to remind-us of a mother’s love and the hard times.— Fulton Times. ment. BOKER’S No. 78 Joun Srrexr, N. “GENTLEMEN of leisure taking sun-baths,” is the title by which corner-loafers are to be hence- forth distinguished.— Yonkers Gazette. Corner Fourth Street. AN exchange thinks that women are equal in point of endurance to men, but until women demonstrate their ability to undergo the fati of chewing a toothpick on a corner half the day and sit up playing billiards all night, the ques- tion hardly seems worthy of argument.—/or- wich Bulletin. CHESS, BILLIARD alwayson draught. ‘The leading European Papers in all languages on file. 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