Puck — September 12, 1877 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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‘Tue magnificent appearance of the sky was a common subject of remark last night. Not a cloud marked the clear blue of the heavens, the stars shone with unusual brilliance, and the beauteous moon shed a soft light upon the earth, gilding the pile of bricks in the brickyard like refined gold, and casting a halo of glory about the head of a red-headed girl as, she whispered the parting good-night to the idol of bee heart in Upper Austin, besides effecting a great saving of candles in the resi- dence of a prominent citizen who has nine marriageable daughters and has just been sold ‘out on stocks.—Austin Reveille. ‘Tue Socratic method is thus irreverently ex- ined by the New York Zimes: S.— Then tell me, O Alcibiades, that you have cut off your dog’s tail.” A.—*‘ It is true, O Socrates; {did it with my little battle-axe.” S.—‘ What isa dog? Is it not an animal with four legs and atail?” A.—‘You say truly.” S.—“Then your dog is not a dog, for it is an animal with four legs, yet without a tail. A.—‘ I see that I must admit it.” S.—‘ But you will also admit that neither among Greeks, nor yet among barbarians, is there any animal which, having four legs, has no tail.” A.— Again thou sayest what nobody denies of.” S.— “How, then, can you claim that you have the very animal which does not exist?” A.—* By Zeus, 1 make no such claim." S.—‘* Then you see you have no dog.” Upon arriving at Richmond to attend the State convention the doctor approached Ford's Hotel, weary and dusty. A boot-black ac- costed him at the hotel entrance, “Shine, boss; have ashine?” ‘‘ Yes," said the doctor, and the boy was at work in a moment. “ But, stop, what are you going to charge?” “Only ten cents, boss; jess ten cents.” ‘ Well,” said the doctor, “I haven't anything less than a dollar ill, but go ahead, go ahead and black them, and when you get through we will walk into the hotel and get this bill changed and then I'll pay you.” The boy stopped work; resting on his knees, his arms akimbo, he looked up into the florid countenance and said: “ Ax yer parding, boss; but isn’t you a member ob de convention?” ‘“ Yes,” said the doctor, ‘Iam a delegate, certainly I'm a delegate; but what have you got to do with that?” “Sorry for you, boss; sorry to let yer go off with jess one shoe blacked; but fact is, I'm "fraid yer might want ter compromise dat debt." —Suffolk (Va.) Herald. ‘Te rumors that an carthquake shock was felt. on South Hill, yesterday, were untrue, al- though there was some apparent foundation. ‘The fact is, Mr. W. C. ‘Thurlow, who lives on Ninth Street, had traded a horse for a bay mule, with a paint-brush tail. He had been out driving the mule, for exercise, and returned home, somewhat weary, and a little impatient, having had several discussions with his new pur- chase, during the drive, on the proper mode of drawing a wagon, the mule insisting that it was in perfect accord with the latest etiquette regulations as laid down in Harper's Bazar for the mule to place his hind feet in the driver's lap, and then paw along the ground. In the fretful condition which such a discussion would naturally leave him, Mr. ‘Thurlow attempted to pull off the mule’s crupper by jerking it, at the same time applying to the patient animal an opprobrious epithet. The mule, with a depre- catory gesture of its paint-brush tail, burst into tears, and endeavored to hide its weeping eyes with its hind foot. In this it was not entirely successful, but the place where Mr. Thurlow went through the skylight when he started across the street to pick up the barn door is still pointed out to the curious people who go out on Ninth Street to askeabout the earth- quake.— Hawkeye. AMD YET BEING SOLD AS MAP RE: sd potrtitri eet Arc CZccgpoure prtscnaunr ae cos é GENCINE ARTICLE SUMMER SMOKING! MIXTURE OF PERIQUE AND VANITY FAIR- Daly best French Cigarette Paper used. Migheat Cem TP Award. Sample by Mail 1 dealer for our goods.” PAV. PERFECTION. BOKER’S BITTERS. L. FUNKE, Jr, Sole Agent, No. 78 Joun Srrenr, N. Y. P. O. Box 1029. PUCK’S Tlustrated Almanac. 8vo. 160 pp. boards. EDITED BY LEIPOLD SCHENCK and GEORG ASMUS. wm 100 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS ay JOSEPH KEPPLER. 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