Puck — September 19, 1877 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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tee IONS ON THE CLAM, 2 § mouth to disclose richness. ‘ a rough exterior, but he is'a social gentleman at-sheart.. So are Pwhoorthe world considers harsh'and un- congenial. ‘The wife may learn a lesson from the clam, Itkeeps its house in order, and never strolls about to the neglect of daty.. Gossips may learn a lesson from the’ clam. It never opens its mouth at the wrong time, and > keeps its secret while life lasts» Science says that it took millions of yearstto evolve man from the clam; observation shows that it takes | less than a minute to transfer’ the, clam into the man. Business men may Jeara. a Jesson’ from the clam. It has no smile during business hours, but when it feels the warmth of society i it ‘opens bits very heart, and. gives itself up to increas » the jollity of the hour. © Tuere are certain little things going toshow that thé world is really and truly growing bet- fer. Less:than a year ago numbers of men, were led about the streets or were seen on cor- ‘ners having Signs hung to their necks reading: “This man ‘has been blind for fourteen years,” or“ This’ man was _made entirely deaf by’a boiler explosion"! There is now sitting on the curbstone‘on Monroe Avenue an alms-asker, “who carries a sign saying: ‘This man fears he is going, blind—please aid him.” ‘That's a great ‘coming down: He simply believes he is going blind, and hesitates to say that he can’t read a handbill.. Another man ‘on Michigan Avenue is placarded as: “ Have pity on me—I*m-deaf in one ear.” — A year ago his sign would ‘have read: ‘This man hasn't been able to hear’ the rumble of-anSéarthquake for forty yéats.”" It is a promising Sign to see these “ almost” blind men, and the men who only shut one ear on “the public. It shows a gradual return to the days when Truth was the brightest star in the social world, and when a man who wanted to ~ trade off a blind horse would not only admit ‘the loss-of visign, but take pains to point out the ringbories’and.spavins. Let us rejoice a little bit.—Detrott Free Press. “When an Arab or a camper-out comes to a desirable halting place wherefore doth he pitch his tent?” asked Socrates of the crowd who thronged arOund to catch the pearly words of ‘wisdom which fell from his inspired lips. ‘So's to make’ it stick,” suggested Alcibiades. “You've got the idea,” rejoined the sage, “ but say, rather, to make it tar-ry.” And he smiled paternally on the assembled Athenian youth, and took another chunk of bolony from the plate on the bar.—Boston Traveler. A younc lady, on Hoyne Avenugnasked her young man Saturday evening why he'called her his Ultra, and he courteously replied that it was a Latin quotation. ‘ This,” he said, ‘is omy knee, and when_J add you to it I havemy knee, plus Ultra, which_is.Latin: for I don’t want anything more on my knee. Don’t you see’ my darling?” — She said she did.=-Chicago Tribune. He was a graduate of Harvard, and’he got position on one of the Philadelphia dailies last “‘Cut that stuff of yours down,” said the city editor, as the new man came in with a column where-a stick only was required. ‘Do you desire ajudicious elimination of the super- fluous phraseology ?”” mildly returned the Har- vard man. ‘No! Boil it down!” , thundered the city ed. The new man is gone now— gone back to -Boston. He says. there ain’t eat "enough in Philadelphia. — Phila. 5S. eee PICK. Witen the young lady of the period eee to<entertain simultaneously the two rivals herraffections, and sends them away éach’ in the best of spirits, with the idea that her pre- ference for him.was clearly manifested, we shall believe’ that this thing of social ‘sciefice has! Sat & high degree of progress. — Boston Tras veler, eRveE Run's mers 174 Fifth Ave., — Barworn ood a 23rd Srarers, ‘Steesr, NEW YORK. # ——EEE |RUNK & UNGER, No. 50 PARK PLAGE, N.¥., Sole Agenteitor: Ayala-Chateau d’Ay <q, CHAMPAGNES. TAUNUS NATURAL SELSER WATER, PORTER: WINES. BRANDIES. ETC. THE BLACK AND COLORED PRINTING INKS Usto ox rnd8)Parar ane Maxuractunen By PORTRAITS a re Ee, *Madison Square, NEW YORK. UAT se Highest Rewards. PARIS, VIENNA 8 NEW york, 5 BRANCH: NS $7 Old Post Office Building, NASSAU ST., Nw¥- —————_—$ ’ ‘The Best CIGARETTE Try LAMERIQUE |" xesrese ores —————— | SUMMER SMOK MIXTURE OF PERIQUE AND VAI best French, Cigarette re sed “d. Sample by f our goods wm. 5. 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