Puck — October 3, 1877 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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t perseverance and pluck are bound to win,” Camden man ina cigar store on Saturday night. ‘Look at the history of our country,” he continued, ‘and take for illustration the following: Twelve years ago Dan Rice brought his circus into this town. He was not successful. Since then this plucky man has been tackled by the sheriff of every county he went into. Everywhere he failed, and all seemed hopeless. But what did the man do? Why, sirs, he went to the grand old Bay State; he persevered, and to-day he is the Governor of Massachusetts. ‘There's an illus- tration for you."—Camden Post. “] TELL you | that ‘Tue style for wedding invitations this season is exceedingly simple, being merely a plain single sheet of paper scantily worded. ‘They are likely to become popular because they cost about $10 less per hundred than the former elaborate ones, and even the love-wrecked soul of humanity is beginning to appreciate the fact that $10 will buy a heap of pork and pancakes. —Fulton Times. A Few days ago a well known resident of Orville went home drunk—in brief, very drunk. His good wife met him at the door and forth- with began a vigorous -castigation with her tongue, concluding with a little wholesome taunting upon his befuddled condition. The old man braced up against the door-post, took an extra hitch to his trowsers and said: “Be I, hic, drunk? I say, hic, Mariar, be I drunk? It’s a, hic, lie, Lain’t, hic, drunk, an’ you know it, hic, Mariar. But when I, hic, git sober, I'll remember it, hic, agin you, Mariar. See- ‘fidont."—Syracuse Standard. We referred last week to the sad fate of Mr. Bates, of Vermont, who dropped dead while carrying in fire wood. ‘I'he paragraph did not have at all the expected effect, and over twenty Romans complain that they are obliged to carry in wood by the cord now.’ One man on Liberty street detected his wife taking wood back to the woodshed so she could make him bring it in again.— Rome Sentinel. Received the First Prize at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. ———————— TNX. DOCS, Pamphlet & Book-Binder, 8 NORTH WILLIAM ST. Pamphict binding of every description and Pass books for banks a specialty, Bersonal attention to everything entrusted to my care. In Memoriam Brigham Young. To supply the demand for the above-named illustration, depicting the “ Mormon’s Empty Pillow,” and owing to the fact that the edition of Puck" containing it has been entirely ex- hausted, the cartoon has been published as a single sheet, and can be obtained from any | newsdealer in the country. “PUCK” PUBLISHING CO., 13 North William Street, New York. re d 4 f ; af ft lei Ly ano VET BEING 6oLD ag titer Ran CASAL, (ILISOMANN he COS. Te Hiehest Rewards: PARIS, VIENNA & NEW YORK. BRANCH: Old Post Office Building, | TGARETTE NASSAU ST., N. Y. ‘The Ber THe THING FOR hy LAMBRIQUE | : PORTRAITS Mad’son Square, NEw yvoRr=E& AN Jv SUMMER SMOKING! tennial Award, Sample by "Ask your dealer for our goods. ‘WM, 8. KIMBALL @ C0. Panavess Tomacco Worxs. Rochester, N. ¥. PERFECTION. BOKER’S BITTERS. GENTLEMEN'S HATS 174 Fifth Ave., 169 Broadway, Berween 22d a 23rd Staeers, Near Comriaxot Sraeer, NEW YORK. pe RUNK & UNGER, No. 50 PARK PLACE, N. Yo Sole Agents for A Ayala-Chateau d’Ay CHAMPAGNES, TAUNUS NATURAL SELSER WATER, IMPORTERS OF WINES. BRANDIES, ETC. Te sea ava! PUCK’S Tlustrated Almanac, (GERMAN.) 8vo. 160 pp. boards. EDITED BY LEQPOLD SCHENCK and GEORG ASMUS. wn 100 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS JOSEPH KEPPLER. THE | BLACK AND COLORED PRINTING INKS Usep on Tous Parma ann MANUPACTURED BY |FRED'K H. LEVEY & CO., L. FUNKE, Jr., Sole Agent, No. 78 Joun Sremer, N. ¥. P.O Hox to29, PRINTING INK MANUFACTURERS, | 82 Beekman Street, NEW YORK. PATENT COVERS FOR FILING PUCK. PRICE SI. 00 EACH. FOR SALE AT “PUCK” OFFICE, 13 North William Street, New York. ‘BACK NUMBERS OF PUCK CAN BE SUPPLI ED ON DEMAND. ADDRESS, Willmer & Rogers News Co., 31 Beekman Street, New York. OR, Publishers ‘*Puck” 13 North William Street, New York. comicbooks.com