Puck — April 17, 1878 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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14 PUCK. She did not attempt to calm her. She only said: “Come home with us. You are not fit to stay alone in this gloomy empty house. Come home with us,” And we took her home. anges. Tue writ of oyster goes into effect May 1st. —Phil, Bulletin, Wuen a man talks of moving he expects to hire a haul.— Picayune. AN expert can tell if the man at the other end of the telephone eats onions,— Unknown Ex. A MAN may be a teetotaler, and yet partake of the spirit of the times.— Danie/sonville Sentinel. There is a lumber dealer in Utica whose board-bill last week was $3,200. — Utica Ob- server. Tue Administration has returned from her visit to Ohio. She's got a new bonnet.— Zos- ton Post. ENGLAND may be “ mistress of the Cs,” but she has never yet been able to fairly master the Hs.—J. Y. Mail. Tue aerophone can call a boy louder than any mother, but can’t do for him after he dodges into the gate as a mother can.—Sfray Squib. Ir is to be hoped that the Tiltons won't re- unite just yet. Such stories will come so handy during the midsumme. dullness. — Worcester Press. A HOUSEKEEPER says: ‘Scalded skimmed milk will go as far as fresh milk.” If it will only stay there it has permission to go a great deal farther.—icayune. A uitTLe Florida boy tamed an alligator, and the ugly reptile learned to like the little fellow—not, however, until the little fellow was all gone.— Worcester Press. Parsnips, it is said, greatly enrich the milk ofacow. We advise our imilkmen to try the effect of this vegetable upon the pump handle, —Fhiladelphia Kronikle-Herald, Ex-ConcressMAn Vance, of Ohio, and the pretty wife of a music teacher, are the last to join the innumerable caravan that has gone to hunt Charley Ross.— Oi/ City Derrick. Tue report of the inspector shows clearly who is responsible for the unseaworthy Me- tropolis leaving port. It is therefore high time to drop this matter.— Ov City Derrick, A SCIENTIFIC question worthy the attention of Darwin is, “Did the potency and power of white spots on the finger nails exist in the nebular hypothesis?” — New Ordeans Times. J. Mapison Wetts proposes to sue the Zimes for libel. Look here, J). Madison, if this journal didn’t say you stole mules and murdered a man, it is sorry for it.— Philadelphia Kronikle-Her ald. “Ym crazy, am 1?” said old man Lord as the recent Mrs. Hicks tucks a napkin under his chin, cuts up his meat and butters the bread for him, with an affectionate caution to be care- ful he doesn’t choke again; “then I hope to gra- cious I'll stay so, ‘That's the kind of a Methu- seler I am.”— Breakfast Zable, Cot. VALENTINE Baker has been taken back to society and all the clubs, The man who grossly insults an English lady must wait one year before he can be restored to good society. —Free Press. “I aman American Congressman,” shrieks Carter Harrison, of Illinois. Oh, that’s no matter, Mr. H. People won't think any the less of you, so long as you behave yourself.— MN. Y. Com. Adv. It matters not what kind of a dog a man may be leading home with a string. It may be a blue-and-gray cur or a brindle bull pup, yet he always says with pride that the dog is half black and tan.— ew York Herald, It has been decreed that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, and the man of genius with a bulging brow cannot es- cape, though he may put ina good deal of time with his relatives. —Picayune, Some papers are much distressed over the summer outlook, -They sce the mob, bearing the red flag, rioting and wading in blood ankle deep. It is nonsense. The people want quiet, and want it so badly that they will fight for it if necessary.— Cincinnati Enquirer, Ou, ye vaporious beings and small swim- mers! Is nothing sacred from the voracious maw of the patent medicine man? Here's one of our little waifs, that cost four sleepless nights, harnessed to an advertisement that will rob the widow and orphan and hornswoggle the bowed patriarch and the silver-haired ma- tron. Roll on, ye dark waters; come, sweet oblivion, come!—Break/ast Table. 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Havine completed all necessary arrangements, and in compliance with numerous requests, the publishers and proprietors of Puck take pleasure in announcing that they have opened a GENERAL DESIGNING OFFICE, where the services of the best artists in America, including those of the dis- tinguished cartoonist, Mr. JOSEPH KEPPLER, are employed in furnishing all kinds of Illustrations, in the most perfect style, on short notice, and at reason- able rates, The Theatrical Profession will find it to their especial advantage, in arranging for LITHOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, to apply at this office, where Mr. Josep Kerrier is in personal ciate of the department. Address, Puck Publishing Company, 13-N. WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. comicbooks.com