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Csc. Stamped Tray Cloths for latA
2ec. Monte Linen Splasher
fsinged ends, for I5c. WIN
lzc; Stamped Linen Doyiies (newe,, Ia
signO. &c. ~
ssc. Monte Linen Bunet-scarfs 70, 10
FANS.
Large Palm-Icaf Fans. ic.
loo. Folding Fans for &C.
~ l-2c Folding Fans for 4c.
l9c. Empire Fans designed IN the rc..
est effects for &c. each.
&c. Solid Black Fans. with tasgo, o.,
f0c. iVi
SALE OF BELTS AND PURSES
zoe. White Kid Belts for l0c
All-Leather Belts, nickel on coyo,.,
buckles. l7c. kind. for Monday sFs
Tuesday &c each.
AdII-Leather Belts, all colors usual,
&c. for l5c. each.
All-Leather Belts. harness buckle.
usually 20c., for l0c.
Regular 25c. White Kid Belts Tor ls.
each. ~
Ail-Leather Pocket Books for sc o,.,
Soft-Leathor Chatelaine- Bags, oxo4.zli
bands. usually 3Jc., for ilc.
Large Size shoppIng-Bags. 39c KIND
for lie.
The choice Of any 90 or 75c. Lad.s,
Belts for Monday and TUESDAY f9
39c.
Combination Pocket-Books and Car,
Cases. 29c. kind. ljc each
CLOSING JEWELRY SHE,
The choice Of 220 dozen Ladies a
Side-Combs, coarse teeth, for l0c.
pair
Ladies' Shirt Waist Sets, &c. a set.
Ladies' 2Jc. Shirt-Waist Sets FOR Mon.
day and Tuesday for SC. set-3 ioI
buyer.
Long Fan-Chains. hard enamoTsi
slides. 81 kind. SOC.
Lace-Pins. gold and silver. DC. klni
for &c.
Leather Belt-Pins 10c. kind. 2c
Long Gold Fan-Chains. SOC. kind 20
CSC.
Quadruple Plated Hand Eneravet
Cream or Tea Pitchers, $2sS quality
for Sll9.
ouadrup. e-Plated Sugar Bowls. has,
engraved. $50 kind for 79c.
CANDIES.
4Oc. Chocolate Creams. 10 l-2c nour4
Gum Drops, worth 3Oc., for 3 l-2c. /
pound.
sticks OF Pepsin Chewing Gum FOR ie
Fine French Mixture, worth DC. fo
6 3-4c. a pound.
Honey Walnut Kisses chocolate ant
vanilla favors. for u i-2c. a pound
London Covered Chocolate Mama
worth COO. pound, for dc a pound
Vanilla Flavored Marshmallows, llc
pound.
BEST ICE-CREAd SODA.
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WE BOUGHT CURTAINS AND
ntDERII,S


this season without any measure or their
cost. It's closing time, and we are to
get rid of them. Hence we'll sell:
SOC. Lace Curtains for 25c. pair
Sc Lace Curtains for 59c a pair.
SIZE Lace Curtains for 81 a PAIR.
1915 Lace Curtains for N.io PAIR. -
Swiss Tambour Lace Curtains Tor sl''o
a pair for the $3.50 ones.
s. Tambour and Irish Point Lace Cur
tains for $2.65 a pair.
Ecfue Irish Point Curtains that were
up to s.. for g pair.
Lace-Stripe Curtain Scrim for l5-ic.
yard. Limit.
Fancy Nottingham Lace-Curtain Net
for u l-2c that sold for soc.
Fancy Figured Chintz. l6 2-Sc. quality,
for 3lc "A yard.
Double-Faced Fancy Denims Tor 3 S-ic.
a yard; the 1sc. quality.
36-inch Figured and Dotted Curtain Mus
lin. the l5c. kind for Sc. YARD.
36-inch Figured French Sateens Tor
II lie. n yard. instead OF Zoc.
Silkolines for sc. a ward.
All Damask and Brocatelle Curtains
that were up to 81. for 50 pair.
Japanese Bead and Reed Curtains, from
81 10 $40 each
japanese Window-Screens for 49c each.
Mosquito Canopies from $l4S to So each.
Dressmakers and woman's tailors would
feel sorry for their labor if they saw the
prices that are to be on
THESE READX-TO-WEAR THINGS
Monday and Tuesday. The guide TO our
prices is, what will the garment sell
for?" The selling is imperatiye-some-
thing-anything:
Dresses of Organdie and Dimity, lace
trimmed, for 1896. instead of $3.50.
Handsome Crispoline Dresses. braided.
that were up to $40, for just half the
price-s5
Dresses of Russian Crash, double-breast-
ed or open jacket. for $2.25.
Fancy Duck Suits, that were up to 81,
TO be sold for sl.75.
Black Duck Suits for $3.50, instead Of IS.
Duck Suits for 75c.-less than cost OF
the making.
Tailor-M Made Suits, in fancy cheviots
and solid colors the so ones, for 81.
Tailor-M Made Suits, the $3.50 ones, for
$3.50.
Bicycle Suits, from s2Ss to $40, COM
SKIRTS.
Separate Skirts OF Fancy Linens, that
were up 10 g, for 81.
Russian Crash and Grass-Cloth Skirts,
full, wide hens, for 9Sc.
Linen Crash and Fancy Linen Duck
Skirts for &c. each; best 81 sort.
White Pique Skirts for CSC. each.
Black Duck Skirts. extra full. for Sc.
s. Black Sicilian Skirts for $3.50.
All the Fancy Cheyiot Skirts that were
up TO 81. for sl.75.
Taffeia silk-Lined Serge Skirts for 50;
the 81 ones.
Fancy Duck Skirts for s9c. each.
Separate Bicycle Skirts, in linen, for
$.25.
Separate Bicycle Skirts. in cheviot, from
81 TO $3.50 each.
Black Brocaded Silk Skirts, the $3.50
ones, for Sc.
Black Figured Taffeta Skirts for NSs
each.
LADIES' WRAPPERS,
well-made ones. 3sc.; of Percale for
ssc:; OF Lawn. for &c.; OF Silk. for
$3.50
Ladies' and Mems Bath-Robes, 81 to
$3.50
Bathing Suits. every new sort; Shoes
and Caps TO match.
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PRICES ON MATTINGS

at retail known there. Monday and tues
day are to be closing days Of the Mat
tings the new Carpets are to occupy
their space Hurry up If you can use
one,
JIG rolls of Heavy China Mating, large
and small weayes, every piece seam
less and weighing from so 10 80 POUNDS
to the roll. sold at - IS, 20, and Z rS
n yard. now choice of any lie. yard.
ll9 rolls of Fancy China Mating, large
and small weayes. sold at 10, y IL
and l5c., choice Of any now lie.
yard. "
14S rolls of Fancy Inlaid Bingo Mat
tings. White or colored, reversible pat
terms sold at 25c. yard, choice Oh
any now at " lie.
l39 rolls of Fancy Linen-Warp Mat
tings. carpet patterns and inlaid de- ne
signs, sold at %, So and 35c. yard,
choice of any for l6 2-3c. a yard.
$50 rolls of Finest Linen-Warp Mat
tines, highest grade Mattings made.
sold at 37l-2, 40. 45. and JOc., now
choice of any at 20c yard.
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The Two Days Sale in
the Houseware Department

is to take the place of all the July selling Lots after lots are
gathered for the sale that shall move this great store forward
Each lot sold the principle Of getting something to take
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LIVERY FOR WHAT 1T
WORTH TO YOU.

W
WORTH TO YOU.
Manila Short-Back Sailors that were
sl.25 and CSC. for SOC.
White Straw Hats that were 81 TO $l.oo,
Monday and Tuesday for 5Oc:
Black or Colored Short-Back Sailors for
29c.
Rough White Straw Lace Hats, were
All the Gauze Ribbons that were UP to
75c., for 25c
An entire lot of Rose Montures that
were Soc. are 25c.
Narcissus' Cowslips, and Buttercups for
l9c. bunch.
Glover Wreaths were 81, for SOC.
Lilies OF the Valley, Daisies ana o'ner
handsome Sprays at one half for the
For Monday and Tuesday only all the
Muslin Bonnets for one half marked
All o to Ssc Infants Caps for Tic.
The popular Knox Double-Brim saiior
Is here again; price, Sl.5o.
CARPETS AND RUGS.
If YOU do not object to buying last sea-
sons at half-price. New Carpets, 100
See both and judge between them:
Smiths Moquette and Administer car,
nets. in a choice line of patterns, sofa
at sl.S5 a yard, now Ior o0c Rorders to
match, sold at soc. a yard' are 10"
45c. 60.
Best makes of Body Brussels carpets,
Borders to match, sold at sl'Zo are
now Csc. -.
An-Wool Extra-Super Ingram Carpets
sold at 75c., now Doc.
RUGS AND DRUGGETS.
3O-lnch Atwood Smyrna Hearth Rugs'
value $2.25, here for 81. :,
Wilton Velour Hearth Rugs, sold at 3d.
now $50. -,
Sx4 yards Heavy Ingram Druggets, sofa
at So. now $3.50. Ia
4x5 yards Heavy Ingram Druggets, soid
at 50, now $3.50. Dx
81 wards japanese Handmade Drug
gets, sold at $3.50. now So.
Awards square Japanese Hand-Maue
Druggets. sold at Sl5. now $'.5O.
SHADES AND AWNINGS.
Felt Shades. spring rollers, all colors'
&C.: value 15c. IL,
Linen Window Shades spring rollers,
fringed ends. 25c.: value f5c.
Linen Window Shades, spring rollers
3x6 feet, 1Sc. from 35c.
Wagners Adjustable Awning, simplest
vet. the best awning made, fit any
window. put up complete for y;
worth $3.50.
Bamboo Porch Shades 40
6x8 SKIS 1OxS 12xS
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SALE OF FABRIC GLOvEs-CHAMOIs
GLOVES.

in all appearance real handsomely got
ten up to sell for Soc a pair, % dozen
each day Monday and Tuesday for
II 1-2c. a pair.
Pure Silk Black Mitts, 25c. kind, for l5c.
Pure SILK Gloves, in colors, SOC. kind,
AT 25c. a pair.
% dozen Pure SILK Gloves, double finger
tipped. these in Black only, were 75c.,
TO close the lot 35c a nair.
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Imported Black Embroidered organizes nii,S
and Black Lace-Stripe organdies, VIZ" ca n
S Sn heantiful deep Black. We sold
tsem for 25c. a yard; choice OF any,
Fine French organizes that were
1G 2-3c. - .os )
Fine Linen Batiste mat was =
l6 2-3c. -, MT II:
Fine French Lappet Muslins that Z
Embroidered Dot Swiss, different Z p
designs and colors, was 10 z-Sci, e
Solid Colored Organdles that sen
for II 1-2C. .or
Real Scotch Dlmities that sold for
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Just like Cohen's-every yard Of
BLACK GOODS.

Just like Cohen's-every yard Of
BLACK GOODS,
including all the mill ends Of one or the
largest East of England manufacturers,
has been bought by the Cohen Company.
Step quick to-day and tomorrow and
buy EN- as you never did before:
Lot 1-All-Wool Albatross, Henrietta,
and Fine All-Wool Serges for lie.
yard.
Lot 2-Fine English Serges. Henriettas,
Kiber Cloths, and Mohairs, cost up to
Sc, some of em "a inches wide, finest
OF woods. for 25c. a yard.
Lot contains Fine Black All.Wool I'M
perial Serges, Fine Storm Serges,
English Whip-Cords, and oxford Hen
riettas. most Of 'em cost up to
Lot 4-4e-inch Fine Henrietta, pure silk
finish;. ATWOOD Brocade Examines.
Brocade Jacquards, Fine Wool Ar
mures, and English Drap de Almas,
some cost up TO sl.25 and $50 yard,
for soc.
One Of Phladelphia's largest jobbing
houses shipped US 81 pieces OF
FANCY DRESS GOODS,
not at regular price, but at 25c. on the
dollar:
For instance, Fancy Mohair Brillian-
tines. in light and dark effects, that
were 25c.. are s lac.
fne, fancy Woollens, tnat were 10 ana
S5c., are 10 and 25c.
FRONT-RIGHT AISLE.
IT'LL DE GLOVE TIME
Monday and Tuesday. Not a pair to be
held in reserve. Quick prices for the
quick selling. You had better come first
to get your size or kind:
Our 81 2-Clasp Pique Gloves. just the
kind for travelling. any shade, all
sizes. for roc. a pair.
80 dozen Soft. Elastic Kid Gloves 4
large pearl buttons. never sold for less
than 81. choice of any at &c. a pair.
White and Yellow Chamois Gloves, in
all styles. Coo. for CSC. quality.
2-Clasp Mocha Gloves, for summer wear,
all new. soft shades. of Mode. Fawn.
All White Dressed-Kid Gloves, rows
embroidery, very new and stylish, for
81 a pair
White Dressed Kid Gloves. with heavy
Black embrOidprV Tho for 81 kind
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TWO DAYS DUNIF0U PRICE SALE

that time
SasmS
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place. Only such compensation
can transverse a loss to gain
a quick loss to nearest diminu.
ton. THE COHEN CO. have
learned how to gain by a loss
when time is rife.
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for
h esMe M
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Dollars Must Go for Dimes or for Quar-

tn mecha dsposedof
directly uuponn ury
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75c. sl.O0. sl.25 $50
Complete with ropes and pulleys.
All China would be in establishment
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HANDKERCHIEFs TO-DAY.

Mems Pure Linen Hand Hemstitched
Handkerchief all White cheap at
20c, at this sale y lie. each.
Ladies or Mems Colored Bordered or
White Handkerchiefs. 'scalioDed en-
broidered, or hemstitched; some with
Valenciennes lace edge; your pick Of
any &c.
Ladies' Fine. Sheer Embroidered Hand
kerchiefs, spoke stitched, open hens,
worth 20 and Csc, any for 7-Sc.
Ladies' or Mems White or Colored Bor-
dered Hemstitched and Tape Bordered
Handkerchiefs, 5. 6. and Sc. ones, for
9 3-5c each.
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ALL THE LADIES' sHIRT-WAIsTS,

of fine lawn, dimity, and percale that
were Csc. to SIPS. now soc.
$50. $1.75, and 1925 Waists now 81.
$3.50 and Si.9S SILK Waists now $3.50.
1898 Black Silk Waists now sl.9S.
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has not yet acquired the habit of hiber-
mating and as the collecting of small
change through the medium of the
hand organ is probably the only meth
cd of getting a livelihood with which
he is familiar he trundIes out his Or
gan in all kinds of weather.
The winter season, however, is a bad
one for the street musician, and he
thinks himself lucky if he gets through
it without having tasted more than two
days on a stretch. In the spring he
comes out in full force, and when the
first warm days come every hand organ
in the country-and there are 1, 900, 900,
more or less of them-is oiled and
cleaned and carried out on the highways
and byways by some compatriot of Ros-
SIM or descendant of Julius Caesar.
OF course it is the proper thing to de-
nounce the hand organ as an instrument
of torture. If you do this often enough
and with sufficient emphasis, you will
make your hearers think that you have
a critical ear for music and that the
machine made melodies of the ragged
street minstrels deeply offend your artis-
tic soul This is a cheap and popular
method of getting reputation for mu-
steal taste.
Personally don't know good music
from bad, but I strongly suspect that
the hand organ is a much maligned in
strument. [ have been told in strict
confidence by people who make living
by their musical abilities that they
were fond of such music and often lis
tened to it from behind the shutters. I
assured them that I always listened
with shameless publicity to hand organ
music whenever an occasion offered.
Encouraged by the existence of such a
bond of friendship, pianist and organ
list of some local reputation once further
committed himself by saying: 81 hon.
estly wish that I could make as good
music as is ground out of some of these
new piano organs. It's a fact that can t
do it, and neither can any other pianist.
1t is a physical impossibility to repro
duce some of the effects which these
machines give. If I had six hands,
might do it You know, they are built
on the principle of a music box, with
toothed cylinder. The teeth, instead of
striking a steel comb, as in music box,
set in motion keys which strike wires
Just as in a regular piano. AS the num-
Der of teeth on a cylinder can be almost
unlimited, you can see that a musician
Of flesh and blood with only ten fingers
is at a disadvantage. In the largest of
these piano organs the playing is equal
in point of performance to that which
sixhands could produce.
1.-THE adaptation of popular music to
street organ use is a good deal of an art.
The simplest melody is embellished
with such triIls and runs as human fin
gers could never hope to produce. Pade-
rewski himself, even if he were twins,
could not produce them. Because they
are machine made they are ridiculed,
yet people go into raptures over the at
tempts of living players to do the same
thing.
Between the average amateur plan
list and the piano organ of the streets
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can figure pretty nearly what each
weeks work will bring them in. Ger
tain routes are good for so much. At
the end of the day it may be little
more or a little less, but the average is
about the same. A big piano organ
playing new and popular pieces will
bring in five or six times as much as a
wheezy old hand organ which can only
grind out time worn tunes.
In fact, these old fashioned instru-
ments are not profitable for the street
musicians to use in the cities, and they
are generally relegated to the rural dis
tricts Urban audiences, even those
which gather at the gutter side, demand
the new and popular airs, and they do
not part with their pennies unless they
get them.
The manufacturers who make piano
organs employ a skilled musician at a
large salary to select new music for
their instruments. He haunts the music
halls and opera houses, and when he
finds a new song that bids fair to be
we'll received he hastens to have it
adapted and reproduced on the cylinders
Thus it happens that the piano organs
often introduce new pieces to the public
before they have become generally IA
miliar In fact, many of the most pop
uIar songs of the day have gained their
popularity largely through the enter
prise of the hand organ makers.
Dave Braham. the popular song writ
er, used TO say that he never felt quite
sure that one of his songs was COM
plete success until he had heard the
hand organs playing it. Some compos-
ers refuse to allow their work to be repro
duced in this way, claiming that it pre-
maturely ages a song and reduces their
royalties AS an instance Of this fate
after the Ball'' is cited, for this once
popular melody was fairly done to death
by the street organs.
The piano organs which are being
sent out this season have repertory
which includes nearly all of the follow
ing music hall favorites: May Irwin g
New Bully" my Mother Was a
Lady, - ''She May Have Seen Better
Days. ''Mr. Johnsing, Turn Me
Loose, - Honey, Does Yer Love Yer
Man?'' and Louisiana Lu." If the
itinerant musician who stops before
your door cannot give you one of these,
he is not up to date, and you are justi-
fed in Withholding your pennies and IN
claiming the dog. SEwELL FORD.
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feeling that he was doing something
disreputable. Children, who have no
pretenses to musical ability, are always
frank admirers of hand organ melodies,
whether they live in palaces of marble
or tenements of wood. The very poor
are among the most liberal contributors
to the tin cup of the organ grinder.
That is why he is so impartial in pay
ing his visits.
Just why the Italians should be left
to monopolize the business 1 have never
seen explained. Probably it is because
they are the most expert beggars, for in
Italy begging almost ranks as a profess
sion and among the poorer classes car
ries with it no stigma of disgrace. In
large cities they form colony of their
own in some of the poorer districts.
They do this largely for convenience,
for most of them rent their pianos by
the week or day, and the owner likes to
have them under his personal supervi-
sion.
In New York the organ grinders in
habit an old roolCery which is known as
the House Of Blazes. It consists of three
double tenement houses cut up into
small apartments, and it shelters more
than 800 families. AS this does not rep
resent the full number of organ grind
ers who make the metropolis their head
quarters there must be many individuals
who live outside the colony. In other
cities there are similar colonies.
The rent which they have to pay for
their organs ranges from 81 a month
up, according to the quality of the in
strument, some of the newest and best
piano organs renting for as much as 81
a day. The street musician who owns
his own organ is looked upon as some
thing of a capitalist, for the instru-
ment costs sometimes as much as $500
These street musicians have a kind of
informal organization for purely bust
ness purposes. They plan their routes
together, and each one respects the
rights of the others. You never saw
two organ grinders quarreling about
territory. They do not clash, and while
you may see different ones on the same
street the same day you seldom find
two in the same locality at the same
time. Not only do they have their reg
ular routes which they go over once or
twice week, but they have their reg
ular customers. They know the houses
where there are children who always
beg for pennies to throw at them, and
they do not waste time before the steps
of the i'll tempered householder who
will neither give them money to play
nor to go away.
You would think that the amounts
they receive would vary largely each
day, but under ordinary conditions they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-03
A Clever Girl.

81 must say, dearest, said the young
man in a tentative way, ''that you-ah-
er-make love INSTRUMENTATION
for a girl who never kissed another man.
81 suppose" said the young lady in the
case, ''that I must have had some practice
in a previous incarnation. Don IT you think
sog''-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Another Field.

''There is one thing that has always
kept me out of political life, - said the
tall man. Cones acts, whether right or
wrong, always meet with almost universal
condemnation. believe it is the only
field of human endeavor where such things
are possible
"Um!'' grunted the short man. 'fEver
umpire a baseball gamer" Philadelphia
North American.
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choose the latter every time. It has
many points in its favor. It strikes no
wrong keys. It does not slur. Its ex-
preston is good, its time perfect. It
does not protest that it is out of prao-
tice and then prove it by playing for
two terrible hours on a stretch. If it is
out of tune, it can be bribed to shut up,
while there is no escape from the young
lady pianist who reluctantly consents to
sneak up behind a few dozen sonatas
and knock them silly merely to amuse
the guests at an evening party. She is
to be choked off only with an invitation
to transfer her attention to a plate Of
ice cream.
think if these sentiments were more
generally accepted that the average man
could not stop on the sidewalk and en-
joy listening to a street organ without
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Times.

"Dat's a monstrous fine chicken, Aistah
Bradley. jest lift him.
mo, thank you, Miss .Tohnsing.
wouldn't like to give no occasion to de IN
regenerate to remark dat I lifted a chicken
sence took possession of de pulpit despon-
sabiIiters. '-CleYeland Plain Dealer.
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THE HAND ORGAN man.
In the Spring He Goes Forth In
Quest of Pennies.
HIS LIFE IS A Daley GRIND.

Not Much Poetry In the Business of Pur-
veying Popular Music to the POpu1ace,
but 1t Pays Fairly Well-Inside Facts
About Hand Organs.
The appearance of the hand organ
grinder used to be one of the unfailing
signs of the arrival Of spring. In the
districts remote from large cities this
may still be a true omen, but in the
cities themselves it no longer holds
good, because the organ grinder stays
with the city folk all the year round.
He has good reason for practicing this
constancy. He must live and eat in
winter as we'll as III summer, and as he
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Old Doctor-What are those white OBJ
jects see in the distance, my dear?
Miss Pert-Those are signs advertising
your profession, sir.
Old poctor-Ah, thought they might
be ombstones.
Miss Pert-So they are.-New York
Times
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McCorkle-Isn't Rosa Bonheur singular
~ 7ainP
McCrackle-I never heard that said of
her.
McCorkle-Well, understand that she
is rs years old and paints.-Up to Date.
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Only an old Thing.

Mrs. Bricabrac-Oh, mercy, Bridget,
how could you have broken that precious
vase? 1t was 400 years old.
Bridget (calmly)-Oh, if it was an ould
thing like that, yez can take it out av me
next weeks wages.-Truth.
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He-I defy you to show me a woman
that can keep a secret.
She-Ask Miss Oddly her age.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-03
He Knew.

The Professor-Are you certain, sir,
that the cabbage is indigenous to Cuban
Puffer-Surel Haven't I smoked it2-
New York Sunday Journal.