" Did you enjoy the opera last night, John?" inquired his wife. "Not much," he answered; "I was lonesome, and was sorry I was detained at the office so late that I hadn't time to como for yon. This goiag alone to the theatre isn't what it's cracked up to be, my dear." " No, I suppose not," returned the lady thoughtfully. " Still you must have been very comfortable," she added, " as the two ticket stubs I found in your vest pocket gave you the advantage of more than one seat!" No way has been found for making heroism easy, even for the scholar. Labor, iron labor, is for him. The world was created as an audience for him ; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities.—Emerson. COLD MURDKR. " Fire!" she yelled in his slumbering car, At the morning hour bewitehin'; With a sudden spring he was out: " Whore, where ?' She replied, " Make one in the kitchen !"
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Evening Star, Issue 7484, 31 March 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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