. Wit, humor and pathos . s is ze grand spectakle ! Suparbe! Mag-nifique ! By gar, he bust up first-rate ! A bore is a man who spends so much time talkingabout himself that you cant talk about yourself. A young married lady says Poes raven was drunkall the time it was croaking never more, never more,on that bust of Pallas. Hows that? I asked. Why, Eli, it was a raven on a bust. The same young lady insists that her husband is aliving, personified poem—not epigram or riddle, but across-stick. Mr. Jack Astor left Saratoga yesterday just becausehe wrote his name with a diamond on one of the French
. Wit, humor and pathos . s is ze grand spectakle ! Suparbe! Mag-nifique ! By gar, he bust up first-rate ! A bore is a man who spends so much time talkingabout himself that you cant talk about yourself. A young married lady says Poes raven was drunkall the time it was croaking never more, never more,on that bust of Pallas. Hows that? I asked. Why, Eli, it was a raven on a bust. The same young lady insists that her husband is aliving, personified poem—not epigram or riddle, but across-stick. Mr. Jack Astor left Saratoga yesterday just becausehe wrote his name with a diamond on one of the Frenchglass windows at the United States Hotel and came along and wrote under it: Wheneer I see a fellows nameWritten on the glass,I know he owns a diamond,And his father owns an ass. They say love is blind, but I know a lover inJersey City who can see a good deal more beauty inhis sweetheart than 1 can. Chicago is the center of American civilization forliquor-saloons and bad sidewalks. ELI PERKINSS NEW YEARS Fifth Heavenue Hotel, i M., Jan. 2th. I dont feel like writing to-day; my head aches. Imade New Years calls yesterday — made 125 finished then about twelve oclock—an hour ago. I had my call-list written off, and commenced atSixteenth Street, and came down. My idea was tomake 125 calls of five minutes each. This would take These illustrations were drawn by Tom Nast, and cut fvom hisComi; Almanac published by Harpers. 204
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