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to be immediately stuck up and flattened out. When the fact is pointed out that in the short space of 18 years the inhabitants of that far-off territory have succeeded in getting away with upwards of five hundred American citizens, in return for the millions we have | expended on their country, in one way and another, who shall say that in extending the boundaries of our land even into the roots of the North Pole, we have not done wisely and well. There is gold there—lots of it— | and the paltry fact. that miners find it im- possible to get at the precious metal on ac- | count of the severity of the weather and the attacks of the natives, does not rob th soil of its auriferous nature. Then, again, the possession of Alaska forever does away with the possibility of an ice-famine in the land. Should all’ the rivers, lakes, creeks, and ponds of the United States re- fuse te be frozen up for an indefinite number of seasons, all we have to do is to run a nar- row-gauge railroad to the shores of the Ar tie Ocean, and bring hack jce enough to sup- ply ery man, woman and child in this broad land with cold lager four times a ¢ and have enough left over for morgues, cream, and cases of sunstrol quence of the extreme and un- looked for coolness of the usual’ ‘ heated term,” the Sig! ervice. Bureau finds it- self with a good deal of weather on its hands, for which it as no use whate' A very desirable number of * scorche good as new; several **99-in the shaders, job lot of coup de soleil provokers, will be disposed of by private contra Coney Island hotel-keepers are advised to apply be- fore the season closes. A few of these bar- gains judiciously placed on the New York City and adjacent markets, might yet cause a rush to the sand-heap, which would m rially lessen the losses of the months, PRIVATE us and te. past four | AND CONFIDENTIAL, drain upon your correspondent’s | caused by the entertainments he has alled upon to give to the numerous foreign envoys, British lords, min- ew visited the capital, has been so heavy that he finds his available a not nearly sufficient to satisfy the demands of the several gentle manly tradesmen whose bills he herewith en- closes; and trusts to your well-known sense of justice to liquidate them, and at the same time please send your correspondent, per P. 0. order, the sum of 817.30 for the aforesaid official entertainments, which were given solely for the glorification of your journal. | ward-bummers, who have latel. (If our correspondent can’t’ pay his bills and entertain all the foreign potentates with whom he is likely to come into contact, Tur | Jvpae will hunt up a correspondent who | will—that’s all. Bills herewith re-enclosed). | VE isn’t as sensible as the lumber- int who said that, although he would furnish good board, he didn’t p start a hotel. Tos and Jerry have given up busine and are rusticating in some out-of-the-w place. A FELLOW play . d all night without turn- ing a trump. He was playing a cornet. UNCLE SAM'S PRIZES TO THE Praying as a Fine Art. nd bustle to suff » days of machinery, 3 , and push, Art seem he poets whose tender lyrics es paper waste-basket; the painters who get their pictures hung on the Exhibition he orators who are permitted to spont thunderous eloyuence upon the glorious Fourth; the actors and actresses, singers and — singstres who hold forth before helpless and inoffensive audiences, are we fully inferior in point of numbers to the printers’ devils, and patent medicine manu- factu k agents, and lightning rod 1 y aldermen, and policemen . Poetry succumbs to phy- and music withdraws before soap. In this critical condition of irs our rt is made glad, and onr spirits leap for We may say that our whole man— | from the bunion on our toc to the bald spot on the topof our head—is suffused with gra- tulation at the appearance of a New Art. Not new in itself, dear reader, but new as an art, We have before us the book of the Prayers of a man who, as the introduction very nata- rally says, was singularly g prayer. Naturally desiring that his peculiar talents should find a broader field for dis- y than the limited though admiring circle of immediate friends, the accomplished author prepares several books of studies in prayer. We have been able to secure only one of these books, but we doubt not that they are progressive in character, bringing the student by short and easy steps from th very rudiments of the art to the highest pr That these studies will ‘enlarge of prayer, discipline and store the mind with useful material, and enrich the facility of expression,” we cannot doubt. We feel sure that the force of this original NEXT ATHLETIC F om will be felt also in cultivating fastidic taste this matter of praying, wherever the artis practised, mi ent imperfectuess, Soon, we trast such news items the following, from the columns of the Revival Boomerang, will be not at all uncommon SOA MASTERLY “The Rev. Peter Snookerstopper, on Sun- day last, offered nd scholarly yer in his Progress Street Chureh, before nd appreciative audience. Tt was effort, betraying deep scholarships 1 intimate familiarity with the techni- lities of artistic praying, Atits close, Mr. Snookerstopper was tende lar beautful honquet by the ladies of the cong gation, as a testimonial their regard and ppreciation of his ability. ‘The t tor responded briefly and happily. rt, like every othe tin drawbacks, r very creditable py now, Mm. Ss eause more or less distress to a cultivated ear. Unusual su cess in prayer might result in the sel ceit of the prayist, if he has not a bro: ulture, such as Greek and Latin in the ure supposed tu provide, Frail breth- envious of the skill or talent af their brethren, might, perh rreptitiously ap- propriate the prayers of those brethren, and plagiaristically pray them themselves. Art is its own reward; it is modest; itis true. And we trust that all who have an unsated yearning for the utter, who have acraving for the ineffable all-but, will look to Prayer, that newest and noblest Art, for the satement of their longings. Then it will take a brace. Fr. W. HUBBARD, A pain of suspenders—the ha his assistant praye a more in To be sure, this be attended with e eal of whut nan and comicbooks.com