Judge — July 17, 1886 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE. Tho great question before congress -What have we done? A contemporary says Mr. Martine is trifling with justice, Trifling? Justice is an enemy The Yale crew at the opening of a recent contest went into the water and tried to swim ahead of Harvard. The cause of education is not advanced by these expetiments, and of all the defective strokes we ever heard of that was quite the worst. When an anarchist goes picnicking h his wife carry the lunch-basket, and when there is any work to be done she does it, it being his duty to do the talking for the fami After all there is cause for revolt. The ques- tion is not so much when to do it as who shall do it. Let us not carry the opposition to boycotting so far as to oblige men to patronize institutions that they do not believe in and that are op- posed to their interests. A word in season is a pretty good thing, Judge Barrett ; and the man who carried himself with such extreme stiffness as to break his back-bone never recov- ered, The Times says Mr. Dana isa creature of Jay Gould. The Sun says Mr. Jones is a liar. The Tribune declares that Mr. Jones's other name is Fagin, and incidentally remarks that the Evening Post is a journal unfit for family reading. Perhaps the confiding public can still have more or less confidence in the pic- torial journal of the cigar store, but there is a suspicion that in other respects all is not well. General Sickles fought over again the battle of Gettysburg last week and won a complete victory notwithstanding the absence of Grant and Meade. During the amputation of his leg in the first battle he smoked a cigar, and he repeated the experiment on the later occasion and really seemed to enjoy it. When, how- ever, he was asked to unload himself further than he had in the address of the occasion he promptly refused. ‘What !” he exclaimed, do you take me for a century magazine?” Men should die when the time comes for thatevent. The formal taking off should be omitted in deference to higher purposes which we do not understand; but they should disap- pear from the places that have respected them, lest the respect be lost and they be hangers-on where they were once rulers. Nothing is more pathetic than the spectacle of the man who lags superfluous, looking with wistful eyes for a re- vival of the recognition of old days; and to blot the record which the world has admired is andalism that should never be permitted the weakness of old age. What is John Bright doing here? What has become of his friends ? He has lived to deteriorate, and accordingly he has lived too long. Independence day having been successfully celebrated, we must go to work to forgive Eng- land as rapidly as possible. Mr. Gladstone has won much more than might reasonably 1 been expected ; and as in addition the cousins have gone wild over our Holmes, our Beecher, HANGING NOT TOO GOOD FOR IT. Armst— You may not believe it, but that portrait was executed entirely with a pen.” Frrenp—“ You le Artiat—‘* What do you mean? it down easily, didn’t you ?” Frienp--* Oh, nothing, only it struck me that it deserved a rope.” « Tere’s your news extra! Full account of a ter- rible"— Collision 11! and our Daly company, and have even fin: consented to like our Dixey, there is no why we should further reserve our affection or give way to our enmity. Ada Rehan is sup posed to have remarked at the grave of Shake- speare, “ There is nothing that I wouldn't for- give an Englishman now, excepting perhaps a failure to offer me some kind of an en- gagement;” and we can never forget that only about acentury ago the cousins loved us so much that they wanted to keep us in their immediate family for all time to come. A Boston writer declares that Mrs. Cleveland is somewhat inclined to be coarse. For in- stance, she is talkative and acts as if she were only about twenty-two years old. ‘ Several tireds make an illness,” she said in what some would think a very pretty way the other’ day, and this is shocking ; and again she attracted general attention while in Europe because of her persistency in making remarks without previously weighing them carefully, and in occasionally laughing heartily and quite as if she thought nobody was looking at her. It is quite sad, —#t perhaps the country will survive it. It caffot reasonably be expected that a woman of twenty-two will be a woman of forty-two, though we dare say the object of the Boston writer is not so much to crush the woman as the man who selected her for his wife. If, indeed, Mrs. Cleveland is inclined to be melancholy over the criticism, she can take this comfort to heart—she has frightened the politicians, and hence the attac They are afraid of a second candidacy for her husband because of her popularity, and they propose to make that impossible. That is all there is to it, dear child, and the more you keep on as you have begun the more cause you will have to be proud. Mrs. Cleveland has not yet given her views on the temperance question. Apparently great interrogatory, ‘‘ Who's doing this drink ing ¢” oppresses her more than. it did Mrs. Hayes, and when the temperance represent tives come to visit her she will let her husband do the necessary speech-making. “The business of the story-teller,” says the Yonkers Statesman, ‘is to tell the story and let the story tell the moral.” That is correct : and it sometimes lifts from the story-teller a earful responsibility. comicbooks.com