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The main cartoon depicts a vault manager apologizing to a customer, explaining their safe deposit vault cannot secure "untold wealth" because the vault itself might be arrested or indicted—a satirical jab at post-Civil War financial instability and government corruption. The surrounding commentary includes topical jabs: criticism of Ohio politician Thurman; commentary on labor strikes and workers' wages; references to Brigham Young and Mormon Utah; General Grant's reputation amid the Ferdinand Ward financial scandal; and a mocking "letter" to Queen Victoria (addressed as "Mrs. Guelph"), suggesting she distract herself and the British public with minor foreign conflicts rather than meddle in British domestic politics. The satire targets 1880s-era political figures, financial scandals, and international tensions. Without specific dates visible, the references to Grant and recent labor unrest suggest this is from the early 1880s.

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ape: ay A POSSIBILITY OF THE NEAR FUTURE. AISAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS. MANAGER OF VAULT—" I'm very sorr; ng enough to w sir, but frankness compels me to say that our vault is ‘arrant you in trusting such untold wealth to its car ality, and may even be subject to arre: indictment themselves; but. what a vast im- provement the system is on. that which pre- vailed in the dre Miss ANTHONY HAS BEEN battling for equal rights for rs, and those Israelites got ex- tremely tired at the end of forty days, Where fore is not Miss Anthony more to the fighting manna born than THE WAN THAT IS LEFT. Much is said about Ohio's noble Roman, meaning Mr. Thurman. Anything about him is praised more, however, than the organ for which the famous red and flaunting bandana was erated, and which is more Roman than all the rest of Thurman put together. It isa pity that A. G. isn’t in the cabinet. One blast upon that bugle horn were worth a thousand votes. THE COLLAPSING HAT for theatres must neces- sarily fail. Women go to the theatre as a - part of the performance, and the psinzz must be done, as heretofore, solely by the tlemen of the audience. JUDGE THE GENTLY—PAY THEM REASONABLY. Perhaps the strikers ought not to be too tudely criticised. They do a great deal of hard work for very litt mouey, and they have | hit to be peevish and unreasonable | employers have. Then, too, the | high prices caused by strikes come more heav- ily upon them than upon others, and they put Up with it with the patience that belongs to men who are responsible for their own misfor- nes. THE story THAT BRIGHAM YOUNG has resur- rected himself and will soon reappear in Utah | may be true. There is no particular reason to suppose, whatever may have become of Solo- m that Mr. Young found things vastly agreeable over there. GRANT, BOYNTON, AND OTHERS. General Boynton has done no more than justice to the memory of Rawlins and the good name of Baldy Smith, and the memory of General Grant can stand all the truth that n be told of it. Not a thousand weaknesses on the part of General Grant could militate against the strength that culminated at Appomattox; and if his glory could outlast the infliction of Ferdinand Ward it is not too much to ask for a littie justice in behalf of the men associated with him who thoroughly deserved it. Counseior JoHN VAN VoorHis, w a counsel fee of $50,000 from ex-Postmaster-of- the-house William 8. King, is quite cheerful under the circumstances, though he must in- evitably have a reprehensibly high opinion of monarchical influences. TO MRS. GUELPH. Dear old lady, the intentions of the court are honorable. He knows that your majesty’s are ofa similar nature and therefore he doesn’t hesi- tate to address your majesty. It is no time for empty compliment, gentle one, and all the coquetry that attends your little glove as it fondly taps his time-worn cheek goes for naught, even as does the suppliance that ac- companies the bending of his loyal knee. One siness boon he asks of thee, dear old lady— one only. Go to the Soudan and start up 3 little war there, or to the Balkans and beard the Russian animal at a safe distance from his den. Toy with your several enemies to the end of delay if not of battle ; give us temporary absence of discussion as to personal matters between your majesty and us; box the ears of Albert Edward, frown upon the gentle daugh- ter of the czar, kiss little Battenberg—do ar thing, your majesty, in love or battle or little or large quarrel, but give us time to get those cruisers read I? MUST BE INSISTED that the Democrats run Roscoe Conkling for president. The columns of praise they gave him some days ago came gushing from the Democra heart, and they anot, must not be permitted to waste their sweetness on the ambient air, THE POPLAR TOPIC. The art of conv on is not sufficiently taught. To discuss the weather is the most painful of inanity if it goes only through two sentences. The last divorce case is not in all instances a proper subject, and it is possible that too much consideration of tobogganing unendurable. What t your impressions of the battle of Gettysburg. But you were not in at the battle? You were not born then? Very well; then you know more about it than anybody else does. - THE PERILS OF HELPLESSNESS. Uncle Sam doesn't exhibit himself as the champion slugger of the universe. He never did it. He is a man of extreme breadtl. of shoulder, but his breadth of patience and m td- cety is equaily pronounced. Now, however, that he is temporarily disabled, owing to dhe aceident of Democratic ascendancy and corse- quent stupidity with regard to a proper use of the public funds, every little and large pugilist, finds it enient to put up the offens hand, ridicule his weakness, and charge hin with cowardice Well, there is going to be a change, and the action to come will speak louder than any words that might be used now. TWO VERY BUSY B'S. General Boulanger, who is anxious to «ry his mettle with Prince Bismarck, must be eren younger than the record of his birth indicaves; but then there isn't a Frenchman who hasn't been whipped by Bismarck who isn't more of n infant than hi It must not be inferred, f course, that France is a nation of children. By no means. There are several grandmothers in France yet, as is repeatedly evidenced by the fact that whenever a dilapidated heir to the departed throne pops up his head ther? is a blood-curdling shrick from one end ef the poor little republic to the other, But liitle Boulanger had better let the grizzled priace alone. He has all his teeth yet, and he lear acd how to do his biting years age MR. MANNING STRIKES. The JupaE is glad to believe that Mr. Man- ning will not leave the cabinet because of the state of his health, He will probably do it because of the infirmity of his temper, which has been severely trie He will go out on strike. He protests against the employment of individuals who do not belong to his organiza- tion, who have not been natu ways, who have declared allegian' in which he believes, and whose desire it is to serve only themselves, regardless of all other interests. Such men entitled to no consid- eration. They are political nen, Polish Jews, treacherous Italians, and nondescripts in general which no organization is boun' to respect. Which of the cabinct strikes next ¢ is Surely not Mr. Garland ?