Judge — March 22, 1890 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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2 sa As Av ai Ray, DURING THE BASS SOLO. ‘Tne wuTLeR —" Beggin’ yure pardin, phrofisser; but th’ missis wants t' know will yez move away from th’ cabinet a bit befoor yez comes t’ th’ lasht notes?” T IS NOT an irresistible conclusion that Mr. Columbus discovered America in order to advance the interests of Chicago; but if he had the world would pardon him. T WAS our hope that President Harrison would capture Cuba and anada before the close of his first official year, and his failure to do so fills us with the most anguishing disappointment. ms A LONG ARTICLE in a prohibition paper is devoted to the question, “What have we gained?” There isn’t a figure in it, because, you know, there is nothing in mathematics that does business in that way. ECENT developments at Niagara Falls indicate a syndicate for the en- ticing of foreigners here with the purpose of murder and robbery. ‘That is wholly illegitimate, and we must insist upon it regardless of the fact that the syndicate is made up of foreigners. eee WE MUST never despair of ice and cold weather until the spring Eventually we may have to look to summer for the regular supply ; but it will surely come, even if it has to be manufactured. eee T 1S TRUE that the potentates of Europe were not made to bow down to Uncle Sam during the first twelve months of this national admin- istration; but we understand that the czar wears corsets and the kaiser has a boil on his knee. 6s TTHOSE WHO help me are wel- come,” says Emperor William ; “those who hinder me I will crush.” ‘That is the talk of a youth who has room in his head for a vast amount of information; and he will be much wiser ten years hence than he is now. WE HAVE the news, after twenty years of work on the “new " cap- itol at Albany, that, while the “new” capitol is in a state of extreme dilapida- tion, the plans for its completion “have been steadily progressed.” That is ex- tremely gratifying; and, what is better, comes in. Mr, Backstay MORE THAN SHE COULD STAND. ‘THERE 1S an abundance of mugwump evidence that President Harri- son's first year of power was a great failure and ex-President Cleve- land's first year of retiracy was a great success. We don’t know what is to become of Harrison, but if Grover is continued in retiracy what a great man he will some time be! CAN: ANYBODY TELL? [7 18 LAMENTED by the mugwump press that Pre in his first year of office has done nothing of a startlingly statesman- like nature; has not set the Potomac on fire, has not frightened Europe or any portion of it; has done nothing but the plain, quiet, modest work of a business-like and unsensational president. It does seem sad; and yet it is difficult to see what the president might have done that would be better. He is the executive; not the originator of laws or emergencies. There has really been no occasion or opportunity for him to wave the flag or scream the eagle. What might he have done to distis guish himself in the way the mug- wump press would like? How can he make a great noise when there is nothing to make a noise about? HOW HE LOOKS NOW. OUR GROVER is not impress to look and action, ‘The artists give him very accurately. The scarce hair at the back of the head. barely serves to cover his bumps; but he has a clean, though rather full, neck, and the flesh thereon does not, as the Sur says, fall in folds over his back collar. His mustache, iron-gray and unobtru- sive, is the less noticeable because of'a swarthy complexion that defies all con- trast of color. He weighs perhaps two hundred and twenty pounds, and his face, as the apparent commander of this formidable flesh, looks rather small and somewhat oppressed with its re- sponsibility. He dresses his pounds with unpretentious ‘care, buttoning his overcoat to the chin and letting the skirts of the garment take care of themselves, it being obviously impossi- ble for him to sce them with the chin in the conventional air. ‘There are worse-looking men than our Grover; we have confidence that that will be the yearly report for twenty years to come. Are you going out?" Mrs. Backsray—‘‘Yes; I'm much more considerate than that Reina-congesto cigar you are smoking.” and on the other hand there are men who look far better. comicbooks.com