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JULY srn, 1883. 1155 BRoapway, New York. VOL. II. NO. 27. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. tay-Subscribers leaving town for the summer may have their copies forwarded by sending their summer address in full to this office. ITH this number, Lire enters upon its second volume. - The critical period of its bistory has been passed. From the time of its ushering forth, to the present, it has met with a more than cordial welcome and recognition at the hands of its seniors, and to them it owes more of gratitude than it can repay. To the public which has accorded it most generous and flattering patronage, LIFE promises a future which shall excel the past. Its mission is that of a sunbeam, not less to gladden the innocent than to expose the guilty, and its shafts of the humor which makes merry and of the satire which cuts, shall still be impar- tially loosed, whatsoever the consequence be. * 8 6 AFTER a careful study of that new Parisian word, we are convinced that it is about time for Mr. Tilden to put up or pschutt up. * 8 ¢ HE Board of Aldermen of New York, not content with their brilliant success in running their private saloons, ward primaries and the City’s simple affairs, have kindly resolved to take in charge our diplomatic relations with England and then to assume the management of the British Parliament and the con- trol of Irish troubles. In these new enterprises they will have our heartiest support and best wishes, and we confidently predict that the result of their labors will be large and speedy. When the Board of Aldermen takes a stand, something is bound to give way. * 6 * HOSE people who are so seldom invited out that when they do go they insist upon having the event chronicled in printer’s ink, can be easily tickled at the low price of $3 by buying THe Season, which contains a list of all those who were present at the various dinners, teas, cotillions and funerals given in New York and Brooklyn during the past twelve months, It is a rose-brindle volume, just issued, which may be read with as much delight and profit backwards as forwards. *. * . “THE invasion of Europe by Cholera is an event of great im- portance, In these days of steam navigation the progress of the scourge is rapid, and it is already time for the Health authorities to begin sanitary preparations in view of its approach. The City is ripe for infection now, and should the disease gain a foothold it is probable that no effort at its suppression would be successful. T is certain that Governor Butler has but few admirers, but his recent conduct at Harvard must certainly win for him the respect of even his most bitter enemy. (CEB scandals have been unusually numerous and malignant during the past year. When publicity is given to the do- mestic troubles of individuals, organizations can hardly hope to escape, however stringent the rules of secrecy imposed upon their members. These affairs, however unpleasant they may be to the gentlemen whom they affect, are not without a wholesome consequence, By reason of the free discussion of club troubles in public print, gambling has practically been killed in nearly every social organization in this City, and that guardian of harmony, the black-ball, has been more liberally and judiciously used. It still behooves the governing committees of many clubs, how- ever, to take more decisive action in the cases of members whose pranks have merited disgrace, and to show that the or- ganization repudiates the offender as well as the offence. If the constitution does not admit of summary procedure, it should be changed. * 8 @ IGARETTE smokers will be pleased to learn that the mildest cigarettes are benevolently made from fine-cut tobacco, out of which the injurious strength has been already chewed by gentlemen of Icisure. es 6 «& HIS is about the time of year when the yellow dog makes a mile in 1:09, just managing to come in a length ahead of the tin can choked with Celestial crackers; the time when the hay-rick, the barn and the stable take unto themselves sudden and fiery wings; the time when the pin-wheel splutters on the newly-painted gate and the rocket riotously rushes to glorious altitudes and thence drops malignantly on the granger’s head; the time when patriotism and pic-nics and drum-majors break out with irrepressible violence, and small boys swinge off their eye-brows and deprive themselves of superfluous eyes, ears, fingers and trousers; the time for the ex-judge and the professor and other ineffably grand persons to fly the oratorical kite; a time to remem- ber that it is the duty of every citizen to array himself in purple and fine linen, and discourse with large gestures of Liberty ; a time to bring forth and read in a strident and proud voice, that musty but precious old yard of bombast, the Declaration of American Independence, and then to feel how great and ylorious it is to be enfranchised under the brightest and best flag that ever man died to save or stood to protect. e 8 ¢ HE trade dollar, like the Chinaman it was intended for, must go. It is hard to say goodbye to this noble but ema- ciated coin, but when the elevated road and Western Union re- fuse it admission, the fiat has gone forth, and is irrevocable. comicbooks.com