Life — September 6, 1883 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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VOL. II. SEPTEMBER 67H, 1883 NO. 36. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. T was somewhat a painful surprise to see that our highly esteemed contemporary the Mew York Sun, Court Yournal of New York, Newport, etc., etc., gave place in its usually cour- teous and deferential columns to a spiteful and treasonous letter from Rome, wherein not only was the Royal moustache of His Majesty, King Umberto of Italy, disrespectfully mentioned as “decidedly callow,” and Her Majesty the Queen criticised for her ‘sallow skin" and ‘fearfully prosaic face,” but the Princes and Princesses were set down as “ Royal Italian Brats.” In view of the recent bitterness exhibited by France, O'Donovan Rossa and other great powers towards Italy, it has been surmised that the significance of this departure from immemorial precedent is that our esteemed contemporary has been prevailed upon to join the Congress of said Powers against Italy, but from certain facts which cannot now be published, we are enabled to say that it is only the result of a quiet but ingrowing conviction which has troubled Mr. Dana of late, to the effect that the Repubiican party must go. es 8 «¢ TERRIBLE scene was that recently witnessed at Money Island. Mr. Charles C, Tudor, a confirmed Hartford man, was bathing alone. Suddenly a twenty foot shark appeared. The grim, gloomy cimeter fin clove the waters in circles. Witnesses from the beach yelled and danced in futile endeavors to make Mr. Tudor believe it was not a practical joke. The circles merged into a spiral and the shark and the Hartford man were not ten feet apart, when suddenly the poor friendless monster discovered from the kag on Mr. Tudor’s bathing suit that he was from Hart- ford and thus saved himself. es 8 «© “THE ocean rose to a tremendous height last Wednesday, and inundated Long Island and most of the New Jersey watering places to such an extent that many persons thought that the Hon. David Davis must be bathing at Coney Island. The waters receded, however, and proved conclusively that it was only a tidal wave. s 8 8 PALPABLE hit at the social gayeties of under-graduates is made by the heartless Figaro, which declares that except at weddings kids will no longer be fashionable. Undertakers’ Union has been running the thing into the ground long enough. oe 6 66 FJ AVE we not suffered long enough from the frightful curse of intemperance? Is there no legal means of relief ?”"— Herald and Presbyter. Certainly : 30 days. eo 8 @ 6¢ T UDGE HOADLY believes that ‘ speech is silver and silence golden !'"— Cincinnati Enquirer. Of course he does. But his silence will have to be pretty thickly golden to pay up for that $50,000 silver speech. o © 6 IVES may be obtained in Siberia for the exceedingly moderate price of eight sledge dogs apiece. This again shows the folly of a protective tariff. e 8 @ OW that Newport has capered all summer through the crops to its heart’s content, it is lending a willing ear to the petition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to abolish fox-hunting. The slight difficulty at present hamper- ing the Society is that the foxes of Rhode Island have rather enjoyed the chase than been harmed by it. The Farmers’ Co- operative Union for the Development of Shot Guns and Wire Fences has taken a stand, however, and it is not improbable that next year the Hunt will be without game, unless, indeed it find an indestructive pastime in scampering after a tin fox on wheels running harmlessly along the public highway. os 8 6 EW YORK clubs are famous all over the world. —W. ¥, Sun. More especially those in the hands of the police. s 8 « FF ROM the subjoined written by a Boston woman and pub- lished in the Boston 7ranscript, it would appear that Bos- ton and Newport are out. “Verily, notoriety és cheap. A hundred thousand a year, a Parisian chef, a visiting list, when in England, and you may lead the fashionable world in America, brains or no brains, and roll up and down Bellevue Avenue, conscious that you are the ob- served of all observers, that you have achieved a ‘position’ which all other American women may well envy. Am I severe ? Study Newport and New York society, that ‘society’ talked and written of, and that which our English visitors best know, and you will see what the mighty dollar can do for amy man or woman, Said a good little woman to me yesterday, who has been a month in this same society, ‘I shall be glad to get beyond the reach of the scandalous gossip one hears on every side here at Newport. Fashionable society here is not only rotten at the core, but this season its rottenness is flaunted in our faces, and insults decent people every day.’ If we continue to ‘advance’ as we have this season in riotous living, domestic scandals made public, wasteful entertainments and disgusting exhibitions of rowdyism, family feuds and vulgarity generally, we shall vie with those tales history gives us of other summer life, even back to the day of Pompeii, shameful blemishes upon the world’s social history.” comicbooks.com