Life — January 17, 1884 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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VOL. Ill. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 20 cents per copy; Vol. II., at regular rates, THE editor begs to announce that he cannot undertake to re- turn rejected contributions. “cc J SEE it stated that Adam Forepaugh, the showman, has se- cured the white elephant. I wish it to be announced that so far as I am concerned this is untrue.”—Cariis/e, * * * 6c M®. Matthew Arnold has incurred the displeasure of all | Boston by his criticism on Mr. Emerson,” says the Courier-Journal. Now, who can be a sceptic in the face of this awful retribution ? WE congratulate our brethren of the pulpit that it will be yet | some time before our several tom-toms are silenced. Public opinion we fear, is against us, but the law is in our favor, and we will continue to peal, toll, chime, boom and ring, for no | purpose whatsoever except to make ourselves general nuisances, until the crack of doom. . * * * * * * OLUME III of the 37 volumes which will be necessary to complete its report of the census of 1880, has just been issued by the Census Bureau. This is rapid work. It shows how thoroughly the department is organized. Why not entrust | the collection of the Bartholdi Fund toit? As it is, it is im- probable that even our great grandchildren will see Liberty upon her pedestal. * * OUR esteemed heathen contemporary, the Yapan Mail, com- menting upon the fact that reels were used by the Chinese fishermen in the eleventh century, says: ‘‘ What is there that Chinese civilization did not possess?” Lots of things. Chinese civilization had no Sunday Law which shut out the poor from innocent amusements and drove them to drink. It had no Metro- politan Museum of modern antiquities with a glue factory and marble yard attached. It possessed neither a BEN BUTLER, nor a ToM OCHILTREE, nora TALMAGE, or a network of telegraph wires, or a corps of ticket speculators in the employ of a theatre. Chinese civilization may have been a very grand thing, but there are a couple of wrinkles of which it knew nothing. * | been sent to State’s prison for a term of years. aaa Ta : J ae ie : ] 7 appeats to us somewhat singular that the “ Rev.” Father FLorENce McCartHy, “Pastor” of the Church of St. Cecilia, Brooklyn, should be allowed to resume his clerical duties after having been convicted of criminal assault upon one of his parishioners. Had the offender been a layman, he would have As it was, the intelligent jury, no doubt awed by his reverence’s robes and | spiritual dignity, contented themselves with finding the charge proven, and with the award to the plaintiff of six cents damages. It is now clear that the best cloak for crime in Brooklyn is a cas- sock. Of course it cannot be expected that the Bishop of Mc- Carthy’s diocese will take action in the premises. But if the Holy Mother Church winks at the gayeties of her clergy, juries at least should treat them with the same rigor as they would those of laymen, * * * «¢ 7] CAN confirm the rumor that Mr. Dana has written a tragedy. I made the greatest hit of my life in it.”—HoL- MAN. * * * aE London correspondents inform us that some time ago Mr. GLADSTONE delivered ‘‘a speech in favor of peace | ata banquet.” WILLIAM is right. Nowhere is peace of more im- portance than at a banquet. Fighting or disorder of any kind at the table is decidedly disastrous to good digestion. His remarks | were undoubtedly sensible and perhaps even necessary if the French Minister and the Chinese Ambassador happened to be ” sitting opposite one another. * * * IS Honor, the Mayor, is in favor of abolishing the Free College of the City of New York, the Normal School | and the Nautical School, and of devoting the $1,621,823 which these three institutions cost annually, to the ‘liberal extension and support of our primary and grammar schools, which are a consistent and vital part of our institutions.” Without. express- ing a doubt of his Honor’s perfect sanity and zeal in the public cause, we would suggest that retrenchment be first made in the thousand and one other departments and sub-departments of the municipality, a tithe of whose waste would give a collegiate edu- cation to every youth in the State and have a surplus over. As the church choir cornet is no longer a novelty it has lost its virtue as an advertisement, and it is rumored that Mr, TALMAGE is seeking for a new attraction. In order to make his Brooklyn tabernacle draw full houses, the hymns should be rendered with a banjo quartette accompaniment. During the offertory, some Tyrolean jédelers, or a company of Swiss bell- ringers might perform in a manner befitting the sacred solemnity of the service. * * * comicbooks.com