Life — July 3, 1884 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: Another lived a blameless life, And struck an easy gait, About whom there was nothing small, Except, perhaps, his State. ‘A speech he made at Dover once Made Thomas very tired, And caused him to vacate the field. His epitaph is Bayard. “Well, then, my boy, you 're only one, Instead of numbering seven ; There ’s only one that’s left here now ; The rest are allin Heaven,” * “No, no; you’re wrong, old man,” he said ; “We ain’t in office yet ; There’s seven to pay when we git thar ! You ’d better not forget.” In vain I argued with the boy. The lump it would not leaven. He still persisted, spite of all : “You bet your boots we ’re seven.” CARLYLE SMITH. * Poetic license. BLoop is thicker than New York milk. A CONTEMPORARY heads an article, “The Last Failure.” We are glad to hear it. HE Norristown Herald says: “ N. Y. LIFE calls-Blaine a thief and a pirate in this week’s issue. That is doing pretty well. In the next number he will no doubt be charged with having murdered his grandmother and committed bigamy.” Why, certainly! We don’t care if we do charge the il- lustrious Magnet with bigamy, etc. But it seems to us that before we do so we had better wait until our Norristown contemporary sends on the proofs of its insinuations. 11 CAUSE AND EFFECT. T is a well-known fact that the Republican National Con- vention met in Chicago during the first week in June. In the second week there comes this telegram to the 7ry- blaine: OVERRUN WITH HOGS. THE CHICAGO MARKET DEPRESSED BY EXTRAORDINARY RECEIPTS OF PORK ON FOOT, And yet the 77yd/azne supports the nominee ! AMERICAN ARTISTS ABROAD. From the N, ¥. Times. T is openly asserted that none of the American artists ex- hibiting in the recent Paris Salon were allowed to receive prizes for the sole reason that the French are indignant at the action of Congress in regard to the duty on foreign pictures. Italy, in the person of Signor Mancini, has just given expres- sion in a more legitimate way to the disgust which the igno- rance and meanness of Congress has inspired, and it is very evident that the Italian Government will adopt some retalia- tory measure to compel our backwoods legislation to reverse their action. The indecency of the effort to keep the pictures painted by foreign artists out of the country is as conspicuous as the gross ignorance of art which prompted the action. For years American artists have been welcomed in France and Italy and given the same advantages which are given to French and Italian artists. They are admitted to study in the foreign galleries, and obtained gratuitously privileges that no money could buy here. We repay this courtesy by placing what is virtually a prohibitory duty on the works of foreign artists, and the Congressmen guilty of this indecency do not appear to have the slightest idea of the estimation in which the civil- ized world will hold their conduct. MISSING Political Lynx—Grant and Conkling. YALE-HARVARD. HE University race is over and Yale wears the victor’s crown. In spite of eel-grass, fish-nets, crabs and other destructive elements in boat racing the blue once more towers above the crimson. The Yale crew was a very light one and those who understand the mysteries of boating shook their heads significantly as the crew drew out to the starting point. The result was unexpected to the Harvard men who were backing their crew heavily and many of whom have in con- sequence started on walking tours to their various places of residence. The race was prettily executed, Yale rowing easily and maintaining the advantage throughout while the Harvard men strained every nerve to forge ahead. The result is regarded as a victory for the English stroke and is the last annihilating blow to the Jack-in-the Box jerk employed by Yale for the past two years. comicbooks.com