Life — July 10, 1884 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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18 BOOMLETS. HE Boston Post.declares that there is only one word to rhyme with Logan, which most opportunely happens to be Slogan. Has the Post never heard of a Blow-gun? And has its editor never met that orthoepisticide who pronounces New England's chief product as “ Brégan ?” And even then the returns from Tennyson are not in! * * * “TH printer’s devil who set up an account of the recent celebration in Germany under the heading, The Pied Typer, has been boycotted by the profession for indulging in person- alities. * * * HERE are rumors in Ha-noi that the city is to be bom- barded by the French. That's what's the matter with Ha-noi! * * * T isn’t so much what Logan did, as it is what can McAdoo. * * * PROMINENT politician states that the Republican party is on its last legs, and very weak in the knees. Knees? Why, what can—oh, yes. Hm! ah ha, we catch. Nominees! * * * R. MAC VEAGH declares that he is out of politics. That settles it. Politics will have to put up the shutters and quit. * * * "CHE reliable N. Y. daily press. Clippings from leading newspapers on Monday, June 3oth, 1883: [The 7imes.] THE GREAT NEWSPAPER RACE. “THE TIMES” FIRST SOLD YESTERDAY AT RICHFIELD SPRINGS. [The World.} RICHFIELD SPRINGS, N. Y., June 29.—THE WORLD pony express arrived here at 12:28, beating all opposition twenty minutes. [The 7ribune.] THE TRIBUNE WINS AT RICHFIELD. Thus is public vpinion formed. * * * F reports be true, Mr. Lowell painfully realizes the force of the French proverb: Chacun a son gout. * * * HE latest description of Mr. Geo. William Curtis hails him as the editor of Flopper's Weakly. * * * HE Democrats are kicking up the annual row about the Naval Steal. That ’s just what we want—steal clad monitors ! a MULTIPLEX IMMORTALITY APPLIED TO BLAINE. 2 VERY ingenious fantasy has been evolved by Edward Bellamy under the title “Miss Ludington’s Sister : A Romance of Immortality.” The inspiring idea of it is that our “dead selves,” far from being only “the stepping stones” on which we rise “to higher things,” are really not dead at all; but careless childhood, passionate youth, mature manhood or womanhood, each has an immortal existence, and all are, somewhere, reunited, the immortal individual being like a gem with many facets, or like “one clear harp” with “divers tones.” Materialize, by a spirit- ualistic medium, the beautiful girlhood of a disappointed old maid whose youth and charms were suddenly taken from her by illness; make the two companions’ for each other and give the spirit girl a dreamy lover; suddenly lift the supernatural veil, and show the mechanism of it all to have been the clever trick of vulgar charlatans—then you will have the materials for a very delightful romance. The artistic skill with which, after the reader is dis- illusionized, he retains his interest in the characters and sympathizes with them is one of the greatest charms of the book. LIFE commends this theory of immortality to the managers of the Blaine campaign. Let the fourth floor of the Fifth Avenue headquarters of the Republican National Committee be immediately set apart for a corps of Mediums who shall at once begin to materialize the dead past of the Plumed Knight. What an irresistible campaign it would be if the Committee could send forth, at one and the same time, the rosy-cheeked Catholic Sunday-School boy to address the Romish Commu- nities, the Calvinistic young collegian into the Presbyterian strongholds of Pennsylvania, the mature Cohgregational bro- ther (with two whole pews in the sanctuary) to the doubtful state of Connecticut, the friend of O’Donovan Rossa, into the dynamite districts of Finerty and Richelieu Robinson and the Chinese-hater to the Pacific Coast ! A word of caution is necessary. Don’t materialize too many spirits; and assign them with great care to the various districts. It might be disastrous to send the author of the surplus revenue scheme into free trade Iowa or Kentucky; the erring spirit who wrote to “My dear Fisher,” about sav- ing the Little Rock and Arkansas bill, would not be received with open arms in a highly moral community like Boston; the ardent advocate of the Landreau claim and originator of the South American policy, would not command the confi- dence of conservative business men in New York City; and the illustrious magnet would be repelled from any respectable town. With Elkins, Joyce, Pastor Ecob and Phelps as chief materializers, the success of the scheme can be assured.