Life — October 30, 1884 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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*. 30TH, 1884 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. 1., 50 cents per copy ; Vols. IT. and III, at regular rates. Rejected contributions will not be returned unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HE Sua is daily making “ militias" remarks in regard to the action of Governor Cleveland in calling out the National Guard. UR Weather Prophet foretells a stormy week from Nov. 3d to the 1oth. He is non-committal in regard to Monday, hinting that there will be much “ wetness” in the Central Republican and South Democratic States. Rising barometer in Prohibition Headquarters. Tuesday is likely to be an exceedingly cold day in some parts of the country. The atmosphere will be somewhat cloudy on Wednesday and Thursday, while Friday and Sat- urday he foretells will be propitious for the Salt River and other expeditions to start. * * ° UEEN VICTORIA’s speech to Parliament was much QO shorter than usual this year. The Queen is non-com- mi on all subjects save that Gordon is just too sweet to live. This accounts for the willingness of the British to let Gor- don die. pa™ loves America. Dear, yes. She loves it so well that she wants only $16,000 for herself down, and $7,900 for Nickeleeny, and $17,000 a night with 80 per cent. of the gross receipts and a palace car, with $100,000 bonus | after ten nights, whether she sings or not. Give her but these | little things, and she will come right over and chirrup four- | teen minutes every night, so that every laboring man who loves music can go and pay $19 fora seat and be happy. | Patti is devoted to art, Patti is. . . . | Let us encourage her. “ NEVER take sugar in mine. And yet, perhaps if 1 | had a little sugar, I might stand a better show. This cold water racket looked well a month ago, but I am getting most of the cold water myself."—S/. John. TTHE Chinese indemnity wi!l amount to 2,000,000 pig taels, * . . “ E and Jim is whooping things. ‘Rah forme. Also Jim. We'll make a noise, anyway, and scare ‘em.” —Logan. . * * «6 WES, dear Charles, you have done your level best and all that, but it seems to me there are more spots on the Suv now than there used to was. Have you heard any- thing lately of my boom? Seems to me the thing has run down.” —Ben B. * * * T° vote or not to vote—that is the question, Whether ’tis nobler in the citizen To drop his small opinion in the box That J. G. B. should not be president, Or work the growler with the other boys, Until the peeler nabs him. To vote? For whom? For Jim or Ben, or Cleve, or Belva L— Ay, there ’s the rub. For who would bear The whips and scorns of Charles A. D., Proud Roscoe's contumely and the spurns Which patient idiots from poor Whitelaw take, When he, himself, might his quietus make With a mere ballot. Who would lanterns bear, And wear a tin shirt and swell around With young and untamed Staten Islanders, But that the hope of something after ‘lection, — The county post office or a berth Where Uncle Samuel does his customs take, Puzzles the will, and makes us rather choose ‘The men we have, than fly to those we know not of. ‘Thus Kelly does make cowards of us all, And thus the native of far Limerick Doth sickly the pale son of poor New York, And candidates of great boom and moment With this regard, their nominations turn, And lose the right to office. . . . AGNETISM is all very well, but I yell myself hoarse four times a day all the same. By the way, I wonder who is going to get caught in that snow storm “ | on the 4th ?"—F. G. B. . . . NOW have seven votes in Indiana, one in Maine, and two in Rhode Island. Texas, if Itake the stump. The cause is getting on.”— Belva. “c I am promised another in, comicbooks.com