Life — October 30, 1884 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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242 ‘ BOOMLETS. W ASHINGTON Society is much excited over the arri-, val of a Japanese belle, Miss Kuki. She is said to take the cake for beauty. . . ° HE Headquarters of Mrs. Lockwood's party are at the Hotel Belva-dear. . . . [Te recent developments showing Butler to be a hireling of the Blaine managers is not surprising. No Circus is complete without a clown. . ° . ST. JOHN elector in Nebraska has absconded with $27,000. This convicts the Prohibitionists of free trade tendencies which Protectionists would do well to note. . . . T HE Prohibitionists deny that their vote will be a full one. . . * THe: non-sporting dog show” is now in progress at the Madison Square Garden. Just exactly what a “non-sporting dog” is, is difficult to determine, but it is to be presumed that the competition which must have ensued from the strictly moral Methodist Episco- pal Theatre bearing the same name as the garden has led to this canine anomaly. T — popular young murderer, Bung, has been declared insane. This will beer relief to his many friends and admirers who * - LIFE: si | | THE FARMER AND THE SMALL BOY. FARMER once put his dinner on the fire to cook and started for the field, having first hired a Small Boy to stay in the house and announce when the dinner was cooked by calling through the window; but the Boy deceived the Farmer three times by calling him too soon. Finally, the | Farmer said to himself: “ This Boy is such an awful liar | that I will not come when he calls again.” feared that once having got the hang of “it, Bung would em- | bark on the uncertain sea of crime whence he could escape only by use of a life rope with a noose at one end of it. . . * ENERAL BUTLER having secured the support of the Sun is strongly suspected of a penchant for the | earth. If he gets it, he and Dana can have it as all the rest of the people will be glad to move out. . * . CONTEMPORARY claims that the Whyo gang of | desperadoes now incarcerated at Blackwell's Island, are all Cleveland men. With singular inconsistency, they speak of O'Whyo going for Blaine and even claim that Cleveland himself is for the Republican nominee by 5,000 majority. - . . HOSE who have been astonished at the aberration of the mind so painfully patent in the columns of the Tribune during the campaign now see some reason therefor. Mr. Blaine contributes. . . . R. EDSON declines a renomination, as he desires to give more time to business. Well, it has been said of old, “ Money Makes the Mayor Go.” . . . G* BUTLER has abandoned his Working-Mann Boudoir Car. . Pretty soon, the dinner was really ready and the boy called. The Farmer did not come, and the Boy devoured the dinner. MORAL :—This Fable teaches that it pays to believe even a liar when he tells the truth. NO WONDER! R, LABOUCHERE excuses the Rev. Mr. Tollemache- Tollemache, rector of South Wytham, England, who lately wrote the singular letter requesting the principal of the Board School at South Wytham to enter his house “ only | by the back way and the kitchen door,” on the ground that it must be enough to drive a man half way to Bedlam to | have his children named as under : “Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Lyonel Foedmag Hugh Erchenevyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevil Dysart Plan- tagenet Tollemache-Tollemache. “Mabel Helmingham Ethel Huntingtower Beatrice Blaz- onberrie Evangeline Vise de Loui de Arellane Plantagenet Toedmag Saxon Tollemache-Tollemache. “ Lyonia Decima Veronica Eoyth Undine Cissa Hylda Row- ena Ada Phyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche Lelias Dysart Plan- tagenet Tollemache-Tollemache.” Just think of calling Lyulph Ydwallo Odin, etc., to prayers on cold winter mornings ! WHY cannot Presidential candidate Benjamin F. Butler get his life insured ?—Because no one can be found who can make out his policy. comicbooks.com