Life — November 20, 1884 — page 5: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THAT ‘“FOOLERTUNG.” HE Saturday eight-page illustrated number of the Evening Telegram, prepared under the personal supervision of Mr. John Habberton and a staff of industrious incompetents, has generally been considered the most elevated specimen of journalism in the world; but the recent addition of the illustrated dramatic feuilleton, or “ foolertung,” as it is called in the Telegram office, has perceptibly lowered the previous record. The “foolertung" is prepared by an agile young man who once saw a real one in a French paper which he could not read. But he carried away a vivid remembrance of the size and number of the paragraphs and was therefore well qualified to prepare an English one. HE coming Lenten season prom- ises to be.unusually gay, as many devout people will go to see Eric Bayley in “The Colonel” and will not have to do any further penance. HE satchel containing the cos- tumes of the “ Orpheus and Eury. dice” company was mislaid by the property man on Thursday night and was not found until it was almost time to “ring up” on the first act. Here- after the wardrobe will be deposited, with other valuables, in the hotel safe. RIGHT AS USUAL, [From the London Helter-Skelter Gasette.} “ FTER aclose contest, Mr. James G. Blaine, of Maine, Ohio, has been elected President of the New York | Tribune.” NOHOW. While at Mount Desert last summer on his month's vacation, he met Isabelle Gramercy, a young‘lady of talents, about on a par with his own, whose blood had as large a streak of mazarine in it as his own, but whose position socially was somewhat higher than his, as her father could have seen his father’s wealth several times over, and had enough left to keep him in comfort for the rest of his years. Old Gramercy was a direct descendant of the famous family of Parks, who tumor has it were here before Columbus, an ancestry which a rising poet, whose claim for distintion lay in the fact that his great uncle, after making a few millions in pork, conve- niently died and left it all to him, remarked, “ Antidated, the most antiquated.” It was but natural that an attachment should spring up be- Miss Tayleure: YOU DOING? Jane (who has been unpacking Sir Hubert de Tayleure (1066), just arrived) : IN THE LIBRARY, AND I C I NEVER SEE SUCH A STOVE BEFORE. THE POINT OF VIEW. Wuy, JANE! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE FaITH, MISS, YOU SAID IT WAS TO BE SET UP N'T MAKE NOTHING OUT OF IT, IT's ALL PIPE, tween these choice spirits, and not two weeks after they had met an engagement was announced between “ Miss Isabelle Gramercy, the charming daughter of Colonel Gramercy, and the rising young Banker, Mr. Stuyvesant Van Kneebreeches, son of President Onderdonk Van D. Van Kneebreeches.” Three days after the engagement was announced Stuy- vesant received a telegram, saying : “Come home at once. I am in trouble, O. Van D. Van K. Collect 35¢." Stuyvesant had an engagemerft to go canocing that evening with his fancée, and that, combined with the fact that the telegram was a “collect” one, made him quite unwell for some time, but being thoroughly alarmed by the words “Iam comicbooks.com