Life — December 11, 1884 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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AN AFTER-ELECTION DRAMA. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MAN WHO HAD “A LOT OF FIRST-RATE POLITICAL IDEAS.” works, on Mott Street. I have been a summer night's wateh- man in a Fifth Avenue house. I have been receiving teller in the Mulberry Street Savings Bank. I came to you from my apartments over a Harlem Police Station, for I seek the quiet of Coney Island winter.” _ The wooden animals in the merry-go-rounds hibernated. Snow birds nested in the big elephant’s ear. A nor’west blizzard beat the record on a deserted lung-testing machine. | Nature, mockingly, glacéed the rails of the coasters and spread a shimmer of ice around the roller skating rink, Day and night the sea and the man was sleepless. Then he went to Philadelphia and found rest. that soporific towr. think he is in a trance. People in E. P. COHEN. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. -Y GO-LD: Yes, Xmas is the time when Stock- Kings are hung. R-sc-e C-nkl-ng : As between you and the editor of the Tribune, we are solid for you for Senator, but to a man of your integrity politics is an exceedingly cold profession. Do stay with us and adorn the Bar with that million-dollar prac- | tice of yours, opened a circulating library, filled with standard English Pat-i; You are very melodious, but the genuine nightin- | gale is cheaper in the long run, and you know, sweet warbler, that the longer you run the more you cost. R. P. Fl-wer : \vis time you were picked. This is a cold season for horticultural specimens, except in hot-houses, and if we know Mr. Cleveland, you will not be used to deck the Treasury. H-nry Irv-ng :; Connoisseurs in Hamlets who have seen the performances of the late Dan Bryant, Geo. L. Fox, Edwin Booth and the late lamented Charles Backus say that yours | is second only to Booths. 7. A. Hendr-cks ; Sometimes, Thomas, the tail is big enough to wag the dog, but when a tail has been grafted from an old dog to a new one it is just as well that he remain satisfied with his lot. Be less prevalent, Mr. H., be less prevalent. Santa Claus; The most appropriate gift you could give | certain factions of the Republican Party would be a real nice warm day. Messrs. Butler and Dana we think would be pleased if you would organize a relief expedition to find them, while Mr. Whitelaw Reid would take it asa great kindness if you would give him a free pass to the Arctic regions where he can ge¢ warm. comicbooks.com