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JAN. 22ND, 1885 VOL. V. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, ro cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 50 cents per copy ; Vols. II. and IIT, at regular rates, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. ENATOR SHERMAN, from the Library Committee of the Senate, has reported in favor of appropriat‘ng $15, ooo for the painting of the Electoral» Commission. This is undoubtedly a good thing as the commission has n't had a decent coat of paint since 1876. It has had to stand considerable hard usage from the many who have from time to time taken it in hand, and a Democratic contemporary says that it is frightfully stained. ‘The Senator does not recommend any color to be used; but a sort of lurid green, in memory of the great Hayes, is gener- ally understood to be the shade decided upon. $15,000 seems a large amount, but itis calculated that David _ Davis alone absorbs a quantity of paint costing one-third of this sum, which, together with brushes, expenses of collect- ing the appropriations, paint pots and deputy paint pots, brings the cost fully up to the sum named, * * * HE humorist of the near future has turned up in Wash- ington, His name is “ Mr. Arthur Dexter, of Boston.” It seems that on a recent occasion Mr. Arthur Dexter, of Boston, was in the presence of some one who referred to Presi- | dent Arthur as a gentleman. “Gentleman ?" quoth Mr. Arthur Dexter, of Boston, “Oh, no. Arthur is no gentleman. He is a gent.” Washington society is convulsed over this 607 mot. in other words, the donness of the mot, must address Mr. Ar- thur Dexter, of Boston, himself, who will be glad to furnish | maps laid out with scientific accuracy in which the typographic | and hygienic peculiarities of his witticism are given in detail. We have sent to Mr. Arthur Dexter, of Boston, for one of these maps ourselves. . « R. RICHELIEU ROBINSON objects to the passage | of a certain bill because “it enables Americans abroad to make fools of themselves.” Why should Mr. Robinson object to the American Travel- GILLISS BROTHERS & TURNURE, ART AGE PRESS, 79-79 FULTON STREET ler having the same privilege that he at home has had, and upon which nine-tenths of his reputation is based ? . . * I T would be a real pleasure to the citizens of New York to see O'Donovan Rossa and his fellow nuisances tied hand and foot and dumped into the Bay along with the other use- less rubbish which is daily Jeft there. If some philanthopist will only start a subscription for the suppression of these men in some effective way, we feel sure that money will pour in at such a rate that the object of the fund would be accomplished, with a balance large enough to build a pedestal for the Bartholdi Statue still left on hand. . * . S between Messrs. Morton and Evarts for the Senate, LiFe is to-be found on the side of the eminent lawyer. The Senatorial toga should not be a purchasable commod- ity. If Mr. Morton wants to purchase a toga, why does he not get a new one and have it made small enough to fit him? He would wobble around in the coat worn by Seward and Conkling. Mr. Evarts may be small of stature, but he never would wobble! * * . ORPORATIONS may have no souls, but they have a large supply of trickery. In moving their offices to Irvington, the Elevated Railways hope to exist without the luxury of taxation, This certainly seems small and hardly like Mr. Cyrus W. Field. We were of the opinion that, he above all others, was fond of being known as a large taxpayer, for such a distinction more than any other makes a man popular with the English nobility. Can it be that he is a Field of the cloth of Gould? . * . HE World has compiled a list of the ex-Americans now in Canada, but fails to give any of its famous illustra- tions therewith, Our contempory should issue a Rogues’ Gallery as a com- Those, however, who fail to get the marrow of the joke, or | panion to the Merchant Princes and Cleveland Birthplaces. . * * HE Seventh Regiment is not going to Washington. All the militia parlors are engaged and our citizen soldiers would have to sleep on the horrid damp ground, in nasty can- vas tents and army blankets. It would be a horrible condition of affairs should the gal- ant Seventh get an influenza in its pretty little nose! * ’ * HE attention of contributors and would-be contributors is called to the incendiary notice at the head of the preceding column. Verd. Sap. comicbooks.com