Life — February 19, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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GLLISS BROTHERS & TURNURE, AAT ADE PRESB, 70-79 FULTON STREET. Y. ea} | brought disaster upon the English Government, but it seems VOL, V. FEB. 19TH, 1885. NO. 112. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applyin, to this ofice. Vol. I., 50 cents per number ; Vols. II., III., an IV., at regular rates, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. E have received a letter from the celebrated arche- ologist, Herr Max Ohnefalsh Richter, in regard to | Mr. Herr Col. di Marquis Cesnola. The letter is in Mr. Richter’s native language, whatever that may be. We have not yet made up our minds to which glot of the polly it be- longs, but we think we get the drift of Mr. Richter’s remarks. We are pained to note the depths to which the colonel has fallen, if all Mr. Herr Max Richter says be true. We find among other statements the appalling one that Cesnola is a die gesammte Welt, and that on a certain occasion he was seen 7 grossem Massstabe betrogen hat. We must confess that granting the truth of the first statement, we have never yet seen Mr. Cesnola, even in the privacy of the Central Park, | | his shoulders, it is but fair that state should reciprocate in a detrogen hat, and in justice to him must warn our readers against a too ready belief of this damning accusation. Some light is thrown upon Mr. Cesnola’s exact title in the letter, which speaks of him in full as Gericht-zu-weiderholm- Dass Lous Palma di Cesnola. Just what grade this would ~represent in the English language we can only surmise, but if carefully analyzed we think it would bring him out some- where between a Ding and a Midshipman. It is rather undignified in so celebrated a Hochachtungsooll as Mr. Richter claims to be, to assert that Mr. Cesnola is a nichtodernureidelwer'ss Glauben, with only the qualifying re- mark, drtte ste eine etngehende Prufung. Many New Yorkers would undoubtedly agree with Mr. Richter if he in- sinuated that Cesnola was a swindler, a restorer and a bad man generally, but to openly state in language never used in good society that the Colonel is a Standpunkte, a Localitat beweist and a Gewinnen im, tries sorely the patience of a pre-eminently just people. . . . OR a false prophet, Mr. Mahdi is doing great things. He has succeeded in taking Khartoum, and has the great Gordon in his power. Just what'the Mahdi will do with the English General, if he is alive—and he has died so many times that the reports thereof are never to be believed—is very uncertain, almost as much so as the policy which has likely that he will be used as a sort of decoy duck to free Arabi Bey from his present exile, so that the great Soudan campaign will resolve itself into an Arabi relief expedition. This must be pleasant for the British Government to con- template, and the tax-paying population of the great Empire must feel almost as much satisfaction in paying several mil- lions of pounds, first for subduing an Egyptian rebel and then for freeing him, as they do in supporting the Victorian progeny, grand progeny, and great grand progeny. . . . HE Pinaforic lines should be revised to read : And it's greatly to his debit That he is an Englishman. . . . X-MAYOR EDSON will in all probability find himself ‘neath lock and key, along with those choice spirits Ward and Becky Jones, before many weary moons. If he does, it is no more than he deserves, and by no means surprising. It has been a long respected custom to chastise mares who kick over the traces. We trust his ex-ness may have a profitable retirement, and he should reflect that having borne the cares of state upon the attention. * - * I* Lire for February 5th we made a qualified offer of a cheque for $1,000,000, to be given to the person who should correctly guess the authorship of “ The Gosling Ger- man.” Thousands of surmises have been received in answer, and from among the number we select the following forgeries as worthy of publication : No one who has ever read “ More Leaves from a Journal of Life in the Highlands " could be in doubt for an instant; ie ek “The Gosling German” is from the pen of my friend Mrs. Victoria R. Guelph. C, A. ARTHUR. Everybody thinks that / wrote “The Gosling German.” I am not sure whether I did or not. When one writes so much, you know, one can’t be certain, I sometimes think I must have written the “Elegy in a Country Church-yard,” « Hiawatha,” and “In Memoriam "—I'm so terribly prolific, you know. EDGAR SPIGGoTT. It was evidently written by a New Yorker; and as no one else will own it, I guess that ex-Mayor Edson is the author. W. R. GRACE. I can not tell exactly who wrote it, but it must have been one of the following three people: George Francis Train, Mrs. ToM THUMB. El Mahdi, or Becky Jones. comicbooks.com