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APRIL 3orTh, 1885. VOL. Vv. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 50 cents per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number; Vols, III. and IV., at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. . Notice is hereby given that no person is authorized to solicit subscriptions or advertisements for this paper without written authority from the publishers. 2H Ove dollar per copy will be paid at this office for Nos. 7 and 10 of Lire. Copies must be in good condition and may be sent by mail. i Baas spasmodic affair, the Anglo-Russian prize fight, is | only so-so, Whether it will amount to a bona fide fight or not, is at this writing most uncertain, This desirable condition of affairs, we are told, is brought about by the unwillingness of the Ameer to fight. The true reason will probably transpire to be that the British Lion has at last been shown up as the jackass in strange clothes, whose boasted prowess consists in his power to kick. The “ unwillingness " of Ameers to fight or to cease fight- ing has not proved potent heretofore in shaping England's policy, and that this should be set forth as an excuse at this late day is absurd. Ameer subterfuge as it were. The fact of the matter is, that England finds herself in the position of the man who, after fighting and licking all the small boys and women in the neighborhood, is suddenly con- fronted with a man of his size and patronizingly says, as he backs down, “ Fight you? Oh, no; 1 might hurt you.” * Then everybody in the neighborhood laughs at him, and all the small boys and women whom he has harassed in the past come up and kick him. So it is with England, and ere long the ignominy of this back-down will be rendered more ignominious by the sound- ing thwacks of the small boy Afghans, Zulus, Boers and | Soudanese. It had to come sooner or later, and the world cannot but rejoice that the greatest bull-dozer of the age has at last been unmasked. . . . E can well imagine the broad smile which illumines the Czar’s countenance. The events of the past three weeks will probably do more toward crushing Nihilism than years of effort on his part, and we doubt not that he could walk two blocks to-morrow in the streets of St. Peters- burg without stepping on a mine, and his bomb-proof over- coat may now be laid aside for a more summery suit of galvanized tin. . . . HE Prince of Wales is to be congratulated upon reach- ing this point of his Irish tour with no more injury than one or two insults to his dignity. A riot at Cork and an onion at Dubl'n were the extent of the hostile demonstrations, Neither of importance. True, the onion was aimed at the the future of the British Crown, but it nearly struck the foot- man of the effete monarchy. As for the Cork affair, like all other cork affairs, it was light, and degenerated to the merest fizzle. However cowardly the English government may be, the Prince, most assuredly, has pluck. . . . EWSPAPER readers are daily regaled with bulletins of i the doings of ex-Financier Fish in his Ludlow street seclusion. If embezzlers awaiting sentence are permitted a | license which makes a farce of justice, is it any reason why a | long-suffering public should have a detailed statement thereof thrust thus offensively beneath their noses ? The sooner Messrs. Fish and Ward reach their level and get to work in the gravel-making contingent of our chain and ball clad citizens at Sing Sing, the more creditable will it be to the administrators of justice. . . . HE May number of Harper's Magazine contains a charmingly reminiscent article upon Jersey Cattle in America, written no doubt by an intimate friend of the bovines from over the sea. Can we not prevail upon the author to supplement his arti- cle next month by a treatise on English Bulls in Afghanistan ? . . . WE are disposed to believe the story of the clergyman who went two weeks on trial before a Boston congre- | gation, and was finally rejected because, in spite of his An- glicized pronounciation of such words as “ past " and “last,” he spoke of the “‘foyst chapter of Exodus,” and gave notice of a “ Thoysdy evening soyvice.” * . . E are glad to notice that the Board of Aldermen have encouraged home industry, by naming a square in this city after Mr. Chauncey M. Depew. We had feared that this square would be named after Abraham Lincoln, or General Grant, or some other man who has conferred questionable benefits upon us, actuated solely by self-interest. But Mr. Depew’s philanthropic efforts in behalf of this city, evinced in his post-prandial speeches and his unselfish devotion to that charitable institution, the New York Central Railroad, have not been overlooked by the liberal minded aldermen, and the hearts of patriotic New Yorkers to-day beat proudly at the distinction so deservedly bestowed. comicbooks.com