Life — June 4, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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ee SEED + MASS } BRANCH Mousms—ro Warren St., N.Y. 115 Wabash Av., Chicas? J ee eee en ga a, le pense oe a HOPITAL—Diseases of the Stomach, Dyspepsia. JUNE 41, 1885. 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. OW that Mr. Logan has managed to rescat himself in the Senate, the country is anxiously awaiting the first outburst of picturesque rhetoric, for which the gentleman is noted. The telegrams of congratulation to the Illinois Senator on his re-election were interesting reading, many of them evi- dently written for another event which was expected to happen—and did n't. The moral of which seems to be—do n't be in too much of a hurry to distribute your obituary notices. * * * TH Hon. Mr. Short, who recently carved a brother dynamiter in a most artistic fashion, walks the streets in freedom, having been acquitted by a jury of his peers. Mrs. Yseult Dudley, whose tastes for research led her to try the powers of leaden bullets in contact with a brazen mass, still languishes in the Tombs awaiting trial. Mr. James D. Fish, found guilty of most unscrupulous conduct in the management of a banking institution, lives a life of comfort, along with his chosen partner, Ferdinand Ward, awaiting a sentence, which should amount to three centuries and a half, and which will probably equal that number of years. A gentleman who considered himself libeled by a promi- nent newspaper in this city was unable to bring his case be- fore the proper tribunal because he could not prove to the satisfaction of the court that the newspaper in question was published in the City of New York, although the fact that it is here published is notorious; nor that the paper was read, or if read, believed—this latter not surprising. A builder of death-traps for the poor, walks the streets of New York to-day, through the power given him by law to purchase temporary liberty with bonds. And yet our lawyers tell us that law and justice are syn- onymous! A peculiarly American idea! Such a condition of affairs makes it almost a disgrace to a man to be considered a law-abiding citizen. T is announced that Mr. Depew will not run for Governor this fall. (This is kind of Mr. Depew. Very. Almost as considerate as was the act of Mr. Whitelaw Reid in declining Senatorial preferment. Especially when the whole of Central New York—or is it New York Central ?—is clamoring for him to get up and govern. « . . HE American Aristocracy turned out in full force a week ago to display their dexterity in handling the ribbons, to thecommon herd. It was not our good fortune to witness the parade, but, if a morning contemporary is to be believed, the drivers must have been most startling in appearance. One gentleman was “ black and yellow,” and another had a «dark green body with yellow stripes.” The Coaching Club is a splendid institution and almost as useful in its way as the numberless cooking clubs in which our city abounds. We feel certain, and are prepared to make the statement without qualification, that if the Coach- ing Club will extend its educational facilities to the entire care of horses, such as currying, feeding, harnessing, etc., our leading society youths will be fully as prepared to take up their station in life as coachmen or footmen, as our young ladies will be to enter the kitchen in domestic capacity, * * * N OW, that the Bartholdi Statue is on its way hither, it becomes rather interesting to speculate upon what would become of the Pedestal Funds if the gift of France should be lost at sea. Mr. Pulitizer might invest the money he has collected in a new building for his paper, making a sort of pedestal from which, instead of “ Liberty Enlightening the World,” we should have the “ Wor/d Enlightening Liberty.” * . . E owe an apology, and we now offer it to the Rev. Wm. Wilberforce Newtown for the erroneous announcement in our last issue of one of his lately published volumes. The correct title of the book is “ Summer Sermons From a Berkshire Pulpit.” . . . E trust that the Old Testament revisers have left the Book of Proverbs intact. We shudder to think of the possibility of “never catching the measles asleep,” and if the powers of “three of a kind” over two pair were diminished we should be rendered incon- solable.