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VOL. VI. JULY 16rH, 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. IIT, and IV., at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. MERICANS—that is to say, the upper ten Americans— have been greatly interested lately in the efforts of Lord and Lady Churchill to introduce American political methods into England, and we are glad to note that this Anglo-American couple have been highly successful. We felt assured that the noble lord would be returned to Parliament when it was heralded throughout this broad land that Lady Churchill had driven a tandem into Woodstock. Nothing can go further to establish a man’s honesty or ability in statecraft than the fact that his wife can drive a tandem, and we shudder to think what the consequences might have been had Mrs. Blaine and Gail Hamilton taken a tour of the United States last fall under similar circum- stances. We recommend this new departure to the cight thousand likely to prove efficacious in furthering their desires. . * . E sympathize heartily with that much-abused gentle- man who wrote to the World, a few days since, complaining that the new Broadway cars were not a con- venience, because on a recent occasion one was too crowded to take him aboard. We feel, however, that writing to the newspapers is a poor way to remedy this crying evil. The gentleman should write a personal letter to Mr. Sharp and demand a private car with no spotters on board, | so that there might be some chance of his reviving old stage times by neglecting to pay his fare. We are certain that Mr. Sharp would comply with his request, if possible, and if not possible, we have no doubt that so affable and accom- modating a gentleman as Mr. Sharp is well known to be, would offer to take his neglected patron by special Pick-a- back trip to his destination. . . * HE Sandwich Islanders are anxious to be adopted by the United States, so as to enjoy all the benefits of American civilization. 3 La ig RS The unhappy Sandwich bank president hasn’t half the facilities for enjoying, undisturbed, the wealth of others that the strictly American article possesses. The Kalakuan vas- sals are at all times subjected to such petty annoyances as imprisonment for embezzlement, whipping for wife-beating, and swift retribution for political dishonor. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that they should seek to reap the benefits of an advanced stage of legal development, by plac- ing themselves under our control and becoming subject to our laws, Our rulers should consider this matter well, and do unto others as they would be done by, and when they think of the straits to which a Sandwich Island Star Router or depart- ment thief is put when he has stolen the four or five dollars invariably left in the treasury of the Islands over night, and is discovered and tried by a jury that cannot be bought for ten dollars, we doubt not that they will grant the petition of these sons of Ham out of sheer sympathy for them. . . . WELL-KNOWN New York tailor recently attempted to kill his wife, and subsequently committed suicide. This is evidently not a case of the survival of the “fittist.” . . . A CHICAGO paper states that poker parties are fre- quently given at the houses of prominent members of New York society, and that such large stakes as $500 are visiting Statesmen and Solicitors now in Washington as | often lost and won. This announcement is all well enough as far as it goes ; but the unsophisticated editor of the prairies should remem- ber that there are several kinds of New York society, each with its prominent members. There is, for instance, the Tammany Society, mainly political, and not much given to gambling save in votes and on the Green. That's Irish, you know. Then there is the Society of the Union Club, where any- thing from a chance for a duel to a reputation may be lost. The limit, we believe, is $5. and carries with it the club privilege of calling your opponent all sorts of hard names, and gives you plenty of advertising from a sensational press, without injury to your social standing as Patriarchs or Knickerbockers. There is a suspicion abroad that this is very English. In addition to these there are the O’Brien-Truman clique, adepts in opening jack-pots and each other; the Fish-Ward coterie, who gamble in various ways that are dark and have been found to be vain, and many others too numerous to mention. These may all be said to be quite American. Our esteemed contemporary should be more explicit and state to which of these New York societies it refers. comicbooks.com