Life — August 6, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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GALISS BROTHERS & TURNURE, ART AGE PRESS, 79-70 FULTON STREET, &. Ye “AUGUST 61H, 1885. VOL. VI. NO. 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. 1., 0 cents per number ; Vol. II., 25 cents per number; Vols. INI, and IV., at regular rates, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HE 7rébune, in discussing the “ Mysteries of Identifica- tion,” says that “constant intimacy does not appear to render recognition more certain.” This is the truest remark we ever saw in type in the Tribune, and we cannot wonder much, after all, that that journal does not know when it is dealing with deviations from fact. . . . E are glad to note that General Grant is not to be buried in the Central Park, There could have been nothing appropriate in such a selection, and it would have been the cause of much unpleasant discussion which is now happily avoided. While favoring Washington as the location, above all others, in which should be placed the remains of a man to perpetuate whose memory belongs obviously to the nation at large, we congratulate the family of the dead hero upon the selection of a spot around which clings as much of historical interest as any in the land, and that the silent man should rest beside the ever-flowing, silent river, on whose banks in younger days he learned the principles which carried him to the fore in the hour of responsibility seems eminently fit and proper. All that remains to be done is to lay out this park, which is now given a character which it never had before, as is be- fitting the memory of the man for whose resting place it has been set apart, and we join with the Zribune in the senti- ment that this character be more indelibly marked upon it by | the changing of its name from Riverside to Grant Park. . . . HE Chicago 7rzbune, in its issue of July 29th, shows the bad taste which frequently characterizes Western journalism by descending to billingsgate and abuse of New York, because General Grant is to be buried here at his own request. When a paper that reaps the reward of virtue by printing for the delectation of its readers all the most indecent details of English scandals, undertakes to criticise the society of an- other city because it is un-American, the society of that other city is very apt to reflect that if that journal's reading matter is an exponent of the literary tastes of a truly American society, then in un-Americanism there is something to be proud of. And furthermore it seems to us that when calling New York a“ plague spot on the body poli the 7rzbune must have forgotten that Carter Harrison is Mayor of Chicago, and that the past two months have shown a state of affairs there which, in any other than an utterly corrupt and rotten municipality, would be impossible. UDGING from the number of offices for which Miss Cleveland is said to be a candidate, the position of President's sister is one which would please Ben Butler and the Hon. Roswell P. Flower. This idea is not copyrighted, and these two gentlemen are welcome to it. DREMIER SALISBURY is reported to have said that Khartoum must be retaken. We suggest to his Primi- tive Highness that he give the alleged General Wolseley an- other chance to smash the False Prophet. It might happen that a dead Mahdi could be induced to succumb to his prowess. *TT°HE Chicago Current is responsible for the statement that a kiss among the Aztecs is a Tattenamquilitzli. This is so that they can be heard in the dark. * * * ‘THE President has removed the Window Washer of the White House by Special Appointment, on the ground of offensive partisanship. He used the President's private sponge in his work. ° . . ROM one or two little paragraphs in the World, we opine that its esteemed Editor does not take much stock in Mr. Sharp's new Broadway railroad, Whether this self-denial on his part is optional or not we cannot say; but when a concern, that prides itself on being the most enterprising institution of the age, is compelled to wait some ten or eleven weeks to raise a paltry hundred thousand dollars, finds another less pretentious corporation taking in enough nickels every hour to furnish change to the amount of two government bonds, coupons included, we are inclined to believe that the green eyed monster is somewhere around, comicbooks.com