Life — August 27, 1885 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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AN IDYLL OF VACATION. 66s Exe a man be born again He cannot enter in,’ But must remain contented on This big globule of sin.” So spoke the tired editor, Who 'd spent July in town, And from two hundred pounds in weight To ninety had come down. “ And so I think I'd better skip With August as vacation ; It's almost time for me to set About my re-creation.” HE 7ribune says that a new Atlantic cable is projected. It is believed that the present cables cannot stand the strain of G, W. Smalley’s messages. . . * [YARLIAMENT is said to be dissolved, but there are still a number of unpleasantly conspicuous dregs left. HE Tribune asks, “What has the Administration done ?” Well, if we were to believe the 7rzbune, the answer would be nothing. Fortunately, this is a contingency not likely to arise. . . . M ADAME MODJESKA is said to be translating Shakespeare into Polish. It is interesting to note in this connection that Bacon once remarked : “ Steal will Polish almost as white and bright as silver.” . . . RINCE BEATRICE has been made a Royal Highness, although he originated in the lowlands, On the other hand, the Marquis of Lorne from the High- lands has never been permitted to assume the title of His Royal Highness Prince Louise. Why is this thus ? * . . 4 X-PRESIDENT ARTHUR was the son of a Baptist clergyman. Perhaps this accounts for his love of fishing. . . * HE fall campaign is beginning to bud, and the sound of the lyre is heard o’er the land. A’ incendiary fire destroyed the skating rink at Fulton, Monday. Loss, $5,000. The skating rink is still a good investment despite the heat. . . . R. COVERT'S claim to ownership of Riverside Park is well named. It is so covert that the reverend claimant will have diffi- culty in establishing it. . . . HE Grant monument fund which the New York Z7mes is engaged in raising has risen from $197 to $203. Of the added $6, we observe that $5 is contributed by J. L. G., of Oneida, leaving the sum of $t as a day's returns from citizens of New York City. If there is any one thing of which New York is not guilty, it is of indecent haste in the monument way.—Chicago Tribune. The returns from Chicago in round figures amount to $000.00 ; so we are still $6 ahead. * . . HE Peter's Pence dividend from Dublin only amounts to $12,500 this year. As a corporation the Pope does n't pay. * . . SOCIETY NOTE, A LA “LONDON TRUTH.” T is rumored that the Archduchess Marie Philippina Saxe- Coburg Guelph Theresa Annette Julianna Sschwartz- burg de Hesse-Cassell Hohenzollern Valine is betrothed to the Archduke Franz Henry Joseph Charles Matthew Mark Lukean John Ferdinand Louis Palmitoff di Nicaragua Canal D'Este, Jr., eldest son of the Archduke Franz Henry Joseph Charles Matthew Mark Lukean John Ferdinand Louis Palmitoff di Nicaragua Canal D'Este Karl Ludwig, Esq., of Austria. Printing being expensive, there will be no cards, i . * HE pedestal of the Chicago Grant statue will naturally be the biggest part of the show. It is to cost as much as $500, and will be made of pure Chicago brass quarried in the Tribune office. * . . EW YORK has the most abominable public monu- ments of any city in the world. Taste rather than want of money will be our difficulty with the Grant Memorial. . . * ORD WOLESLEY has been made a Viscount. The next time he gets thrashed by a Zulu they ‘Il make him a Nearl.