Life — October 22, 1885 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. BY A POET WHO HAS BEEN THERE. HEY are talking a lot of a copyright law To cover all parts of the earth, But whether it’s made I care not a straw, For to me not a tuppence ‘tis worth. No foreigner copies the stuff that I write Unless it 's exceedingly bad, Or he wishes to ruin his paper outright, Or is feeling especially sad. But what 's needed right here is a copywrong law That ‘ll send all the printers to jail, Who take a man’s works and their beauties withdraw, —And not let ‘em out upon bail.— For it ‘s certainly proven concerning all bits Of verses that wander from home, That after they ‘re copied a dozen times, it's A wise poet that knows his own pome. A’ exchange says that Pope Leo, with an income of nearly $2,000,000 a year, is compelled to limit his per- sonal expenses to $2 a day. They evidently have special rates for clergymen at the Popery. . . . ADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL disapproves of woman suffrage. ; Women always have had a deep-rooted prejudice against age. . . . HE rumor that a dozen dime museums in Chicago are exhibiting the stub of the last cigar General Grant smoked, in aid of the Chicago Memorial Mortgage, lacks con- firmation. ° . . T has been discovered that there are no professional wine tasters in this country. |” There is no really good reason why there should be. Amateurs have got the science down to a very fine point. . . . We have received a circular bearing the words: BRINE, Harvard Outfitter. Brine ought to be a good outfitter for Freshmen. . * . HE report that Mr. Irving's Hamlet tights have been enlarged for umbrella covers is denied. A TELEGRAM. HIO, October 15.—The vibrations from Flood Rock were somewhat behind time, but when they did get here, on Tuesday, the way they shook things up was a caution. Geo. Hoadly. * * . “cc ENERAL JONES adds weight and dignity to the ticket."—Rural Exchange. We can’t say much as to the dignity, but a scale seller ought to add weight to anything. . . . HE correspondent who enquires if Canon Farrar suffers from the Krupp may find satisfaction in knowing that his contribution was the foundation of the largest pile of rejected manuscript we have yet known. . . * JF Mr. Davenport hoped to catch any Democratic votes this fall he should never have dated his letter of accep- tance from a place bearing so un-Democratic a name as Bath. . * * T is to be hoped that General Newton's little daughter will not cultivate her unusual abilities for blowing things up. . . * WEED himself may be very dead, but as a political issue Mr. Hill will find that he has not yet outlived his usefulness. . . * UR one dollar bills are becoming so disgustingly dirty that the waiters at Delmonico’s are dissatisfied with anything less than a clean V. . . . HY should Riel be convicted of high treason in Canada and Sitting Bull be allowed by us to travel around with Buffalo Bill and become a bloated bond holder ? Can it be that Riel is in with the officers of justice, that he may draw better as a lecturer after he has got his head in and out of the meshes of the law ? . * . AS the explosion at Hell Gate was such a success why Not try it with the Cesnola collection? It would add to the antique appearance of the “ treasures,” and be a most } refreshing sight to the citizens of this metropolis. comicbooks.com