Life, 1886-03-18 · page 4 of 16
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 158 The page contains primarily brief satirical commentary and gossip items rather than political cartoons. The main illustration titled "A Noble Revenge" shows a caricatured figure (labeled as relating to "Mr. Blaine's second volume") holding what appears to be a book or document featuring two smaller figures labeled "Carl Schurz" and "T.T. Bayard." The text items mock contemporary figures including Henry Irving, Matthew Arnold, David Dudley Field, and others. One note satirizes Mr. Kerr of the Broadway Railroad regarding corruption and bribery. Another comments on Queen Victoria's politeness toward American visitors. The overall tone is gossipy and mocking of public figures' pretensions and behaviors. Without clearer context about specific dates and events, precise identification of the revenge reference remains unclear, though it appears related to late 19th-century political or literary feuds.
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A LITTLE HAND. “cc LITTLE hand within my own I hold, More precious ‘tis than silver, gems Or gold.”—{ Hattie Tremaine Terry. Perhaps the little hand of which She sings Is but three aces and a pair Of kings. * * . HE rumor that Henry Irving intends making a tour of | the United States as Ko-Ko lacks confirmation. ° * . HE following conversation is said to have taken place | between M. Pasteur and one of our New York de- tectives : “Ah, M. Pasteur, I desire the inoculation.” “ To whom is it that I the honor have of to speak ?” “Tt is of the detectives of New York that I am.” “No need for the inoculation. It will never happen that by you anything will be caught.” * . . T a meeting of that learned body, the Nineteenth Cen- tury Club, Mr. Depew remarked that he was not posted in the “ terminology of the philosophies.” He naturally would not be. time to look after the complicated terminal-ogy of the New York Central Railroad. A NOBLE REVENGE. Apropos oF MR. BLAINE’S SECOND VOLUME. HE Tribune has an article bearing the title: “ Not Dead, But Gone to Chicago.” What a hair-splitting contemporary the 7rzbune is, to be sure! * . * IF Mr. David Dudley Field’s Civil Code is a code which shall teach lawyers civility let it be adopted by all means. . . . ATTHEW ARNOLD intends to re-visit America, and may lecture in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. We print this item in the interests of the American Ban- ditti who, Mr. Gilbert avers, grow rich by stealing from poor Englishmen. . . . ° T is a rare pleasure for us to find ourselves in accord with the New York World. A truly righteous attitude is that which this E. C. has assumed towards the laws relating to imprisonment for debt. A most inhuman, impolitic and illogical law is the one that takes the poverty-stricken wretch who cannot pay his debts and casts him into prison, where there is no possibility of his | ever earning a cent and where every hope of salvation, save that of a legacy from a possible rich uncle, is taken from him. . . . R. KERR, of the Broadway Railroad, may not be guilty of bribery, but he was certainly guilty of cor- | ruption when he replied to Mr. Conkling: “I never signed It takes most of Mr. Depew’s | no such contract.” . . HE cable reports that Queen Victoria has been con- spicuously and exceptionally polite to our Mrs. Phelps. She has given the American minister’s wife a private audi- ence at Windsor, a distinction usually reserved for much greater swells than the modest Vermont lady. It is possible that’ Mr. Gladstone's return and the volcanic state of English affairs in general, have brought home to the Queen the extreme mutability of human greatness. Does Her ,Majesty apprehend a time when it will be expedi- ent for her to come to America and lecture ? . * ° F a one-armed soldier asks you how to make a fortune with one hand, tell him “four aces.” 8 * ° * HOULD Parnell win, mayhap his homeward call, Will cleanse the Irish sty at City Hall. . . . UR cartoon this week explains itself. It is a proud moment for the public spirited Italian. His collection may have no archzological value, but its artistic influence is —well, yes, we think it is. comicbooks.com