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af IT EX “Dhile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL, VII. APRIL 15, 1886. NO. 172. 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., $1.50 per number; Vol. II., 25 cents per number ; Vols. I[I., 1V., V. and VI. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HE efforts to arrange the differences between the Knights of Labor and the Missouri Pacific Railroad have failed, and again it is pull strikers, pull Gould. Mr. Powderly, the brains of the Knights, has been unhappily in- capacitated to act, and Mr. Martin Irons has been to the fore. It is apprehended that the back seat ought to be sacredly reserved for Mr. Irons, and made attractive for him. The difficulty he and Mr. Gould—by Hoxie—have in agree- ing points obstinately to the probability that in some occult way they are two of atrade. Such a suspicion is enough to abbreviate Mr. Irons’s possibility of usefulness and must, as | well, weaken confidence in Mr. Gould. What will come of the strike is as misty at this writing as an Alderman’s charac- ter. The burden of it lies heavily on the unlucky people of | the Southwest, who depend upon the railroad for their sup- plies. The stripes fall thick on them, and the mind pictures | them comparing the welts raised by Gould's whips with the alternating evidence of Irons’s scorpions. Alas for the un- lucky Southwest ! . . R. TALMADGE announces that whereas of every 1,000 single men thirty-eight are criminals, among 1,000 married men the criminals are only eighteen. Hence we see the use of wife-beating as a vent for criminal instincts. The acrobatic divine uses his figures to show the value of marriage to men, but they certainly indicate with exactly equal force the blessedness of the single state for women. Is Dr. Tal- madge prepared to say, on due reflection, that those twenty natural criminals are disposed of to better advantage as part of domestic apparatuses than if they were behind bars and out of harm's way ? . . . MMORTALITY, so long symbolized by the butterfly, has swapped its trade-mark and is no longer genuine unless stamped with twin effigies of Jumbo. Nothing has demon- strated the phenomenal abilities of the Greatest of Showmen j more than the way he snatched Jumbo out of the jaws of | death and defeat and turned him into two of a kind—both trumps. The deceased favorite’s name appears in the show- bills in letters larger than ever before and he is more features than ever in the show. If Barnum had only had the opportu- nities of Cesnola, what a museum of art New York would | have seen! * * . O E of our daily morning contemporaries published last | week a spirited description of sparrow-fighting among the Chinese. It appears that the wild-mannered Mongolians develop the pugnacious talent of these little birds, and get quite as much ‘fun out of their disputes as their Caucasian brothers derive from cock-fighting. It is not ascertained that the sparrows engaged were of the English variety, but the probabilities favor that supposition. In thus fostering the contentious proclivities of the sparrows the Chinese must be conceded to do the country good service. If the sparrows in turn should stir the Chinese to mutual destruction, the jealous patriots who guard American labor would hardly know where to turn for something to kill. Is it not the chief objection to sparrows that they work longer hours for less remuneration than the robins do ? * * * ISS KATE FIELD is nominated by popular acclama- tion to be Governor of Utah. Miss Field is Lire’s candidate. A fair Field and no favor is our policy for the Mormons. . . . WO national celebrations have been proposed to Con- gress: One on the centennial anniversary in 1889 of the formation of the United States Government, the other in 1892 of the 4ooth anniversary of the discovery of America. America, it will be remembered, was discovered in 1492, by Columbus, and again in 1884 by Jacob Sharp, who attempted to confiscate it, claiming proprietary rights. The first dis- coverer is the one it proposes to anniverserate, and it is hoped that the second discoverer, Mr. Sharp, will be out in time to be present. Columbus is dead, and there being no Barnum in his time, he was not stuffed, and we must have the show without him. The date is October 12th. As for the place of celebration, San Salvador is too far away, and there is no especial fitness about any other place. It is proper, therefore, that every man should keep the festival in his own home and that the appropriation contemplated by Congress should be for beer and fireworks. The celebration in 1889 must come to New York. We will lock up the Aldermen and warn the pickpockets, and the country people will be safe and happy. comicbooks.com Bee SA Gentes