Life — July 15, 1886 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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18 oF “While there’s Life there ’s Hope.” VOL, VIII. JULY 15, 1886. NO. 185. 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, III., 1V., V. and VI. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HE little song about the Knot of Blue that lately came out in the Cextury magazine chose the right year for its appearance. The knot of blue is indisputably on top. It is Yale’s year. It is Captain Cook’s year—his last year too—it is rumored. It is young Yale that will be seen this summer at Bar Harbor and Narragansett pier lav- ishing wealth at Sproule’s or the Casino, while hard-up Harvard boards inexpensively at the quiet places and broods upon the unwisdom of betting. Well, it 1s interesting now and then to see all the honors go to one hand. As between Yale and Harvard, Yale has them all this year and has won them fairly—good luck to her. We wish though that she might dispute for the top place with Columbia. With all the materials for a good fight it is a pity not to have one. * * * N acollege boat race the great thing is to have the play fair and all the dealings above board. Who wins is not an important concern. The true, the beautiful, and the good, is as much advanced, no doubt, by the muscles of the men from New Haven as by those of bean-fed Harvard. Blue ribbons are as pretty, on general principles, as crimson ones, and a preference for either is a matter of taste. The great contest that is going on across the water is ofa different nature. However it goes, the victors in that will have very moderate reason to exult in their victory. They win not so much glory as a heavy responsibility.” It looks as if the care of Ireland was to be lifted from the shoulders of Gladstone and put—where? Will any other sturdy back carry the load of Erin’s grievances, or will it lie neglected? Is it Glad- stone’s plan against Chamberlain’s plan? LIFE fears it is Gladstone’s plan against no plan at all, and that if the Old Man loses it will be a loss without compensations. * * * IR CHARLES DILKE is left out. Can it be that the British mind has received new impressions as to the sort of diversion that is proper for an English gentleman ? It looks that way. But if Sir Charles has been slandered, Truth crushed to earth may still Our own Sir Cyrus has let him take courage. resort to the courts for justice. done it, and with what splendid success. He has actually wrung an apology from reluctant Labouchere. Hurrah for you, Brother Field. You may not be good enough for hypercritical Boston, but you can beat the Britishers, can’t you? Let us say with the gentleman in the play: Who steals our entire martne force steals merely a few fishing schooners, but anybody who filches from us the good name of the Field family takes what he will find it very costly to maintain. * * * T was a notable circumstance of the Portland centennial celebration of last week that more than four thousand invitations were sent out to natives of that venerable town who had extracted their stakes and gone elsewhere. It is notoriously more blessed to give than to receive, and blessed is Maine, for she has given generously of her surplus popu- lation without attracting any considerable accessions. A little colony of Swedes and some French-Canadians have come to help run her mills and swell her census—these few and one more, and that one James Gillespie Blaine. ‘One, but great gosh !” is what the Maine men say when apostro- phizing this incident. * * * ARD upon the sickening story of death in the ice-cream freezer, which it was LIFE’s painful duty to record last week, comes an equally harrowing account of tartar emetic in the lemonade can. The Fourth of July celebration at the county seat of Harper County, Kansas, attracted crowds of people. Kansas being a prohibition State an im- portant factor in the patriotic exhilaration incident to the day was lemonade. It got in its deadly work so swiftly as to nip the orator of the day almost in his opening sentence. Con- sequently Harper County had no speech and felt poorly com- pensated by the presence of several hundred “severe griping pains in the region of the stomach.” Kansas thought she might trust lemonade. She knows better now, and doubt- less feels more kindly than hitherto toward beer. * * * : HE exiled French Princes, though pained at leaving France, find comfort in their freedom from any obli- gation to build the Panama canal. It will cost a good deal to be a Frenchman if M. de Lesseps wins. * * * . ND still Congress is sitting. They say the mint beds along the Potomac are practically inexhaustible, but the legislative spirit suffers notwithstanding, and more than one julep has supported the sentiment : “ The post of honor is an ice-house.” comicbooks.com