Life — August 12, 1886 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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HOPITAL—Diseases of the Stomach, Dyspepsia. To be had of all respectable Wine Merchants, Grocers and Druggists. Two Grand Concerts aly: ADMISSION 50 CENTS. CHILDREN 25 CENTS: SUNDAY ADMISSION 25 CENTS. Ajzen, THE MYSTIFYING CHESS AUTOMATON. “While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. VIII. AUGUST 12, 1886. NO. 189. 1155 BRoaADway, NEw York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free, Single copies, ro 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., IV., V. and VI, at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HEN Rollin M. Squire wrote the poetry about Gen- eral Grant and imposed it upon the front breadth of the City Hall, the community recognized that he would not do. Even the prestige of Boston has not been able to save him. He has gone from bad to worse, and now that he turns out to be Boss Flynn’s man, a weakling, and by direct deduction a rascal, the public only sighs a long “I told you so.” Squire is done for, and it will be a marvel indeed if in his fall he has not carried down a greater than himself. Poor New York. Big clay-footed New York. You may nab, you may hustle her boss if you choose, But another, and greater one steps in his shoes. Small and graceful are the feet that Mr. Maurice B. Flynn has insinuated into Tweed’s brogans, but only a rash per- son will claim to have heard them rattle. Stone walls do not a prison make, nor are vulgar manners essential to a boss. But iron bars do make a prison sometimes, and let us hope that Mr. Flynn bears that in mind. * * * F course we can thrash Mexico if we want to, and of course Texas wants to, but there is little glory and less gain to be had from doing it. It is one of the objection- able attributes of being a great nation that a very small man can get us into a broil if the other party is silly enough to let him. Editor Cutting, it appears, would be none the worse for a bit of discipline. He seems to be not materially less abusive than some of his brothers of the metropolitan press. It ought to make for the peace of his community to have his boisterous pen dry of ink for a time, just as it would make life in New York sweeter if one or two of the operators of contemporary journals here were subjected to a term of en- forced idleness. But there is a sarcasm of circumstance that sometimes changes natural right into artificial wrong, and such a combination seems to be working for Cutting. * * * OSTON gave us Squire, and she has tried to give us Sullivan. If we do not watch her very closely she will doubtless seek to burden us with Parson Downs. Can't he j be gagged—this Downs? His revelations are not edifying. He is not even first-rate at his wretched trade, for we get worse scandals every day by cable from England. R. GARLAND has gone on a long vacation to Hom- iny Hill. If he should fail to find his way back, poor man, what an excellent thing that would be! * * * ]F the rival cable companies could have their say, France would not be long without a Dictator. Between the rise of General Boulanger and the decline of M. de Lesseps and the Panama Canal shares, the companies have hardly had a chance to mourn the subsidence.of the English elec- tions or the close of the Dilke trial. The report that Mr. Bennett is arranging for a general European war, for the benefit of the Tory party and the New York Hera/d, is widely credited. * * * UR neighbor, the 7zézne, remarks that, whereas, before the ports of Japan were opened to the Christian nations of the world there were only eleven intoxicating drinks known in the country; now there are more than two hundred, which is, of course, deplorable as indicating that temperance in Japan is enjoying a period of quiescence. And yet it should be noted that an ambitious man, by adroitly combining eleven intoxicants, could bring himself to a state where 189-additional beverages would not perceptibly affect him. In the matter of intoxicants, enough is as good as a feast. * * * N the death of Samuel J. Tilden the Democratic Party loses its wisest counsellor and the country mourns one who, more truly than any other of its citizens, deserved the title of Statesman. It is significant of the estimation in which Mr. Tilden was held that the most partisan of newspapers speak of him only as a public-spirited, patriotic man; and that de mortuis nil nist bonum holds sway where it was hardly expected it would be observed. It is hard that, with so many men in public life whose taking away would be a distinct gain to their country, one so wise in a day when wisdom is not epidemic, should have to lay down his staff and betake himself through the valley of the shadow of death. * * * HE fact that the late Hubert O. Thompson died without making a will is likely to lead to serious complica- tions. There will have to be a great deal of litigation to decide the awnership of Collector Hedden and the late bosses shares in Rollin M. Squire stock. comicbooks.com