Life — August 19, 1886 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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BEWARE OF LETTER WRITING. A drop of ink may make a million think, —Byron. HEN working a sell on the city, For the purpose of plunder and pelf, Take heed from the roof of this ditty, Lest you work up a cell for yourself. —Rollin Flynn Squire. * * * OME Americans are about to start a National Banking system in the Honduras. r The venture will probably fail, owing to the great distance between Canada and the Honduras. * * * OW that Columbia College has decided to admit women, baseball and rowing will be superseded by rick-a-rack and crazy quilt matches. Just think of an intercollegiate darning match * * * HE Texas Séftings’ magazine critic is an individual with remarkable foresight. He says: “ Don’t fail to read Scribner's for August. It is a splendid number.” Inasmuch as Scribner's for August will not appear until next January, we incline to think this critic is one of those prophets who are “without honor in their own country.” * * * 4 HE Sux ought to take Old Observer out now and drown him. P By the way, how do they spell cat in the Sw . office? CAD? * * * HEN Mr. Flower read of Mr. Tilden’s death he turned pale and remarked: “ There’s another one of us gone.” Mr. Flower is reputed to be willing to attempt the political whirlpool in his bar’l. * * * HEY have an Irishman on the staff of the Pét/sburgh Dispatch, if the following clipping from that E. C. means anything : “There are about 30,000 Chinamen in San Francisco, about 1,000 of whom are women.” * * 6¢ T NSPIRATION,” says Lamartine, “is solitary, never consecutive.” This shows wherein inspiration and perspiration differ. * * * HE United States troops have caught up with Ger- onimo. Their chief desire now is to get away again. j 6c HY should New Yorkers get up a testimonial to Mr. Gladstone ?” asks a correspondent. Because Mr. Gladstone has labored to establish Home Rule in Ireland. Because Home Rule in Ireland will doubtless cause the Irish to desert our shores and return to their native heath. Because New York may stand a chance of getting a little Home Rule for themselves in the above desirable event. That ’s why. * * R. PULITZER’S name appears frequently in the pa- pers. One day he is on a subscription list, and on the next he appears on a Florist’s debtor’s list. * * * THE HOPE OF OUR MAGAZINES. HE advertising columns of our magazines are so ably edited that it is a pleasure to peruse them. One never tires of reading the eulogies there expressed on articles that enable prima donnas to keep their voices from chapping, and methods that make it possible for the young man with an illegible autograph to sign his name in the middle of an engrossed Duck or other embellishment of an esthetic nature, The advertising column is always entitled to the deepest respect, inasmuch as it is forever willing to extend justice to him who may have been deprived of it by chance, jealousy or the act of Providence. We have never, in the course of our experience, come in contact with an advertising column that was not willing to be absolutely just in all things. There is no mortal editor subject to mortal weaknesses, to preside over its destinies, who will so far forget the dignity of his position as to “find unavailable” the contribution of a struggling aspirant after notoriety for such trivial reasons as “previous acceptance of similar material,” or “a super- abundance of matter on hand,” or “unfitness on account of editor’s present plans.” No advertising column ever rejected a full page eulogy on a cake of soap because the editor's present plans did not include soap in their make-up. It is for this whole-souled, frank, generous disposition to give every man his due that we are disposed to rate the advertising pages of our contemporaries at a very high estimate. We hope that our example will be followed by the many, and that those who are disposed to reject Harper's New Monthly Magazine, because it is no longer as new as it was forty years ago and who quarrel with the Century, because of its continued waving of the bloody shirt, will recognize that which is good in both and continue their subscriptions for the sake of the missionary work in the advertising pages. F. K. Bangs. comicbooks.com