Life — October 28, 1886 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Press OF FLEMING, BREwsTeR & ALLry, 31 AND 83 W. TWENTY-THiRO St., NEW YORK. 4 “While there’s VOL. VIII. No. 200. OCTOBER 28, 1886. 1155 BrRoaDway, 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 ; Vol. III., IV., V., VI. and VII. at regular rates, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HERE is such a thing as being too kind. It is an error that an ordinarily circumspect person may hope to avoid, but it seems as if our astute contemporary the Sun had fallen into it. Nor will the late interesting correspondence between a representative of the Sw and Col. Fred. Grant go far to dispossess the public of this impression. The claim of Holmes & Co., the Saratoga undertakers, against the estate of General Grant may have been a just one. General Grant's family may have been at fault in declining to pay it; and the ‘Sun may have been actuated by the purest benevolence in buying it up, but few persons will accept either of these hypoth- eses. What the general public thinks is that the Saratoga firm is not altogether just in their demands; that Colonel Grant and his mother must have refused payment for good reasons, and that the Sw investment will not materially raise that journal in the public estimation. Our clever neighbor is notoriously versed in scripture, and yet, in performing an action which it asserts was inspired by pious motives, it has neglected to keep its left hand in ignorance of its right hand’s behavior. What the Sw needs is a couple of terms in a first-class Sunday-school. * * * NGLAND'S position in regard to the New England bank- ers and New York aldermenis such as to satisfy the most ardent lover of paradoxes in that, as a free trade country, she furnishes protection to a rapidly growing American industry. Weare glad that so many of our choice products now bask in the sunlight of Canadian seclusion. The annexationists surely cannot desire to win back any such citizens as the Dominion has recently acquired. * * * ORD BYRON awoke one morning and found himself famous. Mr. Hewitt has done even better. He got up from his dinner and found himself appreciated. After | complaining at considerable length that no man would do anything to please him, and that he seemed to have survived his usefulness, he suddenly finds his coat stripped off by gentle force, and himself entered for the Mayor's race with “Not for Geo.” pasted across the front of his hat. Bt Mr. Hewitt is not the only man who has been appre- ciated. The merits of our gifted-young friend, Benja- min Folsom, have been recognized. He has been named Consul of the United States at Sheffield, whereat Buffalo is hysterically joyful, and the grateful American’ people has taken adrink, -LIFE is greatly pleased at cousin Ben’s preferment, and merely desiresto warn him that Sheffield is full of tempt- ing cutlery, and that, in his ‘wanderings through mazes of pocket-knives, he must not permit himself to be tempted to cut the string and fly away. This we respectfully submit because of the vulgar rumor that cousin Ben is somewhat “ fly.” And if there is a salt-works near Sheffield Ben should-take the baths. Then evil-disposed people can have no grounds for suggesting that he is fresh. * * * HE rumor that Miss Cleveland has fallen out. with her publisher and withdrawn from Literary Life will excite no surprise and little regret. It was evident enough that the lady had fallen into unworthy hands. Now that the Chicago strike is over and the packing houses are going again, is it not possible that Mr. Armour may recognize “how remarkably Mr. Elder is suited to become bacon, and “ pack” him? * * * HE Council of Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in recent session at Chicago, wisely abstained from any of the revolutionary legislation which was suggested to it. The church still keeps its familiar name and its old prayer book, and has not yet merged into or absorbed the other Protestant sects. Among the sturdy opponents to the proposed change of name has been the Rev. Phillips Brooks, who has disclaimed the right of the organization to be the sole-repository of spiritual authority, so frankly as to shock certain of his reverend peers. One of these gentlemen upon reaching the open air, after hearing Mr. Brooks's address, is reported to have exclaimed : “A strong man. Yes; and a good man, and an eloquent man, but, my! there are better Churchmen than he in hell.” Nevertheless, Mr. Brooks represents the common-sense contingent of the Episcopal Church, and it is a good sign when his views obtain favor. * * * B UT why should the Protestant sects wish to amalgamate? They have like beliefs now for the most part, and their diversities of form and slight discrepancies of doctrine make them suit the different tastes of a great variety of worshipers. If they could once be persuaded to think alike the temptation would arise to knock them all on the head before they squabbled. They are better off as they are. comicbooks.com