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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 413 The central cartoon depicts Father Time (identifiable by his hourglass and scythe) standing atop a large globe, with a figure below apparently being kicked or knocked over. The caption reads: "Young '97: SORRY TO KICK YOU OVER, OLD MAN, BUT YOU SEE YOUR TIME'S UP. YOU HAVE THE SATISFACTION, HOWEVER, OF KNOWING WHAT IS WILL DO FOR ME." This is New Year's satirical commentary—the outgoing year (1896) is personified as an elderly man being replaced by the incoming year (1897). The joke mocks how each passing year claims superiority while the old year departs. The surrounding "Scraps" and "Observations" contain brief satirical notes on contemporary matters including politics, social customs, and international affairs typical of Life's style.
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*LIFE-. SOMETHING HUMOROUS. OME Chinamen, in Texas, were recently visited about midnight by a band of masked. men, who demanded their money. Upon refusing to give up their hard-earned cash, they were one at a time hanged up by their cues until they gave up their money.. The robbers, thinking.they had not got all the cash in the camp, returned and tortured one of the SCRAPS. HE impecunious swain is now- confronted with the same spirit*that Old Scrooge saw — The Ghost of Christmas Present. * * * HE congregation were singing “I would not live always, I ask not to stay,” when lightning struck the church steeple and the scramble began. * * * HE best butter comes from Phil- adelphia. The grass on the streets there is said to be very rich. * T is said that New Jersey is a nice place to spend New Year’s if it wasn’t for the mosquitoes. * * * ANY fashionable New Yorkers would have to make a long journey to plant flowers on their grand- fathers’ graves. * * ‘88 WILL DO FOR ME. Young '87: SORRY TO KICK YOU OVER, OLD MAN, TIME’S UP, YOU HAVE THE SATISFACTION, HOWEVER, 413 ’ Chinamen by holding ‘him'on a:hot stove, until his comrades gave up the balance of their money, some $500 inall. One Celestial had his cue cut off, and was horribly tortured. No arrests had been made at last accounts, and probably none will be made. And still the effete nations of the East pretend to look down upon us. OBSERVATIONS. NE good drink of Jersey lightning will make a man feel like thunder, * # * 6 O man,” says Gen. Logan, “can tell what time will bring forth in politics.” No, but Logan ought to be pretty well in- formed regarding what time won't bring forth. ees ae ORD and Lady Campbell are now getting themselves in shape for an American tour. * * DOLLAR will go further than it used to, and it makes the distance in quicker time. sure. 58 NGLAND has another royal mouth to feed. * * * HE wages of sin show a_ small increase every year. eee GREE is not only a hot place, but it is also said to be un- comfortably crowded. BUT YOU SEE YOUR OF KNOWING WHAT FOREIGN FLASHES. | Oa aba baby expects to be made brigadier- general in the English army next month. * * * DE FREYCINET inadvertently used the French crisis in wadding his shot-gun, and now it can’t be found. * Ee Sobranje of Bulgaria proposes smearing the throne with a thick coating of tar before another ruler sits on it, so as to insure greater stability for the next reign. * * HE Czar has declared that he is satisfied with the elec- tion of Mr. Timothy Campbell, of New York City, and will forward to Mr. Campbell, as a token of his imperial esteem, a silver-mounted soup-gourd for use in récherché luncheons. * * * ING Leopold heard that Stanley was going to lecture, so he sent for him to come home. We believe that we voice the sentiment of the American public when we. extend to his majesty the assurance of our most cordial and distinguished consideration. comicbooks.com