Life, 1887-01-06 · page 4 of 16
Life — January 6, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Page 432 of Life Magazine - Analysis This page contains editorial commentary and poetry rather than political cartoons. The left column includes brief satirical notes on contemporary figures: Bram Stoker (author), Abraham Lincoln's future prospects, and Buffalo Bill's paid engagements. The right side features "A Dead Shot," a small illustration showing two hunters with a dead bird, accompanied by humorous dialogue about a dog bringing down game. Below that are "Seasonable Stanzas"—poems about winter habits and New Year's resolutions, with themes of reforming bad behavior as the year turns. The content reflects Life's format as a weekly humor and satire magazine mixing commentary on public figures with light verse and illustrations. No specific political cartoon is prominently featured on this particular page.
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WINTER. A Puckolet. H dear! Hear Old winter's sullen blast ! She's a blowing! ! And ’tis snowing Awful fast. The autumn long has past, Likewise summer. And the bummer Goes to Florida, Where ’tis torrida, And for that future to which he’s surely fated Gets inoculated. * * * HE Christmas Issue of the English edition of our Amer- ican contemporary, the Detroit Free Press, is a very fine effort. It is composed largely of cuts, stories, poems and paragraphs stolen bodily from past issues of LIFE, with the detail of credit overlooked. We are used to such treatment from foreign sources, but when an American contemporary stoops to such contemptible methods, we feel that it should not be permitted to pass without notice. Is this Western enterprise ? * * * HAT was a highly educated Apache who informed an examiner that there were three elements, Earth, Air and Fire-water. * * * HERE is hardly a paper in this country that has not, at some time or another, indulged in a column of “ Celeb- rities at Home.” They are very interesting reading, but their interest would pale before that of a similar .column on “Celebrities Away from Home.” * * * T is greatly feared in Europe that the Czar is addicted to the kerosene oil habit. * x * DGAR FAWCETT thinks critics should be gentlemen. This is not gallant, Mr. Fawcett. Give the ladies a chance. * * * HE President must take a back seat. ‘‘ Innocuous De- suetude” and “Pernicious Activity ” have been knocked out by the “ Accidental Abnormality ” of the Trzbune book critic. * * * LADY calling herself Silva Dolaro is singing in opera. That certainly is a taking name. In spite of its short- comings the Silva Dolaro will always be popular with the masses. M* BRAM STOKER, an Englishman, lectured recently to a great audience at the London Institution, on “ Abraham Lincoln.” Mr. Stoker thinks Mr. Lincoln is a great preacher, and pre- dicts a glorious future for him. We think Mr. Stoker erred in saying that Mr. Lincoln was born in the State of Chicago. * * * Bureeto BILL asserts that he is more than paid by his successful engagement here. Buffalo must be a sort of receipted Bill. * * * Now that General Logan is dead, the paragraphers and special correspondents are filling the papers with such anecdotes as press of other matter prevented being told of General Grant. + 2 A DEAD SHOT. . Sportsman: WHAT DID I BRING Down, PaT? : YER OWN DOG, SUR; BLEW HIS HEAD ALL OFF! . Sportsman; WHERE'S THE BIRD? : PICKING AT THER DOG, SUR! * * * SEASONABLE STANZAS. SWEARING OFF. OW bad habits come to grief As we turn again the leaf That's new. And for ten or fifteen days We do bid our former ways Adieu. THE ASYLUM FOR GOOD INTENTIONS. FuLt soon the men, the boys, the maids, ‘Will send some pavement down to Hades. 0°. We've reached the unhappy time year oh, When the mercury slips down to zero, And ’mongst our many thousand ills By no means least are last year’s bills, Geo. W. Me. comicbooks.com