Life — January 20, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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SEASONABLE THOUGHTS FROM THE POETS. POPE, EHOLD the groves that shine with silver frost, Their beauty withered, and their verdure lost ! Behold yon Dude without his ulster on, Rejoice to think he will not be anon. COWPER. O WINTER, ruler of th’ inverted year, very plain that thou at last art here, For filmy ice envelops all the town, And most pedestrians are upside down. * * * RUSSELL YOUNG remarks that even the correspond- j. ent of a newspaper has occasional scruples. We can't say as to the scruples, but many of their writings are prima facie evidence of more or less drams. * * * I N view of the fact that Buffalo Bill obtained renown as the hero of many a battle, and the slayer of some 90,000 buffaloes, it is edifying to watch him hunt tame cows at the Madison Square Garden with a shot-gun loaded with wad. HE new foreign Cardinals will receive their hats in March. This is unfortunate, as March is a very windy month, and it’s hard to keep a strange hat on one’s head at that time of the year. The new Cardinals should petition the Pope to wait until April. * * HE Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that a man in Penobscot County spanked a boy who was cutting up didos in a meeting-house. The police court of the town fined him $14 as a reminder that it is the province of the law, not of indi- viduals, to spank. This may be good law, but it is very poor justice. Things are coming to a pretty pass if a man cannot protect his didos from the vandal small boy without laying himself open to the law's displeasure. If George Washington knew what kind of liberty he was laying up for posterity, he would have lied occasionally, and kept out of public life. * * * ~ COTCH giris knit while they are listening to the tender declarations of their lovers. The more enterprising American daughters have the mit- ten ready made. * * * SOCIETY item says that ex-Governor and Mrs. Eng- lish are being lionized by the American colony at Nice. It is because they're English. HE Koran says there is a Devil in every berry of the Grape. Get thee behind me, Sauterne. * * * [HE man who tried to go round the world on a bicycle failed in the attempt. He had to cross the Pacific in a boat. * * * RANCE shows that she bears the Duc d’Aumale no ill will by accepting the Chantilly estates. It is very kind | of France to hold out the right hand to.a gentleman in dis- tress, even though it is held out to take hold of something. * * * OME one ought to introduce a bill providing that the word “Senator” shall be spelt $enator. There would be some cents in such a measure. * * * EW York City drinks 6,000,000 barrels of beer every year. No wonder Bostonians think this city too full for com- fort! * * * IBLIOMANIAC. We think you errin binding up your History of the Dude in sheep. Full calf would be more appropriate. The essay on the Irish in New York would look as well in Rocksburgh. * * * CORRESPONDENT asks if we believe Governor Hill to be a “ Demigogue.” We do not. There.is no half-way business about D. B. Hill. He’s nothing short of a full, undivided gogue. * * * ICH men feel pretty comfortable about their hereafter. The recent experiences of the Campbells have made them small enough to go through the eye of a needle and not half try. * * * HE first edition of Mr. Howell's story, “The Minister’s Charge,” is nearly exhausted. How about the readers ? * * * LOCKSLEY HALL ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS AFTER. TO LET. WILL BE ALTERED FOR BUSINESS | PURPOSES | To Suit TENANT. | | comicbooks.com