Life — January 27, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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A BOND OF SYMPATHY. N Ow the boy and pedagogue on The Toboggan Scoot Down the chute, And when they reach the level, Go like the —— Dickens. And when, next morn, the urchin can’t decide Whether he should multiply or divide, ‘The master cannot find the heart to chide The kid With whom he slid ‘That slide. * * * i Facer was once a time when we wondered what the difference was between an Alderman-at-Large and a plain, every-day Alderman. We think we perceive a difference now. BARBEROUS. Artist: WITH OR WITHOUT, SIR? Stout Party (glancing at razor): WITH OR WITHOUT WHAT? Artist: CHLOROFORM, Stout Party: OW, ETHER! * * * R. SALISBURY, the Premier, not the Troubadour, | has assumed charge of the British Foreign Office. | This is an appropriate selection on the part of the Prime | Minister. He has always been more or less at sea in his official life, and he must know how to do it by this time. PHILOSOPHER once said: Every man is a volume. From the veracity of a majority of mankind, we im- agine the Philosopher meant a bound volume of newspapers. * * * VERY workman would be a capitalist if he could, sim- ply because of the principal involved. * * * PORHERINGHAM: the falsely accused express man- ager, will probably recover damages for his imprison- ment at the rate of $400 per day. Will some kind corporation step up and falsely imprison us ? All offers received previous to February tst will be attended to at 50 per cent. off for cash. * * * AY GOULD is said to have gone through life leisurely. J Indeed he has. It has taken him fifty-two years to get this far, and we know plenty of people who reached 1887 in less than half that time. * * * HE price of coal may rise, but the number of hundred- weight to the ton rarely gets above nineteen, with the driver and cart weighed in. * * * N unkind critic insinuates that the lovely Lilian Russell is so much a thing of the past, that when she is spoken of as Solomon's wife, people hesitate and wonder which Solomon it was. * * * E clip the following astonishing sentence from that compendium of pure English, the N. Y. Sua: “For the past thirty days it has been the talk on ’Change that Norman B. Ream, whose $200,000 residence was burned this morning and whose luck for three years has been so phenomenal, that from being so thoroughly ‘* busted” that he had to order his trades closed he is now worth several millions, has at last been hoodooed.” We have the greatest respect for our esteemed contempo- rary, Mr. Dana. We believe that as a vocabulary, as a jour- | nalist, and as a friend to the undertaker, he is without his equal in this country, but we think he owes the public some explanation as to this new verb, “to hoodoo.” Whence is it doorived ? Who dood it, so to speak? And what did the dude who did do it mean it to mean? And should he not have said that Mr. Ream has at last been hoodone, and have gone on to tell hoodone it ? We ask these questions in behalf of that large class of readers who aid Mr. Dana in paying the interest on the $175,- ooo mortgage his concern has recently acquired, as well as to assist the editors of the Century's new ten-volume dic- tionary in their efforts to make up their last nine volumes from new words emanating from the inventive faculties of the gentlemen of the press. comicbooks.com