Life — March 31, 1887 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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“While there’s Life there’s Hope.” No. 222. VOL, IX. MARCH 31, 1887. 1155 Broapway, 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; Vols. III., IV., V., VI., VIL. and VIII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. IFE cordially felicitates its neighbor, the Sz, on its great feat of rising twice in every twenty-four hours. It is a luminary as is a luminary. Its telegraphic columns shine with electric light, and its editorial page is bright with the powerful glow of Jefferson reason varied and enlivened by the fitful gleam of the scissors, Dual existence has advantages which possibly our neighbor has overlooked. In troubled times of English history it was customary among some thrifty Scotch families for the head of the house to ally himself with one political party, while the heir took up with the opposite one. May we not expect that if in due course Mr. Dana should again follow the standard of General Benbutler, Mr. Cummings will steer his journal on some course where the people can follow him, so that every evening may bring a poultice for the sting in the morning's tail? Hail to the Sw. Now that its morning and its evening rays have met, shadows will surely disappear from the earth. * * * R. PULITZER! Oh, Mr. Pulitzer! Where is the Evening World? But it may be that with the pros- pect that Ira Shafer will soon be at leisure again, Mr. Pulitzer | | people who want it want it very much, and will try to make thinks one newspaper quite enough for any man to have on his hands in any one city. * * * HANK ytu, Mr. Editor, of Scr7bner’s, for the Thackeray letters. There was already between the covers of printed books as much of the mind of the author of “ Vanity Fair” as the world deserves, but these letters are like a new picture of a familiar face, and give us a new point of view. * * * R. HOWELLS discourses in the latest Harper's about pernicious novels, and gives an infallible test for deter- mining exactly whether a story is pernicious or not. Will he please apply his formula to the shop-girl portions of “The Minister's Charge,” and let the world know whether they are absolutely hurtful or merely tiresome ? UFFALO'’S hotel fire has jostled the finger of scorn off the car-stove and left it pointing at the over-head wires. There is a theory that they prevent the prompt extinction of fires, and the cry for them to come down off their poles is vehement and far-reaching. So many wires there are now— telegraph, fire-alarm, telephone, electric-light, messenger-boy, cab-call, ticker, and most of these duplicated so many times by so many different companies—that the wonder is how the sparrows and sunlight can percolate through them. The wires have got to go. * * * ND, by-the-way, when we get all the contemporary modern improvements so that they keep their places, will there be others in turn, at present undiscovered, to be fought and hooted at and buried? When the cars are warmed by steam, and all the hotels have a fire-escape apiece for every drummer, and asbestos skirts for the maids, and the telegraph wires are under ground, and grade crossings have ceased to be, and every railroad bridge has an inspector, will there be a new crop of improvements to be made that are just as impertinent and peremptory as these ? No doubt there will. It is that kind of a world, and we reformers have a living to make as well as anyone. * * * HE single amusing consideration of the Buffalo hotel fire was that fifteen or twenty insurance men who were interested in the fire were on hand with such speed that some of them even left their clothes behind. Such business zeal has not often been matched. * * * HE Crosby bill has passed the Assembly and will pass the Senate. Whether it gets by the Governor or not is a matter for the prophets to risk their reputations on. The the Governor feel their resentment if he kills it. Doubtless he will consider this when he sits in judgment on the measure, and will carefully estimate whether the high-license people or the liquor dealers of New York weigh heavier in the political balance. Wily David. He will not let his feelings carry him away—not he. * * * UST why acondemned murderer should have his death sentence commuted because he confesses to his villainy at the eleventh hour, is clear to none but a New Jersey com- prehension. If ever a man deserved hanging, that man is Janitor Titus, and his treatment at the hands of Justice makes us'sincerely regret that Western methods are not more in vogue in the East. comicbooks.com