Life — April 21, 1887 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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EUROPEAN NOTES. HE Times correspondent at St. Petersburg says that on April ist the Czar received information that a plot was being laid near the Gatschina Palace. A regiment of Siberian Cuirassiers was sent to the scene and discovered that it was a grass plot, at which the Czar was so much incensed that he ordered the colonel of the regiment to commit suicide within twenty-four | hours. * . . HE London Punch, next week, will contain the following apropos of the approaching Jubilee. At Windsor Castle. Qu Vicroria: Now, Walesey, dear boy, come up to tea to-morrow at seven. And mind, sonny, don’t you-be-late. PRINCE OF WALES (zwéth some asperity): Don't jubilate? (you be late), Well, 1 guess not. What in thunder have /to | jubilate (you be late) about? . . * R. GLADSTONE is so mad about the recent closure that his friends think of sending him to Pasteur for treatment. * . Py HE Emperor of Russia has commanded Count Tolstoi to write an autobiography of the late Czar. The Count, fully understanding the difficulties of such an undertaking, at first demurred, but the Czar called for a map of Siberia, and SO MUCH FOR DREAMS. | ¢¢ © PEAKING of omens,” he said, “ not long ago I read of a cashier who dreamed that he was murdered while protecting the funds of the bank and that seven angels carried him | off to heaven. The very next night he was—" “ Murdered?” she interrupted, with a shiver. “No; he was on his way to Canada.” ARK TWAIN wrote of a cemain wine: “Tt heals the worn mind as well as the wasted body,” and half a dozen people nearly died laughing at it before they discovered that there was no joke about it. Such is the force of habit. CHAMPAGNE dealer, charmed with Baron Tennyson's Jubilee Ode, has written to the poet, offering ten dollars for a poem entitled “ Pommery Saeculare.” | = | OLUMBIA has made Mayor Hewitt an | LL.D, He should have been made a | Doctor of Dive-inity. | convinced the Russian Howells that it was just as well for him to begin at once and get seven chapters done before breakfast next morning. . * . Te Turkish Court has gone into mourning for a month for Mr. Sunset Cox. The Sultan has invested the late Minister with the Order of the Golden Fleas, to pay for which a dog-tax has been levied in Constantinople. HANDSOME baby-jumper has just been blessed by the Pope, preparatory to its being sent to the King of Spain on his first annual jubilee. The King is in unusually good health, and under the able tutorship of the Secretary of the Nursery, can now weep in five different languages. . . . HE Crown-Prince of Italy has graciously condescended to contract the measles. The Roman populace rejoice | greatly over this additional proof of the Democratic sentiments of the reigning house. . . . HE British Peerage is now greatly agitated by the ques- tion, Who shall invite Cyrus W. Field over for the Jubilee ? Mr. Field, on being consulted, said that he didn’t care much where he went, to which the Lords replied that they didn’t either; so that matters are now in a sort of statu guo. Carlyle Smith. “BUT DO YOU THINK IT's TRUE, Jimmy?" “ CERTINGLY I Do. EFELANT Can‘T DO!” I DON'T THINK THERE AIN'T NOTHINK WHAT AN comicbooks.com