Life — April 21, 1887 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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“QWUhile there's Life Mere’s Hope.” APRIL 21, 1887. 1155 Broapway, New York. IX. No. 225. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, ro 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., 1V., V., VI., VIL. and VIII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. GovERxOR HILL is a most able financier. His J High-License veto shows that. There are more solid chunks, in the way of campaign funds, to be had from the rum-sellers than from any other class, and that the man | whose weather eye is constantly fixed upon his own political advancement should endeavor to make himself solid with this class is not surprising. The Governor is to be congratulated that the unconstitu- tional features of the Platt amendment give his veto a slight vestige of respectability. * * * OLUMBIA COLLEGE has celebrated her centenary | anniversary by making Doctors of several score of learned gentlemen and defeating the New York Base-ball Nine in tine style. We beg to guished consideration, and express the hope that before another hundred years have elapsed she may again prove victorious at the bat. . M R. BARNUM has instituted a lawsuit against the I Grand Trunk Railway Company for $100,000 damages to Jumbo—the damage consisting chiefly in the fact that Jumbo dead and articulated has not the drawing power of Jumbo living and consuming buns. From purely patriotic motives we take sides with Mr. Barnum, but we must confess that if the Railway Company should put in evidence the circus poster now plastered all over this city, in which the beast is depicted as butting the head-light out of a locomotive, and inflicting sum- mary vengeance upon the railroad generally in a frantic effort to save the Baby Elephant, Mr. Barnum’s suit would be thrown out of court. The great showman has certainly had more than $100,000 worth of advertising out of the incident, and were his adver- saries any other than Canadians, LIFE would feel con- strained to say that he ought to be satistied. * . sure Columbia College of our most distin- | EE mortuts nil nisi bonum is an ancient remark to which we would like to call the attention of the news- papers of this city. Concerning the personal virtues of the late Messrs. Travers and Raymond, LIFE has yet to read the first uncompliment- ary allusion ; but there are more ways of detraction than one, If either of these two gentlemen, whose geniality has made their loss an irreparable one in their respective walks in life, could have foreseen what bad posthumous witticisms would be attributed to them, they would have struggled harder to retain their hold on earth, Indeed, brethren of the press, let the old motto be trans- lated freely, Concerning the dead, “ nothing but good jokes.” * . . HAT an intelligent lot of men are our detectives! It is estimated that about two dozen innocent men have been brought within the shadow of the gallows by the variety of clues which these choice minions of justice have discovered in connection with two recent murders. It begins to look as if the only absolute safety for the rep- utable citizen lies in his committing some horrible murder. It is the one infallible receipt for keeping detectives at a distance. . . . HE next of the Broadway Boodlers to be tried is ex- pected to be the venerable Jacob Sharp. It is to be hoped that Mr. Sharp will receive a fair trial. There are thousands who believe him guilty, but the child-like way in which the gentleman under indictment drinks his three quarts of milk daily gives him an air of ingocence which will stand him in good stead at his trial. Milk and guilt do not seem to go well together. . * . I" seemed like old times on Wednesday to read in the Papers that the New York nine had beaten the Mets eighteen to five. | . . . R. BUSH, the owner of the Coronet, has been accused by his sailors of meanness. They say their food was poor and their expected share in the prize-money refused | them. This is a very grave accusation, and Mr. Bush's friends | will be pleased to hear that it is not true. The men received all the hard-tack and canned fruit they could eat, and were given eleven dollars extra besides for their trouble—presum- ably in digesting the food. It isn’t every man who, after winning a ten thousand dol- lar prize and increasing the value of his vessel by several thousands more, will give his men eighty-five extra cents a day for their efforts in his behalf. Such liberality in addition to the hard-tack and salt-cod, even among sportsmen, is rarely found ! comicbooks.com