Life — May 19, 1887 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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“While there's Sife there's Hope. MAY 1155 BROADWAY, Published every Thursday, $5 00 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. IT., 25 cents per number ; Vols. III., IV., V., VI., VII. and VIII. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. T is not every day that we have royalty to visit us. The presence of the Queen of Hawaii at Washington has stirred the officers of the government to considerable efforts | to provide for her entertainment. Her Majesty is neither so handsome nor so rich as many simple American ladies, but there is no question about her royalty. several American kings who are visiting England with Buf- falo William's show is much regretted. It would have been pleasant to have had them here to show Queen Kapiolani around, but Her Majesty allows that the officers who have | had her in charge have done so well by her that she hasn't missed her peers. * * HE is going to Europe from here, and will doubtless be in Paris in time to bid on the French crown jewels, which she can use in her business if she has enough confi- dence in its future to increase her plant. deal to discourage her from purchasing. It is true the Queen of England has a jubilee coming on, but where she has | succeeded in keeping her seat how many have failed! The Bulgarians are teasing Alexander Battenberg to come back and boss them, but he won't; the Czar wishes that he was a plain man, with confidence in his own integrity. It hardly pays for anyone not in the show business to lock up very | much capital in crowns. * ® * HEY say the Queen of England has condemned Lord Tennyson's ode, and declines to have it sung at her jubilee. Her Majesty's faculties are wonderfully clear, con- sidering her age and her trials with her offspring. She tak her poetry with the rhymes on, or not at all. * * * IR EDWARD THORNTON is in this country to try and induce the State of Virgii just debts. It is to be hoped that since Sir Edward's late experience in Turkey he takes disappointments easily. Bless- | ed is the financier who expecteth little from the State of Virginia ! The absence of | There is a good | | about her. | spondent’s beneficiary this time. 5 7 | ja to pay a fraction of its | ENERAL SHERMAN does not agreé with Lord Wolseley that General Lee was a bigger man than old Grant. Thomas he considers quite as great a general as Lee, and much fitter to compare with him than Grant. It is a pleasant spectacle to see Tecumseh get out his favorite weapon, and fire it at a Britisher. Mr. Jefferson Davis takes ashot at the same delinquent. It is some years since Mr. Davis and General Sherman have been able to use the same target. * * * THE RECURRENCE OF SHERIDAN. A MILITARY DRAMA COMPLETE IN THREE ACTS. Act I. NONYMOUS NEWSPAPER MAN: General Sheridan intends soon to take his annual ride through the enandoah Valley. Act I, GENERAL Rosser: Sheridan is a bloodthirsty brute, who | likes to revisit scenes of carnage and recall the misery he has caused. Boycott him ! Aet I11. GENERAL SHERIDAN: I haven't been in the Shenandoah Valley but once since the war, and have no notion of going again. The trouble with Rosser is that he remembers the licking I gave him. Also, he is running for Congress. Tell his friénds to put a plaster over his mouth. * * * HE City of Mexico's Associated Press correspondent turns up again with a gossipy story about Mlle. Bazaine and various gentlemen who have been trying to fight The Spanish Minister to Mexico is the corre- She will have several warm sympathizers in the United States. * * * T begins to look as if the Mayor and his myrmidons really meant to let the town go dry of a Sunday. * * * EW YORK’S annual shows are a new feature of Me- tropolitan life. Beginning with the Horse Show in the fall, and including the various: flower shows, the Dog Show, | the Cattle Show, Mr. Barnum’s Great Moral Show, and the | Arion Ball, they form a singularly varied and instructive suc- cession of spectacles. Whatever becomes of Madison Square Garden, it must continue to be a show-place. * * * ELL, Mr. Riddle, dear; Boston, though small and hide-bound, is a convenient place for many purposes, and it wouldn't have paid you to keep angry with her. comicbooks.com