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: - a5 = “While there's Life theze’s Hope.” No. 231, JUNE 2, 1887. 1155 Broapway, NEw York. 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. II., 25 cents per number ; Vols, IIL, IV., V., VI., VII. and VIII, at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. ISTRICT ASSEMBLY 49 applauds the sentiments of Dr. McGlynn when he says he respects the opinions of noble men who throw bombs at the Czar. If the elo- quent priest gets his views into practical shape, and meets “tyranny” in his own case by Russian methods, will 49 back him up? Does the hardihood of the town run ex- clusively to bridge-jumping, or will the Fourth Ward furnish a devoted squad to run over and blow up the Pope? Wouldn’t it be a glorious tribute to 49 and American free- dom to disintegrate His Holiness on the Fourth of July! How would that suit you, 49 ? * * * HE question of Sunday rum continues to be fraught | with as much passion as ever, but talk only makes the town dryer. New York grows weekly more goody-goody, and her citizens hunt with increasing anxiety for convenient places to hie to for refreshment. How far we have out- Puritaned the Puritans is demonstrated by the recent exodus of a band of sportful Gothamites to the spring meeting of the Boston Country Club. The suppression of betting on horses by our Sunday-School Legislature gave Boston a fine meeting, with New York judges and New York horses, | money and clothes to set the pace for her. It’s a feeble wind | that doesn’t make the dust fly somewhere. bill! and may the Saturnian days return to Coney Island Ze duce Hill, * * * OME people thought that when Editor O'Brien crossed the sea for the sole purpose of calling Lord Lansdowne names, he came on a fool's errand. If that was true, the circumstances that were needed to alter the case have come promptly to hand. The Canadian Orangemen have seldom disappointed any one who trusted them to make idiots of | | tion and a liberal salary. | that awaits Stagg’s decision, that questions that once seemed themselves, and if Mr. O'Brien came confiding in their ability to put themselves in the wrong, the result has nobly borne him out. LIFE cordially hopes that the ribs of the Press militant’s representative may regain their normal position, and long defend the stout heart beneath them. As for you, Hail to the Pool | pitcher of baseballs to Yale University. Mr. Stagg is repre- | inconsolable. remuneration. Lord Lansdowne, dear, may heaven deliver you from your friends! Can't your lordship get a squad of Orangemen for tenants sometime, and sarve ’em out the way you know? * * * ]* the current number of Harper's Magazine, Mr. Howells expresses his disapproval of the American critics, suggesting, however, that they work under great disadvantages of ignorance, circumstances and sex, and are really not so malevolent and more amusing than might be expected. It is gratifying to see Mr. Howells’ lance couched in this mill. If he is ever to have as much fun with the American critics as they have had with him it is time he began, and he should keep prodding with all his might. If Howells should run out so as not to be worth finding fault with, or should stop writing, the American critic would be The said critic doesn’t know very much, per- haps, but he knows Howells, and anything that would tend to make that much of his stock of information unavailable would hit him where he lives. The American critic will stick to you, Mr. Howells, Sir, as long as you are worth sticking to. Not the poster-paster is so good a friend to Mr. Barnum as he is to you. - Sock it to him, Sir; he likes it. * * EALLY the steamship companies seem to want to injure a profitable business and encourage Americans to stay at home. If they go on staving in one another's sides people will believe after a while that in spite of plumb- ing, there is a good deal to be said for houses and dry land. Was it the loss of the Oregon that kept the Arétannic's compartments shut and saved her? Let the Cunard Company say Yes, and add sz vos non vobis. * * * F one individual more than another monopolizes the public interest at this time, that person is probably Mr. Stagg, | sented to be a young man of limited financial resources and phenomenal ability to place a baseball so that a batsman will try to hit it and fail. It is a talent which is in great demand in this country just now, and can command a magnificent Most of the top professional clubs are as anxious to get Mr. Stagg as Chicago women are to own a Mazarine diamond, and the young man daily has occasion to adjust in his mind the comparative value of a liberal educa- Such is the suspense of the public momentous have grown trivial in comparison, and Yale men have even been heard to say that they did'nt care any more whether it was the lady or the tiger. comicbooks.com