Life — July 21, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

FORESIGHT. HE George land movement has received an impetus from the fact that burial lots at Haverstraw have been sold with imperfect titles, and it is proposed to oust the tenants. As the George movement is looking for a good burial-site, it wants to be sure of its ground. . . . HAT a beautiful world is this! How grand are the mountains, the sea, the watering-place hotels, the election frauds and patent medicines of our native land! But all these delights can be enjoyed only by means of a good digestion. If your stomach is out of order, do not try to live healthily, but buy all the pills, bitters and elixirs that you see advertised under a pleasing disguise. You will then feel as if you had fifteen different stomachs instead of one poorly equipped one, and will enjoy life in proportion. . . . Ady. HAT Italian nobleman in England who has been detected in selling tinware by day while frequenting the most exclusive society at night, is not singular. Many of our most select society people base their claim to recognition upon this metal. A WARNING LTHOUGH Mr. Blaine has been received at supper by Henry Irving, it is not believed that he will be engaged as a member of the troupe until Irving opens a museum. . . . W ATER has been used by an English rector instead of wine, at communion. Cowley wrote, on the miracle of turning water into wine at the marriage feast: “The conscious water saw its Lord, and blushed.” The English rector who tries to turn wine into water is therefore only logical in refusing to blush. . . . WESTERN robber and murderer, when asked to explain how he happened to enter on a career of wickedness, began his reply by saying: “I was born in Philadelphia.” ‘HOMME Qui Rit does not refer to the man who writ, but rather to the editor who laughed as he rejected the contribution. . . . T= city authorities should see to it that all dog-days found straying out of season are sent to the pound. . . . GEORGE orator, on the Fourth, accused Tammany of drinking from the ‘“‘empyrean spring” of fraud and corruption. He seems to have become confused as to the Pierian spring and the Empire State, “Empyrean” means the highest heaven, but no one ever before accused Tammany of drawing inspiration from that source. . . . IT" has been determined by palzontology that Bo-Peep’s sheep, which “left their tales behind them,” were of a statistical turn and merely wanted to leave on record a sudden decline in the wool supply. + . . . HERE is Palsy Fairchild? Having launched his curse he seems to have dried up like “She.” TO FANNERS. INTERESTING LITERARY DISCOVERY. DMIRERS of Shakespeare will be interested in the discovery of a manuscript letter written by him to one of the managers of the Globe Theatre in 1610. The docu- ment is especially valuable inasmuch as it throws consider- able light on the Bard's method of producing plays and his character for modesty and veracity. We quote it verbatim. StRATFORD-oN-AVON, Dec. 15, 1610. My dear Sir,— Here is another comedy—the last I shall do this year. It was written this morning, making the fourth that I have turned out since dinner yesterday. The piece, although executed rapidly, is none the less amusing, and I may say that I am perfectly satisfied with it, as 1 am with all my work. T hope you will like it, and believe that you will, for it has no demerits whatever, being, on the contrary, one of my happiest efforts. Yours, &., To Master HEYwoop, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Globe Theatie. comicbooks.com