Life — September 8, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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

“LIFE’S” IMPROVED POETS. COLERIDGE, ASKED my fair, one happy d What should [ call her in my lay ; By what sweet name from Rome or Greece Lalage, Newra, Chloris, ppho, Lesbia or Doris, Arethusa or Lucrece. Ab,” replied my gentle fair, ** Beloved, what are names but air? Choose thou whatever suits thy plan. Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris, Call me Henrietta, Susa, Maude, Jerusha, Arcthusa, Call me anything from Jess to Fan, But—draw the line at Mary Ann,” THe devil will play his last card on Judgment abriel will trumpet. . e . pur read Browning's poems upside down in Chicago, and claim to find him quite as prime as Eugene Field. HE Sun sticks to its editorial cat, and the World has lately acquired a large editorial dog, “ which his name is Brag.” H ENRY is not altogether a bag of conceit, but in private life he is said to believe that Washington was named after George. eral meaning of Dies Faustus is “lucky day majority of those mentioned in Goethe's pocm found it quite the reverse. N English paper says that Bur- gess is an amateur who doesn’t know how to use beam. The English yachts- men should cast little more mote in- to their own yachts before criticising the beam that is in Bur- gesses. “GRACIOUS, WHAT A TALL Roy! HE World shows that it is like its great namesake in its ability to revolve. Its present attitude toward the President is a complete revolution, } WSPAPER bragging is quite natural. No self re- specting journal will hide its light under a bushel when it knows that its brilliancy cannot be gauged by bushels, . . . TT HE superstitious have received a severe blow in the rescue of the missing thirteen from the City of Montreal. They sat thirteen at table for five days, and yet they are all safe! * . . COMPARATIVE. «6 O)H, pshaw,” said the Bostonian, contemptuously, “everything with you New Yorkers is the Almighty dollar.” And with the Bostonians everything is the omnipotent quarter,” replied the New Yorker. CORRESPONDENT writes to us as follows : A friend of mine sat down in Madison Square about 11 o'clock the other evening; about fifteen minutes to 12 a park policeman ordered him out, Had that park policeman any legal right to do so? J. V. Dusenberry, It all depends on circumstances, J. V. Dusenberry. It your friend sat on the fountain, or insisted on being dandled on the leg of the Seward statue, we think the policeman simply did his duty. te of Rhode Island was washed over into Connecticut, but the Governor hired a couple of Italian laborers for half a day, and the State has been shoveled back to the old site. URING a recent heavy rain the Si T HE Boston 7ran- script asks," Have we too many mouths to feed?” Not knowing the ed- itor of the Transcript personally, we are not certain as to how many mouths he has. As for ourselves, we find one mouth all we care “BY THE WAY, YOU WERE sayinc?" to control, comicbooks.com