Life — September 15, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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

IIE Saratoga season's spoiled, he Long Branch boom is ditto, Lenox and Bar Harbor The ‘‘ten™ no longer flit to. Oid Point is quite a fizzle, Coney’s Isle is in a fluke, ‘The season's spoiled for everyone, For Newport has the Juke. TH sometimes call him the Duke of Snarlborough at home, he is in so many of them. . . * LECTRICITY is a very serious matter, and yet Edison makes light of it. Go BLERS are said to frequent ocean steamers because gulls are very thick at sea. . . . R ECENT Newport events go very far to show that a man need not have a savory reputation so long as he is a Duke. HE Englishman’s hking for the Turk is not surprising. They all worship the prophet with slight differences in orthography. Te man who wrote the song “Cottage Dear,” was probably thinking of the rent of a Queen Anne Cottage at Newport, when he penned the lines HE odor from Hunter's Point has so increased this T summer that it is no longer referred to as a scent. It is a double eagle redeemable at par. . . . “cc HERE has got to be liqui- THE CLOTHES dation before we can have activity and an upward movement,” said a prominent Wall Street man the other day. It appears to us that liquidation is what most of our large corpora- tions suffer from. Western Union Telegraph Company for instance. As for the upward movement, we think there has been a decided tendency in that direction of late. . .* . O, George, the Nave in West- minster Abbey is not one of the British Aisles. WINTER. Te® Prohibitionists may be very consistent, but we pre- dict that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth when they meet their Waterloo this Fall. . . . “THE sign in the British Museum which says, “No Gratuities Allowed,” must not be misconstrued. It means that gratuities must be given on the quiet. . . . F Canada seizes our vessels for fishing in her waters, why can we not retaliate by seizing Englishmen who come over and fish in American society waters for rich wives? . . . A’ upholsterer who was hired to renovate the Bulgarian throne, has discovered a bayonet in the seat of it. This possibly accounts for the discomfort of the present incumbent. . . . : R. BLAINE is cultivating the Prince of Wales... Per- haps the astute politician foresees a revolution in England which may ultimately bring Albert Edward to the United States as a voter. E R, E, P, ROE has written a new book called “The Earth Trembled.” We opine that the Earth will drop if Mr. Roe does not stop loading it up with literature. . . . W HAT a queer mass of consistency is Henry George. Last fall he was the avowed candidate of poverty against wealth. This fall he and excommunicated McGlynn are anti-poverty from their hearts. This beats Ben Butler in his palmiest days. . . ’ NEWSPAPER man says that the house now occupied by Mrs, Hendricks is a two-story brick. This seems to us to be an ex- ceptionally large brick. It must have been quite a job to scoop it out so that Mrs. Hendricks could live in it. A SMALL boy of our acquaint- ance is positive that the green apple was the forbidden fruit on Eden's tree of knowledge, be- cause one day he was what cholera morbus was like, and after eating a green apple he knew all about it. AND THE MAN. SUMMER, comicbooks.com