Life — October 20, 1887 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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DEDICATED TO THE PRESS. To a Critic of the President's Tour, HE 7ribune, inconsistent, Should depreciate its vest, For Horace Greeley e’er advised “Go west, young man ; go west!" . Toa C. A. D. on his Editorial Page, The Sun presents this paradox In spite of luck that's ill, And general imbecility, It never runs down Hill. Botanical. We rather think staid journals that at eventide do weary.us,. Will find the daily Sun and World's night-blooming serious, . . . [AR WILDE is the editor of the Woman's World. We begin to see why Oscar let his hair grow long. O . * . SHE. “Story of Ireland” is the name of a book written by Hon. Emily Lawless. How appropriate for Lawless to write of Ireland! - . . HE North American Review is publishing a series of articles on “ Possible Presidents.” In view of the fact that Blaine and Hill are the ones first treated of, the title is a misnomer. Impossible Presidents would be more truthful. W have had occasion before this to refer to the Eng- lish of the Temes’ London correspondent. We find, in his letter of October 9, the following sentence : They [the official class in Ireland] made elaborate preparations to prosecute Mr. Sullivan, and the attention of all Great Brit drawn to the spectacle of his going in state, with the mace, sword, robes, and a whole retinue of civic dignitaries, to the police court, only to be defeated. was Now, as a matter of fact, Mr. Sullivan did not go to the police court only to be defeated, and so well-informed a per- son as Mr. H. F, ought to know better than to make any such misleading statement. The correspondent may know what he wants to say, but he does not seem able to express himself clearly—which is very unfortunate, since our daily papers have, as a rule, such brilliant foreign correspondents, with whom this gentleman must be compared with, to him, “odorous " results. ARNUM'S great show and the Queen's Jubilee proces- sion have been justly referred to as a pair of specta- cl . . . T is a very hard position for a Life Insurance to be placed in to have to notify the tenants of one of its buildings to get out or be killed. It involves a heavy loss either way. * . * J HE 7ziéstle is for sale, if an advertisement in the 77mes is correct. Somehow or other she fails to go off like hot cakes, sale is likely to be a slow one. The A LANDED GENTLEMAN, . . . T is a good thing for this country that Mr. Keppler's lithograph of Mr. Cleveland was not published before election. It would have killed Mr, Cleveland in spite of Mr. Blaine’s record. In this connection we wish to deny Puck's editorial state- ment that this portrait of the President was taken from Lire. We have never yet libeled anyone, much less a man for whom we have so great an admiration as we have for the President of the United States. We think our esteemed contemporary owes an apology to Mr. Cleveland and to LiFe. . . . “*ENERAL WOLSELEY says Queen Victoria is great and good, and the general is right. She tips the scale at two hundred and twenty, which is a sufficient guar- antee of greatness, and as for goodness, she will always pass for a sovereign. We know of nothing much better than that, in its way, except a five-dollar gold piece. comicbooks.com