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“While there's Life there's Hope.” VOL. x. NOVEMBER 10, 1887. 28 West TWENTy-THIRD STREET, New York. No. 254. 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 aumber ; Vols. III, 1V., V., VI, VIL, VIII, and IX. at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. HEN this number of LiFe appears, a large majority of the able-bodied citizens of this town will have made up their minds as to whether Boodle or Justice shall rule supreme. A close study of society in this town would lead a betting man to bet on Boodle. In every branch of life, public and private, real and unreal, the dollar is the motive power; but it may happen—the unexpected always does—that Justice will get the upper hand. In this event we shall congratulate De Lancey Nicoll on his elevation to the District Attorneyship. . . . T" will be an interesting addition to Shakespearean knowl- edge to note where Frederick Dent Grant comes out in the scramble for office. If the Son of His Father becomes Secretary of State we shall be able to cable the Bard of Avon that there is a great deal more in a name than he imagined. HE attention of Boston is called to the gross behavior of Colonel Watterson, of Kentucky, who in a late issue of the Courter-/ournal alluded -to the higher education of women as higher fiddlesticks, and denied that “*‘ the learning of the schools,’ in the sense the term is used,” can contribute anything but doubt and sin to the essential elements of genuine womanhood. The Colonel say: “Woman was born to be a mother, and that which fits her for her destiny is her ‘higher education,’ embracing all that adds to the corichment of a fine, noble understanding and the enlargement of a strong, loving and virtuous character. * © * The girl who docs not expect some time or other to get a husband and nurse a baby, ought to be thrown in her infancy into the nearest frog-pond ; {or to all such that would be merciful. Woman is maternity.” It is permitted to suggest to Boston that Henry Watterson be extradited from Kentucky under pretense of a political confab with Dr. Everett, General Collins and Boyle O'Reilly, and that, once in Boston, he be anchored at the bottom of that very frog-pond which he cruelly suggests should be choked with Boston infants. HEY say that Mr. Howells headed a petition to the Governor of Illinois in behalf of the Anarchists. Has our Boston friend followed Tolstoi so far as to have become a non-resistant? If so, how long may we expect him to keep personally clean and wear boiled shirts? . . . [= local campaign has demonstrated one thing that most people never dreamed of. Pulitzer calls Dana Ananias, and Dana calls Pulitzer Judas. This shows that these gentlemen are slightly familiar with the Bible. . . . UR esteemed evening contemporary the Post appears in a new and handsome dress, and has taken one more step in the direction of the ideal newspaper. We con- gratulate our contemporary upon its change of form, and trust that it may continue to demonstrate that it is possible for a newspaper with high ideals to live up to its professions, as well as to show aspiring young literateurs that wind is not the chief requisite for a successful journalistic career. L' hopes that when Mrs. Potter elevates the stage, she will get it high enough to be seen over the fashionable theatre bonnet. . . . VERY readable article on “Death by Electricity” is going the rounds of the press. The execution of murderers by means of electricity is sup- posed by many to be more humane than by hanging, but it has been discovered that a shock which would be sufficient to kill nine men would fail to do more than paralyze the tenth. The philanthropic author of this article, then, proposes that water being such a good conductor, the most humane method of taking off the condemned is to shock him while he is enjoying a refreshing bath. “One pole of the battery,” the writer states, “could be connected with the zinc bottom of the bath-tub, and the con- demned might be invited to use a copper cake of soap, to which the other pole had been attached by invisible wires. By this device death would be made certain and easy.” The absurdity of this proposition, however, is made mani- fest when we consider the case of the Chicago Anarchis We venture the assertion that if the bath-tub measure were submitted to these gentlemen, the condemned, if they were not instantly killed by the very idea, would be unanimous in the claim that no more barbarous and cruel death could have been devised by their most devout ill wishers. For this reason we trust that the Anarchists will be floated to eternity by means of the bath-tub, comicbooks.com