Life — December 22, 1887 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: A MISTAKE SOMEWHERE. Mrs. O'Toole having decided to start into business as a Receiver, interviews a second- hand dealer with a view to the purchase of an appropriate sign. 366 THE DISPLAY. THE PURCHASE the authorities. He could not account for this, but was in hopes that if the palsy had not yet arrived at the White House, measles might set in before another message was sent forth. Anthony Comstock believed that Mr. Cleveland should be indicted for setting forth so many bare facts. Mr. Foraker, while he still regretted that Mrs. Cleveland should have seen fit to snub him at Philadelphia, believed that the President was trying to do what he conceived to be the right thing. He could not imagine why the President did not suggest the propriety of using the surplus up in fighting the Rebellion all over again, because Jefferson Davis uses a small silk American flag for a pocket-handkerchief. Mr, Sunset Cox had but one criticism to make, which was that the Message was deficient in humor. A few jokes, like the absence of point to the war tacks, or an allusion to the un- expected pleasure of finding a surplus after the Republican party went out of the Treasury, or even a jest on the subject of coast defenses now that the toboggan chuting galleries were about to open, Mr. Cox thought, would have en- — livened the even tenor of the message's tedium. Ex-Governor Butler admitted that the President did very well as far as he went, but the ex-Governor thought that the Presidency required a man who _ could look on both sides of a question at once, and that, until we had such a person in the White House, Presidential messages must be more or less one-sided. When asked who he thought possessed such peculiarities of vision, the General modestly avowed that he was so often misreported that he did not care to speak of himself. Other opinions, of more or less importance, were expressed, but we think we have given a suffi- cient number above to demonstrate the significant fact that wherever in this broad land Mr. Cleve- land’s views have not been bitterly assailed they have met with cordial support. We do not think we prophecy too much when we say that if Mr. Cleve- land secures a majority in the next electoral college he will succeed himself in the White House. Carlyle Smith, B N the deadly coal schooner on the high seas, and the Bowery beer schooner ashore, it looks as if our navy would be exterminated if prompt measures of defense are not taken. “WHY YOU'VE ONLY AY iM.” SCRAPS. I N Chicago, the rock-ribbed aristocracy traces itself back to the great fire; while the low, middling aristocracy loses itself inthe twilight of the last blackberry season. . . . A N Illinois man who went fishing with Lincoln fifty years ago, threatens to sue the Century Magazine for not printing his picture. HE wear and tear on contribution boxes is a very small item of church expense. * . CCORDING to an old superstition of the Mediaval Church, whenever a cock crows a lie is being told. The reason that cocks crow so persistently in the early morning hours is because the morning papers are being set up. THOUGHT IT STRANGE. W HEN Chumpley heard the result of the recent election in France, he said he couldn't see why in thunder they chose Sadi-Carnot when. they-had Sadi Martinot right there in Paris, “WHAT WILL YOU GIVE ME FOR MY HORSE, Deacon?” BOT THE FRAME UP, JOHN; WHEN HE'S DONE I'LL LOOK \ comicbooks.com