Life — February 2, 1888 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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OFFLEN DIHOT.* TADOLS gehert ridém, Jadi doliko asko ; Hena andol fidom, Esek kipalz rast. * This is pot a Volapdk poem, bat it looks enough like one to settle the chances of that language with all lovers of the beautiful. . . . NEW and popular cigar is named the * Our Bob,” in honor of Mr. Ingersoll. + The compliment that it draws well is entirely over- shadowed by the fact that it burns rapidly and leaves a very small amount of ash. . . . N iron nut trust has been formed in Penn- sylvania, but this will not interfere with the Chestnut Trust organized by our Mulberry Street contemporary. . . . R. DEPEW'S name has been stricken off the Prohibition slate because he is such an ardent spirit. . . . HE Democratic as well as the Repub- lican National Convention, should assuredly meet in New York. This will give the country delegates a chance to nominate their candidates and get their “green goods" all at the same time. e . . . I" is said to be the greatest disappointment of “ Patriot” O'Brien's life that “bloody Balfour" let him live to get out of jail. . . . HEN a widow is left “all for lawn,” she comes nat- urally by her weeds, . . . OCK BOX 343: By all means refuse to accept the proffered office of Lady Patron, unless you receive the committee's assurance that all the matrons will be gentlemen. . . . RURAL contemporary alleges that New York news- paper men speak of interviewing Mayor Hewitt as “ working the growler.” . . . HE new universal language is pronounced Volahpeek. If Chauncey Depew was a Volapiik, would he hail from Pukskill ? HE Czar has granted a concession to an oil company to run a petroleum pipe from Batoum to Baku. Russia is indeed a progressive nation, and every man, be he noble or ex-serf, will now be able to have his kerosene oil on tap. . . . UEEN VICTORIA, who is the head of the Church of England—a lady Pope, as it were—is a staunch Pres- byterian in Scotland. She never visits Ireland; but should she do so, she would doubtless be a devout Catholic. It is well that Her Majesty does not visit any of her heathen domains, for the Queen of England posing as a pagan before an idol, would hardly be an edifying spectacle. . . BSNS Tur Woot Growers’ DEMAND FOR PROTECTION, . . . T is more blessed to give than receive; but the woman who gives a reception, she is doubly blest. . . . R. MCGLYNN summons the sluggard to his Anti in the hope that he will join and ante up. . . . EFORE going on the stage, Nate Salsbury was an artilleryman, Mr. Salsbury might be able to tell Shakespeare “ what's in an aim.” * . . T is asserted that Maurice Barrymore was a lawyer before he became an actor. We are relieved; we thought he began life as a slugger, since he slugs better than he acts. . . . HE Sun says that Wagner's “ Gotterdammerung” is a fitting climax to the Rhingold series. To look at its title, we imagine that the Sua is not far from right. “Gotterdammerung” is a long word, but it expresses the feelings of the average man after a Wagner opera. comicbooks.com