Life — December 6, 1888 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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* LIFE: REFLECTIONS. R. KEELY, the motor gentleman, is out on bail. It is reported that he resented his imprisonment and stigmatized his prose- cutors with epithets. Mr. Keely has no sort of an opinion of gentle- men who disregard the beams that are in their own eyes and busy themselves with the mote(r) that is in his. Mr. Keely has our sym- pathy. Sometimes we have been conscious of witticisms that were there, but wouldn't crystallize, The Philadelphia inventor should observe, however, that the fellows whose jokes never go off find it hard to dispell the imputation of dullness. . . . BOSTON woman who has read “The Quick and the Dead” admits that it suits her, and has written to the Transcript to say so. “Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" . . . G REETING the holiday season, let us compli- ment Mr. Stevenson upon his charming Christ- mas sermon in Scrséner's, and take our hats off to Mr. Howells for what he says in Harper's fi Study about Christmas literature. Obviously, ~ neither of these gentlemen has any notion of lending his support to the proposed change which would make Christmas commemorate the shed- ding of the tail of a pre-Adamite ape. Mr. Stev- enson sums up the impossibilities of life with the wisest concomitant suggestions, and with con- clusions that are full of solace. Mr. Howells, writing as one whose business it is to be expert in current literature, says: “ Oddly enough, after a period of scientific exaltation, in which it seemed as if man might really live by the nebular hypothesis alone, if he could but have a little help from the missing link, the new Christmas literature denies that there is anything of life everlasting in these things, and it reverts openly to the New Testament as the sole source of hope and comfort.” So far as we can judge of Christmas this year, by its literature, we are going to have our “Hamlet” with the Prince of Denmark . . . PRO ROS of the Rucker- Blackburn row, as illus- trative of certain objectionable Kentucky characteristics, a ju- dicious contemporary suggests that blue grass is a splendid plant, but that there has always been too much of it growing in the paths of peace. Senator Blackburn thus far has ignored “ Judge” Rucker's challenge. If he persists in ig- noring it, he will have the merit of setting an excellent example to himself, to Rucker, and all the other Kentuckians and ex-Kentuckians extant. A grown man who challenges another grown man to fight a duel, ought to be spanked with a slipper, like a bad child, It is intolerable that adults should be so silly. EB. S. M. Mfrs, Selby: DOCTAM, DE CHILE DUN GONE SWALLER "R PINT OB INK, Doctor : HAB YO" DUN ENNYDING FO" DE RELIEF OB "IM? Mrs, Selby: V'st DUN MADE. "IM EAT FREE SHEET OB BLOTTIN’-PAPER, DOCTAH. WAS DAT RITE? WHAT THE NAUGHTY HORNET DID TO THE GOOD LITTLE BOY. comicbooks.com