Life — December 27, 1888 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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Salf4h) eee Wires , We Oye gif lip htt ee iene TG WMO geet tf lit tuyere ttanuitibiiidbsgsiiitie Poo AH FROM OUR COLLECTION OF OLD PRINTS. ADAM INAUGURATING THE CUSTOM OF MAKING GIFTS ON New Year's Day. genius. There is nothing commonplace about them, that is certain! . . . ERHAPS, apropos of St. James and Depew and difficult situations, . it is pertinent to draw attention > to Colonel Field's suggestion in the Chicago Mews that the Union League Club of Pork- opolis shall invite Mr. Lowell to cast more of his oratorical pearls before a Chicago audience next Washington's Day. There is a suggestion of reciprocity, or retaliation, or some sort of getting-even about Colonel Field's proposition which may be better achieved in a different manner. Let Chicago fit out an orator and send him, like bread cast upon the waters, to talk to the Bostonians. When, after many days, she finds him again it will be interesting, and possibly instructive, for her to know his experience and ascertain what he has learnt. We have no doubt that Boston will readily make a date with any Chicago orator who comes with proper credentials, \7 ERY many astonishing stories are told about the tre- mendous literature that is to ensue when ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON GETS BACK, and of the colossal sums that are to be paid per yard for it. If the yarns Mr. Stevenson is to spin are as marvelous as those of which he is the subject, they will be worth all the money that report says they are to cost. N the great battle between Belmont and Bunny, at last accounts, Bunny was underneath. It has been nip and tuck between the S. P, C. A. and the Association for the Avoidance of Harshness to Swells. . . . SN'T there an active man in Chicago who will take up the Panama Canal where M. de Lesseps laid it down and rush it through ? ELS. M. comicbooks.com