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VOL, XIV. 28 West Tw JULY 18, 1889. No. 342. ENTY-THIRD STREET, New York, Published every Thursday, $5.00 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, ro cents. Rack numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. FP bound, $30.00; Vol. Il., bound, §1aco: Vols Ills IV., V4 Vi VIL, 1X2, Xo. XE. and XIL bound, of in flat numbers, at regular rates. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. IFE takes pleasure in calling the attention of Prof. J. L. Sullivan to the suggestion of Scripture that a man who can take good care of himself is a bigger man than one who can knock out a whole city. By far the most interesting set-to that Sullivan has had has been the long one with John Barleycorn, in which the Boston man has been worsted in so many rounds. As to the recent fight with Kilrain, the result of that sadly promises to show how worthless and contempt- ible a thing is mere physical strength unless it is intelligently governed. Sullivan on a spree is a sight to make an athlete boil his dumb-bells into paper-cutters. . . . HE disgust of Mr. Ghooly Khan, the Persian gentleman with the American newspapers has caused those con- temporaries vast amusement, and secured for the minister and his august master as much gratuitous advertising as ever an actress got from her divorce case. Obviously, Mr. Khan is deficient, if not absolutely lacking, in the sense of humor. What the average American newspaper man says about his neighbors and the aldermen of his city he expects to answer for, and he is usually somewhat abstemious in censuring such persons, and does not even publish “news” about them which he is not ready to meet in court. But residents of Europe, Asia and other continents not Ameri- can he regards as perfectly fit subjects for rhetoric or satire, and has fun with them, or boils with indignation at them according to his mood and the needs of his journal. When the American editor comes to realize that foreign potentates are sensitive and care what he says about them, he will doubtless mend his ways and show them such consideration as his aldermen receive. The circumstance that one or two of his brethren have been met on the threshold of diplomatic careers with unexpected clippings from the scrap-books of effete monarchies will, doubtless, also have its weight with him if he has diplomatic aspirations himself. Meanwhile Ghooly Khan's remedy is that of the irate subscriber—to stop his paper! CERTAIN eminent Irish-Americans of Chicago are said to be considering whether it is possible and would pay to get a large farm somewhere and start an Irish-American republic to advance the interests of Ireland and the Irish race. They propose to form a syndicate of rich Irish-Ameri- cans who will furnish capital for the enterprise, and to send out agents to Canada, Chili, Peru and Mexico to dicker for territory on which the experiment may be tried. IFE trusts that the projectors of this scheme will con- tinue to be pleased with it, and will be able to secure the land they want and make the experiment. While Lire feels an affection for Irishmen in the gross that is warm and constant, and sympathizes with them in their passion for the Green Isle and their efforts for her betterment, it is conscious of the greatest reluctance to have an Irish-American republic erected in the United States, If all the Irish-Americans, who are Irish first and chiefly, and Americans secondly and in their leisure time, should pack off and start a new republic in accordance with their views, we believe it would be interesting for them and a great deal more comfortable for the rest of us, including all the Irish-Americans whose first regard is for the country they live in. Any reasonable plan to prevent the interpolation of Irish politics into the politics of the United States may count upon this journal's support; nor will such plan necessarily meet with disfavor in these columns because it involves results incidentally detrimental to Great Britain. England is to blame for The Irish Vote as experienced in the United States. If it can be cured at England's ex- pense, so much the better. . . . IVORCE is not permitted in South Carolina, but you can shoot your wife when you have grown tired of her, and the jury won't trouble you. . * . HE administration knows what it knows and doesn't tell. You can only guess at it. Why is it so set upon keeping the New York 7rébune without an editor? A cor- respondent reports that Mr. Reid being already shelved at Paris, the Russian mission is to be offered to Mr. John Hay, who was chosen as Mr. Reid's successor in the Tall Tower, and fled forthwith to Europe for his health. It will be a dreadful slight upon Elliot Shepard if Hay goes to St. Peters- burg—an intimation that Elliot can do no harm to any one but himself. But it will also be a singularly convincing intimation that the 777éuve is safest with its head off. comicbooks.com