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“While there's Life there's Hope. VOL. XVI. JULY 24, 1890, No. 395. 28 West Twenty-THirp Street, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, ro cents. “Hack numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. J, Pound. $30.03; Vol: II, bound. $13,003 Vols 1. WV. Vi. Vig VIL, VII, IX.,X., XL, XU, RL XIV, and XV., bound or in'flat numbers, regular rates ejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied bya stamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. IFE learns, not without pain, that the husband of Mrs. Bonanza Mackay, a lady famous on both sides of the Atlantic, is again advertising rewards offered for the detec- tion of some evil-minded person who accuses her of washing clothes in early life. It was known some time since that Mrs. Mackay had been accused of having taken in washing, and had met the charge and overcome it with law suits and affidavits. But it seems that her disavowals and prosecutions have been powerless against the malice that prompts the charge. . . . T isa pity that Mrs. Mackay should let a little thing like that trouble her. Even if it were true that she had ever had the strength and courage to fight poverty over a wash-tub, no one whose opinion is worth considering would think any worse of her on that account. An interesting and cultivated woman is not a bit less attractive because it is known thatshe was poor and plucky in early life. In the estimation of a reflective being the story of the wash-tub would add as much to the interest attaching to Mrs. Mackay’s personality as that Andrew Carnegie gains from the story of his entering Pitts- burg on foot with a loaf of bread under each arm. If she had the right feelings, she would be proud of the wash-tub imputation, and if she would only adopt it, and enter the market with “Mrs. Mackay’s Own Laundry Soap,” it is impossible to forecast how much she might add to resources already respectable. If the mother-in-law of a Colonna must tremble at the shadow of a wash-board, surely those early foreign alliances fall even shorter than had been sup- posed of being worth their price. But be that as it may, there is vast money in soap, and if Mrs, Mackay once puts her's on the market she won't have to wait until dukes are two a penny before she can fill her hand. * . ° O have convoyed one’s stomach through the thickets of Africa to have it wrecked at London dinner-parties would seem a hard fate. Mr. Stanley is to be congratulated ing enough control of his insides to be able to stand See ZR talent up and be married. A very famous African explorer, one Emin Pasha, fell a victim to hospitality before he got out of the woods, and nearly lost his life in consequence. His example should have served Mr. Stanley in better stead. And yet, now we think of it, it is true that Stanley stuck to Africa as long as he could, and gathered strength for months at Cairo to meet the London cooks. Lucky man to have lived to put a wife between himself and his entertainers. interesting sign of the political times is the growth of A speculation as to what is passing nowadays in the mind of Mr. Blaine. People were wondering the other day what he thought of Mr. McKinley's tariff bill. They have wondered since what he thinks of Mr. Harrison and Mosquito Cottage; and they have wondered more lately still how he has been impressed with the remarkable exploits of Mr. Reed, as Speaker of the House. The fact that the authorship of a recent magazine article criticising Mr. Reed’s rulings was attributed to Mr. Blaine is evidence of what his feelings toward Mr. Reed are believed to be, and he has been credited with a decided distaste for Mr, McKinley's tariff tinkering. The general suspicion is that it is far from a trial to him to be as far from Washington as Bar Harbor, and that he is glad of the independent and elegant occupation he finds in wrang- ling with Sir Julian Paunceforte over Behring Sea. But though Mr. Blaine is suspected of dissatisfaction with his political associates, it is yet to be demonstrated that the suspicion does him harm. There are more ways than one in which the company a man keeps may affect his reputation. He may associate with such an unprepossessing crew as to appear very favorably by contrast. Perhaps Mr. Blaine showed his appreciation of stage effect when he took his seat between Generals Wanamaker and Harrison. * * . se T! = time I've lost in wooing,” a young man said, I do not regret, for I had the fun and | gained But I grudge the time I habitually lose in trying to remember to spell Cincinnati with two ‘n’'s* and one the experience. The exercise gives It is wasted *t.’ and not with one ‘n’ and two ‘t's.’ no pleasure, and leaves me no wiser than I was. effort. . * . ARDINAL GIBBONS believes in opening art galleries on Sunday. So does Lire. So do all good people whose education has not been misdirected. . * * T is glad news that those diamonds have been recovered. An increase of cardiac affections reported by physicians is attributed to the fact that the hearts of the American people stand still so often over the loss of Mrs. Stevens's jewels. Please, lady, put them in the bank ! comicbooks.com