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‘LIFE: VOL. XVIII. SEPTEMBER 24th, 1891. 28 West Twesty-tTHirD Street, New York. No. 456. Published every Thursday. $5.00 year in advance, postage free. copies ro cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. 1, bound, $30.00; Vol. I1., bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 20 cents per copy. Vols, IIT. 'to XVIT., inclusive, bound or in flat numbers, at $5.00 per volume. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unlessaccompanied bya stamped and directed envelope. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. victory does not perch this Fall upon the stan- dards of the Fassett family, of Zlmira, it will not be for I of standards to perch on. i The Fassett children have ve-< entered their donkey at the Che- =<" mung County Fair, and the Fassett y father has been entered by Mr. \. Thomas Platt and others as Repub- lican candidate for Governor of New York. Candor compels the admis- sion that the children’s entry has much the better prospect of pulling off a prize. The donkey's views on civil service reform are not known, and in that particular it is thought to have a considerable ad- vantage over Mr, Platt’s entry. Here’s- a-hoping that the dear children’s donkey may not disappoint them! * ‘a bl wld A’ impassioned complaint comes from % ‘e Homburg of the inconvenience suffered jo”) by scions of some of the first families in urope from the inroads of Americans upon their favorite watering places. The cions are represented as filled with dis- gust at the demolition of their comfortable semi-privacy by hordes of bustling people in whom they feel no interest. It is too bad, but really there is a note of despair in their com- plaint which is not warranted. Their remedy is simple enough if they can only make up their minds to accept it. ‘They must carry their war into Africa. If they don't like the Americans who flock to Europe in the Summer, they can easily be quit of the whole troop of them by boarding a lux- urious steamship early in June and spending about three months in the United States. The same facts which have resulted in the overcrowding of Homburg and similar spas have tended to make the Summer places in this country select and delightful. We are sure the Europeans will be charmed with them. Crossing the ocean, too, in this direction, when the crowd is bound the other way, they will have the ad- vantage of less crowded steamers, and possibly of reduced rates of fare, while of course the benefits of the voyage are equally great, from whichever shore it begins. The difficulty has been hitherto that the t majority of travellers from Europe who have come to this country have refused to go home again; but “ nothing venture nothing gain" is a law of life, and such Europeans as dare not risk being American- ized must bear the ills they know, with such patience as they may, > * ie talking of the remarkable obsequies of the lamented Garfield, Mr. Blaine once re- marked that his deceased friend, im after being a General in the war, a Representative in Con- . a Senator, and finally President of the United States, lived to be officially buried as a deacon of the Church of the Dis- It seems to have been a lit- tle that way with Mr, Leonard Jerome, who, after a career of considerable prominence in the United States, came at last to be modestly interred as the father-in-law of several English gentlemen. . * . THING that is surely impending over this country is the golf habit. It cannot hold off much longer. . . . OLF is very much the same as our American“ shinney ” with the penalty left out. On the other side even ladies indulge in it, which would not be likely if the American rule prevailed. It is not recommended for our colored brethren though, because of the great temptation their shins would place in the the way of the players. . . ° ae HERE is more noise than nous in the * exposure ” of the conduct of Judge Lowell, of Boston, in acting as referee in a Bell-Telephone case while sundry of his relatives were hol- ders of Bell Telephone stock. Boston is situated neither in Virginia nor Kentuck: and the obligations of relationship sit a good deal easier on the descendants of the Puritans than on families that have been warmed by a more generous sun. The judicial habit is so fixed upon Judge Lowell by long years of service on the bench, that it is hardly conceivable that the prospect of reducing all his nephews and cous the necessity of working for a living would influence any judicial decision of his in so much as the crossing of at. 4 comicbooks.com