Life — January 21, 1892 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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* Gentlemen,” he exclaimed, as he threw up his hands, | have been held up before. don’t happen to be heeled this time, so go ahead and take everything I've got.” M ESSRS. SANGER AND WILSON should be ashamed to tolerate 4 this abuse. It is absurd to claim that they are powerless to prevent it because the speculators hold licenses from the city. Mr Augustin Daly has successfully chased the Thugs away from his theater. and there is no reason why other managers should not do the same. Hesides, we do not believe that the city of New York, or any other corporation, has a right to license a public nuisance. Metcalfe A PRECEDENT. T HE following report of an old English law case may be helpful to those of the rising generation who are hovering between the law and theology. A and B, the first a lawyer and the second a minister, brought an action of slander against C for calling them *durned fools.” The learned Judge said that A could recover a verdict as it must tend to injure one in the legal profession, which requires discretion and reason, to have the reputation of a “durned fool.” But the Judge said that B could not recover, as a man may be a “durned fool and yet be a very good minister. “TOSSING ¥ COUPER." AN INDUCEMENT. How pokes 1 Look oN Me? hispery: MEAN FRENT, IAP You Ruralistic Custome Dealer (in hollow AN ENEMY? Ruralistic THAT St PERKINS: Dealer (in still more hollow whisper): Yor PUY DOT CLODINGS, UNT VEAR IT SO YOUR ENEMY VILI SEE IT, UNT HE VOS OF ENVY DIE RIGHT OFF Customer (amused): You wer 1 nave, comicbooks.com