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- LIFE: VOL. XIX. MARCH 24th, 1892. 28 West Twenty-Tuikp Street, Published every Thursday. $s.coa yearinadvance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year,extra. Single copies, ro cents Back numbers can be bad by applying at this office.” Single copiesof Vols. 1. and Il, out of print. Vol. f., bound, $30.00; Vol. IT, bound, $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, as cents per copy. | Vols. Ili. to XVI. inclu: sive, bound or in flat numbers, at $10.00 per volume. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matter® by sending old address as well as new. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope, OME ONE was saying the other day that apart from transitory considerations of pulchritude, politics and crime, the most interesting American to meet in the street was Ben Butler. Ben's chief rivals, as named, in the public eye were Grover Cleveland, John Sullivan and Mrs. Cleve- To these Edison should be added, and a place should be made, too, for Jay Gould. To the average American it is an event to clap eyes on any one of these notables, and in the cases of Gen. Butler and Mr, Gould there is the additional spice of excitement that you never can be sure that the precise moment at which you are looking at either of them, will not happen to be the one in which The Old Boy will come to carry him off. There has been no dispute worth mentioning for twenty years past that some day the Devil would come for Mr. Gould, and the very unanimity with which that opinion has been held, makes it seem irregular for such divines as Dr. Rainsford and Dr. Parkhurst to raise such a din about his ears before his time. It takes more than the reverend clergy to hurry Old Scratch. If he seems unduly slothful about gathering in Mr. Gould, it may be because when he does come millionairing again he means to make a day's work of it, and make up a bag of Mr. Mr. John A. Morris and the two Mr. Rockefellers. It is true, though, that the latter gentlem: ‘eunderstood to be- lieve that the commercial institution with which they are connected can drain the infernal regions of fuel, so that they fear no worse form of future retribution than cold feet. land. * * AS for Parkhurst and Rainsford, they are to be con- Doctors yratulated on the vigor of their recent ministrations. It isa great professional convenience for a preacher, a lawyer, or a newspaper editor to find some one who thoroughly needs to be thumped. ‘Thumping is comparatively easy work for a man who is at all good at it, and brings especially wholesome variety into the newspaper business and the preaching of the gospel. Moreover, when a man is thumping some one he has the ap- pearance of being very actively employed, and of giving full measure of service for his wage. Of course that isn’t the reason why these reverend gentlemen have been after Mr. Gould, but it may help Mr. Gould to feel benevolently towards. them if he can remember that though they may not seem to have done him any particular good, he has been incidentally of some service to them. HE spring has come; not with much of a rush yet, but perceptibly. The blizzard period has passed, robins have been seen in Central Park, and thelate Mr. Barnum’s showis present. But if anybody has doubts about the season, and hasn't time to go robin- hunting in the Park, he has only to read the steamer-lists in the daily newspape ‘The migration of the top swells is in full swing already. A person whose health one autumn gave him a sufficient excuse for spending a sudden six weeks in Europe, records that when the anniversary of his departure came around, he was seized with a longing to handle five pound notes, so that for days his mind ran on British money, and nothing buta humorous self-respect kept him from converting some of Uncle Sam's legal-tender into Bank of England paper to carry in his pocket. Such is the community of human feel- ing that what comes into any man’s mind comes also into the mind of his fellow, so that periodical recurrence of a pro- pensity toward five pound notes (here for the first time recor- ded) is probably a very ordinary symptom of the habit of foreign travel. It begins to be epidemic just about now. is a melancholy duty to T I notice the existence of a lively difference between Pro- fessors Abbott and Royce of Harvard University, who are unable to agree upon certain points of philosophy and have noised abroad their disagreement with notable virulence. It is suggested hereby that these learned gentle- men should settle their differences at a distance of twelve paces, and that the weapons be books. In case there is any trouble in finding a sufficient supply of literary missiles, it may be said that Uncle Samuel has stored in the basement of his capitol at Washington, at least a million dollars’ worth of bound reports which are admirably fit for one angry man to throw at another, since they are not, and never were, good for anything else. — ENATOR HILL has been south for his political health. Itis suspected that the Senator got a chill about the time of the unseasonable mid-winter convention. comicbooks.com