Life — January 5, 1893 — page 49: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

E. are not making history very fast these days, and the world is to be congratu- lated that the last month of 1892 adds no especially striking events to the year's record. © be sure the republican institutions of France have been getting a little shaking- up, but probably no more than was good for them, It’s better for France that her present xovernment should have its rotten spots dis- covered in times of peace and when there is no rabid pretender running loose and looking for a chance to grab a throne. AX” during the season of peace on earth and good will towards men Messrs. Varkhurst and Byrnes seem to have laid aside their cudgels and gone to work at their usual business. All the same, they are probably both stacking up ammunition for future en- counters, OW the conduct of Mst, Clemenceau and Derouléde shines by contrast with the recent display of Col, Robert Neville! They have helped the newspaper business a great deal more, but instead of winding up in a vulxar police court they have had all the xlory and fun of poking holes in the circum: ambient atmosphere with projectiles from a real pair of duelling pistols. Poor FRANCE. \Oe CHRISTMAS IN AFRICA: comicbooks.com