Life — July 6, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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

“While there's Life there's Hope.” JULY 6, 1893. y-Titird Str VOL. XXII. 28 West Tw No. 549. » New York, Published every Thursday. $s.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies. 10 cents, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. OR a week past, if not a fortnight, the earth and its fulness has belonged to the collegian, who exelusive rights to it every year about this season and gets through with it just in time for the Fourth of July. The collegian uses it pretty hard sometimes, but the earth is old and tough and comes up smiling for the Fourth. Having sustained the “wear and tear of undergraduate exuberance has “Sat about a thousand commencements and class-days, and afforded room for the settle- ment of intercollegiate disputes on field and river, ~ ithas leisure again to roll on its course and wish that some kind hand would put a poultice on that eruptive spot upon its face which men call Chicago. * * * T= American Eagle has been screaming at short intervals ever since last October, and must be pardoned if she is too hoarse to make an extra- ordinary demonstration on the Fourth. All the things the Independence Day orators could be expected to say have been on record these many months, and our per- ceptions of them have been , constantly refreshed. We do not need to be told this year that we are the biggest - toad inthe puddle. Our friendly visitors from beyond the seas \_ have assured us of that at short intervals for months past, and when by any chance they haven't, we have promptly assured them thatitis so. Have we not the most glorious of all fairs! has not our Mr. Architect -LIFE-: Hunt won the gold medal that the greatest archit long for! are not our war ships faster and spunkier than any other war ships! has any nation got as many silver dollars as we have! have not our foreign ministers blossomed out as yard-wide ambassadors ! have we not hobnobbed with dul and infantas galore, and have they not been confessedly thankful that they were as good as we! * * . $s most y do not need to work the venerable Fourth very hard this year. Our cup is full as it is, and it will be accredit to us if we can carry off what We need to mortify our flesh a little if any- thing, and meditate on subjects rather fit to shrink our pride than swell it. Let us forget for a moment the diameter of the Ferris wheel and Mr. Hunt's medal, and dwell upon the Brooklyn police and the enlightened hospitality extended by Justice Tighe to our guests the Vikings! Let us also refiect how intolerably scarce money is, and how hard it has become to get funds without giving up something of real value. Let us brood a little over the Geary law, and the condemnation of Briggs, and the Fall River police, and the lamentable ten- dency of our college athletes to squabble over their sports and try to overreach one another. If wi in-to even a limited measure of self abasement it will be very much to our credit, and more than, under existing circumstances, any one who sees us has a right to expect. is already in it. EW American million- aires have had a better notion of the business of :being a rich man than the late Senator Stanford. He made money out of the develop- ment of the country and spent it in the improvement of the stock. If the great university he founded has a tithe of the success in turning out great men that the Palo Alto stock farm has already had in turn- ing out great horses, his name and aspirations will be honorably remembered for many generations to come, However much money a man may have, to accom- plish something with it that will last is a great achievement, and it is one that Mr. Stanford seems to have performed. . * * NE of the latest exhibits at the Fair is the work of a drilling company which has undertaken to bore a hole three thousand feet deep in the crust under Jackson Park, It is a reckless experiment. Learned men believe that far down under Chicago is a stratum of pure wind. If the boring company gets down far enough a result may be anticipated such as ensues when a pin-hole is made in a baloon, It would seem wiser not to be too inquisitive about the under- pinning of Cook County, Illinois. comicbooks.com