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INFERENCES FROM OUR CARTOON.

We have forgotten how the Chilian Minister to

Washington conducted himself during the late disagreement between the Northern and Southern States. If, holding a diplomatic position, he had countenanced and abetted Jefferson Davis and his associates, we fear some of our more turbulent citizens might have made it unpleasant for any Chilian sailors in the streets of New York.

If in addition, the Chilian representative at Washington had not been a Chilian at all, but a political refugee from another country, a dynamiter, and an upholder of an organized murder society, we should hardly have blamed our fellow-citizens for assuming a belligerent attitude towards Chili and the Chilians. If he had been a political adventurer seeking to feather his own nest and a professional blatherskite with an itch for making trouble, we should have been pleased to see him conducted to the borders of our own country with an armed escort.

And we should have had a very poor opinion indeed of the Chilian government which

could send such a repre

sentative to this country.

ADVICE from the Century

Dictionary, page 4908.

To pop the question. See pop."

Agent of the Matterhorn Flats: No, SIR; THE CONSTRUCTION

OF THE BUILDING DID NOT
LEAVE US ROOM FOR AN
ELEVATOR, BUT WE HAVE
WHAT WE CONSIDER A MUCH
SUPERIOR ARRANGEMENT IN
OUR ELECTRIC, SELF-ACTING,

MERRY-SWISS-BOY-MOUN

TAIN-CLIMBING-TOURIST-CHAIR-AUTOMATON. JUST WAIT

A MINUTE, AND YOU'LL HEAR HIM YODLE.

"While there's Life there's Hope."

VOL. XIX.

JANUARY 21st, 1892.

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T appears from the last will of the late Mrs. R. L. Stuart, that that good lady left her soul to her Maker, her body to the tomb, and her pictures and various collections to the Lenox Library. If we are very good, we may meet Mrs. Stuart's spiritual essence again in some future state, but unless we are resurrectionists, or persons of exceptional perseverance, it is probable that we have viewed her mortal remnants and her collections for the last time.

One reason, it seems, why Mrs. Stuart left her pictures and things as she did was that she wanted them kept together-which was a natural feeling, and applicable alike to her bones, and to her books and bric-a-brac. Another motive which may have had its influence was suggested by President John Kennedy of the Lenox institution, when he said: "Mrs. Stuart knew, that during my lifetime at least, and my connection with the institution, its doors would not be opened on Sunday."

IT is a pleasure to felicitate Uncle John Sherman on his

recapture of the Senatorial dignity. Uncle John is a desirable man to have in the Senate, as Senators go, and has many qualities and much knowledge and experience, which should make him useful there. But if the Ohio electors had returned only Uncle Sherman's last winter's "arctics" to occupy his seat for the next six years, it would have been a useful job, in that it kept Gen. Foraker at home.

A CORRESPONDENT of the valued

New York Sun has discovered one of LIFE'S recent jokes in a venerable volume of reminiscences of Scottish character. If there is any reason to believe that a Scotch gentleman originated the joke,

let the honor and glory be his. LIFE may not have plagiarized, but honestly duplicated it; but remembering the anecdote that the Prophet Nathan narrated to King David, it would rather leave the deceased Scot in sole possession of his jeu d'esprit. It is a fact, though, that the statute of limitations works against perpetual property in witticisms.

COR

papers are still concerned with the sinfulness of Harvard's D. K. E., which has spread its follies on its outer wall and invited the general public to take exception to them. Owing to the benevolence of the more recent members of the society in sharing their amusements, both convivial and ceremonious, with the good people of Suffolk and Middlesex counties, in Massachusetts, it would seem that there was nothing hidden about the society which has not been fully revealed, and published with appropriate illustrations. Dr. Eliot's astute relegation of the society to the court of public opinion seems to have been phenomenally successful, and in deference to prevailing sentiment it is respectfully suggested that the society shall allow its objectionable practices to fall into desuetude, and agree to accept from neophytes in future a certificate of attendance at a full course of Lowell Institute lectures as an adequate qualification for its membership.

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ease in his intellectuals. If authors hope to live peaceful lives and die pleasantly they cannot be too careful about the morals of their literature.