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THERE

HERE is a kind of mule-race where the prize goes to the slowest mule,

but to make the event more interesting, no rider is allowed to bestride his own animal. It is his interest therefore to see that the mule he is on goes faster than the one he owns. It would seem as if in certain contingencies this system might be capable of political application. Mr. Platt is known to have been confident very recently of President Harrison's inability to carry New York, while Mr. Edward Murphy published a manifesto setting forth his reasons for knowing that the same State could not be carried for Mr. Cleveland. In the event of Mr. Cleveland's nomination, which at this writing seems as much to be expected as it is to be hoped for, a very interesting contest might be secured by putting the Democratic forces in New York in charge of Mr. Platt, and entrusting Mr. Harrison's interests in the same State to Mr. Murphy. Thereby each of these accomplished gentlemen would be enabled to bend his endeavors toward the fulfilment of his own prophecies, instead of humping himself in the dog-days and through the fall to demonstrate how little he knew in the early summer.

It may be questioned, however, whether in the present stage of Mr. Platt's reputation as a campaigner, the friends of a Democratic candidate could be induced to accede to such a plan.

ALLUDING to the activity of Emmons Blaine at Minne

apolis, LIFE published a paragraph last week suggesting the propriety of his setting up political aspirations of his

own. But before the suggestion got into the reader's hands the subject of it was already beyond the reach of earthly ambitions or disappointments.

Emmons Blaine had energy, intellect and feeling. That he

was still best known as his father's son was to be expected, and was by no means due to lack of force of his own. He had already accomplished very much, and it seems hardly too much to say that there was no man of his years in the country of whom more was reasonably to be expected. He had a vast acquaintance, and very many warm friends, and besides the general emotion of sympathy for his father, which his death excites, it is attended in a most unusual degree by a wide-spread sense of personal loss.

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sociates the science of psychology chiefly with mind-reading, telepathic communications, clairvoyance and apparitions, will wonder what a psychological laboratory is, and what its apparatus and its uses are. The one in prospect at Yale is to have ten rooms, one of them dark and padded, and a workshop for the production of the necessary apparatus. There is a perceptible flavor of occultism about it all, and somehow the idea suggests itself that a course of psychology at Yale might mix in well with the educational equipment of a prospective politician. How to manage a laboratory of ten rooms (one dark and padded) so as to get the best psychological results would seem to be a thing exceptionally well worth knowing at political conventions.