1 MARCH 1890, page 13

"t He Landlord Of New York." T Here Is Something Pathetic...

the death, or rather the life, of John Jacob Astor. He was, in a sense, perhaps the richest private person in the world, our word " perhaps " being inserted to cover two......

Sympathy In Excelsis.

YDNEY SMITH'S remark to the child whom he saw fondly patting a tortoise,—" My dear child, you are giving the tortoise no pleasure ; you might as well pat the dome of St. Paul's......