Show PUCK is always in the front ranks with good things and the number for May 13 is no exception to the rula It is in car toons that Puck excels in this respect being far superior to of any our other papers pa-pers which attempt to tell in a cartoon J morethan can be told in a whole volume There is more true appreciation of an actual situation in one cartoon of Fuel than all the numbers of Punch The first cartoon of the current number pic I tures a Hayseed Legislator endeavoring to t throw a reform train off the track The I means he uses are a few old ties labelled i I with Corruption Spite Against N Y I CityBackwoods Blunderbuss and i Petty Jealousy The ties will be j thrown aside The main one is i onftfini i v wuiuied Peace Assured and shows John Bull I and the Czar in fond embrace Gladstone Glad-stone and the Empress of Russia Rus-sia pushing the two together and compelling them to kiss Beneath the mountain upon which these two lov 1 1 ing souls are embracing are seen all the j preparations for grim war and from the r pleased expression of thfe Bull and Bear ft looks as though it would come Per haps the one which is more applicable 1 to American affairs is the last one which j J is entitled A Political Parallel It shows 1 Cleveland engineering the Civil Service j Reform boat jl with Sherman Phelps I j Evarts Halstead Reid Roach I and others I j watching it Beneath j j i I the picture is this line H When Robert i J Fulton made his First Trip on his Newly 1 I Invented r Steamboat the Wiseacres of I the Day Predicted that it would be Failure The mechanical l wiseacres were a disappointed then and the machine wise1 acres will be disappointed now j I |