The Financial News, May 26, 1888.
For reasons which can be easily understood by those interested in public companies it has suited the Editor of The Financial News to cry down the ventures in which Mr. John Thomas North is interested. It is easy enough to sneer at him as the “Nitrate King,” and to laugh at his Volunteer Colonelcy, but we do not hear that the Editor of The Financial News is either so successful in business, or so hospitable in private life, as “Colonel North of the Horse Marines.”
Lines on a Dead Dog,
Seen floating in the Canal.
(Not by A. C. Swinburne.)
In the stir and the tumult of nations,
’Mid the wrestlings of right and of power,
It is good to lay hold upon Patience
And sit by her side for an hour;