All That Confounded Climate
John Frank Sullivan
Fun (23 October 1878): 168
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The captions starting at top left: “We cannot preserve a statue in our climate! Only a year ago we put up a beautiful statue; and we stationed two policemen to keep off boys; And we hired a man to scrape it hard every week with chisels; And yet that statue’s surface seemed to gradually wear away! Oh that climate! So we hired a stronger man to scrape the statue every day, with bigger chisels; But, would you believe it, the surface seemed to actually wear away faster than ever!: All that climate! We’ve ordered a patent steam scraper, warranted to scrape away a ton an hour — and if that won’t preserve the statue — well — !