This is the January 26, 1893 issue of FRANK LESLIE’S ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY, published by W.J. Arkell, New York.  This publication competed with Harper’s Weekly, in New York.  This issue is in good condition for a newspaper of this age.  The pages are flat and mostly clean and bright with some minor yellowing from handling.  Additional pictures available upon request please send your e-mail address. 

ARTICLES:

ABOUT CONSULSHIPS - There will be in the neighborhood of three hundred and twenty-five consular positions subject to appointment by President Cleveland and his Secretary of State.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION – Within a few years past two eminent European scholars have published elaborate works upon the institutions and political affairs of the United States.  Professor Bryce's "American Commonwealth" and Professor Von Holst's "Constitutional History" have become standard works for those, on both sides of the Atlantic.

GREAT REPUTATIONS ECLIPSED - What a litter of ruined reputation marks the course of the Panama Canal investigation! Scarcely one of the conspicuous participants in French politics for the last decade has escaped.  While some great names have been covered with infamy. M.de Freycinet and M. Loubet, who have been identified with nearly every ministry under the republic.

INORDINATE AMBITION REBUKED - The result of the Senatorial election in New Jersey will afford satisfaction to all friends of honest government and decency in politics, without regard to party.

NOTABLE JEWS - SABATO MORAIS

MISS GRACIE - A SKATING STORY - by William Earle Baldwin.

A SONG - by M. I. Smith.

THE TEXO-MEXICAN REVOLUTION – For the past eighteen months that portion of Texas known as “the Eucinal country” has been the seat and scene of a petty warfare equal to the presumably extinct feudal wars of ancient Europe.  This "border trouble" is really a Mexican quarrel on United States territory.

FACE STUDIES by Stiletto - MRS. CORA LINN DANIELS

COMMON SENSE VS NONSENSE -THE THIRTEEN CLUB OF NEW YORK AND ITS OBJECTS - by L. F. Thomas.  Portraits of nine of the members of “The Thirteen Club” and its war against prevalent superstitions are presented with this article. (See portraits)

THE NEW HOME-RULE BILL - Since the general election where Mr. Gladstone won his present small majority in the House of Commons, it has been a foregone conclusion that the session of 1893 was to be devoted to the Irish Home-rule bill.

A ROYAL MARRIAGE - The marriage of Prince Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Romania, and the Princess Marie of Edinburgh, eldest daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, which occurred with great eclat on the 10th of January, is attracting more than ordinary attention abroad because of its possible political significance.

THE STRUGGLE IN KANSAS - The Kansas Populists have given the country a taste of their quality.  Claiming to be broad gauge reformers intent upon the elimination of all evils from our politics, they have, at the first opportunity, shown themselves to be downright revolutionist.  Three illustrations from sketches by G. M. Stone accompany this article, along with the cover page sketch by Stone showing two rival houses in session with two presiding officers at the speakers desk. (See cover picture)

NEW YORK ICE BLOCKADE – New York has not had for many years such a touch of genuine Artic weather as was experienced during the second week of January, when for two or three days the city was practically bound in an ice blockade.  Seven photographs by Hemment of the recent ice blockade showing the distress of boats in the waters around New York.  Other photographs show the removal of snow from the lakes in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in order to make them available to skaters, and passengers landing on ice floes from a Hoboken ferryboat, at the Fourteen Street Ferry, North River (See picture).

TAMING A WILD ZEBRA - A professional horse-trainer, Professor Oscar R. Gleason, announced an exhibition in which he would tame a wild, man-killing zebra, from the Zoological Garden in Cincinnati.  A full-page illustration draw by Dan Smith shows Professor Gleason’s unique exhibition at Madison Square Gardens, New York. (See picture)

THE IMPRISONED PANAMA DIRECTORS - Mazas prison is to Paris a house of detention; a penitentiary where short sentences are served, and where are detained those who are accused, but not yet sentenced, such as those to whom the Panama scandal has brought disgrace.

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