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Buffalo Bill and Slugger Sullivan as Social Factors.

The Prince of Wales received a severe wigging from the clergy of the United Kingdom as well as from his august mamma for associating with Sullivan, the great American pirze fighter. Possibly this may be a bad business for a probably king, but was it any worse than the attentions bestowed by the queen and clergy too upon Buffalo Bill, the American showman? Sullivan is simply boss of the prize ring, while Colonel Cody is a boss of the circus ring. Both are actors- nothing more, nothing less. The life of a fladiationr or pugillist is quite as moral and elevating in its tendencies as that of a horse show manage, but by some means or other hte latter has been places on a lofty social piano by the English aristocracy, while the puglilist has been made by them a sort of social outlaw. There can be no dispute about matters of taste, but where the moral and social superiority come in it is difficult to see.