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Thursday Sept. 6, 1888. GRIMSBY PARK. Grimsby Park is closed for 1888. It goes without saying that this was the most successful season that it ever passed through. Two big disappointments in the fulfilling of the programme and several minor ones by the Greyhound missing trips caused the management much anxiety and gave kickers something to kick about, but altogether the season was a most successful one. The John A. and Talmage blunders caused disappointment that Grimsby Park Co. are in no way responsible for. John A. Macdonald made a promise to be in Grimsby Park on July 2d, 1888, and without any reasonable cause whatever he failed to be there. Nobody expected him to be there, but still the company got the blame. Probably the old man was afraid to appear in the land of fruit growers after having taken the duty off fruit. Dr. Talmage contracted to be in Grimsby Park on August 19 and 20, 1888, but according to his own words he dated himself for the Park for August 26 and 27. He got out of the box by making an apology and crawling through the knothole that "all men are liable to make mistakes," but the Park company had to bear the blame, and read the slang and smut of half a hundred newspapers that were anxious to get a whack at the " Big Religious Frauds," the " Money Grabs,' the " Water-melon sellers," &c., &c., &c. All this rot and much more has the Grimsby Park Co. got to take, simply because they will persist in running the best Park in Canada. Ah, but you say there are kickers on the grounds as well as off them. Certainly, we know it, but can you mention any spot on this green earth that is big enough to hold three people, that does not contain kickers. But go you to Grimsby Park and find those kickers, and see who they are and what they are kicking about, and the chances are that you will shut up and advise them to do the same. Grimsby Park was successful in 1888. It will be more so in 1889 and 1900; the very people who are kicking now will have got sick of the job and turned in to help the company keep the Park in the front ranks as a summer report. THE PARK AND THE 'BUS. The funny man of the Hamilton Spectator is the author of the following brilliant, yet truthful, funnigraph: Brer Livingston, of the Grimsby INDEPENDENT sticks up for the manage-ment of Grimsby Park. He says: "Those who know the least about Grimsby Park howl the most. Those who have known and attended it all their lives and are capable of forming an opinion of it, always speak well of it. Now we will say a thing: Grimsby Park is the best regulated, best managed....