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A New York lawyer has been over
come by gas He wasnt 6aying a word
at the time either
A New Orleans contemporary says
that Chicago doesnt pack anything
worth while except pork Arent pri
maries worth while
A young and pretty girl in Minneapo
lis has been holding up the boys late
ly The new woman evinces a dispo
sition to reverse things everywhere
A New York scientist says he has
made an analysis of love Some day
a dear girl with no scientific training
whatever will make a paralysis -of his
theory
The Kansas City Journal is quite
right in spirit when it sajs that Miss
Frances Willard could illy lie spared
but that word illy -would easily be
spared without a regret
Thieves threw a hook and line
througli an open window of a house at
Monterey Mexico and stole the bed
clothes under which the owner of the
house was sleeping
An Abilene Kan1 clergyman is
preaching a series of sermons on the1
general subject Making It Hot for
the Devil This would strike the un
prejudiced layman as unnecessary trou
ble
A caflegram from Bluefielfls Nicara
gua says that the newly elected mayor
-of that place is a lawyer and his full
name is Marks The whereabouts of
the rest of the Uncle Toms Cabin
-troupe are not -given however
A Michigan young marite mind Is
a blank because of cigarette smoking
and the report -calls it a strange ef
fect There -is nothing strange about
Itexcept the imbecility of parents who
permitted
According to Editor Murdock there
are but four women in Eldorado Kan
who know how to cook a pot of beansj
In an artistic manner and from this
fact he -proceeds to point a moral and
adorn a tale by declaring that no girl Is
fit to marry until she masters this ac
complishment
Some idea of the magnitude of the
great Siberian railway now in course
of construction by the Russian govern
ment -may be gathered from the fact
ithatby changing the route a thousand
miles were -saved It is expected that
through trains will be ran over the road
within twoyyears
A Massachusetts man has discovered
Ihatby using sunshineduringthe day
tnQ electricity during the night he can
raise several crops of onions5 in one sea
son Atthe same time it may be ap
propriately Temarked that there has
been mo crying demand for several
of onions in one season Many
people could get along withseveral sea
sonsand one crop of onions
-Several Boston boys broke mp -a bo
igus -spiritual materialization
recently ana exposed the fraud captur
ing all the spook paraphernalia The
boys who exposed this swindle how-
ever1 have been fined 50apiece in po
ilice xmrt for disturbing a religious
meeting Boston must delight in be-
fingt humbugged
The -citizens of Topeka having tried
theKneipp cure for rheumatism with
indifferent success are now -trying a
course of fried salt pork which is said
tobetmuch more
io take Some of the youngHaflies
-of that city find boiled bacon and
a pleasant variation frormthe reg
ular course of treatment with -just-as
good results
Itlhasibeen discovered
which adorn theirearofithe
Speakers desk in the Assembly -Hall of
the New Jersey State House mre maide
of white pine andcovered
The bases are -marble There are
Cisco these colunras from twelve to
fourteen isnehes intjgiameter -and ten
feet ihigh They wore supposed ito be
of wiirtenaarile andiihe discovery has
made auite a- sensatfcan
The jmerican peaisait the goober
pea of South in tie muneMngof
wbieh -the aristocrat aa I the plebeian
alike find solace is rising into comxmer
cial ianportance maore as 3 more lercary
year Its oil is highly valued m Eu
rope sad rfully u000OOG -worth of the
nutsaineSQat to Marseilles France if or
the masiufaeture cf the all whick is
used far toilet soapu and fox other ptir
poses Peanut flour is also extensively
used in Europe for the aiaking sf
bread calces tftte
A New Jersey cow recently tkilled in
tlnit State vas possesv5ed of sn appe
tite that woald iptit to tiue best
fGorts of the lieahiest ostrich or cas
sowary that ever lived Nineiy five
pieoes of hardware were Xound iaa her
stomach upon which she shad frequent
ly ruminated while the cu5 of
ped the question he said The Emper
or my father has commanded me to
make you the offer of my hand and
heart To which Princess Alix of
Hesse responded And my grandmoth
er Queen Victoria has commanded me
to accept the offer of your hand your
heart I will take myself And thus
the royal troth was plighted
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has recently adopted a new design of
water scoop known as a balanced
scoop by which it is possible to take
on water while the train is running at
jthe rate of sixty or seventy miles an
jhour Since 1894 all new passenger
locomotives and fast freight engines
have been designed to include water
scoops but with the old form of scoop
it was necessary to slow down while
taking water while with the improved
design no time is thus lost and more
water is taken per hundred feet of
trough At seventy miles an hour it
is now possible to fill a 300 gallon ten
der in nine seconds
The late James OKane who
recently died at his home near St
Louis had been in the naval services of
the United States for forty years He
entered the mavy as a midshipman
from Missouri in 1856 and was on the
vessel which brought over the first
Japanese Minister to this country
When the civil war broke out all of
the -officers of his vessel deserted and
entered the Confederate navy except
himself He remained steadfast how
ever and was placed in command of
the frigate Brooklyn He was wound
ed while running the forts below New
Orleans and wTas placed on the retired
list only a few weeks before his death
There are some entertaining pictures
of Ilife in Washington seventy years ago
in Stratford Cannings diary and let
ters My predecessor he writes
had greatly the advantage over me
in his collection of good stories I re
cord one of them to serve as a pattern
of the rest He was Sir Charles Bagot
a man of very attractive manners intel
ligent witty and kind An American
minister and his wife dining with him
one day he heard Lady Bagot who
wasat some distance say rather quick
ly My dear Mrs S what can you
be doing The salad bowl had been
offered to Mrs S and her arm was
lost in it up to the elbow Her reply
was procqpt Only rollicking for an
onion imy lady
A mew electric locomotive of large
dimensions calculated to draw trains
of double the weight of those attached
to ordinary -engines at a rate of sixty -two
miles -an hour has been tried with
success on the Western Railroad of
France line- The first experiments of
this kind were made in 1893 between
Havre and Beuzeville with an electric
locomotive which behaved well
throughout the trial trip Owing to the
success of this machine the companys
engineers constructed two larger loco
motives -and it is one of these which
has just ben tested It is fifty seven
feetlong and of 1350 horse power In
spite of their size they wear out the
rails less than ordinary locomotives as
ithe weightis distributed on eight axles
instead of four or five They are safer
than the others owing to their elastic
character which enables them to make
curves with security at full speed
JG reat things are in fact expected from
these contrivances which when per
fected will do 110 to 115 miles an hour
Among theold young men of this dec
ade Gen Cassius M Clay of Kentucky
is conspicuous Though he passed his
eighty sixth ibirthday last October he
still has more vigor and go than many
men a quarter of a century younger
than he Gen Clay has always been
a fighter He was an abolitiionist in
Kentucky as far back as 1852 and no
one could intimidate or induce him to
stop his free and violent denunciation
of an institution which he considered
totally wrong He printed a paper the
presses of which had to be guarded by
armed men against an offended and
angry mob In 18G1 he went as United
States Minister to Russia and he has
been generally credited and quite right
ly too with having done great service
in influencing Russia to -stand between
the United States and the threatened
allianee of ithe European powers to rec
ognize the Confederacy Gen Clay so
as to sbowvhisiContempt for the limita
tions of age took to himself within
the last few years a young girl as his
wife He Hives wihere he was bornin
Madison County iKw and was most act
ive in thessoent political campaign
The plague Jiow raging income por
ttions of India is thought by many phys
icians to he adontical with the black
death whieh devastated Eurone and
Aftia in 1347 -and at subsequent peri
ods Ancient writers ive graphic de
scriptions of the frightful virulence of
this strange malady its course fim Bttaly
being vividly described by Booeaecio
and iPetrarclL In Yeniee more than
100000 people died of the disease and
ifei iGyjprus neariy tte whole population
was destroyed while in Genoa
enihsaf the ini2abitants succumbed to
l its faaxi ul ravages At Sienna the
iion of abe cathedral was stopped by
the plague and it lias ever tince been
resumed From Italy the scourge made
Its -way im France England Germany
and Spain nnd is said to have been
carried into Scandinavia by ship
which Left London in the summer of
sweet and bitter fnner These artieis I 1349 The wfoole of the crew died of
includqrJ eighty nails a lot of screws i the plague and the vessel after drift-
various
stones
jengths of vdre thtee larg I ing about on the ocean for a long time
an iron spike three inches long was cast ashore -with itsgrewsome bur-
a padlock -with key to fit a bg ring
and a lHe
Russians are fond of relating the fol
lowing anecdote about the Czar whtci
his MaiestF proposed to his future
jwife When s jpng CzarowJtz o jyere destroyed
V
den at Bergen ad the infection sooa
spread all over NfUjiway and Sweden
Ie f aot scarcely a portion of the known
worid escaped the disease even entire
colosfes up in Greenland being oblit
erated ind whole tribes OEsquinjays
CABINET IS COMPLETE
MKINLEYS OFFICIAL ADVISERS
ARE ALL CHOSEN
J A Gary and J J McCook the Re
cant Selections Latter to Rule In
terior Mr Gary a Marylander Is
to Be Postmaster General
Slate Made Up
With the acceptance of the Postmaster
Generalship by Mr Gary of Maryland and
of tile Secretaryship of the Interior by
Col J T McCook of New York McKin
leys cabinet is now complete Following
is the authentic list of the cabinet as it
has been finally decided upon
ft Secretary of State
JOHN SHERMAN of Ohio
jfr Secretary o the Treasury
LYA1AN J GAGE of Illinois
j Secretory of War
RU SELL A ALGER of Michigan J
Secretary of the Navy
JOHN D LoNG of Massachusetts
Attorrey General
JOSEPH MKENNA of Caliornla
S crztary of the Interior
J J MCOOK of New York
Postmaster General j
JAMES A GARY of Maryland
2 Secretary of Agriculture i
JAMES WILSON of Iowa
The news that Mr McCook and Mr
Gary bad been invited to scats in the
cabinet and had accepted was received
a Washington correspondent says by Sen
ators and members of Congress with
many expressions of satisfaction
lames A Gary is the recognized leader
of the Republican party in Maryland He
is a business man of wealth a manufac
turer and he has never hesitated to give
effort and money to the cause of party He
has been a delegate to every national con
vention of his party since 1S72 and from
1880 to 1S5 lias represented Maryland
upon the Republican national committee
In the councils of his party he speaks
with authority and his utterances are
heard with respect In 18r5 Mr Gary
was married to Miss Lavina W Corrie
I
1AMES A GVnY
daughter of James Corrie and is the fath
er of one son and seven daughters His
son E Stanley Gary is now junior part
ner in the old firm of James S Gary X
Son Mr Gary is GiJ years of age
Col John J McCook New Yorks mem
ber of McKinleys cabinet is the young
est of the famous Fighting McCooks of
Ohio a family which furnished a father
and eight sons to the Union army He
will be 52 years old in May He was a
student at Kenyon College Ohio when
the war broke out He enlisted as a pri
vate in the Sixth Ohio Cavalry He will
sacrifice profits from his law business said
to amount to r0000 to Cj7500 a year
to enter the cabinet Col McCook is dis
tinctively a railroad attorney and was
prominent in the reorganization of the
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
He is one of the trustees of Princeton
and an elder of the New York Fifth Ave
nue Presbyterian Church He was chosen
by the Princeton wing of the Presbytery
to eemluct the prosecution of Dr Briggs
MOTHERS CONGRESS
Will Hereafter Meet in Washington
ICnch Alternate Ycar Kesolutions
After a very successful and enthusiastii
meeting of three days the first mothers
congress finished its work and adjourned
To meet next year again in Washington
That will be the general headquarters
of the new organization and the meeting
every other year will take place there
while in the alternate years it will be held
iu some other city to be chosen by the
congress
Before adjourning a long series of res
olutions were adopted In these resolu
tions the mothers indorse the work of the
Universal Fcaee Union and second the
suggestion to the mothers instructors and
citizens of America that lessons of peace
must be first taught by harmony at the
hearth approve the founding of a na
tional training school for mothers that the
women of America may be taught the
method for making hygienic homes and
for becoming intelligent mothers promise
to use influence to encourage legislation in
the various States and territories to se
cure si kindergarten department in th
public schools declare it to be their pur
pose to exclude from their homes those
juipers which do not educate or inspire to
noble thought aud deed protest against
all pictures and displays which tend to
degrade men and women or corrupt or
deprave the minds of the young and all
advertisements which offend decency pe
tition Congress to raise the age of pro
tection for girls in the District of Colum
bia and territories to IS years at least
exhort sill mothers to a closer walk with
our father and mother God in whose
nurture and admonition our children must
be brought up if life is ever to be worth
living express appreciation for the re
ception aecorded to the congress by Mrs
Cleveland who stands before the coun
try as the gracwus and beantiful ideal
of motherhood They say tiiat she in
her life has -exemplified the iriicipks for
jirhich this congress stands
Mrs Annie Besatit the thxsophist
srjcIJ remain in this country six months
during which time she will visit U1 the
larger cities Her lecfurep will he de
voted to the exposition of theosophy and
some of her experiences in her journey
through India from which country she
is now returning will be told
The golden jubilee of Mofher Mary
Xavier head of the Order of Hisrrs o
Charity of tfe Catholic Church vi sAC
in t Flizabttfhs Academy Xc v nu
There are about J00 si era jj ill va v
Mojt them ypyt prrsef
A
PREPARING TO LEAVE
In a Short While Washington will
Have Xiost the Cltvelanda
At the White House the President and
his assistants are packing their trunks
Large boxes are filled with books and
papers which are the Presidents or Mrs
Clevelands private property These will
be sent to Princeton When the morning
of March 4 comes there will remain only
a few trunks and these will accompany
Mr Cleveland then again an ex-President
and Mrs Cleveland to their new
home Mr Cleveland by the way has
never seen the property at Princeton
which is to be his future residence Mrs
Cleveland selected it and the President
said he was perfectly content to trust to
her judgment
The Presidents summer home in the
suburbs of Washington will be offered for
sale and no doubt a good price will be
received for it notwithstanding the dull
times in Washington real estate This
property lies nearer the city than Red
Top in which Mr Cleveland lived dur
ing the latter part of his first term and
which he sold to a syndicate at a profit of
about 100000 The syndicate lost money
on the venture very few of the lots hav
ing been sold
Mr Cleveland now owns three homes
one in Washington one at Princeton and
one at Buzzards Bay The total of his
wealth is estimated by those who know
something about it at 1000000 When
he came to Washington he was not worth
more than 40000 or 50000 But Mrs
Cleveland has come into considerable
property and the President has been for
tunate in his investments
During the eight years of presidency
he has drawn 400000 from the Govern
ment and of this he has saved at least
one half perhaps more He has not spent
as much money during the second admin
istration as he did during the first All
his entertainments have been of an inex
pensive sort The three houses which Mr
Cleveland owns are said to be worth about
200000 and besides these he and Mrs
Cleveland own about 300000 worth of
real estate
The President will live in Princeton
during the winter and at Buzzards Bay
in summer He will practice law in New
York City as advisory counsel He is not
going on a tour around the world
PHTHISIS NOT CONTAGIOUS
Doctors Condemn the Action of the
Mew York Bonrd of Health
The action of tfre New York Board fo
Health in directing that all cases of con
sumption be registered and treated like
diphtheria measles and contagious dis
eases has aroused the indignation of New
York physicians generally They are al
most a unit in their condemnation of the
action and the opinion of one is practically
that of all
Dr Robert Hunter who has made a
specialty of treating pulmonary diseases
for fifty years and who says he has treat
ed or observed 50000 cases said I can
not find words with which to express my
indignation at the Board of Health for
this foolish action which will do no good
and more harm than any one can contem
plate To begin with consumption is not
a communicable disease History shows
this There never was a case that was
contracted by contact with another case
The germ is not given off by the person
suffering from the disease It is in the
air
It used to be believed that the disease
was hereditary Weak lung tissue runs
in families and a person with weak lungs
of course will succumb more readily to
the disease as the air he breathes is filled
with the germs of tuberculosis It is but
six years since the existence of the germ
was discovered and now the Board of
Health proposes to break up 20000 fami
lies and isolate that number of individ
uals to experiment with that of which
they can know but little They say they
intend to isolate the more dangerous
cases only but who is to decide which
cases are the more dangerous cases It
is simply a plan to put away 20000 in
dustrious ambitious people who are a
benefit to society and wh6se presence in
the community can do no harm They
are to be separated from humanity for
ever Even those who are permitted to
remain in the community will suffer as
much as those who are isolated
Think of the workingman branded as
a pest distributor What can he doV Who
will work beside him Who will go into
his store He cannot ride on the street
cars or go to church They might just as
well isolate persons suffering from ring
worm If your skin is healthy you can
not have a ringworm on your face If it
is not healthy the germ of the ringworm
that is everywhere in the air will estab
lish itself in the skin just as the germ of
consumption will establish itself in the
weak or diseased lung tissue whether you
are in a sick room or a pine forest There
is as much consumption in the country as
in the cities and persons who never come
in contact with consumptives are as lia
ble to the disease as are nurses in hos
pitals for consumptives
In decreeing consumption contagious
like smallpox and decreeing measures
looking to the imprisonment of those af
flicted with it in pest houses the New
York Board of Health inaugurates a war
of extermination not against consump
tion but against consumptives and com
mits the most far reaching invasion of
personal liberty ever attempted by any
medical organization since the founda
tion of the art of medicine
Oddities of State Iejri8lature
The tuberculosis law has been suspend
ed in Connecticut
A bill has been introduced in the Min
nesota House of Representatives making
the Governor and the Governor elect eli
gible for election to the United States
Senate during the term for which they
have been chosen to the State executive
office
There is now in the hands of a commit
tee of the Indiana State Legislature a
bill to compel all proprietary medicine
concerns doing business in the State to
place upon each package a label giving
the formula used in the preparation of the
contents
The California Legislature is preparing
to relieve Stanford University from tax
ation burdens Up to the present time
California has not made allowance of this
sort and has collected about 30000 a
year of the clear income of 150000 which
the university has had
A eourageons Indiana legislator has in
troduced a bill to hold baggage men re
sponsible for the baggage they smash He
proposes to fine them every time thev
throw a piece ofbaggage from a car door
to the platform instead of gently trans
ferring it to a truck only a few inches
lowe than thewottom of the
WORK iF CUMIilJtt
THE VwEEKSDO NGG IN SENATE
AND HOUSE
A Comprehensive Digest of the Pro
ceedings in the Legislative Cham
bers at Washington Matters that
Concern the People
Lawmakers at Labor
General debate on the sundry civil hi
closed Saturday in the House The bill
was used as a basis for an attack by ih
Democrats on the vast appropriation
made by this Congress which Mr Savers
and Mr Dockery estimated would aggre
gate 1045000000 dice the gate was
opened the debate naturally drifted into
politics The relative merits of the Mi
Kinley and Wilson bills as revenue pro
ducers were u tacked and defended The
income tax decision and Justice Shiras
change of position came in for a share of
attention and Mr De Annond Mo con
cluded the day with a brilliant plea for
struggling Cuba which won from the
House shouts of approval The Senate
did nothing of importance
The sundry civil appropriation bill car
rying 0544743 was passed by the
House Monday just as it came from the
committee The main opposition was di
rected against the river and harbor item
in the bill Quite a number of other bills
were passed of more or less importance
among them the Senate bill appropriat
ing 250000 for closing the crevasse at
Pass a lOutre on the Mississippi and to
equip the National Guard with uniform
Springfield rifles 45 caIiber and the Sen
ate resolution to authorize the Secretary
of the Navy to transport the contribu
tions of the Pacific coast States to the
famine sufferers of India The report in
the contested election case of Benoit
against Boatner from Louisiana confirm
ing the latters title to his seat was unan
imously adopted The conference report
on the diplomatic and consular appropria
tion bill was adopted and the agricultural
bill was sent to conference Owing to the
brief time of this bession yet remaining
extra night sessions were decided upon
for the consideration of private pension
bills of which many hundred still re
main on the calendar The Senate was
in executive session most of the day Some
progress was made on the bankruptcy bill
In the Senate Tuesday Mr Chandler de
livered a carefully prepared speech in ad
vocacy of bimetallism It was an argu
ment against a single standard of either
gold or silver and a warning against a
policy of monometallism Nothing else
of importance was done For the first
time this session the House declined to
override a pension veto submitted to it
for action The bill was that to pension
Nancy G Allabach the widow of Peter
H Allabach of the One Hundred and
Thirty first Pennsylvania volunteers at
the rate of 30 per month The House
sustained the veto by 115 to 79 the requis
ite two thirds not voting for the bill
The immigration bill is now in the hands
of the President the last legislative step
having been taken in the Senate Wednes
day by an agreement to the conference
report on the bill Strong opposition was
made to the report but on the final vote
the friends of the measure rallied a small
majority the vote being Yeas 34 nays
31 The bill as passed extends the immi
gration restrictions against AH persons
physically capable and over 10 years of
age who cannot readjand write the Eng
lish language or some Other language but
a person not so able to read and writewho
is over 50 years of age and is the parent
or grandparent of a qualified immiirrmir
over 21 years of age and capable of sup
porting such parent or grandparent may
accompany such immigrant or such a par
ent or grandparent may be sent for and
come to join the family of a child or
grandchild over 21 years of age similarly
qualified and capable and a wife or minor
child not so able to read and write may
accompany or be sent for and come to
join the husband or parent similarly qual
ified and capable
The Senate adjourned at 030 Thursday
night after spending six hours in execu
tive session devoted to the consideration
of the nomination of C F Amidon to be
district judge of North Dakota and of
the Anglo American arbitration treaty
Mr Vilas has secured the passage by the
Senate of the Senate bill to extend the
use of the mail service It provides foi
using a patent postal card and envelope
with coupons attached The Postmaster
General is authorized to suspend the sys
ti if it proves unsatisfactory on a test
The House by a vote of 107 to 11 revers
ed the finding of a majority of the elec
tions committee and decided the contest
ed election case of X T Hopkins vs J
M Kendall from the tenth Kentucky dis
trict in favor of the Republican contest
ant Eleven Republicans and three Pop
ulists voted with the Democrats against
unseating Kendall
The Senate adjourned at S15 oclock
Friday night after having spent almost
eight hours in continuous executive ses
sion on the arbitration treaty No result
was accomplished beyond voting down
the motion made by Senator Nelson to
postpone further consideration of the
treaty A very spirited debate on the
general subject of the payment of claims
found to be due against the United States
was indulged in by the House during the
consideration of the general deficiency ap
propriation bill Mr Richardson Tenn
had called attention to the apparent in
consistency of an item to pay the costs of
defending suits and the fact that the bill
contained no item to pay the judgments
Mr Mahon Pa chairman of the War
Claims Committee made the statement
that the House had been frightened by a
bogie man and the just claims against
the Government instead of aggregating
hundreds of millions as was frequently
stated could be discharged with 10000
000 The consideration of the bill was
not completed The bill carries b441
027
Odds and Ends
The film or a soap bubble is the 2500
000th of an inch in thickness
A man was arrested in New Jersey
the other day for digging his own grave
The Zend language is one of ihe most
ancient known to antiquarians or phil
ologists It is said to bear a close re
semblance to the Welsh
Farmers in Douglas County Kan
are educating their horses to eat po
tatoes which they can feed at 11 cents
while corn stands for 17 cents
Never before have American tourists
poured into Europe a they are doing
ibis year It fe probnbjg that the in
cicase will not be fav from 25 per cent
oyer Jast year
It is not true however that the Vesu
vius is built of slippery elm New York
Press
A great deal of noise is made over the
Waguer operas this year but very little
money Chicago Tribune
As previously there is a great deal more
word painting than marksmanship in the
Cuban war Washington Star
When the Siberian Railroad is opened
you can go around the world in forty days
if you can get a psis s Boston Globe
Senator Iliil says members of Congress
do not get drunk What on earth can be
the matter with them then Buffalo
Express
There is no longer a pebble on the-Hicks-Beach
Sir Michael has thrown it
at the Franco Russian alliance Mon
treal Star
That blockade in Charleston harbor ap
pears to have been fashioned after t he
pattern of one of Weylers trochas Chi
cago Tribune
England might make two treaties One
for arbitration with the United States
and another for war with the Senate
Chicago News
If England persists in bullying the Other
European powers it may find out after a
while that insularity does not insulate
Chicago Tribune
England and France may furnish diver
sion for the world by executing a militidiV
couchee couchee in the streets of Cairo
New York Advertiser
Legalizing prize fights is disgraceful of
course but it would disgrace some States
less than others Nevada isnt hurt mrcch
Kansas City Journal
There seems to be considerable perplex
ity as to who started the latest Cretan r
rising and more perplexity as to who will
stop it Chicago Tribune
In connection with the arbitration treaty
the Senate is experiencing some difficulty
in c ggesting something equally as
good Washington Star
Sesftor Morgan as usual is opposed to
about everything in sight and his volu
bility rolls on as regularly as interest on a
mortgage Baltimore American
Perhaps the sovereign State of Nevada
would consent to let the
fight be settled by international ar
bitration Indianapolis Journal
It is proposed to turn the Michigan
State House into an insane asylum The
suggestion is liable to be caught up ic
some other States Boston Giobe
Nov comes the Congress of Mothers in
Washington Lets hope it will set the
Congress of fathers a good example in
the dispatch of business Boston Herald
It doesnt seem possible that the
fight will amount to
anything Neither has as yet referred tc
the other as a cowardly cur Cleve
land Leader
Prince George of Greece is a cyclist L
That settles it The Tnrks may aswell
let Crete be annexed to Greece The
Prince will scorch his way through
Buffalo News
Doubtless the drum major fancies he
bosses the panide It is that way vyitlii
some politicians because they are in the
procession they imagine they are leading
the party Baltimore American
A Lexow investigation is much like a
rip round the world You go a long dis
tance and you see and hear much and
hen you finish just where you started
New York Commercial Advertiser
Now that microbes four inches long are
being discovered in Chicago drinking
water we suggest that in addition to be
iiy boiled it also le run through a sau
sage machine Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune
Representative Suttons bill in the In
diana Legislature against printing in en a
cards in French is undoubtedly a revenge
on the hotel man who gave him potatoes
when he ordered pommes deterre Chi
cago Journal
In Michigan they are trying to induce
Gov Pyigree to take Mayor Iingree by
the nape of the neck and toss him out of
wHu e Thus far however the Governor
has been inclined to stand b3 the Mayor
Cleveland Leader
Europe may have an occasional war
scare out Arnca and jihi and South
America do the real fighting There is
peace in Europe mainly because the
standing armies are holding war down
Baltimore American
The Bradley Martin Ball
The Bradley Martin ball was a tame af
fair It passed off without a single fight
Knoxville Tribune
Mrs Martin has been more talked about
and more lied about than any public per
sonage of recent years New Haven Pa
ladium
All that the Bradley Martins need now
to put them right up in Vanderbilt
Astor class is a salacious divorce case
St Louis Post Dispatch
Speaking of the Bradley Martin ball it
is said that there are over 300 families
in one section of Arkansas that are living
on turnips Washington Post
The exorbitant cost of these displays of
wealth do not promote a healthy national
life There is in them heartlessness
worldliness and emptiness Kanas City
Times
The Bradley Martin ball has taken place
and the 200U ha been distributed
among the poor The family will now
go to work to see how quickly it can get
the money away from the poor again
Denver Times
John Nicholas Brown is the name of a
man who has just given 2000 to the
Providence public library- and it is as well
worth printing as if he had spent the
money on a fancy ball St Louis Globe
Democrat
As to the taste of such displays there is
ample ground for criticism which the-
Bradley Martins are estopped from re-
seating since they made their fete as spec
tacular as possible for the supposable pur
pose of making talk Philadelphia Rec
ord
Perhaps some of the critics of the lav
ishness of the Bradley Martins would pre
fer the thrifty example of Russell Sage
who believed it the height of extravagance
to pay the doctors bills of a clerk whom
he pulled between himself and a dynamite
fiend n few year ago Minneapolis Trib
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