New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-15

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It's very beginning. The remar!oble success it has
| Achieved shows that this confidence was not mis-
placed Few. If any. roads have started under
better auspices other in tho prospect of their useful
ness or in the character and ability Of their
ayers In the latter respect the enterprise has been
particularly fortunate. The standing, popularity,
energy. and known integrity of the men who have
| carried the undertaking through are not to
be ignored in seeking for the reasons OF
its success. For instance, no ono can
doubt that tho name Of the President of
the Company, De Witt G. Littlejo,n, has had great
influence over the fortunes of the road nor that the
interest and zeal he has manifested in the enterprise
from first to last have been of incacuIable value TO
it in the way of inducing many to put their con-
fdence in him and their money into the under
taking. Mr. Littlejohn and tho directors are eDti-
tied to more than ordinary share of dit for the
success which the Midland Road has achieved. They
have conducted it with the care, foresight, and
economy which men give to their private business,
and the result is what would naturally BIO expected:
q good railroad, invaluable to the State,
| of great and immediate advantage to many
| towns and villages, and based on solid
financial footing II has been built by subscriptions
to its stock at par and its bonds taken up by the
public with alacrity, as among tho safest and most
desirable securities I'm the market. 1t is striking
illustration Of tho power of the personal influence Of
| trustworthy men who engage in such undertakings.
The Midland Road will always be an honor to those
who projected it and pushed 1T through.
| Mr. A. S. p. writes from Utica mourp'1
| communication to The Examiner and Chronicle. lie
relates that a few months since "sanctmonious"
individual called on him and said that he needed
$40 TO take him to Philadelphia. lie professea MN
| self intimately acquainted Wits Drs. JeteF ana
Rri0 oh apd uit fha A..
getting remittance of his $40, Mr. A. s. F. applied
| for information to the gentlemen who bad been re-
ferred TO by the borrower. DR.. Bright wrote back
| letter beginning, "Ny Deluded Bother and
| saying that he did not know the man at all. DIR.
Jeter by way Of consolation, wrote that another
chevalier of industry had swndled him OFT OF Sl5,
and offered to exchange claims The Rev. DR. Peitz,
without the slightest regard for clerical dscoruin,
made joke Of his brothers losses, and suggested
| that he needed guardian. We would condole with
A. s. p if did not think that be has had at Least
SO worth Of fun for his money, 10 say nothing o.
valuable experience.
Black Salamander is the latest novelty on eXbt-
bition. His name is Spencer Coleman. lie is a mu
latto and he walks so steps more or less on rodhot
iron plates handles Them and puts them Oh his head
without scorching his hair. The story which he
tells is, that while walking in the woods, meditalng
upon the greatness Of the Supreme Being, small
still voice spalSe to him from above, saying: "Now
will l show this unbeeving age a mnahon!
caused Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to walk
through the fiery furnace, and l will give
you the power to walk on hot iron" We
arc obliged to say that Coleman is humbug. Tho
miracle" which he performs is 10 novelty ana h'sS
been worked great many times by those VINO were
in the secret The hands, face, feet, and hair being
well washed with proper chemical solution, VIII
for time resist the action of very high temper
atures And, although the skin thus prepared may
be burned, there will be no consequent pain.
l., il possible that John Thomas has quarreled with
Eaypsr8' Beeklyg lie has lately been commencing
the political carcatures in that journal IS the most
marvellous examples Of honest satire the world haS
ever known; but in The Times of Saturday we read
"If artist drew oaricaturcs OF the s'anderora he
was dubbed low and vulgar, while another artist who
represented the President lying drunk surrounded h
drunkards and who committed the dastardly aud ds-
gushing outrage OF dragging the Presidents wife into b'
ribald smudges was commended as another Hogarth"
This probably refers TO the picture in HGtPas'
Ueekly during the early part of 1901 which repre-
scented Abraham Lincoln (the Presidential Merry
man." rs Hopers' then called HIM carousing with a
party of tipsy companions, while hearse labeled
"The Constitution" was driven past his window.
The following is believed TO have been as nearly
as can bc ascertaned tho total production Oh Iron
in 1911:
Great Britain. ....C5CoCc0 Norway andsgeden $4,000
United States. I,9l2CO0 Russia 5000
France .1,S5oOcO Itay.............. 1900
German Zollverein.l,25OCoo span............ 7?ooo
Belgium. $4,000 Other Countries. 10000
Austria ............ 10000 -
........................l33I5,o0
Great Britain smells almost half the Iron made III
the world; the United States not quite one-sixth.
We ought to be now smelling 100000 instead Of
100000 tuns per annum if we were, Iron would
cost our consumers far less than it does.
It is the opinion Of The Uaircrsalid that enc
"goodn sermon week is not enough for one man
to preach congregation to hear. Two GER
mons, it argues, would be too many, if they
full Of brilliant fireworks; the piecolo, the finite,
the drum, and the trombone; so that people think
they see the lightning and hear tie earthquake, but
feel nothing of the sweet influence of love- We go
further than The Unirersaist One such sermon
world be one too many-there is nothing but phyBi-
cal force which could compel lis TO hear pair Of
them on the sane day. The UrirGSaliSt seems to
think that human nature can stand two Of those
mild talks which we all love to listen to- Well, il
not drawn too mild that is a soothing sort Of hpple.
Chicago recently rojOiced in a Deputy Superin-
tendent of Police who seems TO have proudly united
in his own person all the disqualfca;ions for such
an Office which we can think af. On trial before the
Board, he was charged with incompetency, lack OF
energy using prOfane language, discharging prison
ers before trial employing members of the force TO
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