New-York tribune., 1874-11-10

If Congressman Holman should be elected to the
Senate from Indiana, it will be only more in
stance of the success which generally attends devO
ton to single idea. Mr.. Holman has been baying
ever since he entered Congress at raiders the
public funds and has baIked mpartially at friend
and foe that he has fairly earned the title of
watchdog of the Treasury" 1t would be well
both for taxpayers and for tax-gatherers if such
vigilance were more common but occasionally
these guardians of the purse in their eagerness to
seize something and shake it, get barking up alto
gether the wrong tree. When the appropriation for
the Transit of Venus expeditions came up before the
House, Mr.. Holman, who had been tearing the bill
already in pretty lively way, pounced on this item
and shook it numerically. He attempted to have
the amount reduced, but his amendments were all
lost Then, apparently losing patience at the thought
of wasting much money on mere scientific inves-
tigation, he moved Indignantly to strike out the
whole appropriation, and with burst of eloquence
Of the kind which proceeds only from the s. land of
the setting sum- vowed that for one he would never
consent to such an expenditure of "the peoples
money! That may have read well out in the thinly-
settled districts of Indiana, but 1t sounded very
queerly i'll the galleries.
All who are disgusted with disease and anxious TO
be rid of their ais, will read with interest, between
their Doses the story of Jacob Weiss, who formerly
lived, mechanic, in Louisville, KY, with plenty
of nothing in his pocket. and bronchitis slowly but
surely consuming his pulmonary apparatus. He was
advised to 20 to that Paradise Golconda, Arcadia,
that argentine land called Colorado. What hap
pened to the mpecuniOus and with difficulty breath
ing Jacobf He recovered from his bronchial de-
rangement-but that is nothing. For he also dis
covered six large and plentiful silver mines He is
rich man. If necessary, be could afford to take
bottle of the most expensive Pumonic Panacea
twice day, and to employ corps of doctors, allo-
pathic, hydropathic, motorpathic. homeopathic,
botanical and eclectical. But he scorns them. He
breathes with the vigor of bison. Consumption
has stepped out-captal has stepped in. Let those
whose tendency is to shortness both of funds and
breath, go and do hke-Wess!
In these days the contributions to medical re-
sources are constant now it is Pill, awful Pill,
and now it is pensive powder. The latest addi-
tions to the doctors store are bones and banjo. A
young Philadelphia girl who had. since child.
hood been prevented from walking by q nervous
spine, suddenly manifested, two years ago,
frantic liking for negro minstrel entertainments.
Physicians long had been in vain, and the
wretched maiden in despair turned to the weird and
mournful beauty of these performances for distrac
ton. Every evening for those two years she lis
tened to the bounding freshness Of the Jokes, the
soft pathos of the bones and as time on. grew
stronger and stronger. She Is now perfectly Wen,
and her friends attribute this pleasant change alto
gether to the minstrelsy.
We learn that the labors of the Bureau OF Chari-
ties have come to an end for the present, and that
a meeting of the subscribers will be held shortly to
determine the future course to be pursued. Owing
to the absence of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt in Europe
and other causes there is probably little hope that
the present Committee will continue their good
work; but it is possible that their functions may be
transferred to fresh Committee organized on a
different basis and embracing representatives of the
principal charitable societies Of the city. The Re-
port and Directory will 10 ready for issue simul-
taneousY in few days. - - -