New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-31

A Cincinnati editor going up through the trap
door 10 find the leak In his roof the other day, dis
covered new unoccuped world waiting Tor men 10
cyiIz.. and calls the public to look at II as loudly
as if he were De Cana or Vespucus. fresh from
turnipg ND unknown or continents from the
hvperborean regions. This world is the roof OF the
house. Why, asks the enthusiastic dscoverer, should
we build our roofs soping, the Swiss do those OF
their cbhlets that the snow may slide off them ?
Why, since Americans have the hot days aud wind
less nights OF the tropics do they not use their
roofs as all tropical people do for living rooms and
bed chambers1 There is a great deal of practical
common sense in the suggestion. Rents are dear
and standing room scarce in NewYork, for instance
human beings are swarmlng and sitting IN. the
close boxes of houses through these torrid nights !;
vet the most airy. coolest part OF the
honse il given over to leaks and cats.
There really Is reason why the roof of the
house. if flat should not he made resort for Sum
mer evenings or pleasant days With very little
cost and trouble 1t could be made attractive as it
is comfortable. light parapet. In Eastern
houses would serve as protection and be orna-
mental as we'll small trees, shrubs and flowers
would grow around il as readily as they do III win
dow boxes; au India mating could be spread in a
moment over asphalt tin floor; then ham
mOcks, chairs, cOlOred canopy IT needed-and
presto the thing Is done. Every family has ITS
possible country seat oyerhead-cOo airy, cam
mandlng picturesque views-waltDg for them to oc-
cupy it, Who Will he the first to enter in posses-
sion of this new EldoradoF 1t needs only pioneer
to make the first STEP and we all will follow.
A sincere religious lite is wholesome moral
spectacle, no doubt, and a grateful recognition OF
the beneficial influence of pety on ones own heart
and conduct can properly be made IN public. But It
is no less true that ostentatous profession of
ligon DIV notorious malefactors doomed to the gal
lows for their vIllanies offensive and nauseating
lt is common to read of culprts oonfcssing their
guilt and their pioty in the same triumphant breath
on the scaffold. and little while ago man hanged
in the West for a murder of peculiar atrocity re-
jolced that he was about to go to Jesus" and
earnestly besougnt his hearers IN the jailyard to
become good, so that they could meet him
IN Heavenl Such exhibitions ought to be pre-
vented A murderer may, indeed, become a
Christian, but he ought not TO be allowed to be-
come a moral or religious exborter The condition
of Chasine Cox's soul Is matter between himself
and hIs Maker, aud he should be compelled to keep
still about 1t. So of Mrs Smiths and Benefits de-
yotions. There seems to be sOmethngiu the rela-
ton of a condemned murderer to society that makes
him a sort of hero IN the minds OF the morbid and
sentimental ana III ~ uluCllt 10 see why ne snoulu
not be prevented from seeing gabbling visitors and
prohibited from making haraugue on the scaAold
or saving anything whatever, except to the Sheriff
OF Priest. Sympathetic aud emotional people sue
ceed III surrounding the murderer with a little halo
of glory sending him flowers and food and luxuries,
while the innocent poor, perhaps the children
of his victim, permitted to suffer unreleved 1t
is time prison gush and galows exhortatlOns were
abolished altogether.
Oddly enough, after we sent the phylloxera "a
very dragon Of a bug, more vicious than the Col
orado beetle as 1t has a lquorsh tooth, and preys
only upon vineyards) to destroy the grapes of
Southern France, invited to send our vines
after it, rs they supposed to be the only ones
with vitality enough to Withstand Its rayages.
There Is something very curious in the In which
America dripping over her products into Europe.
sending ~ every instance each article TO the place
which heretofore has been famous for It, There is
n grim humor IN her sending Goals to Newcastle
when she finds that Newcastle invariably
prefers her Goals to her own; beef TO Old
England, muslin to Manchester, cheese 10 Holland