New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-04

This puzzllng paragraph appeared in The Herald
yesterday: "Mr. Arthur Kayanagh is a member of
Parliament for Carlow. He Is known as the MEM
Der without or legs. lie rIitcs 10 us as fol-
lows" However could lie do TT With his teetbr
The public is at present being favored with
the usual predictions concerning the Winters
ice crop Whether the harvest be large or
small will mako no difference to the price asked
next Summer Last years crop was an enormous
one yet the companies after burning up a few
storehouses full, calmly advanced the price 40 per
cent and the hOuseholders could do nothing but
protest and pay il. There was absolutely excuse
for the advance, the supply was so abundant that
large portion of the crop remains untouched to-
day, aud will he kept over till next Summer. When
an endemic of spontaneous combustion breaks out
among such ncOmbuStlble edlhceS rs icehOuses. the
public may make up its mind that nothing will be
permitted to interfere with the prosperity OF the Ice
companies.
If that ntermnable Hayden trial holds out much
longer the country will rise in a body and request
the execution or Imprisonment for life, of every
body connected with it. 1t is the monumental bore
of tue epoch
One reason why the vacant foreign missions arc
so hard to fiji Is probably the approach of the
Presidential election. The man who should accept
one of them could be sure OF holding IL tor only one
year.
There are few things more irrepressible than the
average Americans tendency to 3" rush. Every
station on the elevated railways bears evidence of
this dozen times daily Men will 60 tearing up
the stairways two steps at time to catch train,
which IS sure to have one only two minutes behind
it. If the gatekeeper obeys his orders and shuts
the gate in their faces they curse him and threaten
10 complain to the company. III we had transit as
rapid as telegraphing, these !" rlshers" would act
lust the same. They have special reason for be-
ing IN q hurry, except that they always have been
troubled in that way.
There is said to be panic among Rhode Island
ex-GovemOTs in regard to the Russian Mission.
Governor Van Zandt and Ex-Governor Burnside
having been caught by the Administration, ex-
Governors Howard and Lippitt are now IN close hid
ing lest their turn come next.
Garcelons Southern encOuragers point the
slow. unmOyng finger OF scorn at him for
"Funkcr" They say he craw-fshed by submitting
those questions to the Court.
The Memphis Aralanche can't understand why an
honest and able statesman is reegated to private
life" while his lieutenants are rushed into oitse
This means Chieftain Jefferson Davis for United
States Senator instead of Lieutenant BaIksdale or
Singleton.
The more you think of Talmage's Endorsement OF
Garceon the more You can't find out whether the
preacher OF the politician is damaged the worst.
This is an epoch of general iveliness In religion.
politics and social life there persons who are
disposed to impart as much animation to the sua-
ton as they possibly can. The Brooklyn Presby-
terry and Dr. Talmage's church are trying their best
TO have season of harmony, but the Rev. Dr. Van