New-York tribune., 1880-09-26

we had almost said. criminally careless in recon-
| mending alcohol as tonic, especially TO consump-
tiyes Ii there be one man in this country VINO de-
serves a hanging quite as much any criminal III
the murerers row. it is the reckless charlatan who
invented the fools cry of ' rye and rock"
Poor DIR. Tanner! But yesterday lion, albeit
lion with an empty stomach. to-day there is nobody
20 moor as to do him reverence. No man has been
more talked about no man has been more
mentioned by the newspapers; only yester-
day he was the hero of starvation the creature III
all the world who could go longest without eating.
while to-day he is merely the squeezed orange of
the public curiosity. Emerging from his FAST he
determined to lecture. First came an astounding
paragraph that certain Literary Bureau had
offered him au enormous sum for his services, which
he had declined, because he could make SO much
more on his account. Now 1T appears that he
cannot make anything. People do not to hear
the high priest of prolonged abstemousness hold
forth They declined to take tickets, while any
notion of reserved seats proved simply ridiculous.
At Hartford. Conn, last week, when the time came
for the lecture, only three tickets had been sold.
Wherefore the Doctor declined to discourse upon
starvation His lecture enterprise has proved
perfect failure. lie finds himself not much ia
nous AS notorious and though half the population
of the United States would have after him
thirty days ago, only three people in a large city
will give 25 cents to see him now, with hearing
thrown in. Thus the public, after spasmOdic
wonderment vindicates its claim to common
sense. Why should it go to hear DR.. Tanner lee
ture He knows no more after going all that time
without eating than he did before. He has nothing
to tell All there Is Of the matter the public has
learned already. For all his feat. he looks like
other men, talks like other men, and is really no
body III particular. Doubtless the same might be
SAID of many others who undertake to lecture, only
they havn't been found out. If DIR. Tanner wishes
to perpetuate his fame, let him show the world how
much he can eat!
The British Burials bill has been passed, but the
feeling against still remains. -Four hundred clergy
men OF the Established Church have signed urgent
remonstrance against the measure. not neglecting
to abuse the bishops who helped to pass IT, They
will not, they declare, read the service over
Nonconiormist. be the legal consequences what
they may" In other words as The Pail Mall Gazette
explains they propose to punish individual mOurners
for bill passed in Parliament which they insist
insults their Church. The sectarian rancor which
is thus carried literally to the very borders of the
grave and wranges over u dead body is hardly con-
cevable to Americans. The Bishop of Manchester
who himself has common sense and charity enough
tO stock or tneSe 1OO curateS,
might add to his recent arguments for cremation
the consideration that the Dissenter in England
could Mt least burn, if he cannot bury his dead in
peace, without risk OF legal insult. Another phase
of the burial question is the faot that the Isle of
Man desires not to be included in the operation of
the blli as It's House proposes to pass similar
act This protest brings to view the peculiar rela-
tions which this little nation holds to Great Britain
Readers of Scott will remember the hlipntian
kingdom of Manx, with its castle, In which the
uncanny FeneiIa appeared and vanished like a
dream and the Duchess Queen who ruled over her
handful of subjects absolutely as a Russian Gar.
Her kingdom, although an English county, is still
permitted to hold parliament and code OF its own.
Queen Victoria, it is stated, Is again to be-
come an author. She proposes to furnish a
descriptive catalogue of all the presents
given her during her reign, TO be illustrated by
photography. The catalogue, 1t is said, will
be exhaustive. including the most costly
gifts of her brother sovereigns down 10
the patched bed-quilt aud wooden
kitchen utensils sent from her poor subjects and
neighbOrs at Balmoral. The idea Is pretty. fanci
full one, worthy of good woman who has intelli.
gcncc enough 10 know how to be grateful
Another monarch, the Emperor OF Brazil. whom
all Americans like to remember as the grizzly
bearded honest-eyed dom Pedro,p and who