New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-24

and temperature have both been moderate and
steady, the pulse dropping at one time
to 6, the lowest point in nineteen days.
1t is also noted that the increase in the guam
tity and heartiness of the nOurishment is not
followed by as marked felxie rise in
the evening as might have been expected.
These things are somewhat reassurlng. 1t
would be folly for the people to deceive them
selves at this stage of the case as to the pre-
seriousness of the Presidents condition. But
they should be just as ready, on the other
hand, to recognize change for the better such
as that which seems now to be taking place.
The latest search for the body of A. II.
Stewart, like those before it, has ended in
nothing. Cypress Hill has been rooted up in
vain. The cobbe- stones have been "reaped"
but nothing more. The mysterious picture
appears to have been a fraud-perpetrated
by somebody. The mysterious lady is not
found. The awful suspicion arises that
perhaps she does not exist The mysteri
Gus workman vanished into the limbo of
the commonplace long ago. 1t is possible
that the mysterious glintings of dark
lanterns seen by the wOrkmen in their
search were only concrete and every
day lightning-bugs. This atmosphere of
doubt and suspicion is oppressive. Per-
haps the pictures on the walls of the mys-
FERROUS detectives Office and the carpets on
his mysterious floor are not SO elegant and
perhaps--dreadful thought-the detective is not
so quiet, though he may be as shrewd, as some
credulous newspapers have represented. Per-
haps some evil-mnded persons will go so far
to question his sincerity in declaring that he
was not /" after mere reward of dollars and
CENTS" because there was something "higher
and better in this case" 1t may console him
in the midst of such misrepresentation that his
feelings will not be wounded by getting what
he was not after"
The first thought of all sensible people on
hearing that the Cornell Oarsmen in Europe
charged one of their number with selling the
race at Vienna, was that it was hardly so dis
graceful for college crew to lose race as it
was for one of their number to be accused of
gross dishonesty, and it was the general feeling
that unless the complaining students could pro-
duce absolute proof of their story, which did not
seem likely, it would have been much
better to keep silence. The charge now,
however, assumes more circumstantial air
through investigations made in Ithaca, where
the existence of conspiracy between Shinkel
and several liquor-dealers and gamblers to
throw away the races is said to have been
discovered. One of the liquor-deaers is clas-
sified as Shinkefs prospective brother-in-
law" The amount of evidence obtained is not
imposing, but taken in connection with Shinkel's
failure to meet the charge, will make an ull-
favorable impression upon the public. The
whole business is somewhat nauseating. Per-
haps it will tend to discrcdit and diminish in
number these collegiate contests. 1t will GER
tainly occur to some that to send abroad the
retrospective brother-iD-lawn of saloon
keeper as the conspicuous representative, in
any capacity, of a collegiate institution, in
wolves some incongruity; and this may raise
the question whether when college athletics
are carried to the extreme of sending young
men thousands of miles away to demonstrate
simply their muscular power-or the lack of
it, these contests have not been reduced to an
absudity.