National Republican., 1882-07-08
EDITORIAL NOTES,

THIS is a dry season in Russia, but
Nihilism keeps on growing with tropical
luxuriance
The smoking allowed on the frent and
rear platforms of the Avenue cars is sim
ply disgusting to ladies.
KENTUCKY has the worst public school
system and the most redundant list of
crimes of any State in the Union.
OKLoHoMA PAYNE is getting himself in
position to be suppressed again. Putting
this man down really builds him up.
SULLIVAN, pugilist, is acquiring a pop
ularity that will make him invincible
as Democratic candidate for Congress.
THERE may be as many as ten un-
banqueted public functionaries in Wash
ington as this date, but the number is
decreasing steadily.
THE improper use of titles is very con-
fusing. In militia company in South
ern city fifty-seven of the sixty-five
privates are colonels.
If MARY ANDERsoN's beautiful new
yacht were only a few feet shorter she
could have jolly times with it in rough
weather in her bath-tub.
THE Democrats of Pennsylvania have
not elected q governor since 1857,
although they have frequently claimed
it eXultantly," as they are now doing.
SINCE the Inauguration of Governor
Sancho Panza there has been no more
than the coronation of King Kalakua is
to be.
The most irreparable of all PROSTATE
fences will be those of Republican Con-
gressmen who shirk the duty of voting
ntruding frauds out of usurped seats in
the House.
ABOUT two and half miles of " the
identical rope that Guiteau was hung
with" are already in circulation among
credulous relic-hunters, and the trade
still thrives.
THE Bourbon plan redistricting, &C.,
is very simple. 1t is to corral all the
Republicans in the smallest possible
number of districts and then steal the
districts thus constituted.
IF Republican House fails to seat Re-
publicans elected thereto the people thus
defrauded will have little encourage
ment to go through the forms of an elec-
ton for the next Congress.
ANY man who has seen cat eat soap
has been witness of that degree of
felicity which thrills the soul of tile
Democratic Central organ when it speaks
Of the "next governor of Georgia"
Nor because they had obstructed, but
because they might have done so if they
had seen fit, were Mr.. Parnell and some
of his associates named for suspension.
This is the boasted liberty of Great
Britain.
To ONE who knows the prices prevail
ing in the markets apd provision stores
and is aware of the rates paid for un-
skilled labor, the great mystery of the
times is the fact that the families of
laboring men do not starve.
WHEN His Satanic Majesty took his
holy-water bath he appeared to enjoy
the recreation with as much hilarity as
our morning contemporary displays in
contemplating the gubernatorial candi-
dacy of Hon. A. I'll. Stephens.
If Mr.. WHITTHoRNE had applied to the
Ordance Bureau of the Navy Department
for information before constructing his
great speech he could have learned
that old powder cannot be returned with
any considerable degree of success.
WHEN the average workingman is able
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to school he will not be disposed to COM
plain of the capitalist who rides in his
own palace car, lives in princely luxury,
and takes his family to Europe every
other summer.
THE efforts of Prohibitionists in some
of the States are admirably calculated to
advance the interests of the party to
which nearly all Prohibitionists profess
intense hostility. Like other reformers
of the Republican party, their blows are
all delivered on the heads of their friends.
A PARTY that has no encouraging facts
to tone up its nerves may be pardoned
for trying to brace up on fiction. This
charitable view of the situation excuses
the Northern Democracy for its persist
ent refusal to see things as they are in
those Southern States where the Bour-
bon edifice is crumbling.
THE Central Democratic organ is pro.
foundly distressed over the fact that the
government can borrow money at very
low rate of interest. 1t seems pity that
we can't get back to the good old DAYS
when the last Democratic Administration
if we exceptthat of President Tilden
was trying to get little money at only
twelve per cent
WHEN the political cauldron gets into
a state of violent ebullition, it is feared
that the Democratic press of the United
States will not give sufficient space to
Princess Beatrice's love affairs, and there
is gloomy prospect that the advent OF
royal babies in Europe will not be prop
erly heralded. Still, let us hope for the
best.
The most thrifty official of the period
is a New Jersey coroner, but he il
scarcely ahead of a coroner in New
Hampshire, who, some twenty years ago
held an inquest on remains" consist
ing of an old wig, double set of false
teeth, glass eye, and cork leg, all found
in tenement that had belonged to Q
dilapidated single lady who had gone
hence.
THE English papers think our courts
of Justice are very far below the proper
tone. But if the absurd pomp and
parade, the fuss and feathers, the bawline
heralds, the wigs, gowns, and other
solemnities" of an English court were
attempted in this country, the effect
would be greater development of mirth
than was produced by "Pinafore OF
"The Pirates"