New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-07


much to do as anything with killing our people"
1t does this of course, in two ways in mild
weather it overheats houses anu enervatcs the in
mates, exposing them to cold when they 60 ont
and, sc ,ondly, it vtiates the air Of every room
The domestic duty which the head of the household
most commonly ncglects is that of letting the fur
fire 20 out During tho present winter there
have scarcely been ten days when in an ordinary
New-YOrk house. built in on each SIDE 1t has Oeen
really necessary to have the furnace lire lighted
During the remainder Of the season the great
majority of our more preteDtiOus houses have been
Ovcrheated. As for the deeterOus ELECTS OF 1ur-
mace heat these are commonly intensified by mace
quate provisions for securing constant supply OF
fresh air. Sometimes the furnace is ted with air
from damp basement room to which the kitchen
Odors have ingress; sometimes servants water
closet is close hand to poison the air that is taken
mp and distributed through the house; and oitener
still the cold-ar box is fed indirectly by long
tube running underground TO the rear wall Of the
house. If bad air goes into the furnace it will he
carried all the house, and the hotter the lire
the more poison Will there be indoors
Tie venerable Montgomery Blair has startled the
public with an energetic letter in favor of the sup
preston of Chinese immigration As Mr.. Blair
never speaks except with the ultimate object OF
helping Mr. Tden's denomination, this unexpected
outburst may mean that the reyamped Reform plat
form for 1881 viii contain an anti-Chinese plank.
The amusement Of fling claims to gold mines
Empire state gold mines-has been INDUCED in 10
considerable extent during tie last month. 1t is
stated that during that period no less than
forty of such claims have been filed in the office Of
the Secretary Of State. But since nobody so far
"a known has as yet succeeded IN laying eyes upon
any of the gold contained in these forty mines, the
trains are not yet crowded with rcd-shrtel adyen'
turcrs armed with picks and top-boots bound for
cur gold fields.
Il begins to look as if the Democrats would have
10 order draft in 1854 to get candidate for the
Presidency. Pendlcton will get knitted because Of
his civil service views; Tlden, in spite of those
six pair of stairs he keeps running mp and down
with the grace and agility OF the gazee, is con-
sidcrably more deceased than the great grandfather
of the first Of the Pharaohs; Thurman is fatally
handicapped by his financial record Hendricks
couldn't carry his own State, to say nothing OF the
outside enemies h. made in the National campaign OF
1876; Seymour is precludcd by the inirmities OF
age from accepting the nomination; voorhees, IS
glaringly unS0und on " a tariff for revenue only,
and SO is Randall. That rccuces the list TO Bayard
But Mayor Whyte, of Baltimore, says 1t Is no use
tempt 10 bolster up NdIu III lIIS D'ito dlt'
this. lie has had his last chance. He cannot get
the delegation from this State to the next Demo
cratic National Convention Democratic states
men whose ambition does not rise beyond the desire
t. figure in 1881 rs dark horses will read this list
Of candidates for obituary LOnors with resigned re-
gIet.
The contributions from the Irish in this country
to the Land League Fund turn out 10 be abOHt
what they were recently estimated to be by IHs
TrIBU.yE 4 letter is published from Treasurer
E9aan in which he says the total amount received
by him from all sources IN America up to February
L. including L /. coo from Canada, was 100000.
about $3.50, 600 Mr.. Eagln says $4,000 Of this
is now in hand as a reserve fund, mostly invested
in Grstclass railway securities, and leaves the
public to infer that the rest has been spent for the
cause of Irish freedom. The handsome sum on
hand is sufficient to keep the astatog5 in good con
dltion for some time 60 come
q have little faiih,' says Oscar Wilde, in a
yoiug man who chooses what are called heroic sub
jccts for his early eHorts7 PERHAPS this explains
Mr.. Wide's present inanc posing and atttudiuiz-
Ing lis tour of the United states is one Of his ear
" efforts. When he grows older who knows but
Zee may cndeayor to develop into an heroic sub
jectI "