New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-15

paper perpetrated yesterday practical joks ,,.-
Its resders who bounced upon the pasasrapb & q.
expectation Of finding some interesting eri,,,... .
news or thrilling item Of police intelligence Il.
discovered to their disgust that 1t was only r,,.-
that some sort Of an irrcgusrity had been dl....
cred ia Brooklyn In consequence OF which ano,,,-
Democratic Alderman would be declared elar,.s
1t must seem to the citizens Of Brooklyn d,.o,.,
sort of facetiousness.
Some long-taIked.of improvements are al,su, =.
be made IN London. Those who have visited lyvs.
Park IN the height of the seasen will recollses -.
apparently hopeless blockade which take. ala.
every day opposite Hyde Park Corner. Just A. n.
great traffic is beginning to move westward r.
the City along Piccadilly O stream Of priyxt. ...
riages approaches up Grosvenor- place AND Do
Hamltou-Tlace and Psrk-lane Nothing -
steady police discipline enables either s.s.. !.
find its way to its destination II is now prono..s
to remove the Wellington Arch at the col Ger % IN.
Green Park some distance back along Constituta.
Ill., and to appropriate the corner OF the Pal M.
elice off the gardens Of buckingham Palace 40 J.
to make q new road from Halkin-st. TO HamlIt.,
place, and so relieve the pressure on Hyde Pa,
Corner The hIdeous statue OF the Duke Is not IA 4.
replaced. Another important Improvement IA Is.
opening OF st. James's Park to Charing Cro~ xh,,s
will greatly relieve Pail Mall. New quarter. A..
to be provided for the Admiralty and the Va,
Office. Yet another Improvement Ia suggested
though not yet to be undertaken. It is proposed d
pull down the houses in Abingdon-st. at thu soutA
of Westminster Abbey and build new Clos<r
to which many OF tho memorial tombs now 10 Ia
Abbey may be removed and Others may be sdd.d
The recent proposal to erect Longfellov Msmua
may perhaps revive the suggestion in mvrs prss
teal form, foi IL the Abbey Is to Decome species
of Walhalla for the poets and authors Of TIN
EnglIsh-speaking race over the whole world, IL
limits will soon have to De extended.
Fifty contested seats in the next Congressl Tia
Committee on Privileges and Elections will hays
the sympathy of the entire country
The Secretary of the Republican Committee ia
that letter praying for the coming forward Of back
ward voluntary contributors. which no tender.
hearted person could to read through at ss.
ting because of tears stated that he would remau
at the Committees headquarters until the l4t, o!
November Yesterday was the 18th Of November
Alb, what will be the agoni zing disappolntueato Of
the voluntary contributors who speed with ioeund
step TO the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day Only 10 b
informed that the Secretary has gone hone and
will not be back lP. S.-ProcrastiDation Is ~
own reward
Ii must have been current slang exppssoa
which rose to the lips of those eminent Democratic
menlbers-eect Of this next Con gress. Messrs. Car
Isle, Randall, Tucker Morrison. Dorsheimer hurl
and Proctor Knott when they read in a Democrat,
newspaper that shey brought 70 the party IA
embarrassment of riches" In the selection Of 8
Speaker Doubtless each one OF them lifted ha
eyebrows and soliloquized: " | should smile"
Democrats are congratulating themselves that
when they come to the organization vi the neIt
House of Representatives. there will b, no strife. a
among Republicans between the " better elemcnn'
an a the worse clements or the party. And thef
CONGRATULATIONS are undoubtedly well founded.
Experience teaches that IN presence of prospectus
plunder the better elements" make no aga.
| They are always found harmonizlng with the
worse eleme ats" with their cups up. The County
Democracy of this city have just given us a fresh
| illustration of it.