New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-20

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crude oil also. The sales were at times large
and the market was excited, though it closed on
Saturday only liz cents higher than the week
before. There has been no change OF interest,"
in iron, and operations In dry goods have oeen
checked by the state of affairs in wall street,
though buyers from the South and Southwest
have begun to make more liberal purchases
1t is gratifying to note that the recently pun
lishsd reports of the street car companies show
Iaros Increase in the prosperity Of these public
spirited and self-denying corporations. by the
wav. could they not now afford to pay to the city
the considerable sums which some OF them nave
been owing for years for license feesf NO one
would be cod-blo0ded enough to ask them 10 lessen
their dividends for the purpose OF paying the'r
honest debts But 1t now seems likely In some
cases that IL they put of paying their dents any
longer, they will be forced to increase their diV
dsnds in order to dispose of their profits Countless
hearts would bleed to see them reduced 10 tnis
painful necessity.
Ex-sberiff James pBron's efforts to start new
marty have not vet been crowned with that success
which the true lover Of his kind yearns for IL IS
we'll known that the crying need OF this city az ths
time Is new party. We have so few Oh them-
there are not more than seven CLASSIFIED under the
osneral head of Democratic, with scattered rae
tions here and there which cannot be grouped
under that title that all such eminent reforerS as
Mr.. OBrien should lose no time in adding 10 the
number Such absolute disinterestedness as mas
glowed through every part of his politca career
such complete and unrvalled freedom from guile
If every sort a. distn gushes his character set him
in a class by himself BY the way, the Registers
office will be vacant this year, Fat pickings there
4. a |, Inada nf n
cannot be.
A good many young soldiers Belgium are evil
IDENTIFY of the opinion that the sword Is mghter than
the pen and that although " a little learning may
be "a dangerous thing" there is no reason why it
should alarm mon whose profession commits them
70 unconcern of any and all sorts of dangers. 1t
anpears from q report of the School Commission OF
Inauiry lust published that of the 1860 recruits
admitted to the Belgium army in 1882, 243I were
unable to write, while only 1o75 OF the whole
number obtained two marks for satisfactory rand
writing. Worse than this. not more than olSo
oonld make n MULTIPLICATION and but 1915 knew
the four ground rules of arithmetic well enough 10
appy them to the solution OF the most elementary
problems The answers given by these valiant sons
of Mars to questions on religious topics indicate
that going further than the wsll-known statesman
who expressed disinclination for Sunday schools
Sc. They were asked concerning their knowledge Of
Moses and the vast and various misinformation
that flowed from their lips in response wss as sur
nrisinp as il was amusing. The schoolmaster cer-
| family cannot be abroad-at least he has yet to
cross the Belgium frontier.
1t is said that summer hotel has been discovered
whose proprietor does not claim in his circular that
| there Is good fishing in the immediate neighbour
! hoodp Owing to the fact that no diagram OF the
hotel is furnished that its location is not mentioned
and that the name of its eccentric proprietor ID
withheld the proprety of receiving the report with
| good deal of suspicion Is obvious.
The fossil footprints at Carson, New are attract
ING much attention among the scientific men OF
| Europe as we'll rs America. DR.. Hardness. OF San
Franc SEQ made an elaborate statement In recent
paper before the California Academy OF Sciences OK
his reasons for believing that they were the foot
prints of biped. The chief basis for this belief Is
the fact the footprints show no sign OF the pads or
cushions with which Nature protects the feet of all
| animals that walk whether man. or beast, or fowl.
DIR. Hardness does not find in any of the 400 foot
prints of the so-called Nevada men" the slightest
indication of any imprint of pad or toe or nail or
instep or heel They are surrounded and crossed by
| the tracks of other animals all of which can be
| identified by their characteristics His conclusion
is that the foot making the impressions referred to
| WAS protected by sandal of some kind, which
| would only have been done by man. He asserts
also that the central portion of some OF the foot
prints is moro depressed in the line OF its long diane
ter than at the border showing that the sole OF the
! sandal had become moistened by contact with the
| mud and so had yielded He argues that on the
theory that the tracks are not those of sandal the
variations can only be accounted for ON the suppos-
ton that the tracks made by different species OF
| ,ninals The angle varies and the curve IS much
sharper in some than in others, which could be ac-
| counted for by a variation in the sandals. If the
tracks are those of quadruped he says, the animal
must at all times have placed his hndfoot so exactly
I'm tho track of his forefoot to leave no mark and
| that both forefeet and hlndfeet must have been
shaped exactly alike. The length of step he finds
| no greater than that of the ordinary man of full
stature while the width OF the straddle or taokway
eighteen inches-whch he admits is abnormal, he
| attributes to the care used in walking over muddy
| ground with feet-covering somewhat like snow
shoes Professor o. G. Marsh insists. on the other
hand that the length OF the unprecedented to
| twenty inches and the width of the stradde, would
be found in the footprints Of large sloth. and says
| that some of the tracks show impressions of the
| forofoot.
Two considerations combine to make the DEM
ocratic leaders very gloomy as they think of 'S4.
| These are. first their inability to elect the old
ticket; second, their inability to prevent any new
| ticket that they may agree on from being de-
feated.
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| PERSONAL.
Mr.. G. G. Haskell, of the Henry Bill Publishing
Company, has, says The Norcich Bulletin, received a
| letter from a gentleman IN Calcutta. India, apply
ing for the agency for Mr.. Blaine's forthcoming