New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-23


Any college that Is In want OF q professor to fill
the chair of Applied Ambiguity would do well 10
communicate with John Kelly. His recent etterfto
friend concerning politics demonstratesthat
be is a consummate master Of that science. In the
course of it he says that in the old ticket is
nominated Tammany "will support It with as
much vigor and effort as thar made IN 1876 bv u.s."
This is almost good, i'll ITS way. as story tolc OF
" Tom Alvord and verdant Assemblyman. Tho
green legislator was q terrible bore a speaker
and never took tha floor but his fellow members
heaved deep signs Of discomfort One day he was
called to preside over Committee Of the Whole.
and his rulings from the chair glaringiy in
correct as bis oratOry had been Iirosome When the
committee rose be walked over toIMr. Alvord and
marked with unwasted sef-conceit, Well. Gov
ernor how did I get along as presiding ofiicerV
Tie sage Of Onondags with sly twinkle in his eye
replied" should say, SIR that Won were as eicient
In the chair as you are upon the floor"
@Imaks it a rule, You know" says Oscar Wilde.
"never to take seriously what newspaper writer's
saw OF course everybody was aware of that
fact Mr.. Wilde. 1t is generally understood that
the only thing that you take seriously IS what
banco men sometimes do: while in your case an
unfeeng world does not even take that seriously.
Go to, Oscar; go to! You are a stale Joke.
The death of the Rev. William NJ. Baker does not
seem 10 have attracted as mnch attention as it
would have been natural TO expect. Mr.. Baker was
a novelist Of M mean strength. HIS first subjects
were draw n from the South, where he was settled
as Presbyterian clergyman for a number OF years.
These were The New Timothy" and " Nose
Evans" Inside; A Chronicle If Secession" and
The Vireinians IN Texas" drawn from the
same sources but do not seem to have achieved the
same success. The book which will be remembered
longest is undoubtedly " His Majesty Myself"
This contains the best portraIure vet made IN nc
ticn of the popular" preacher, whose church Is
more like a ec'ure-rO IN or theatre than the
typical house of worship and whose theology con-
sists chiefly of picturesque nrgatlons. Common
rumor was unknd enough suggest that W. II.
H. Murray the figure portrayed In this book, and
Mr. Murray seems to have done his best to confirm
the impression. The contrast Of character in this
book. and especially between the two sisters who
play leading parts is striking. Mr.. Baker was
fftyeight years of age and in the ordinary course
of nature could not have been expected to produce
much more.
II. is understood that Mr. Cox dominates Mr.. Ran
dali as the $ smmer of the Whirlpool rapids.
Vanity Fdir has been quoted by cable as making
4 savage attack American tourists. 1t says
nered and lll-volced; uncouth. sancy, irreverent.
and without decent breedir g." The horde of
vulgar Americans. 1t says, who overrun Europe
during the summer. bad enough but those who
remain permanently in England. and try TO force
themselves INTO good society. amount practically To
"A plague THIS nuisance. it believes, is growing
every year, and is enough to prove that the dis
cOvery of America was q great mistake. Well
well who has been snu5bmg tbs third-rate little
sheetf ID is undoubtedly true that there are many
Americans travelling IN Europe who bring discredit
upon the American name. There are Doors in
every land and England herself has been too prolific
In such people 10 give her the right to lecture other
nations The English cad" and the ubiquitous
"'Arry" who profane Europe with tn if dense vul-
garty and stupid insuar ignorance, may be put
down as a good offset to whole colonies of newly
rich Americans
Stock speculation Stays its thou, ,nds. 1t has just
been the means of breaking down another National
bank, in OHIO, and an ambitious theatrical CON-
biuation in Chicago. The dtpositors in the bank
will be paid in full but the members of Mr.. George
Edcar's company will not be 80 fortunate. The
latter are entitled to sympathy. They we're engaged
in a respcc able enterprise, and now have all their
plans overthrow at time when the theatrical
s.oson has been mapped out to the end. But the
disaster is grim warning against rushing into the
atrcaI ventures without first counting the cost and
being sure of the money.
Shrewd observers declare that the Harmony
which the Democracy is now organizing at Saratoga
Springs IL a Typographical error for Hypocrisy.
The Rochester Union believes that tue meeting of
the Democratic State Committee will make for the
contIn uance of "the broad-gauge policy" The
Union does not define what il means by the broad
gauge policy but the omission IL imnateral. The
broad gauge policy means that John Kelly eau bolt
a Democratic State ticket and snub a Democratic
Governor without being ex cuded from a Democratic
Convention.
Until further notice the post Office address of the
Democracy OF Massachusetts will be the breeches'
pocket Of General Butler
1t would certainly pay 3" have boxes to collect
newspapers for the hospitals at the New-York SIDE
of the railroad ferries as well the jersey side.
good many readers who would be glad to drop their
papers into hospital box on leaving the boat on the
New SIDE pass by the box Oh the Jersey side
because they want to continue their reading while
on the boat So too there ought TO be one OF more
boxes at Hunters Point.
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