The Evening critic., 1883-01-13
Saturday, January l3, 1888.

Saturday, January l3, 1888.
BREWSTER dips his pen in an aesthetic
nine.dollar inkstand paid for by the people.
TIE Department of Justice pays7 20 cents
month for the Ercaiag Star, Its regular
subscription price is Al cents.
MISSOURI has nearly nine and half
million dollars ms an available school
fund. This is as largo if not larger sum
than any other State in the Union has.
THE SIN kindly reprints Isaac Sherman's
excellent pamphlet on taxation for the
benefit of the adoescent Governors of New
York and Connecticut, and all other Gov.
ernors, legislators, officials and common,
everyday people who need information
on this subject.
DICKSON, the star-Route juryman, has been
held over on charge Of brlbery.-AHdntd
Constitution.
Not so. Mr.. Dickson was held on a charge
of embracery, and that by judge who was
never known to discharge anybody in a
case where he had not final jurisdiction.
THE boasted ''southern hospitality" is at q
discount in Georgia. party OF Northern
travellers were required to pay twenty-five
cents each for the privilege OF warming them
selves at a flre In the Jessup Hotel during
delay In that town, the railway offices being
cold.-BoSt0n Journal.
We suppose that in Massachusetts men
keep hotels through notions of pure hos
pitality and would scorn the filthy lucre.
The building Of fiat houses appears TO be
overdone in New York. In the upper part
of the city there arc O good many unten-
anted flats. The average rental for thom
is not so high as it was a year ago. The
reason assigned for this dearth of tenants
is that the landlords of this class of property
expect revenue from it altogether out of
proportion to that derived from other
kinds Of property. Washington, however,
can stand few more fiat houses.
THE Empress OF Austria lately saved an old
blind woman from falling over a bank Into the
river by jumping out Of her carriage and run
ming to the old persons rescue. The Imperial
lady is q noted horsewoman and is as nimble
as she is generous.-E'TchdHge.
And yet the Empress of Austri ia laces.
When she was q young woman she was
so dangerously i'll that her life was
despaired of. The learned physicians at
tributed it to tight lacing She has sur
vived her physicians and is now a grand
mother. All of which is submitted to the
dress reformers.
THE Boston Star in speaking of the re-
cent foolish and impudent letters of John
Ananas Walsh to the Attorney General
and the President, says:
Mr.. Walsh was witness In the previous
trial. What he can testify TO this time he does
not diyulge In his letter.
The Star is evidently unacquainted with
John Ananias. John is the great American
swift witness and renowned Louisiana
Liar. "What he can testify to this time"
will depend solely on what is wanted of
him and the price paid him-as was the
case before.
ZONE of the leaders of the Southern wing
of the (Democratio) party in Congress" is
made to say by the Republican this morn
ing:
''The Senate Will have to organize, as @
matter ofcourse, but 1t viii hardly reorganizC
Its working force, for fear of moving tho House
to the adoption Of retaliatory measures"
This is purblind leader, indeed. The
Senate is always called in extra session al
the expiration of each term of Congress tC
reorganize, it being a. continuous body
The House never is, unless Congress il
called in extra session, something
which seldom happens. The Senat,
can ''reorganize its working force" if it il
called in extra sess sion after the 4th of mex
March without the slightest shadow of
shade of fear of 'retaliatory measures
being adopted by the House. If Congress
should be called in extra session of cours
both branches will ''reorganize their work
ing forces" i. e., elect new officers. Thi
"leader' of the Southern wing" of tn
Democracy should, if he made 'any sucl
statement, have his head given an extr.
rub in the mornings; otherwise he should
call that reporter out.
By THE official reports, on the 10th o
January, the Mississippi lacked 26l feet a
Memphis of being up to high-wate
mark. At Vicksburg, same day, it laGke
"a feet. At New Orleans IL lacked only
feet of being up to high-water mark.
This unusually high water at New o.
leans, Wnen lt is so low ABOVE, can DC IfOi
no other cause than the dams placed acrol
the mouths of the river by the jetty con
tractors.
Now, with these facts staring them
the face, tho River Commission say bull
levees to hold the waters of the Mississippi
and to force its mighty current, swollen b
the food waters of the whole vale.
through this one mouth THAT at Sout
Pass, where the jetties are), the room
space for these extra waters being limitC
to the six feet of difference between IL
height of the water at New Orleans in u
ordinary stage of the river and its heigl
during the high-water period.
The thing is as impossible as it would
to force four-inch bar of iron through Il
eye of the smallest needle, and it is hil
time that Congress put peremptory ST
to such folly, not to say jobbery.
The Republican, in long article on Il
Speakership this morning, has this signi
cant statement:
The Randall opposition Will, In all hum
possibility, consolidate ona Western or Sou
ern man, though 1t is by no means certain tn
VIII take up with any Of the gentlemen "
are now most prominent. The only CO