New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-27


justice in Washington" Bless us that is what the
people have beon growing over for some time
past.
Gentle woman has often been reproached for her
lack of inventive skill. The various labor-saving
appliances of the kitchen are invariably the work
OF man, and even tho sewing-machino, which has re-
leased fair ringers from unendng toll and drudgery,
was not woman's Idea Even when the sewing
machine had been perfected, mans socitude for
woman did not end, for the working of the treadle
involved fatigue and annoyance from which be
thought she ought to be relieved. For many years
inventors have been at work upon innumerable con-
trvances for operating tho sewing machine, ex-
perments having been made with steam, COM
pressed air. gas, electricity, and mechanical devices
without end. The problem has be n a most difficult
one but it IS now thought that solution has been
obtained An Englishman named Watkins has re-
Gently completed an invention which can be applied
to any sewing machine 80 as to keep the wheel in
motion without pressure of foot or hand. And
what is the main element of this new devloef 1t Ia
a box of tape-the thing above all others of
which woman rather than man ought to have
thought 1t is steel tare to be sure. and is wound
up to serve a coled spring for use and is pre-
vented by ratchet and click from releasing itself
There is a good deal Of clock-work connected with
1t and an ingenious method of compensating the
action of the ribbon, but it begins and ends in tape
All the good which Monsignor Capel may have
done since his arrival in this country may not live
after his departure. But the mischief he has done
in starting into activity the jaws OF the Rev. Dr.
Justin d. Fulton is likely to continue long after be
is gone
Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coke of the Episcopal
Diocese of Western New York. has recently ordained
Mr. bu
banker of Buffalo, who for the past seven years
has driven out to an outlying town every Sunday
to read service. Feelings last that he could better
perform his labor Of love if ordained, lie asked
for ordination to the perpetual diaconate. The
significance of the incident lies in the fact that Mr.
Lee does not give up his business nor is he author
lied 20 preach. He is simply Christian layman
licensed to perform certain clerical functions, but
neither asked nor expected by the Church to with
draw from the world. The perpetual diaconate
under somewhat similar conditions is said to have
been a feature Of the early Church, and its revival
at the present time would appear to many Church
men to be eminently wise and practical, since
there are many duties usually considered clerical
which the Intelligent laity of the Church are fully
qualified to perform
1t is expected that the comet will be visible to
the naked eye about Christmas. Don't you wish,
Mr. Holman. that you could entertain as good a
hope of your Presidential bOomf
1t is a hard thing to please everybody. Miss Mary
Anderson has just been criticised by aLOndou paper
for pronouncng forgive as forgeeye, which was sol
EMMY declared to be an Ameucanism of the basest |
sort. And now comes Western paper which crit
icises Lord Chief Justice Coeridge for the same |
of tue same word, which it pro- |
uounces a British vulgausm of the most pronounced |
kind. International criticism hardly yet be |
numbered among the exact sciences.
"History is better than prophecy" says The Al |
bdny argus. That depends upon the subject of the |
history and prophecy. Now, there's the Democratic
party. 1t would be difficult to prophesy anything
about it that would not be an improvement upon
its history
One OF the gonfalons carried to Buffalo was let
tered With the legend United we stand, divided
we fall" That's rather q neat wav of confessing
that tho Democracy cannot expect to carry the
State this fall. Another of the gonfalons pro-
claimed, We are opposed to contract labor in
State Prisons Any workIng-man that read these
words may we'll have INDUCED In a sheer of con-
tempt and Indignation Everybody knows that
policy convict labor. as developed
in the last Legislature. is not to oppose but to
dodge.
For many years past the English Church in
Canada has shown in quiet way its desire to CUT
loose from some of the trammels of English au-
thority. Twelve years ago tho provincial synod
passed canon making the office of metropolitan
bishop an elective one. 1t had previously been
held by the Bishop of Montreal by virtue of letters
patent from the English Crown The bishop has
never recognized the right of the synod to take
this action, claiming that the authority of the
Crown was supreme IN such matters. The result
has been long controversy. This year the pro-
vncial synod has taken up the subject again, aud
alter full discussion has passed resolution
affirming the validity of the old canon tho SUBJ
ect 1t looks as if the Bishop of Montreal will have
to YIELD Notwithstanding his letters patent from
The Crown.