New-York tribune., 1884-11-28
Tore the azure robes OF night
And set his red bandanna there.

arc worse than crimes.
The man who ddn't vote on election day. tried
| to be thankful yesterday in view Of the fact that
only ono President had been elected and
quenty that the result only onc-lialf as bad ~
| 10 would have been If two terribly wicked candi
| dates, for whom he could not possibly vote, had
been chosen instead of one. lie could not, how
cvcr, derive consolation from the reflection that he
had done ANYTHING himself to affect tho general rc-
suit in way the other He would perhaps
have had better relish for his Thanks yiving din
nor and u kecncr appreciation of tho sermon, IL hc
| bad been somei hing besides political cipher In
| contest OF moncntous importance In which every
vote seemed 10 have determining weight. II he
mad helped 10 elect ono candidate or to defeat the
other no would havc been better satisfied with his
position aud record on tho National holiday AZ IL
was. he had merely his beautiful moral sentiments
~ full aud M round IA tho cipher hc himself was,
aud meaning about rs much.
Tho permission of genuine spaTring matches
seems To be rs good away as any to pat IN end to
prize-tighting. The Intense disgust of the slugSer
element at tho innocence of the exchanges the other
| night at Madison Garden showed that they could
stand only a very little of the new method. Judge
Barretts rules in fact beat the Marquis of Queens
berry's Ia putting down rufianly and brutalzing
amusement. BY all means lot tho order of
gIove-fgnts :" be maintained.
~ intend to surrO, nd myself with the best and
broadest minds in the party and then bend all my
energies toward making an administration that shall
at least every element that transfer OF ex-
ecutive control from one party to another
docs not mean any serious disturbance
of existing conditions" Thus speaks Grover
Cleveland to a reporter. Long time ago there was
| q King over England named Canute. One day
| Canute ordered that his throne should bo set up
on the seashore. When this was done he took his
seat upon the throne and thon proceeded to inform
tho cOnr,iers that gathered round him that he in
tended to bend all his energies toward preventing
the rising tide from wctting his royal feet The
| royal feet got wet
| Mr William Steinitz, the famous chess champion.
thinks the Amer cans will eventually become first
rate players. TO further the interests of the
game in this country he intends to publish q
magazine. 1t was noticeable however, that ncarly
four-ffths of those who played with him yester
dav in his simultaneous games were foreigners,
including Austrans, Germans. Poles, Russians.
Frenchmen and EnglIshmen. number of Ameri-
cans looked on.
The reports of the officers Of that excellent inst
! tuition the Chidren's Aid Society, show more work
accomplished this year than ever before. The total
| number OK children placed III comfortable western
| homes since the last report is 3.459; and the ex-
| pense for each child was 80 Yet placed i'll an
| ASYLUM or workhOu says tho secretary. 4" each
| one would probably have cost $40" The removal
| of the children from this great city, however. is
only one feature of tho sOciety's work and III all
departments equally good results have been
| reached The contributors to this noble charity
must Ike hearty satisf ictOn in such statistics as
| skoI hyN Mr. CharIo L.,
| The Williamsburg Athletic Club deserve credit
for the encOuI agement they give to the beautiful
game of lacrosse and it is pleasure to note that
their team was successful yesterday against the
amateurs from Philadelphia. The liberal manage
ment of the Williamsburg Club might well be
initiated by the Staten island and New-York City
| athletic clubs
Brown earthenware not decorated, under the
| now tariff, bears a duty Of only twenty-five per
cent. Accordingly, somebody imported from
| Spain a quantity Of Guadaajara pottery: and
claimed that it came under that clause of the tariff
But the Treasury Department stops that trick by
deciding that Guadalajara pottery consists Of
| brown earthenware decorated. and is dutiable at
sixty per cent Presently. no doubt some Demo-
cratic member from Texas will give US an eloquent
speeoh on the intolerable robbery Of the pottery
| mnnopollsts, who compel tho poor laboring men OF
this oppressed country to pay an extortonate duty
of sixty per cent on that necessary OF lie, Guada-
ajara pottery-and there people who will be-
| LAVA him