New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-31

| of the New-York Legislature SO were born In the
counties which they now represent, and al more are
natives of the State. Twelve were born in other
] States ard 81 in foreign countries, Ireland, OF
course, contributing the majority of the foreign
| born As It is O Republican Legislature it follows
as matter Of course that the number OF veterans
of the late war in both houses is almost double the
number in the previous Legislature. which was
Democratic. The average of age is about the same
this year az last. The senior Senator is Mr.
Mccarthy, who is seventy years old, and the young
est is Mr.. fassett who is thirty-one. The. senior
Assemblyman is Nh. Noxon, of Saratoga, who is
seventy-one years of age, and the youngest Is Mr.
Hasbrouck of Ulster, who is twenty-three. Mr..
Lttlejohn is sxty-six years old and Mr.. Roosevelt
twenty-six. In general character the present Legis-
lature is the best that has been chosen for several
years. and it is TO be hoped that its record OF good
works will be equally good
New-Jersey witness has just sworn that he con-
sidered that there was difference between telling
a lie and not telling the truth. He Is obviously the
man to explain the difference between tariff for
revenue only" and free trade.
General Lord Wolseley recently declared in an
after-dinner speech that the British army Is more
effective now than it was before the Crimean war.
1t is certainly to be hoped So for when the Crmean
war occurred it was in anything bat satisfactory
condition and but for the fact that the Russian
difficulties were great the time then occupied in a
literal regeneration of the English force would
hardly have been available. 1t Is not much praise
to say of the British army that it is in the same
condition that it was in thirty years ago. for this is
clearly equivalent to admitting that ii could not
cope with any Continental army to-day. And per-
haps that may be the truth, though Lord WOlseleys
countrymen are not likely to admit It,
Mr.. Barnums white elephant may rot be as white
as Marys little lamb but them like the tariff issue
IN tho Democratic party there's no doubt about its
being an elephant.
The London press is the cheapest and most ser
viceabe advertising medium which Mr. Barnum has
ever found. 1t offers solid columns of the incense
of publicity TO His Holiness, the White Elephant.
Generous - the allowance of space freely reserved
for the illustriOus beast in the densely
crowded pages of the penny press. Full biograph-
zeal sketches accompany the accounts of his cap
ture. journey overland to ship aud voyage across
seas to the Mersey. Long special dispatches from
Liverpool announce his arrival and shipment to
London, and sudden demonstration Of enterprise
in the collection of local news follows his appear
ance at the Geological Gardens in the house once
occupied by Jumbo. TouDg Talong, which IS His
Holiness5 title on earth, is treated by the press
European monarch, general statesman would
have commanded. These delicate attentions if
not appreciated by the Burmese pachyderm, are
not lost upon tho enterprislng American show
man.
Judging by the remarkable exhibition of the fine
art of defective memory exhibited by some Of the
witnesses called in tie legislative investigations of
city affairs, we may expect some Of these days TO
read the following: Questionable Blank, can you
inform this committee whether or no You paid of
the National debt last year, AEslo1'-I cannot
rec0llect, my memory is not clear on that point.
may have done So but couldn't swear positively.
Lives Of great men," as published in the news
papers " all remind us we may make our own sub
lime by the liberal and judicous employment of
our imaginative faculties in conjunction with the
creative skill IF the Reporter of the .PeriOd AS
an illustration we may point to q biography OF Mr.
Mackey the bonanza" celebrity, recently pub
lished by Western paper In that remarkable effort
the public is informed that Mr.. Mackey went to
California in 1919 and found the California and !
Consolidated Virginia mines in full blast, and the
principal field for money making" No wonder |
Messrs Mackey, Flood and O'Bren made their for
tunes if they able TO realize upon tine stock Of
their mines SO many years before the Comstock
Lode was opened. With such start anybody could
get rich.
McGlory's counsel argued that while a licensed
vendor of Intoxicating drinks is responsible for the
acts Of his agent, no such responsibility can rest |
upon the saloon keeper who does business without |
a license The admission of this ingenious plea |
would of course pat n premium upon law-brealing |
and release the McJilory class Of many embarraSs
ments. The court however, naturally failed to see
the point of the argument
The German Government has thought proper to |
dguify French libel upon the Imperial family and
the aristocracy of Berlin by police suppression.
There is not much wisdom in this policy Books of
that kind are best unoticed. Left alone they sink
by their own weight into the gutter where they |
sprang. But when they are singled out for Govern
ment prosecution and suppression they become no.
torious, and sought Cor with all the avdty for
hidden fruit excites Free publication for bels of |
that character kills them much more efectually /
than any other mode of treatment.
The restoration of Cardinal Ledochowsk to the |
Archbishoprc Of Posen may not. as Herr Won GOss
Ter predicts, "jeOpardze the peace Of Church and |
State" but it certainly would convince the world
that;there was no doubtabOut Prince Bismarck hay
ing gOue to CanOssa.
The "Bersecker rage" which according TO Mr. |
Carlyle inheres in the Anglo Saxon race, appears |
to have broken ont at Annapolis where the
students have spontaneously combusted and fallen
to hazing again. 1t is probably a consequence of
the remnant of savagery which fingers in young
blood that these students unable to realize the
ignOble character of this form Of amusement
Since. however, they do not realize it, their
teachers are in duty bound to reinforce their crude
Judgment, and put stop to the practice per-
emptoriiy.
The Chinese Government appears to be emulatinS
Mr. Wrinkle. 1t announces that it is " going to be-
gin )" by ordering all the provincial Governors to
send in returns of tie number of troops they can
furnish. According to Western notions this Is
thor u tardv measure If tine EmperOr's Council