New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-10


but are now become the abode offog and sush and
damp moist unpleasant bodies. 1t may even come
to pass that the New-Zealander on his travels will
be informed when he reaches tins city that the only
Trustworthy Winter Resort is the North Pole.
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The Boston Post reports ono young doctor saying
to anVther In eases of that kind you use la GER
tain drug and it will have Ia certain effect OF 1t
won't. | am not sure which" This young doctor
should be sent as a delegate to the National Demo-
cratic Convention. lie is just the man to write the
tariff plank
The bill to change the name of Stuyvesant Park
to Cooper Park is encOunteTing opposition from
some of the newspapers which, apparently, do not
know what Stuyyesant Park is. Their ignorance
is lot surprising; for until the bill IN question was
introduced, probably very few citizens were aware
that besides Stuyycsant Square, which is the
large pleasure ground lying on both sides oil
Socond-ave., between Fifteenth and Seventeenth
sts we have q Stuyyesant Park which is the little
triangular nclosure at the junction Of Third and
Fourth ayos opposite the south front of the Cooper
Institute. Ii is this piece of ground the name of
which hardly anybody knows which it is proposed
to call Cooper Park. The fact that there is Stuy
yesant Square is good reason for not having
Stuyyesant Park also, and the substitution seems
to Us entirely appropriate
The 4cGdelay says now experiment in introduce
ing Shakespeare 20 the East of London is about to
be undertaken in connection with tho University
Extension Students Union A course of eight
lectures on the comedies of Shakespeare will be
delivered at Whitechapel, the fee for the whole
course being twenty five cents, This is practical
attempt to bring sweetness and light TO bear upon
the costermougcr during the hours of leisure when
be Is not occupied in jumping onhis mother"
It is reported that the Mahdi declares himself
commissioned from on high to conquer tie world
Il would be interesting u know what his ideas of
the world are. Very few Arabs possess any lnowl
edge of geography beyond what eau be learned
from maps which represent the earth rs fat,
square plain, bounded by mythical CONTAINS l.
is extrcuely doubtful if the Mahdi knows anything
whatever Of England, France and Germany, and
almost certain that he is ignorant of the existence
Of America. When, therefore, he talks of conquer
ing the world it must be understood that he Is
thinking of very different world from that known
to the moderns and it may safely be concluded that
lie would DO more modest If his information were
greatef
Perhaps France will still persist in excluding
American pork but it will now have small excuse.
The French Academy of Medicine, it appears, has
resolved with only one dissenting vote that the
decree excluding importations from this country
ought to be repealed, and the verdict of that body
must be held absolutely final, as to the only pre-
text on which France has hitherto based its action
Finding it decided. by a tribunal from which
France cannot possibly appeal that this pretext is
entirely groundless and empty, the United States
can now ask with great proprety on what ground
France disrcgards the obligations of commercial
treaties.
And now once more the cigarette is placed under
Indictment, and it is demonstrated from copious
medical testimony that it produces the most dis
astrous effects upon the systems ofthose who smoke
il. But whether these statements are true or not
smokers appear to pay no attention to them. War
has been waged AGAINST tobaccoin all its FORMS ever
since it was introduced TO Europe but the consump
ton of tho weed has steadily increased. 1t is so
generally used that if it really is so baneful
its opponents ought to be able to show from vital
statistics and bills Of mortality that it is seriously
affecting the health of the world Andas cigarettes
appear TO be more smoked than ever, and as they
are said to be the most deeterious OF ALL the sta
.jstlcs of their effects should be easily obanable
and particularly edifyiug. At present it Is rather
difficult 10 harmonic the statements of the eN-
perts, who say that science is overcoming disease
and that the general health has never been so good
now, with the declarations OF inc hpe'lallSls
who. each in his turn, undertake to prove that be-
cause OF this that and the her popular vice, the
constitutions of the community are going to de-
structiOn.
TbeTennessee Jury that promptly acquitted white
man who had killed an aged negro must have been
considerably surprised when the Judge denounced
the verdict as an OUTRAGE declared 1t to be given in
defiance of the law and the evidence, and ordered
that the names tho jurors should be taken, aud
that none of them should ever again sit upon a
Jury in that court. They must have thought this
treatment harsh, inasmuch as in acquitting white
murderer of negro they had only followed one of
the most venerable and best established Southern
precedents Nevertheless, the action of the Judge
in the case deserves commentator, and holds out
hope of reform in the public sentiment Of the
region. --------
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