New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-28
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drawbacks. The accessible resorts become ey.
hausted and the trips have a sameness that is
wearying But excursions worthy of the name, to
Niagara or Lake George OF the ST. Lawrence or the
White Mountains would have the merit OF noveity
and would surely be popular For many churches
the expense would be regarded as an obstacles but
excursion fares can be had cheaply and the places
visited could never be seen at so small an expense
as by large party. The Tabernacles example Is q
good ono. Why should not other churches fol-
low It'll
1t must be humiatlng to Higgins TO find himself
overshadowed by Mr.. Bayard's grandfather as an
element in this Administration
The vexed question what constitutes at once q
modest and comfortable bathing suit promises to
come up again this summer The tendency in recent
years has been to discard the unsightly meal sacks
that were once deemed the only correct thing, and
to adopt something more graceful. But the better
the lit of bathing suit the less fit 1t is deemed by
many people; and tho apparent mpossbity Of
striking happy medium doubtless debars large
number of people from sea bathing. But some
American GENTS will doubtless ono of these days
discover way by which people may don bath
ing suit without exciting either rldicue or disgust
Perhaps if bathers thought more of bathing and
less of how they looked, the bathing question would
solve itself.
The old saying that winter wheat rarely suffers
severely without some calamity coming also to
spring wheat appears to be supported by experience
this year, if the latest reports from the Northwest
prove trustworthy. According to those reports the
grain in the spring wheat States has been seriously
injured by too much wet weather, and Is likely to
dsapp0nt the fiatterlng hopes recently entertained
1t is only fair to say, however that the public can
hardly place great confidence in the reports tele
graphed about this time in the year, either from
Chicago, from Milwaukee. from ST. Paul The
interests of the ers at st. Paul and Minneapolis
will not be forgotten Somewhere in the country
| there must be on hand the largest stock of -four
held at this season, and it would not be alto
gether surprising If the millers had interest in
promoting higher prices before the new crop begins
to come forward Hence it may be we'll to suspend
Judgment about the reports of injury to spring
wheat, until they come from other sources.
The appearance Of cholera at Saragossa. Madrid
and Toledo destroys any hope of confnng it to the
usually unsanitary Iberan Coast, and there is req
son to fear that it will make its way throughout the
Peninsula From Madrid and Toledo IT would natur-
ally soon extend down the Tagus to Lisbon, thence
TO ravage the Atlantic Coast, were it not that the
banks of that stream are singulary barren of large
the progress of the scourge that direction, but
with the ignorance, superstition and filth of the
people and the indecislon and lack of harmonious
action of the Government officials as leading fac
tors in the problem the outlook for the summer is
not hopeful in any part Of Spain.
Lord Salisbury opens his career as Prime Minis
ter witha superb reception 1t is described as being
a most brilliant affair. But what the world cares
chiefly to know is whether or not the Marquis can
manage the beer tax brilliantly, and conduct a
superb Soudan retreat
| The Maryland rawhde doss an i'll work well. Its
victim will not soon render himself liable to n repe
t,ion of such punishment. Its deterrent influence
upon other maefactor is doubtless great and there
! are few humanItarians who vii. say that tue tort
ure of the whipping post is greater than the habit
ual wlfc-beater deserves There is, however, one
insurmountab.e objection to the system. II is not
rrfornatoIy. 1t is IN opposition 20 the spirit OF the
best modern penal codes whose ann Is to reform rs
well as to restrain and punish 1t is sad reflection
upon American nineteenth century clyillzatlOnt 1t
can effectively deal with offenders only by taking
| long step back ward toward barbarisn.
Mr.. Hendrcks's speech at the Bay State Clubs
reception has revived a sort of lstless interest in
the ancient IIoosicr, and has gwen his organs an
eagerly looked for chance to descant on his popu-
larlty. But tho mischief of 1t is that the very
| quarter in which he ought to be Popular is the one
where he Is least beloved. Ii would be lots more
fun 10 be popular with the man who deals out the
Offices than with all the backwoods philosophers III