New-York tribune., 1885-02-08

merrily on. All this is not particularly creditabe
| TO the good sense of the American people; but the
reaction will probably come some day. The rinks
with their high-sounding and bizarre names will bc
turned into theatres churches, or cheap museums ;
several millions of roler-skates will be cast aside
in garrets woodsheds. and the shifting mercurial
| people who now patronize the seductive rink will
| throw all their aboundIng enthusiasm into some
newer craze.
| A paragraph the Democratic press never tires Of
quoting conveys the information that Mr.. Cleve-
land has not been too ill day in his life to respond
| to the call Of duty. If Uncle Sammy Illden sees
nothing personal in this. shall not be mean
enough to point 1t out
| The public wanted that badlys-the convenient
clock in front of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Mad
ison Square-and proportionately grateful for
| its restoration.
| How the dry bones shake The man who watches
the recent resurrection of those gforgotten Bour
bon mummies need not draw on his imagination to
believe the legend of Rip Van Winkle.
| We learn from The Ne p-Orlfans Times Democra
| that the Tomb Committee of the Army of the Ten
| nessee" have secured Carl Schurz to deliver a
lecture " for the benefit of their tomb fund" The
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for candor and self-respcct might serve him as q
subject for decidedly interesting lecture, If he
| would give the tomb its due.
General Stone makes shrewd comment on the
| Arab nature in the hope he affords the British
army of safe retreat from Metemneh while Ell
| MahdPs forces are plundorng Khartoum. The Re-
| publican party is in q position similar to that of
| the British troops in Egypt. Treacherously de-
featcd at point by dishonest detection it has
| tho opportunity of rallying while the Democracy
fills its aching void with the spoils of its victory
Democrats a good deal Ike Arabs, and we arc
Obliged to General Stone for suggesting this inter
esting comparison.
! Mr. Robert Cappcr, tho disillusioned Britsher
who recently published an account of his travels in
| America that instantly exposed him to merciless
| ridicule. has made n very lame defence in the
| columns of The rail Mall Gazette He admits very
| reluctantly that his personal impressions OF the
width of Broadway and the area of Central Park
may have been totally wrong. bat insists that they
| represent an individual experience" He says
that he spent two Sundays or three weeks in the
United States using his timo discroctly. and seeing
all there was to be seen: but he comedies that "a
great deal depends upon the kind of spectacles a
| man has on when passing through new country.
| In Cappor's case the fault did not lie with the
| spcctacles. but with the eyes. He brought his
spectaces to the United States. very green pair to
| he sure, but still good spectacles; but unfortu-
nately he left his eyes at home and could not see
through his glasses.
A telegram from Washington states that quarters
have been engaged In that city for GOO Tammany-
ties who purpose to attend the inauguration cere-
monies IL isunnccessary add that the delegation
will take Its Jelcrsonian simplicity straight, with
piece of lemon peel and dash of bittcrs.
After somo more dozens Of indictments found
against James II. Fish. perhaps the odd idea of try
| ing him will strike the authorities.
Mr.. Carroll ID. Wright, the new Commissioner of
Labor IN letter to the Secretary OF the Interior
accepting his appointment. states very scnsibly his
| idea of the course which tho Bureau should pursue
In order to attain the highest usefulness which is
substantially, that which has made the reports of
the Massachusetts, Bureau so valuable aud so high
| y respected by men Of all shades Of opinion. lie
| appears to be the right man for the place.
The people Of Suffolk County are unhappy be-
cause Kings County has purchased large farm
there on which to erect branch iunatic asylnms.
There seems To be good reason for this opposi-
tion. Tho asylums are not a source of danger in
Kings County and there is no reason To suppose
that thcv will be any dangerous in
suffolk County. The advantage of housing the
insane in separate buildings a large farm is now
generally recognized by insanity experts. An pp-
preparation was made two wears ago for the pur-
chase of such farm for New FORK; bat there has
been an unaccouniable delay in making tho pur-
chase.
OF making many sects there seems TO be no end.
Two ones are announced. One, in Russia, is
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wears constantly op his breast a card bearing
printed dispensation from the Patriarch of Jsru-
salem and is pledged to visit that city at least
in his life All religious gatherings of tho sect
held at night and with other light than that of
faith The other sect is in Paris Its members call
themselves Anti-Dcsts," aud pledged to do
their utmost 10 suppress tho OF the Deity In
all languages, to the word adieu"; also. to
attend the death-beds of their fellows and to it
that they die utterly rcnonncing every idea OF God
and future existence They have published a book
of hymns and parody all Christian ties. such rs
baptism, marriage the Lords Supper. etc. Their
motto is Dieu VOLTA lennemi." But they evidently
find difficulty in accustoming themselves to the
requirements OF their alleged faith, for Of their
preachers" asked if he really intended TO devote
his life to the abolition of the Deity, replied Ger
ainly: am an Anti-Deist all through, by God ~
Certainly il was not very consistent answer.
Probably the greatest effect such sects have in the
world is to show that inidety is Just rs bigoted
and just rs fanatical as any system of theology.
IL Commissioner Rolln NJ. Squire is fond of cx-
treme changes in weather, motaphoricay speak
ing he has reason to complain of his Democratic
friends They have me Ted him with a torrid sun
of 1aitcry and kindness, aud frozen him with an
Arctic chill of ill-rcatment Ii is certainly embar
RAISING to be forced to choose between two such
,,,olentin ~ enemies AZ the Iammany crowd and