The Portland daily press., 1885-04-20
Current Comment,

BUT P1LLSBURY FINDS A HOME THERE.
Springfield Republican.
Massachusetts has no market for politi.
cal tramps from Maine."
NOT TYPICAL DEMOCRAT.
Philadelphia Pressr.
Uncle Randall is somewhat better. 1t NAV
be In order to note here that Uncle Randall
is always good deal better than his party.
NEW YORK PARADOX.
North American.
Il may seem somewhat paradoxical that
the great drop in real estate in New York
should put an end to cheaply-cons tructed
tenement houses.
THE ANCIENT JOKE ON HAND FOR SPRING
SERVICE.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
And now the crafty ruralist plants an old
halt-barrel in his door-yard and adyertises
in the city papers: sThe location is imme-
dlately on the banks of lovely fresh water
pond, where guests have freei facilities for
boating, bathing and fishing throughout the
summer.
THE FIRST AND BEST SAFEGUARD.
Philadelphia Press.
The best safeguard against cholera, yellow
FEVER and every other species of disease Is
cleanllness-cleanliness not merely of per-
son and apparel, but of air, food, water and
naoltation. 1t must be acquired and main
talned-inVoluntarily, if the individual will.
forcibly, if the authorities must
THE DAYS OF THE PRIZE FIGHT ARE MINI.
RERED.
Baltimore American.
1t really looks as if prize fights will have
10 go. Inc country at large has determined
TO stop them, and now in New Orleans, the
stronghold OF pugilism, the prize fighting
season has closed for want of patronage.
moreover, the city council has passed an Or
dinance to prohibit any further meetings
This is sad news for the sluggers.
NOT THE MUCH TALKED OF REFoMER.
Boston journal.
Mr.. Curtis Stevens of Hallowell. Me-. who
Is inspector of the Railway Mail Service, has
been notified that his RESIGNATION ia desired
Mr.. Stevens has been nineteen years in the
service and has an excellent record, His
place, however, can be filed by a needy
Democrat without experience, who could
not be put into postal car to handle the
mails. 1t is not civil service reform, how
ever.
WITHOUT GLOVES.
Boston Herald.
The LeadVille Herald serves notice on
Messrs Sullivan and Ryan that "the people
OF Montana prefer straightout honesty to
gloved pollteness in all events, and particu-
larly in prize fight" 1t adds significantly
that, If the coming affair proves to be hin
podrome to the satisfaction of the mountain
cowboys. "Messrs. Sullivan and RYAN will
never be able to testify against the men who
I hot them.'
SHAM BUILDERS AND SHAM BUILDINGS.
NJ DleA
No more appropriate work for the grand
jury can be imagined than searching in
yestigation of the sham building department.
Such an investigation should be begun at
once on the Sixty-second street catastrophe.
and every citizen who has knowledge of the
existence OF unsafe habitations should be in
Vited to give information concerning the
same. AS TO the miserable beings who
erected these tumbledown structures. thew
should be indicted and put upon trial with
all possible expedition.
NOT FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM AND PRIEcI-
PIE.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
1t is to be noted and considered that there
IS not war, little or big, now in progress in
the world, that did not originate in lust of
power or conquest-not one in which man
are fighting for freedom and principle. The
French in Tonquin and Madagascar, the
English in Egypt and the Russians and Eng
lish IN Sentral Asia, are there by reason of
greedy ambition for territory, and the neees-
Slty that follows ACQUISITION of holding the