New-York tribune., 1885-01-25

animal suicide no doubt do 80 in the vain hope OF
bolsterng up the theory of instinct which all
modern science negatives. 1t is terrible 10 some
people to have to admit that animals often exhibit
degrees of intellectiOn which it is impossible 70
distinguish from reason but facts are much
stronger than theories, and the facts IN this case
make it impossible to maintain seriously such
statement The Lancet has made itself respon-
sibe for.
An amIable gentleman named Finch an Iowa
ProhibitlOnlst of Democratic antecedents, who is
chairman of the Prohibition National Committee,
has come to the defence of st. John the Barterer
Ii would be interesting to know how much per
night Finch draws for his efforts to break up the
Republican party. His old price was $780, when
deluded Republican temperance people paid the
bills, but the price may have gone up under the
bull movement Of the Democrats In the late cam
mign.
Illinois Democrats want Mr. Sprin ger in the Cab
met. He ought to DO favored by the other Demo-
Gratis Ever since he used his whitewash brush SO
vigorously in the matter of the cipher dispatches,
Springer has been dear to many Democratic states
men
At the Conference:.of Church Women, last Monday.
at the hall of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
ciatlon, Mrs. Irving made address the subject
OF Social Clubs for Young Working Girls, aud is
represented as saying that in the club which she
had organized. with membership of 260, shop and
factory girls do not come together. They two
distinct classes. The shop-girls very particular
who comes among them. and if anything dispeases
them it is girl who wears bangs" Here is hint
of dress reform of recent date that the average
shopper had not yet become aware of its general
adoption
1t may relieve a good many agtated breasts dis
turbed with fears lest New-Yor is without
Governor Lieutenant-G overnOr, to assure them
they need not he concerned. The State is all right.
Jt will get along. The two men most deeply inter-
esed in the matter Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Mccarthy.
What they most want to know is whether or not
they are going to have more salary than they
received before Mr.. Cleveland resigned.
The milk in the cocoanut" of Prince Bismarcl's
hostility to England and aggressive colonial policy
is revealed by recently published statistics concern
ing the number of German subjects living out of the
Fatherland. There are reported TO be 1852 1fS Of
them, being residents of the British Empire.
The great majority of them WILL of course. event
ually become citizens of the lands they have
migrated to, and thus be lost to Germany forever.
No wonder the Chancellor wants to provide terri
tory to which his wandering conntrymen can go in
search of fresh fields and pastures new without
abandoning their fealty to the Kaiser
Patti wrote in an album the other day, " Go to
strangers for charity. acquantances for advice and
relatives for nothing and you will always have
supply" 1t will doubtless occur to Mr.. Cleveland
that a person who holds such sentiments would
make admirable chairman of a Civil Service re-
form commission. 1t is not probable, however, that
Patti would be willing to leave the operate stage
for a political career.
The attempt made to cast discredit upon General
William +. Sherman, in his controversy with JEFF
Davis by the statement that shortly before the
war. when major in command OF regulars at Baton
Rouge. he said " have spent many years at the
South where have received only the kindest treat
ment and before | would fight against these people
would lose my right arm" has been disposed of by
the simple historical fact that he was not in the
army at that time, and that he never held the rank
of major. The story may not have been intention
ally untrue however. n simple error having possibly
h~-. ."i~ the per-on Thera was a Major
I. w. Sherman, WHO had been in garrison and on
frontier duty from 1913 to SOL, and who doubtless
felt, as thousands of loyal citizens did, that they
would rather give their right arms, or their lives
even, than witness the horrors of civil war. But
when the came, Major Thomas w. Sherman
was true to his duty, and in May, lS63-then a
Major-General of Volunteers-he lost not his right
arm. but leg, while leading the assauting column
at Port Hudson Afterward he was breveted
Brigadier and Major General in the Regular Army
for gallant service on the field and in 1870 was
retired with the latter rank.
The Nelc- York Uorld has had n good deal to say
recently in regard to the Senatorial elections that
have taken place in New-York and in other States
These observations would be more historically
valuable if they were inclusive OF table designed
to show The UoridS magnetic influence in the coun-
sells of its party in this State by plain statement
of the number of votes which It's candidate for the
Senatorship from New-York, Mr. X. Conklng, re-
ceved in the Democratic caucus
| IL is reported that Joseph Cook has defined his
position on the tariff by explaining that he Is " n
provisional free-trader and conditional pro-
tectionst." Mr. Cook clearly infringing upon the
patent of the last Democratic National Convention
That body gave the country to understand that the
Democratic party not only provisional free
trader and conditional protectOnlst, but was also
"A tentative horizontal reductionist qualified tariff
reformer and an ad interim tariff for enue- only
organization.
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