New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-21

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future will do most Of their grapplng down among
the dolpbIus and mormaids instead of up among
tho clouds Naval architects are lying awake
nirht, irving To devise some sort Of wnr-ship that
will travel safely under water Arnor plating can
be- made thick enough 10 keep out shot from nun
dte,l- ton guns but few feet OF water Will Cd IL
most cilcctually The Swedish Government claims
To have got hold Of torpedo boat which Will traVcl
fifteen miles an hour above and thirteen miles an
hour below the surface OF the water and which,
by Tn action Of automatic machinery, VIII bob up
.ercucly" when the enemy IL done for or out Oh
range ON the principle of setting thief TO catch
a thief" submarine boat, " i'll be used against sub
marine boats, So in the year 1900 or thereabouts,
,y, may expect that when hostile fleets heayc in
git each vessel will " take a header and put IN
II. best work under water. much TO the astonish-
mont of tho l.hcS no doubt, and the annoyance oil
the artists who will be expected 10 mako sketches
of the combat, Tor illustrated daily contemporaries.
But the hshc, will get used to it, and tho magma
ton, Of the artist, will prove equal 10 the emer-
rcncv. f. would be better. anyway. to have things
tim. thon 10 subject non combataut- to the danger
Of having their cothc, spoiled by CHASTITY dew.
ut begin, to look il the Hon. Sam Randall
wouldn't bc able to lqudate any very heavy CON
tract for Congressional services 10 the President.
The Hon. Sans wings are beng slowly but surely
clipped.
TIE sharp stick of public disclosure has had
marycllously eNhjlaratng ellert upon the Excise
Commiss oners
II il is true as Tie National Republican OF
Washington reports, that " the President in
conversation with Republican Senator
on Tuesday told tho latter that ne would
esteem 1t great favor if Senators knowing
ANYTHING Objectionable or detrimental TO public in
tcrosts about any person or persons appointed by
hun would apprisc him of the facts he certainly
has an abnormal nerve. He would probably be
utterly astouishcd to hear anything to the discredt
OF Higgins, IIeddcn Beattc, Pisbury, Troup,
Chase Jones' and the rest of that long list about
whom he has been "decelyed' We fancy, how
eyer that the Republican SCI ators will oblige him.
not perhaps that gentle manner he suggests. but
IN one vastly more Elective for the prosperity of
the Civil Scrgice.
The Scryians will soon become asfamous for lying
military reports ~ that hardened old iabrcator the
Mudir of DOngOla.
Tb. S,ol wants TO know where Attorney General
Garland would be now had Mr.. Cleveland treated
him rs summarily and a. stcrnly 10 ho has treated
judge Vincent" Garland would be IN precisely
the same situation that he is now 50 far as public
sentiment is concerned condemned. The only man
who is being hurt by his remaining in the Cabinet
i, Grover Cleveland. 1t is the Presidents funeral
now.
NJ. dc Tcs,cps has just celebrated his oightoth
birthday When his hundred and cightcth ami
ycrsary comes around he expects to take a sail
through his Panama Canal
Those who remcmbct what a power for good the
Bowdoin Square Baptist Church. Boston used to
be must deeply dcpOro ITS present lamontabe con
dition But they will probably agree that tho an
nnqnced closing of tho building aud lmm
nent disbanding of the membership will be
nndcr the circumstances the best cnd there could be
10 the course tho church has lately pursued. No
one can suppose that its further existence under
present anspic can be in the interest either of re-
,igion or morality II is gratifying then II ind that
there are twenty two persons connected with 1t who
possess enough self respect to end It's existence by
corporate suicide
Over n hundred men were dismissed from the
Brooklyn Navy Yard Thursday tor Lack, not of
work, but elections.
Tho broker who hypothecatcs another mans
securities is just as much a criminal AS tho burglar
who robs a safe. Crime is crime. whether COM
mittcd 10y a man of gentle birth and fecitous man
ncr or an ugly faced bruiscr born to 1T.
| Great Britain is having quiet time gobhng up
! Burmah There Is no other Skobeeh.
| The Tories have ono tactical advantage in the
elections next week. Notices for the first day s
balotIns can be issuod to a majority Of boroughs
and counties where their own prospects arc bright
| est. AS success Oh the first day always excrts an