The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-02-15

Valentines Day has come and gone
again, and the people who indulge in Che |
missiyes appropriate to the occasion, are
out of their misery for another year. We
are glad to know, on the authority of Post
master Gopsill, that the crop of idiots isn't
quite SO large as usual this year, the
number Of alleged sscomic" valentines sent
through the post-ofice having fallen off
about one-half. But the transmission of
sentimental or pretty missives largely in
creased, which we take to be a healthy
sign as regards public taste. If people
must send valentines let them send those
that will bring flush of pleasure to the
cheeks of the recipients, not such as will
rouse the blush of shame or the fame of
anger.
Popular little Miss Alcott has been SO
driven by autograph fends that she is a
victim to writer's cramp. This is lobe the
more regretted that it will keep Miss AL
colt from applying her pen to legitimate
service for some weeks, if not months, and
the literary world must suffer. How we
admire the man who styled an album re-
cord skept for others wit by people who
have nome" Andthe autograph fiends are
even worse than the ordinary albummers.
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That the alleged dynaniter, Cunning
ham, will receive fair trial may well be
doubted. One of the points made against
him by Prosecutor Poland in his opening
address at the examination was that Cum
ningham cleft his house at o'clock on
the day of the explosion and never returned
to it" This is terrible charge, no doubt.
but as the police locked Cunningham up
at 3:45-less than three hours after he left
home-we should like to know how he was
to get back2 Can Poland tell as?
The storm that passed over this State
last Tuesday was an unpleasant one, even
in this section, but no great damage was
done here, But the scenes at Hohokus,
New Brunswick and Trenton were full of
excitement and some danger, and consider
able damage was inflicted. Happily no
lives were lost, though Trenton at one
time was endangered. by an ice gorge over
forty feet high and which seriously
threatened to carry away part of the
town.
New Jersey day at the New Orleans Ex-
position should draw to the Crescent City
at that time every Jerseyman who can af-
ford time to go there, or who intends
going there at any time. 1t will be of no
use to have Jersey day unless there are
enough Jerseymen there to make good
show. The postponement of the day,
originally set to the 25th of March, will
enable everyone who desires to get there
without missing the Inauguration.
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England don't despise its insignificant
Arab foes SO much as it did. The British
soldier is good man, but he can't always
whip ten thousand of the o.Ler fellows
except when the ten thousand other fell
lows don't happen to be there. If the
Mahdi concludes the performance by COB
bling up Wolseley the best thing left for
Gladstone to do will be to go over and
place his neck under the scimetar Also
An exchange kindly informs US that
''Margaret Eytinge writes the humorous
matter on the last page of Harper's BaSar"
We are glad to know this, as it enables us
to compliment Margaret upon her long
memory or the valuable acquisition of ssJoe
Miller" books she must have in her library.
As matter of fact the last page of Harper's
Bdzdr does not contain two original para
graphs for auy single issue.
The roller skating craze found victim
in Newark the other night, a fifteen-year-
old girl having skated so vigorously for two
hours as to produce paralysis of the heart.
But roller skating will go on all the same.
The girl who skated herself to death may
be regarded as a martyr and exemplar, but
good many people will vote her fool.
The force of sympathy was grandly
illustrated in the case of Jerry O'Donovan
the other day in less than twenty -four
hours after he was shot he received draft
for $110 from Australia "That's the kind
of letter like SHOUTED Jerry, and no
one who knows him doubts it. That's what
he's there for.
Colonel David Sanderson, the veteran
Democrat of sWhite House, in this State,
says he helped to vote jackson into the
White House at Washington. Also Bu-
chanan; also Cleveland. But it was long
time between drinks, wasn't it Colonel?
Here's looking towards you, old veteran.
If Italy really wants to capture the Red
Sea region she should recall the army of
organ grinders she has in this country and
send them at once to the disputed property.
If that don't drive out the original iahabi
tants nothing will. And what a relief it
would be to this country!
An impecunious resident of Elizabeth
has applied to the overseer of the poor for
a pair of roller skates. That fellow is alto
gether too modest. He should not only be
supplied with the skates, but should also
be provided with rink to use them in.
The man who roller skates himself into
matrimony will never cease to anathema-
tie Kinks, when once he has settled down
to a clear idea Of what fool he made of
himself. However, the man who marries
in haste can always repent at leisure.
Becky Jones has concluded to talk. But
she won't do it until she gets ready. The