New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-04

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If it is the popular impression that there Is
sonlv one course for everybody at Princeton,
the sooner that notion is corrected the petoer
The theory which prevails in the college OF
Now. Jersey is that in every year there should
ne certain primary and radical studies required
- every student. with all the while diversity
IN his elections" This is the point made by
DIR. McCosh in a brief letter printed elsewhere
in this parer, which is intended for the pubic
- General and the President of Cornell in
particular.
"Fngland expects every man to do his duty"
Evidently the little midshipman on board the
British corvette Garnet does not mean TO neg
lect his. Every time he passed the picture Oh
Oueen Victoria in showing visitors over his
shin Yesterday, he raised his hat and exclaimed
reverently. "The Queen, God bless her," we
fear that a cold heartless and tittering world
ia more amused than impressed by such exhlDl-
lions of loyalty but it would be safe TO Lay
heavy odds that that little MILDLY would snow
pluck in fight.
There is no need to sympathize with Alzpuru
and the other rebel generals" who have been
arrested at Panama and whose chances of death
ar penal seryitude for life are excellent. Inc
Colombian authorities granted them pardon IL
they would give up the arms OF their troops,
and when they gave up all they could control.
as it sprobable that they did 1t seems hard and
cruel to consider the condition OF pardon
broken. But revolutions in Central and South
America are always marked by treachery and
cruelty, and at times Aizpuru and his fellows
have been lust as cruel and treacherous as
their opponents Neither side has mercy On Its
conquered foe.
Apparently Russia's preparations for an ad-
vance on Herat are not yet completed. Nj. ue
Ciers asks for time " to discuss and interpret
the agreement of March 17th," before deciding
whether arbitration is really needed to settle
the differences between the two nations. Inc
agreement provided that while negotiations
between London and ST. Petersburg were pend
ing neither party should advance-with pro-
yiso by Russia that she should act as she
pleased if ANY Extraordinary reason pre-
senteditself AS the Car has already approved
the Interpretation put upon this understanding
Inv General Komaroff at Penjdeh, on March 80,
Il ia hard to see the use of discussing and IN
terpretingn it any longer-except to let Russia
gain time.
good many persons are wondering how the
Democratic politicians can reconcile Their
campaign assertions about the surplus In the
Treasury and Mr. Manning's debt statement
of Lost week. They often said last fall that the
Republicans were boarding hundreds OIL mill
ions; but on Friday the Secretary could show
only net cash balance in the Treasury oil
about twenty-four millions. There Is no cause
for wonder here, on anybody's part, for the
Democratic leaders will not try to reconcile
their contradictory statements about the sur
plus any more than they tryto reconcile any OF
the other untruths they told. 1t will be time
enough IN won der if at the end OF four years Of
Bourbon rule the Democrats have any paianc'
ut all to show in the Treasury.
rr,hra seen to be two reasons why so many
,;vas we're lost at the tenement-house fire il
First-ave.;-the insuficiency of hook ant
ladder companies in that part OF the city, anc
the pine floors on the fire-escapes. Inc distric
about Thirty-ninth-st. and First-ave. Is one
of the most densely populated spots III TINS Guy
If not in the world, and yet only two NOOK an'
ladder companies, one from Twenty -eighth-st'
and Third ave-, and the other from Lexington
ave. and Fiftieth-st., were due on the nrs'
alarm. As both of these were engaged at th'
Ara In Park-ave., no hook and ladder Iorce Ut