The Portland daily press., 1885-07-02
CURRENT COMM EMIT.
SWEET REVENGE.

SWEET REVENGE.
Macon Telegraph.
The Georgia watermelon is in Cincinnati.
The South is in the saddle again.
CONSOLATION IN A MILD FORM.
N. Y. World.
1t may be at least said that the new Col
lector is not a Mugwump. Moreover, his
father studied law with Alex. Hamilton.
NEWS TO MAINE PEOPLE.
N. Y. Sun
A floating island about 100 feet square is
at present an interesting object in that por-
ton of Lake Marsebesic, Me-, known as the
''Black Pond
KEEPING ALIVE THE BLOODY SHIRT ISSUE.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The man who is doing most to keep the
bloody shirt issue alive in this country is
President Cleveland by the appointments
which he is making
THE SENSIBLE G. A. II.
N. Y. Sun.
The members of the Grand Army did an
uncommonly sensible thing at Portland.
They sat down hard ON the sO-called Service
Pension bill-the scheme to give every Un-
ion soldier surviving the late war a life pen
sion of IS a month.
AN ANTIDoTE TO THE SKATING RINK.
Boston Record
The faith cure has worked the recovery of
a young woman of Indiana, who fell in a
roller skating rink and twisted her neck out
of shape. In this way there is again illus
trated the old proposition that no new dis
ease appears without bringing in its train its
remedy.
A DISTINGUISHED BALL PLAYER.
Springfield Republican
The new young President of Bowdoin Col
lege was the best base ball player of his
time when in college, and he is now backed
by many able men as a man of rare ability
and intellectual power. Tally one for the
successful combination of athletics and ripe
scholarship.
THE POLITICAL ACUNlEN OF THE VERMONT
Err.
RutIands Herald.
One of the natives, discussing the appoint
ment of Vermont man to the Court of st.
James, exclaimed with startling display of
Minister to England? When did he go to
preachin ?"
A COMPLIMENT TO MRS CHURCHILL.
Philadelphia Press.
Lord Randolph Churchill wife an Amer
lean girl, by the way-will take an active
part IN the campaign for her husbands re-
election to Parliament Our best wish is that
she may succeed and grow up to be the Mrs.
John A. Logan of English politics.
WALL oIhbEI AND The sBhOkERS.
Brooklyn Eagle.
At no time, since the market recovered
from the shock of 'Black Friday" has Wall
street been so deserted by the public as it is
today The money of the people lies idle in
TBS fSh b AN S, from which no spirit of specula
eating each other, and mighty tough diet
they find it.
THE TROUBLE is, HE is A REPUBLICAN.
John Roach.
have for some fifty years been in bust
ness in New York / have constructed over
alhundred ships. These have all been built
for merchants of this country, most of
whom are living. / challenge any man to go
TO these customers of mine and find one of
- VINO will say that he is dissatisfied with
the work have done for him or that he had
just cause to complain. / have never yet, in
an st my t hRlsy years q t business had law
for the Government had been done for pri-
vate persons there would have been no more
cause to complain. Why do not these slam
derers go to my customers and make out a
case against me?
WORD FOR COLLEGE ATHLETICS.
Philadelphia Bulletin.
There is no doubt that college athletics
should be encouraged to the fullest degree
compatible with health and scholarship. Ad-
uniting that, 1t seems equally certain that it
IS the business and duty of college faculties
to provide adequate means and to apply prop
er restraints when necessary The number
OF pale, slckly students who are graduated
nowadays is smaller than it was a genera
ton ago. Fewer men injure themselves by
oyer-study land yet the standard of scholar
ship has been raised in our leading inslitu-
tons. The excess of animal spirits natural
to youth finds a healthier outlet in sports
than in dissipation. Fewer cases of insilbor-
dlnatlOn and int0lerable violence are report
ed. Prof. Richards, of Yale, states that the
number. expelled of students who are from
that college is so per cent below the number
expelled before athletics occupied large
share OF the undergraduates leisure 1t is
sometimes urged that young men who stand
high IN sports stand low In studies This
cannot be denied, although the rule has many
exceptions. The point that is usually forgot
ten, however, is this: that those Young men
would probably, have stood no higher if they
had not played ball or rowed, and they might
have done much worse. In every large in
'titution there will be idlers; the problem is
now to make these idlers least injurious