New-York tribune., 1886-08-26

small transactions OF retail tduo, ohioa.oh'
to initiate prices just rs they were inflated when
the grcenbacls began to be distrusted In 1868.
It cost the country sixteen years OF heavy loss
with recurring periods Of severe disaster, TO
get that paper back to its representative char
actcr, so that it should change in purchasing
power only with the goldft promised. Surely
the country does not want to bring back upon
itself once more the curse of fiat money.
fitting eptaph to place upon the tombstone
above Squires political remains: Tho letter
killesh.
According to paper recently read at the con-
yention OF scientists at Buffalo, the Niagara Falls
are recedng at the rate of "a feet per year, so
that it will take $500 years for them to recede
mile 1t is doubtful if Buffalo has district mes
senger boy as slow as that
And now it is not the mill treasurers but the
milkmen of Massachusetts, who are departing from
the path of virtue. The Boston Iranscript.reports
that a Someryille dealer has just been fined $50
and costs for having in his possession, for the
purpose of sale milk containing less than the law
reonires Of milk solids" How thankful New
Workers ought to be that their own milkmen would
scorn not to be possessed Of the necessary quantity
of milk solids 1t is to be hoped that the milkmen
of the two cities never exchange visits-we don't
want ours thrown into bad company.
Some of the officers of the Belt Line say that their
cars run through the uncivilzed past of the city.
But they seem Just as eager to pick up uncivilzed
5-cent pieces as JACOB Sharp and his gang ever
were to gather in the half-dimes Of CIVILIZATION
and culture.
The Louisville Courier-J0mnat ventures 10 inquire
| "A axcha
for that Of anv other COmmonw ealth, or having
changed his home. does not continue to the end OF
b,s DAYS proud that he is Kentuckianp While
The Couy1er-Journal pauses for reply perhaps the
hand wonh kindly favor the company with a few
bars from Breathes There Man With Soul
So Dead"
The Cbicdgo Herald indulges in some angry COM
| ments upon Edward Everett Hales lecture The
IJ,man Washinqton" 1t is evident, however that
Th, Herald has no: read what it thus tails foul Of
q circumstance that de,racts from the impressive
ness of ts criticism Its article is olnded upon the
| supposition that DIR. Hale attempted to bettle
WashingtO that he set up a standard OF morality
which did not exst a century ago IN order To SHOW
his alleged shortcomings Nothing could he further
from the truth If The Herald will do DR.. Hale the
| iustioe to peruse his lecture it will find that he
| Yields to no one in his attectonate regard for
| Washington and that his aim at Chautauqua was
| to render his memory still mnre precious to his
countrymeu by showing that he was not demgod
| but human being.
If the Democrats obtain the next Congress- it will
| be the triumph of false pretences.
| Mt Holman is likely to learn that the people
know the difference between narrow-mnded and
short-sighted parslmony on the one hand, aud re-
| form the other.
Much to the disgust of NJ. De Lesseps,it turned
| out that the subscriptions to tho Panama bonds
| fell short of the amount required, covering only
| 45s. 800 of the 100000 offered Some journals. in
| trying to assist ~ DE Lesseps as usual without re-
gard to truth had stated before the opening of sub
scriptions that more than the entire amount had
been covered by applications in letters, and there
| fore many persons who did subscribe. expecting
| that only part of the amount subscribed would be
| allotted sent IN applications for more than they
| wanted. They greatly disgustcd at hndlng
4 that they were obliged to take the entire amount
| for which they bad bid. and the immediate result
| was that bonds were offered and sold for francs
| discount before they were actually issued. Ihls
| subscripton prov ides De Lesseps with less than
one-third of the GOO 600 600 francs he wanted and
he will probably have greater difficulty IN getting
the next bonds taken at all But the extraordinary
traed for the Subscribers numbered over 100, 600,
| consisting mainly Of small investors who had made
money IN the Snez Canal and had come to believe
De Lesseps infallblc.
| Virtue NAV be its own reward, but the appoint
ment of Collector Magone shows that there Is moth
| ing like making virtue give bond to have the re-
ward on hand when 1t is wanted.
| Smith NJ Weed has been making trip to the
Northwest, and a repor ter of The st. Paul PioneT
| Press who asked him If Cleveland would be can
didate for reelection reports him as replylng' 1t Is
a serious question whether be will or not. He Is
not an office-seeker and you know in his letter of
| acceptance he pronounced against a second term
| We take it that the politicians OF this State will
| gather from these remarks that Mr.. Weed is not
sitting up nights laborng for Clevelands renom-
nation.
| The annual complaint about the ailantus tree
comes rather late this year. There is no doubt
that the odor of the blossoms OF this tree is dis
agreeable and offensive to many persons. and there
are people who are made Ill by the pollen of the
flowers But the blossom of the ailantus disap-
peared weeks ago, and with it all cause for COM
plaint until another season. Despite its bad odor
the ailantus is O tree that cannot well be spared
from our streets. 1t grows rapidly and thriftly
| under the most unfavcrable circumstances; its
| foliage 10 thick and luyurianr, and the seed-clus-
ters are particularly attractive when Drowned by
| the autumn sum-
Commissioner PurrOy says that there are
"weighty reasons" why Mayor Grace Will not be
a candidate for renomlnation. just so There are
exceedingly "weighty reasons" why Mr.. Grace
could not be elected again. and perhaps 1t is as
| well that he realizes the situation.
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| PERSONAL
Robert Grant writes his stories with atypowriter,
and asens pages at the corner with legal ryet