New-York tribune., 1886-01-28
SOME NEN IEGUT TOG'N.

If is ono of the ueruancnt duties Of the American
lunori,t to level sarcastic paragraph somtorcason-
ally at Dr Hamilton GlIu, the sepfaiher aud business
manager OF Miss Mary Aud.rson the actress. They do
not burt particularly and Dr. Griffin j. smart enough 10
recognize that they have an advertising value Bn'
sometimes ths r!iicue :a6,s another SHAPE" and the
Doctor is alluded less satiricly than ma.ico1~!y-
and because the huuost has nothing better - says
sort hanEcr-Ou ol Miss Auief>on-a dependent reid
tive who does nothing for the handsome support The
actre,, gives him and her mother. This i' wholly un
deserved There is plain business agreement between
the actress and her stopfathcr AMI IL j. sa'aciory on
both slcs In tic beginning OF her career Mi' Anlcr
SON wa. wholly dependent on the all OF d.. Griffin AMI
his wc They believed IN her talcnt AMI spent iAei last
dollar 10 help her to opportunity 10 display H.
Miss Andersou's contract with Abbey gives her o"'-
third OF tho gross receipts, After h" has shnrel with
the theatre p1.I tho company anl tie printers there
cannot be q fortune left FOR Mr.. Abbey.
There is an effort - revive the sale OF Louisiana lot
tery ticket. in this city Since tho death Of Charles T.
Howard his ,or John IRIS. has bocn striving 20
this end. For year moro ptSt son minor employees
OF the big express companies have 5sen acting s secret
agent, OF thc Louisiana company In th, state They
have sold many tcScts aud conmttel prison offences
hundreds OF time, oScr agent Of the lottery COM
uaby told nc months ago that these express agents
acted as ottory dealers with the knowcIgo aud consent
of the cOmpane es themselves did not and DO not 10"
believe 1t.
InOtce that the Union Bridge Company OF this city
has the contract with Ncw South Wales Government
10 build a bridge 3 900 feet long OF spans with
foundations OF 60a in iron be sunk at tho
unprecedened depth OF 40 feet Tho contract was
obtained in competition with English contractors the
decision OF English civil engineers that the foundations
were the among sixteen submitted In competition
This is the same company which has the contract TO
build the Harlem River bridge.
Ihear o: curious case of fraudulent undervaluaton
large shipment VI the best Havana cigars was made
directly TO Denver passed IN the Custom House there
and rcshpped to this city The fraud consisted in hav
ing INSPECTORS Denver pass thom cheap
cigar on frau lulent invoice The saving the duty
several times greater than tue cost OF uouDIe Trans
could have played il Deputy Collector OF THIS port
had not told me OF II.
had occasion lately to make calculations OF tho
cost of Arctic expeditions and surprised to find that
that conducted by Lieutenant Frederick Schwska had
insignificant compared with the cost OF our
polar picnics IL would amount To the interest Tor
single ay on the total cost Of all Arctic expeditions
And am told that Scnwatkas Alaskan expedition cost
but little moro than the named liad the parry VINO
venture been COngressnen the Hnm ehpchueu
would not have paid their Individual mileage
found the other evening modern dramatist trying
TO confound George Edgar fairly good Shakespearean
student and actor with quotations from his favorite
author starting withho proposition that neither Mr.
gar nor person present could properly quote
the most familiar OF Shakcspear phrases. Everybody
left il to Mr. Edgar reply as tho best informed person
present Complete the line beginning MY way OF Ille
from Macbeth" Edgar replied at once
" NV way fife