, 1886-06-03
Ghe at'eel;ln Ae9ts.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3. ISsG.
Editorial Notes.

EollcrlaI Notes.
"0men are evidently getting their
rights under the national government |
st present. Miss Folsom gets the
bis prize Of the present administIa-
ton.
Mark il down to the credit Of the |
saloon keepers Of Nebraska City that
they have agreed not to sell liquor to |
anyone known 10y them 10 have signed
q temperance pledge.
). S. Cox's book entitled Three
Decades Of Federal Legislation" has
been wrongly named It should be
AN Apology for the Course Of the
Democratic Party from 1850 to 1855
With water instead Of fire the fate
of Sodem and Gomorrah may be in
these modern days repeated. For Ii
is said that Lake Michigan Is slowly
encroaching upon Chicago, the water
standing two feet higher than il did
in 1880.
An influential New Yorker. an ex-
mugwump, has declared in favor of
Blaine in 1883 The mugwump will
soon be rarity and therefore great
curiosity. Barnum ought to make q
bid for one who Will agree to remain
in his original wild state
What does the Seattle Co-operator
mean by the following? The
Knights Of Labor are mvre than a
political party; they have got past
the ballot box as the sole remedy for
all existing evils" This smacks con
siderably of the socislistic and COM
nunistic.
\ southern paper wants to give
quinine the credit Tor subduing the
Rebellion. We had thought it to be
the brave boys in blue" who did the
subduing. However, it may have
been quinine, for it was evidently a
very bitter pill to large element III
the south.
The probabilities are that the gov
ernment will have to tako from out
& of the United States treasury few
hundred thousand dollars to settle
for the damages inflicted on the Chi
nese of Puget Sound during the
last few months.
Memorial day has been national since
1868 The custom Of strewing flow
ers on the graves Of soldiers had origin
with few ladies in 1866 Its beauty
and appropriateness were so apparent
that in 1867 it was practiced by many,
and in 1868 the &. A. R. fixed May
30 as Memorial Day and national
lied it.
A western politician thinks that
Blaine would get very neager sup
port from the Pacific coast if Senator
Stanford should be an aspirant for
Presidential honors. There need be
no fear of any rivalry between the
two. Blaine would have been salts
fed in 1884 with the nomination of
Stanford.
In the United States senate a few
days ago Senator Sherman expressed
the belief that for the sake of the
American nation the restriction in
the near future of other than Chinese
immigration might be necessary.
The idea is rapidly gaining ground
that America has been too much of
an asylum for the people of other
countries
The Idado Tri Weekly Statesman
of May 20, commenting on the severe
wind storms in the East, says: '.In
our own Idaho no such storms are
known. Come to Idaho" But in
the issue of May y, record is made
OF a storm at Eagle Rock that de-
mOlished the round house cf The
Utah & Northern railway and un-
rooted other buildings. That boast
evidently was made little too soon.
Sam Small, the noted evangelist,
says that he is better qualified for his
work by reason of the schooling had
in journalistic labors No where else
does man learn to be so direct and
brief Very many of the public
speakers OF the day could with profit
spend few months under the tut.
tion of the managing editor of some
OF the great metropolitan dailies.
> Much in little is what the age de-
= minds.
p There is not infrequently some
mention Of Senator Logan as presi-
Dental candidate in 1888. There is
not the least possibility of the Sena-
tors nomination fer the first or sec
ond place unless the old ticket is
taken. 1t would look too much like
thrust at Blaine, an attempt to
shoulder upon him tho responsibility
for thn defiant in 1894 IVh;lo a.