New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-28


ject ct all, he would unquestionably have heh
that 1t was forgery.
The man who makes eccentric election bets
is now filing the trump Of fame. Perhaps the
two most interesting specimens Of the clan reside
In Philadelphia Both sport" sidewhiskers
long and silky, Of which they are very proud
According to the terms of their wager the one
that loses is to allow the whiskers on one side
OF his face TO be shaved of early on the morn
ing after election, and Is to wear the remaining
whiskers during the day, attending to his bust
ness as usual. When the man who has agreed
to wheel the other fellow in barrow In casa
he loses his bet hears Of this incident he will
doubtless find envy stirring in his BOSOM Tho
whlsker bet beats the barrow bet or at all events
| IL is more novel and personal The only bet thus
far booked that echpses it calls for a wooden
| leg from one Of the parties TO it, and o set Of
false teeth from the other. But before the cam
paign closes a still higher standard Of originality
may be reached
society belle of Louisville has bet her hand
in marriage that Cleveland will be elected.
Rather neat way Of giving fellow the mitten.
The Democratic journals, "The New.Yorh
Times included, are making frantic efforts to
| prove that there has never been any cordially
between Secretary Bayard and Lord SackyiIe;
that their relations are cod and formal; that
the President has only q slight and casual &C
quaintance with the British election-agent; and
that the warmcst social relations Of the latter
are with Republican Senators and the Harrison
family. Stuff and nonsense Really, esteemed
contemporaries we are ashamed OF you In the
last agonies of a political canvass we would have
expected more versatility and Acknowledgements
presence of mind-than you have shown In the
sorry plight in which your Democratic Burchard
has left you.
The St Paul Base Ball Club has covered
itself and the Northwest with glory So re-
marks The St. Paul Pioneer Press We con-
graduate the club and take the liberty OF calling
upon Minneapolis to give hearty and felcitous
expression to the general Joy.
Democrats on other hand firmly convinced that
Lord sackyille was led to write The Los Angeles Letter
sae ae1 that the British hoped thus 70 r.
yeDge him u upon the Administration for the sdrSat "
Presidents recent retaliation message-washingon Dis
This is the worst twaddlc Of all Your party
is in desperate straits and you had to make an
effort in some directon but really you ought to
have done better than this To represent the
British Minister as entertaining a grudge against
the President and writing the Murchison letter in
order to get with him is essentially infantile-
Now that the venerable Mr.. Thurman is solicit
ing the votes OF negro citizens and is posing as
lifelong and original friend of that prolific
ANIMAL as he calls the negro it is pertinent to
bear well in mind that in 1867 this same Mr..
Allen G. Thurman was the Democratic candidate
FOR Governor of Ohio, and that the ballots cast
for him bore in big letters, just above his name,
the words Opposed to Negro Suffrage Had
Mr. Thurman's will prevailed, there would now
be no negro vote for the antique Roman to 50
fishing for.
Minister West to pass into h MaSG the Demo-
He is, he is but give him his full title, Baron
Sackville, peer of Her Majestys realm. 1t is
not often that your party secures the services Of
a titled scion of the British nobility an cleo
ton agent and political canvasser; and you ought
to treat him with proper consideration.
Engand's latest land grab in the Pacific las
apparently been made in anticipation Of the COM
pletion of canal the Central American
isthmus. Cooks Islands, or Hervey's Islands,
as they have also been called, lie between and
little to the south of Tahiti and Samoa, and
exactly in the line of travel between Central
America and the great Australasian colonies OF
Great Britain As Tahiti is under French domina-
tIOu ana OcrIudly lbs dioNtu W bopoi0
up Samoa, it is of course, highly desirable for
England to have fOot-hold in those seas foe
coaling station and naval headquarters So
far as present knowledge extends, the value OF
these islands is not apparent, since there is not
known to be a harbor in the whole group avail
able for large vessels The size of the islands
is insignificant, their products are OF little value
and their total population does not exceed 5000
1t may be, however, that English surveyors have
discovered harbors of suitable capacity for q
naval station. In that their strategical posi-.
ton will make these islands highly important
part of the British Empire in the southern seas.
Another asteroid has just been discovered.
Good The more the better. This earth Of ours
stands ever ready to welcome a heavenly body.
But we wish that astronomers would be a little
more thoughtful and not discover asteroids and
other celestials while exciting political cam
paign is on. An observer who recognizes tho
claims of politics reserves his discoveries for OF
years
A Democrat, on the hind axle of whose wagon
a rooster lately crowed, is so encouraged by that
omen that he writes letter to The Utica OBJ
server filed with hopes of Clevelands success.
We NAV state for the benefit of this gentleman
that it is understood in Washington that the
President is going about these days carrying in
one of his pockets the left hind-leg of a rabbit
caught in the dark of the moon in one OF the
Southern States. The only drawback is that
this campaign is not TO be decided by ROSTERS
on hind axles or by the hind legs Of rabbits
Word comes from London to the interesting effect
that the latest and correct thing In scars Is OK
pure white silk ornamented by black pearl pm
(The World.
We may add that word comes from Washington
to the interesting effect that the latest and most
unpalatable thing served in Democratic restau-
rants is the West pickle.