New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-21


plainly told that it would be to the advantage
of all concerned if the motor could be induced
to operate. Postponements, further supplies OF
money, one or two brief exhibitions of me-
chanical energy which appeared to some, per-
haps to most of the spectators, to emanate from
the mysterious fabric, a suit at law, and i'm
pnsonment for contempt of court, are the latest
but probably not the final incidents of this
strange career.
Keely has already emerged from Moyamen-
sing, and we shall expect him to resume the
operations from which he has long derived
much bodily comfort and suffered slight spirit
nal inconvenience, so far as the world has been
able to see. Perhaps we shall never know with
certainty whether he ever had real faith in
himself, and if so whether he ever lost it.
The Royal family having determined to make a
family affair of the arrival of the dowager Empress
in England neglected to invite the German Min
lister TO Windsor glimpse Of Count Won HAITI
fcldt alighting at the Waterloo station appears to
have reminded them of the requirements of
diplomatic etiquette One of the Prncesses is de-
scribed as raising a car window and shouting to
him TO come on TO Windsor The Duke of Cam.
bridge rushing to the platform of the car vocifer-
ously repeated this informal invitation as the train
left the station The German Minister may have
followed the Royal party by the next train but
we fancy that he will favor Prince Bismarck with
some cynical observations on the free-and-easy
manners of the English Court
One of his critics accused Warner Miller with
having water on the brain" What's the mat
ter with David B. Hill? Rum on the conscience.
The Democratic party is not beaten. 1t never
will he beaten. So remarks " The ST. Louis Re
public Did you kill the bird at which you
fired p one sportsman asked of another. WELL
no, 1 didn't kill him." was the reply, "but
wounded him so badly that calculate he'll roost
mighty low for some time to come"
The President having thrown over all
presidents and substituted a free-trade essay for
the annual review of all departments of the Ad-
mnstration. is expected in some quarters TO repeat
the performance this year. His supporters in the
House having passed the Mills bill in obedience
to his wishes would doubtless be pleased if he
were to fire off another single-barrelled message in
December Then, again, there are shrewd OBJ
servers. like The New-York Sun" who perceive
the folly of a renewed assault upon the tariff
when the people have vetoed his policy. Some
other National question: the Interstate Act for
instance. is recommended for the central theme of
the message. The custom Of reviewing the results
of a years administration in the various branches
represented by the Cabinet departments seems to
rs TO have direct sanction in the Constitution.
The President cannot do better than to follow a
line of precedents that was unbroSen until year
ago. II he prefers to be original and once more
TO violate the traditions of his high Office, why
may he not devote his entire message to an
academic discussion of the single-term question
He had few eloquent sentences this subject
in his first letter of acceptance, but he did not
exhaust it by any means.
Lord Randolph Churchill has placed his heel
firmly and theoretically upon London journal
that has been conspicuous of late for petulant dis
plays of wanton hostility to America What
the average English editor needs is an American
wife to sweeten his temper and broaden his views
of international politics
1t appears from the official figures that General
Fisk the Prohibition candidate for the Presidency,
only received 2lS votes in Mississippi. No
wonder that Mother Democracy strains Mississippi
to her breast and proudly names her jewel
What's in a name? Mr. Charles A. Smith, of
Hickory, Pennsylvania, is not asking that ques-
ton TO any extent these days. Last election day
he endeavored TO deposit his vote But the board
of inspectors came between him and his exercise
of the precious right of suffrage with the extraor
binary proposition that he did not know what
his name was. 1t seems that the would-be voter
was found in a cabbage field by farmer when he
was a babe, and that he grew to manhood bearing
the rather droll name Of Cabbage On attaining
his majority he discarded Cabbage for Smith.
But the inspectors held that they could not recog-
nize his assumption of Smith 1t is not stated
whether or not he tried to rise superior TO the
emergency by casting his ballot as Cabbage 1t
was Holmes that wrote
Here comes a young fellow Of excellent pth,
Fate tried TO conceal him by naming him Smith.
But it is pretty certain that the Smiths are
equal TO any conspiracy that Fate may organize
against them. And if the Smith family as one
man moves against the inspectors who refused the
vote of a Smith-well the inspectors would do well
to take TO the woods
Why should there be so much pothcr about
where Secretary Bayard will have his future home /?
What difference does it make whether hc sticks TO
Delaware or immigrates to Ncw-Yorll? Mr.. Bay
ard may be great man now, but he will attract
mighty little attention after March t.
France has enjoyed the reputation of a much
drinking, but little-drunken country. Pure wines
were plenty and cheap, and there was no swilling
Of strong spirits and drug-concocted liquors. Con-
seauently the evils of intoxication were less
prevalent than in many other lands With the adj
vent of the phyloxera and the wholesale failure
of vineyards all this has changed until France has
become n hopeful competitor for the palm of
drunkenness Recent Government reports show
a startling increase in the number of crimes and
cases Of insanity due TO alcoholism, and now II
detailed statement by NJ. Laborde, OF the Academy
Of Medicine reveals the root of the evil Accord
ing to NJ Laborde the manufacture Of spurious
liquors is conducted on an enormous scale, both
In Paris and in provincial towns, and no attempt
ID made to conceal it. A very largo proportion Of