New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-15

Better still, let them illustrate the courage Oh
their convictions by issuing them in neat PAM
phlet with marginal references and explanatory
foot-notes.
The appointment of George II. Sterling to an
important position in the customs service was re-
volxed not because of SterliIgs proved unfitness,
but because of the storm of public indignation
which il aroused What will decent men have
to say about the appointment of faro-oank
keeper and bookseller as Paymaster in the Audi
tors office?
When Partisan ladies smoke. they use
deliciousy scented cigarettes tinctured with roses
carnations or heliotrOpe French Journalist has
recently visited the great establishments where
cigarettes are manufactured for fashionable women
exclusively The most expensive kind made
unites the fragrance Of delicate flowers with
soupcon Of opium The journalist being evidently
a woman scolds the Partisan bellies for debasing
themselves to the level of the brute creation-man.
and warns them that they are running their teeth
and contracting the bondage of the opium habit
The soupcon of the Chinese drug should be left
out of course: but it might not be bad idea to
encourage efeminate youth Of the masculine sorb
to smoke these ladies' cigarettes. Heliotrope.
carnation or rose perfume might do something to-
ward fumg eating the smell Of burnt paper which
now pervades the atmosphere Of streets and parlors
Mr. President that's terrible black eye that
Tammany Hall has given you by its anti-free-trade
resolutonsl We would call your attention to a
white iodine that hides such discol0rations. Per
haps Carlisle or Morrison has some on hand and
it may help you to appear respectfully for little
time. But you will need frequent applications
of it..
The Railroad Commissioners urge the rail-
roads, in carrying out the law requiring cars to
be heated by steam from the engine, not to over
look the question of prOner ventilation. Bad air
in railway has not killed so many people as
the destructive stove; but the discomforts OF
travel would be sensibly diminished if way
could be devised to supply pure air without an
noying and influenza provoking draughts.
Swansea is one of the secluded corners Of Eng
land, but it has made important discovery and
solved one of the problems Of modern social life.
weekly journal has been opening It's columns to
/ high debate on the subject: Why don't the men
propose ?" The bachelors have written letters
by the score arragning the fair sisterhood for ex-
trayagance in dress and bringing forward all the
stale arguments against matrimony. To this the
maids old, young and middle-aged have rejoined
with sarcasms fine irony, gentle cynlcism and
pert speeches. The discussion would have ended
as such debates usually do, If an outspoken bach
Swansea fair, had not blurted out the true in
wardncss, Of the matter lie explained that the
real reason why men did not propose was that
the landladies in their boarding houses made them
50 entirely comfortable that marriage ceased to
have any attractions for them. AS bachelors VINO
do not propose and boarding-houses where they
do live happily are not confined to Swansea,
here is a principle Of universal application IL is
the knd-hearted landlady who Is the most lhsld-
ious foe of the divine institution OF marriage
The Swansea bachelor has cleared up one OF the
mooted questions Of social science
Tho dcsnicable and deporable use to which
private detectives may be put in divorce suits
annears from an affidavit in the Flanagan case
What cannot be done through such agencies Is
rather a matter of concern than what can be ac-
complished Whatever the truth may be IN this
particular instance there is little doubt that there
is no more baneful adjunct to divorce cases
than detectives whose scent depends wholly on
the size of the pocketbook held before their noses.
McGure and Irving the two policemen VINO
fought q duel with clubs, deserve credit for one
innovation. If there is to he any brutal clubbing
done the police should expend it on each other.
When Speaker Carlisle made Mr. Clements
chairman Of the Civil Service Reform Committee,
he represented faithfully the spirit OF his party,
however untrue he was to its pledges. The
Atlanta Constitution passes for enlightened
and progressive Democratic paper. and this is
what it says: An anti-Civil Service reformer has
been made chairman Of the Civil Service Commit
tee This is as it should be. The right kind OF
men should WELD the blade when a humbug is
to be knitted
This Administration seems to have passion
for putting jail-birds and professional lawbrealS-
ers in the places Of tried and faithful public
wants.
The Presidents tailor has been imparting
good deal OF valuable information TO the press
regarding the saroria peculiarites and intentions
Of Mr. Cleveland. 1t Is interesting to know that
the President is giving more attention OF late to
the subject of his personal appearance The country
knows TO whom il has TO be grateful for this, and