The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-30
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
POLITICAL COMMENTS AND GEN.
ERAL MENTION.
How the Wool Vote Stood-Mr. Chief
Justice Full~r's Warrington visit-Bst-
ter than:IngersolIism-Cl Luck
in Fiahing-Hard Facts. Etc.

! THE Wool VOTE--In the recent vote
on The wool tariff in Congress the Rep
resentalives of eight States, in which are
owned an average OF 1850 900 sheep
apiece. voted: For free wool, Is; for the
p,esent tax, 13 The Representatives Of
five States, which averaged less than $50,
600 sheep, voted: For free wool, 10; Tor
the tax. 80 The demand for taxation
does not seem to have come from the
" DOL growers.-Macon (Ga) Telegraph.
So LIKE HoME.-Mrs. S-"Did you
enjoy your European iour?"
Ms. T." Immensely"
Mrs. S." What place did you like
BEST"
Mrs 4" Constantinople "
Mrs s -Apreeable city,"
Mrs IL Yes. The streets are filthy
The police very impertinent, and the hotel
accommodations horrible. 1t reminded
me of dear New York.-7ims.
Nor Stuck UP.-Mr Chief justice
Fuller spent yesterday quietly with hi
friends receiving few callers. and dur
ing the day slipping out for drivr
around the city. In the evening he Went
with bis wife and friends to Judge
Harlan's. Judge Fuller has acquired
none of the lofty dignity and hauteur
which might naturally he supposed to
hedge around Chief Justice of the
highest tribunal on earth He comes
down into the lobby of the Arlington.
smokes his cigar and chats as freely and
unrcstrainedly as if but plain esquire.
He is destined to n universal popularity
and the homage of all who respect brains
and integrity more than pOmp and cir
cums,ances But he is pre-. eminently Il
fne-haired, fine grained man. 1t is New
England seed transplanted into rich
Western SOIL Wash. Post
WILL test HIS RIGHTs.-A man was
recently elected from Cincinnati
theatre for persisting in wearing his hat
during performance Of "Nanon." He
claimed as much right to wear his hat Is
he ladies had to wear their Gaines
borOughs, and he proposes 10 test his
right in the court. This man is a public
be efactor and it is quite likely that tn
three story hat must go by legal action
Washington Post.
CLEvELANDs LUCK.-President Cleve-
lands luck still stays with him. He
catches more and larger fish than any one
else in the party on the Susquehanna.-
Post
BETTER THAN lNGERsOLLIsM. - W.
estimate theory in our secular fashion
according to the results it will produce
With great respect, therefore, for the
atheism of Palmer and Ingersoll, W.
should be sorry to have the people o !.
New York, for instance, converted TO H..
Christianity, we believe, produces on ihc
whole greater and better results, impeI
feet as its application to daily life is.
Atheism as the coed of the populace-
no, as Robespierre once suggested. il
there were no God you would have To-
| invent one, or you could have no govern
ment. We rather think, then, that we
will he satisfied with the hopes which
Christianity offers, and not court the
grim courage which makes the best of %
bad Job and faces death with clinched
teclh.-Neu York Herald
| HARD FACTS Farmers have two plain
facts before them from which they car
see that it is idle to hope for boom H.
wool prices from return 10 the dulie-
Of 1867. One is that there has been a
steady decline in prices since 1860, due 10
the development of large flock raising o.
the cheap lands and favorable climate OF
the Southwest, and to the depression Of
wool manufactures. Another is tina, the
high tariff of 1867, instead of preventing
this decline, had an accelerating effect
Kansas City Times
FORBIDDEN IMMIGRANTs.-The law of
the United States prohibits the impor'a-
ton of foreign laborers under contract
The testimony taken before the Con
gressonal Investigating Committee now
at work in this city shows that such
laborers have been imported.
The law prohibits the immigration Of
alien paupers. The testimony shows that
alien paupers have come.
The law forbids the coming of foreign
cOnvicts. The testimony shows that they
have been assisted 10 come here.
These facts will give Congress some
thing to think and act about.-N !.
Herald
How TUE YANKEES USED TO DODGE -
Courage, like everything else, wears out.
Troops used to go into action during our
late war displaying GOODNESS and siead
ness the first day that made them seem as
If the screeching of shot and shell wa
the music on which they had been
brought up. After fighting couple OF
days their nerves gradually lost their
tension, their buoyancy of spirits gave
way, and dangers they would have
laughed at the first day often sent them
panic stricken to the rear on the third.
1t was always curious sight in camp
after three-days' fight TO watch The
effect of the sensitiveness of the nervous.
Men would start at the slightest sOund,
and dodge at the flight of bird or a
pebble tossed at them. One of the chief
amusements on such occasions used 10 be
TO throw stones and chips past one al
others heads to see the active doJging
that would fOllOW.-CeaturU