The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-07

IN INC IafiH BugaD0O-The Mills BIZ al
N Wages-A Growing Republic-The Pot
nt to Bug q Protectionist - New York
a Death Traps-Lion Tail TwIsters. Etc.
- THE WOMAN OF IT.
She bathed in the sea,
" And she walked on its beach
- ooh the sly little fiirt D
- IN her blue bathing skirt,
e That barely would reach
From her waist to her knee
But she Just hal the blues.
And she sat down In despair,
a In the direst distress
For her new tennis dress
Was Indecent to wear.
Though II came 10 the tops of her shoes.
Life.
SETTLING DOwH.-Summer has left of
coquettiDg with spring and has resumed
business 1T the old stand --BRt'r0r.
Wrdh.
DECLINING lNDUsTRIEs.-ODly ia III.
vOrces were granted in Chicago during
the last our months But then we must
remember that all OF the industries of
that CITY have been on the decline of
latc.-Erctange.
"A PROTECTIOYIsT FROM THE GRoUgp
UP.-The Colorado beetle and his family
are aroused over the placing OF Paris
greed on the free list. The potato bug Is
a prOtec'iOnis. from the ground up.-
LouisriRe Courier. JourHai.
CoMMEsDABLE MAGYASImrY.-C Chief
Justice Fuller is magnanimous Not
withsianding Senator Edmund, bitter
opposition TO his confirmation. lie has
taken house of Vermont granite in
Washington. Boston Eerald.
ANOTHER GRowING REPUBLIC How |
many persons in the United States know |
that the increase Of population in the
Argentine RcpIblic during The last
twPntv-five years has been 15l per cent
while our has been only 20 per cent. p
SIN Francisco ArgonaW.
DEATH TRAPS With all her modern
appliances for the subiuga,ion Of flames.
New York is generally the scene of
frightful losses oflife and property caused
by fire. The rcasin perhaps, il that
crowded !enemenis are death traps. and
are not only social tester upon the ,
body, but defy, on account OF
heir limited stairway and partition space.
he most vigorous efforts of the men who .
light the fiery foe Baltimore Herald. .
BLAINE OR JoGGINs The CITY of New il
York, conveying Brother Blaine. aud the ii
reat Joggins timber ship, carrying the I
ortunes of Mr.. Leary, are due at this /
ort at or about the same time. The b
arrival of the two craft Ii
'ould form one of the most impressive {
maritime spectacles ever witnessed in Il
ew York harb0r. Ii is not likely. hoy. n
yer, to occur. One or the other will get b
| first. di
Which will it be, Blaine or Joggins . IN
,. Y. San. W
of
THE CANDIDATE Nor CoxsuL~Ep-It III III
already reported in Washington that q
C action OF the Senate Committee of q,
nance on the tariff bill will largely lie -,
md on the advice that NAV he given by he
r. Blaine when he arrives next week M
1t no one has happened to think of con. ~ ~
lting MIR. Harrison on this subject. or bo
deed, on any others For thisNr. Harri. M;
n himselfis somewhat TO blame He made ST
ste very mprudenlly to declare his alb 70
lute acceptance of the platform The m,
nate can do nothing without "spitting II,
the platform. "-Ne,c York Times. III,
an
HE TARIFF BUGABoO And now il is ~,
tarih bugaboo. President Cleveland W.
d his Administration and 1872 Congress. ar,
N, representing over 5000 900 voters are th a.;
ut upon running American industries Az a.,
,pauperlzing labor in the interest of M
gland This is the idiotic invention cor
It is relied upon to Brighten the Ameri. me
people from voting for reduction of him
plus producing taxes upon their ne mo
stiles ii.o
Is the people arc not idiots, we do not XII
leve they will be either fooled or int.
'htened.-N Y. World hot
bes
90 SHORT TO GET THERE.-Tbo Gus
erican people have never been much But
en- to electing short men to hira Office moo
IN Adams. his son John Quincy. and its
rtln Van Buren, were the shortest NJ now
Presidents, and they stood five feet will
inches. Harrison drops one inch I'm. men
ibis. Folk was five feet nine and 1t
rec hve feet ten. All the rest. from rich
shington to Grant, were six feet or the
T: Grant was five feet eight, and the star
sidents since his time all exceeded his Roo'
ure. 1t will be found on investigar ion bre'
harrison is too short TO reach ms
ago Herald. the
EMIT
I'LL NOT LOWER WAGEs.-The cues ster,
that confronts the wage earners in w
ron works is The same that meets all odir
king men. IL the reductions made an /;
ne Mills bill cannot decrease WAGES who,
must be benefited by it. 1t il Ger thin,
mat the profits of the mill will con fami
10 be very great under the pro. Is TN,
q law with wages as they are. The
lies under 1t will continue TO nav ali
wages of the furn aces and mills and
will not be lowered. There il No ;rn