New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-05

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The Street Cleaning Department gets from the
taxpayers 81 200, 900 per year, almost go ooo
per week What has the department been dong
with the money the past week? The condition OF the
crossings in the most important and populous
thorough fares shows that it has not been USED "
the best advantage.
Pvromania is what the wise men call the ten
dency developed in little May Wilson, the IRE
bug whose fondness for striking matches ana
watching blaze has resulted in acts OF arson
and murder. No will seriously pretend Oh
course that this crippled child was Responsible
for crimes of such gravity, and no one would
wish to see her punished with undue severity.
But we object to pyromania There are aito-
gcther too many manias already No law
breaker young or old, who has powerful rela-
lions, or is otherwise handicapped afflicted in
life, is ever troubled to obtain name for his
acts which changes them forthwith from fclo-
MES into misfortunes The criminal lawyers and
the medical experts. can always be relied on TO
prove that it is some sort OF mania. Parents
whose children show taste for matches anu
fondness for firing curtains and sofas should not
be deceived by what the wise men say into sup
posing that pyromania IS incurable IL Will
probably Weld without much trouble to vigor-
ternal shoe 1t Is fortunate that May wilson
was 81, quickly caught for more reasons than one
Carelessness on the part Of the physicians was
nj first SUSPECTED as one Of them had been smok-
ing shortly before tho principal fire broke out.
But now it is evident that little May was the
culprit all along
The bcerselleEs of Monmouth County who have
been irving to get around the excise laws by SELL
ing checks for enough bottles of beer to fill O
keg md then delivering the keg in bottle install
ments remind one Of the endeavors OF their Demo-
cratic brethren to demoralize the country through
insidious instalments Of free trade, destined to
make I'D the full keg of business upheaval ul-
timately.
The past week has been prolific of elevator
accidents. On Wednesday the fatal act OF an
attendant in the Roosevelt Hospital took place.
vberebv a HELPLESS patient was hurled down to
death On Friday no less than three mlshaps
In connection with elevators were reported One
occurred in Fifty -seventhst., where three men
went down with car which had Just safely
carried up mass of iron weighing about ton
ALI the men were badly hurt but none rtally.
Tn Newark an elevator with two men on board
tumbled from fifth story to the ground moor
because of the breaking Of rope; both men were
seriously injured. The same day a porter IN
White-st walked into an open shaft and got
fall of forty feet These occurrences Will con-
firm the theory which some people cherish thA'
accidents Of the same kind are apt to occur In
grouus But of course there is no connection
between the cases mentioned; it is only singu-
lar coincidence that they followed so rapidly one
after the other.
Those people who scott at Mr. Flower as per-
petnaI candidate for one office or another should
remember that when Mr.. Flower had chance 70
be elected Lieutenant-Govcrnor In $50 he decnned
| it with thanks.
| What has Colonel Lamont been doing that Inc
Buffalo Courier" should sneer mt the rumor that
he entertains an ambition TO become the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor next fall? The
concoctor OF such story remarks The Courier
must regard the public as an aggregated fool. .
And why. pray? Does "The Courier" hold that the
power behind the President has no right to aspire
| IN the Cubernatorial thronep The Colonel must
have been treading on The Courier's' favorite
corn
Following the recommendation Of THE TRIB-
| UNF Senator Frye has launched, An Congress-
tbs movement for an international Marine Con-
| ference in a bill admirably framed Upon analysis
| of its provisions IT seems to limit the scope Oh
the proposed conference to the adoption OF UNIFORM
rules Of action for navgators and to an authorized
discussion and comparison Of the marine systems
OF the various nations hfe-sa ging hydrographic'
| signal-scrvice etc with u view to securing q
more general adoption, throughout the world. oil
the best features of each. We see no reason why
the measure should not receive general commend
alton here and abroad, and result in the saving
Of many lives and much valuable property.
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A story is going the rounds telling OF small
boy coughing up large nail which had been In
| his stomach some time. Which reminds us that
Governor Hill lately forced President Cleveland
to swallow large piece of iron. 1t is under
stood that IL entered his soul.
! According to :" The London Telegraph q
! learned counsel in England lately applied to a
! Judge to adjourn q case " until after the lunch
time of the court rs the plaintiff had missed his
train. The Judge denied the motion, saying.
You should ask that the case be postponed untii
after the adjournment for the court does not
lunch that Is not epoch In the life OF the
court do not speak Of what individuals DO