The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-08-21
CURRENT COMMENT.
Various Topics of the Day
Briefly Discussed.

Various Topics of the Day
Briefly Discussed.
GENERAL HARRISON is wondering
whether this is his fight or Blaine's.
Two WEEKS MORE will bring the first month
with an "R'' in it, and that means oysters.
II is believed that Colonel Cal Brce wlS
now proceed to shake up things.
EVEN ONE SMALL cool wave is blessing
these days. In the good old times August was
a very pleasant month I'm Atlanta.
SOME OF OUR most positive takers on yellow
fever wouldn't know a case if they met it in
the road.
Wf1H BRONZE JOHN on the one hand and
Tattooed jim on the other the outraged citizen
does not know which way to run.
HAYES, in his hen-coop, is not greater
victim of the republican forgettery than
Candidate Harrison.
THIS is bad time for bilious looking
drummer to start out on q trip through
southern Georgia.
WHEN the gulf cyclone or storm touches
the northern coast there will be change in
the weather up this way.
WE welcome the old fight between Cleve.'
land and Blaine. In such fight, Clevee
land is bound to win.
THE republican candidate finds it very
difficult indeed to get from under his grand
fathers hat.
WILL Mr.. Blaine meet Mr. Carlisle in 6
debate on the tariff question? Such dis
cussion would mean business.
THE MEMPHIS APPEAL says that yellow
fever patients must be kept out of that city, if
it takes shotgun quarantine and the hanging
of few persons.
Mr.. RANDALL IS rapidly recovering, bua
will not, it is thought, resume his seat in con"
gress during the present session.
THE MoRMoNs ARE going into Mexico in q
slow but steady stream. They have purchased
large tracts of land in chihuahua.
WE HAVE AT least one big volcano in this
country 1t is Mount Wrangel in Alaska.
Sometimes the smoke rises sixty thousand fees
above its crater.
In Maine Brother Blaine was met by
genuine North American democratic EARTH
quake. The very ground shivered and pro-
tested.
THE RIO GRANDE is so low at Ell Paso thas
fears are entertained of its becoming entirely
dry. The Mexicans attribute it all to Aneri~
can immigration.
THE surplus is more dangerous than the
tariff. Why not reduce it by abolishing the
Internal revenue system.
Mr.. BLANE's daughters brought home
thirteen trunks. Can it be that they have
been importing foreign goods in open disre-.
gard of their pas protection theories?
CONGRESSMAN BYNuM's ChautauQua
speech advertised him with his constituents
to such an extent that all his spare time is
now devoted to explaining it.
THE democratic batteries are all turned
upon Brother Blaine Some of our fire
should be reserved for Messrs. Harrison and
Morton, and their platform.
SOME OF THE RICHEST men in England owe
all their wealth to beer. And some of the
poorest men there owe all their poverty to the
same thing.
RUSSIA TRoTs OUT woman 140 years olds
She reads without speetacles, and is good
talker. Her husband escaped from her to-
| WARDS the CLOSE Oh the IaSI century.
A NEW YORK MAN took his wife and moth,
er-in-law to picnic and killed them both and
then took his own life. People up that way
have queer idea of what it takes TO make o
picnic.
THE New York World, intent on injur.
ing the democratic party, argues in favor Oh
free-trade. Anything to help Brother
Blaine.
THE investigation of the whisky truss
whisky ring is controlling some very impors
tant politicians in the west.
PEOPLE should not get too much elate n
or depressed over yellow fever news. The
diseafe may appear to flicker, and then take
a new start and run for two months yet.
LAST WEEK THE New York police arrested
1925 persons. If they arrest the same number.
Just before the presidential election, aud the
parties get a term on Blackwel's island, it
may decide the fate of one ticket OF the others
IT IS SAID that Mr.. Blaine is less magnetic
since his return from Europe. He is littlel
mitred because he missed the big demonstrat
ton in his honor, and it will take some time to-
get all the Atlantic fog ont of his head.
Miss WINNIE DAVIS is having good time
in Maine. Her father would be welcomed
there, too, if he would go. Nobody ever says
an unkind word about him, except few poli<
ticians, and they don't mean it.
Ex-JUDGE TERRY, OF CALIFORNIA, who
killed Senator Broderick in duel thirty years
ago, has never had any good luck since that
event. He has lost money, lost prestige in
politics, and recently his $4,000 library was
destroyed by fire. He was not insured.
IF the report is true that Congressman
Norwoods novel now numbers 1000 manu-
script pages, the writer is in danger OF
making too big book. The popular now