New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-28

Congress ought to lose no time In formally ac-
cepting the invitation of the French Government
to take part in the exhibition of 1880. 1t will
not he worlds fair since monarchical Govern
ments dislike the traditions Of the overthrow Of
the Bastile, but for this very reason the sum-
mons should be needed. The two Nations
which were in close accord in 1875 and
7s9 should vie with each other in commemorate
ing the trumphs of the democratic movement
during the century.
The latest thing in neckwcar-the Democratic
tie.
The most exacting critic Of THE TRIBUNE
ALMANAC is an accomplished member Of the New
York bar who takes pains every year to scrutinize
every page and has a very keen eye for errors.
lie makes this report of his Investigations this
year: 81" THF TrIBrNF ALMANAC is well nigh
impregnable against attack this time. have
looked it through carefully and only find three
little blemishcs, namely: Page 81: Daniel N.
Lockwood rUr THRIVE has il plain Daniel;
Page 80: Vertrces should he Vcntrees: Page 40:
there should be an e on Judge Lacombes name.
Only these and nothing more. Congratulations
to Mr. McPhcrson.' Blemishes so slight and
few in number. when pointed out by competent
critic serve to demonstrate the accuracy and per-
lection Of the compilers work
Dear Grover: 1t must have been exceedingly
cold in Washington on Thursday evening? I'm
feeling pretty well. thank you. ID. b. II.
Mr. Henry Cabot Lodges article in The North
American Review" for February on the Fisheries
question contains well-merited rchukc Of The
New-Yorll Times for giving utcrance to such
unpatriotic sentiments these: 1t would be
better to buy out the Yankee fishermen and set
them up in some other business to keep them
qnct than to be kept in turmoil over their
wretched fuss. The only way is for the Govern
ment to go sereney along and leave the Gloucester
fishermen to find out that their whining is UNI
called for Mr.. Lodge says that these sentences
read as il they had been taken from some English
newspaper before the War Of the Rebellion; and
then denounces the same journal for printing on
Christmas Day "a long and scurrilously abusive
article about the Gloucester fishermen, winding up
with the statement that they were all aliens
an absolute faschOod" lie adds that it is almost
incredible that any American editor could say such
things of any class of his countrymcn; and it
only shows how far people can be carried by per-
sonal politics and partisan rancOr Mr. Lodge
lives in Boston and not in this town, where the
vagares Of the Importers Own are notorious.
II he had read that un-American journal oftener
he would not have affected surprise at sentiments
more English than The London Timcs'S' leaders
were during the Civil War.
David b. Hills chance for that nomination
doesn't seem to be quite SO bad risk as it did
The Rochester Union" asserts that if the Re
rublicans of the Legislature frame "a uniform
and lust temperance measure acceptable to Demo-
Gratis it will pass into a law by Democratic
favor" This is all very well, but The Union
realizes that the only temperance measure which
Is acceptable to Democrats is one providing in
eGcet that too much whiskey is Just enough.