New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-24

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Washngton's Birthday, the people Of this town
have bleak winter in prospect To be sure, we
| never heard of any such proverb but 1t is just
| az GOOD for aught we can see, as most OF those
upon which otherwise sensible people confidently
| rely.
What grotcsque reading is afforded-aftcr the
event-by too-enthusastic political prophecies |!
Here for example, is paragraph printed in " The
| Atlanta Constitution Of November Ia, 1884,
I'm 1sss the Democratic column Will DO composed
NJ The States OF the Solid South, New York. Indiana,
New-Jersey Connecticut. Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
s cav w inclnde Ohio Massachusetts and Maine
Republicans, take notice
| Doubtless the Editor Of 1.-THE Constitution" more
than half believed that at the time. But what
an air his words have now Like the scent that
steals from the crumbling sheet Where mummy
| is half unrolled"r
The Superintendent of Foreign Mails in his an
nual report denounces the transportation service
on the American steamship lines to South America
as /" the worst we have.' Perhaps it is. 1t
ought to be- The present Administration has done
all that lay in its power to make it So 1t has dis
eliminated against American carriers in favor OF
foreign carriers, and has persistently pursued
course of monumental niggardlness toward tho
lines in question. And now Mr. Bell complains
that the mail service on those lines is not as sat-
isfactory as it is on other lines that are paid ten
times as much for the serviccl That is adding
insult to injury with vengeance.
It is a significant achievement Of science when
a physician can be taken into consultation at al
distance of 5000 miles. That was done on Sunday
by means of the telegraph and cable between
Victoria, B. c., and London The humiliation Of
time and space has rarely been more stribingly
shown, and if the patient should recover the Incl
dent would deserve an honorable place in medical
annals.
With the approach of winter pickpockets have
returned to their old scene Of operations-the
Flatbush-ave cars from the Brooklyn Bridge
to the Long Island Railway depot. The street
railway managers by reducing the number OF
cars and forcing passengers to stand on crowded
platforms from Sands-st to Sixth or Seventh ave.
greatly facilitate the industry of these light
fingered artists. The pcl1pockets start from the
New-York side about in the afternoon. work.
the Bridge cars on the way over, and then wait
from eight to ten minutes for a Flatbush car
which is certain at that hour to be overcrowded.
Winter after winter these tactics are followed
and hundreds of pockets are rilled Many prudent
patrons Of this line, alarmed by the frequency
of such 'robberies, have ceased to carry their
watches during the winter months.
The new Chief Engineer Of the Aqueduct, it
appears, is as strongly committed to the Quaker
Bridge Dam as Mr. Church. According to a state
ment by Mr. Church, Mr.. Fteley thinks that the
dam should be constructed as speedily as posi-
ble 1t is unfortunate that the Aqueduct Com
missioners will be unable to obtain disnterested
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mediate advisers Very likely Mr.. Church would
not have been willing to give way to Mr.. Fteley
had he not known that his successor was commit
ted to the project which he himself so earnestly
favors.
Boston mas received q handsome certificate OF
character from q person described as a Cincin-
NATHAN who pays two visits to Boston each year"
1t appears, according to the narrative that oc-
cupies a conspicuous place in " The Boston
Journal that when this man is on the point of
making one of his two visits, there is trouble
in the household" because his wife and daughters
are filed with consuming desire to go with
him. Once he rashly took them, and ever since
they have been enamored Of the seat of modern
culture 1t is bad enough that Boston should
be the occasion of contention in what would other
wise be peaceful family in Cincinnati, but the
worst is yet to come. In order to prevent the
domestic outbreak that would occur If the head
of the household were known to be about to SET
out for Boston, he is constrained TO resort TO dis
honorable deceit This is what he says on that
point: If 1 want to come alone, talk about
O run over to New York, and then l steal away"
We submit that Boston, instead of extolling this
sort Of thing, is done in the extract before us,
is in duty bound to rise up and denounce it. |
That the modern Athens is full of attraotiveness
to people dwelling in Cincinnati Is not in the |
least surprising but that the metropolis Of New
England should be stumblingblock and rock |
Of deceit in the case of the Clncnnatan who |
pays two visits to Boston each year" is really too
bad. Either Boston must reform, or else the in |
dividual from the West is in serious need of In |
struction as to the highly reprehensbe error of |
his ways.
Judge Thurman writes TO Judge Backer, OF |
Texas that he shall continue to work for the |
Democratic party and that he does not despair |
Of its ultimate success" That last clause may |
not be equivalent to last gasp but it certainly |
is not quite thrilling enough for a war-cry. |
Judge Thurman didn't see so many rainbowS as
Colonel Brice before the election; unlike Colonel |
Brice he saw none at all the day after the |
election, and we suspect that he thinks 1t would |
be q waste of time to look for any now.
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