Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-06-11
Political Nose~.

The special train which oears the republican
delegates OF California 20 the national cOnveutioR
at Chicago let San FRANCISCO last evening. Five
hundred small silk nass IA the shape &C handker-
chiefs have been made Tor the delegateS with
each OF which Cos an oransS-wecd cane The
man bsndanA oregon and Montana Delegations
viii join the excursion AZ Granger, Wyo- ard the
Nevada delegation az Reno New.
Patrick Ford, In long letter 20 the frfsh World,
declares that republican success without NJ.
Blaine Is douotful- and insists that nj. Blaine
must be nominated without regard 10 his with
drawal IRON the candidacy.
The Irish-American and Cleveland Protective
Mon was organized IN New YORK last night With
1t Is stated that the western Union Telegraph
Co. alone handled and transmitted over H. wirNs
news growing directly out OF the democratic
national convention IN -. Louis last week O. the
aggrgate amount OF 2,l5l. III words
A Baltimore Man special from Philadelphia says:
The Indications are thai the Penns, lVania delega-
tion 10 Chicago VIII be divided between herman
anu Gresham, with a majority FOR N rman, Wno
beaNer. The Pennsylvania Cluh, Philadclphia's
most aristocratic political organization. adopted
r,esoIuuon saturday night recommending Gresham
Tor the nomination.
Mr.. blaine Books pss> Passage rto,ac.
T. c. crawfori's cAhlesram the New Nurk Nord
Mr. Blaine has engaged passage for himself aud
family TO return to the United states on the
steamer Trave, or the German lloyd line, 10 san
NUN SOUTHAMPTON on the laih OF next July.
An Egyptiaa Baby.
\ Garter Harrison in the Chicago Mail
watched child of about two and a-taf years
enjoying crust OF bread. There were about II a
swarm OF flies and DO not eNaggerate when say
Two or three dozen on its face at one time In
patches as big as half dollar about the eyes aud
mouth II would screw up ITS eyes when they
threatened 20 80 in. I thought some must have
gone into Us mouth with the bread. IL did not
seem AT all annoyed. saw a slcepinC child On
the street whose face was almost black win tho
insects " smiled n II angels were whispering In
| It's ears have SS.n men taking pleasantly to-
| gether while a dozen flies would he prumenading
| ABOUT Their faces apparently unnoticed 10y the
| OWNERS OF The faces I asked "A man how
| ne could stand IT. "Mashallnh, They don't
bother me, was his reply. This has made the ry
| bold. and he seems unabN 90 understand what A
! foreigner means when he tries 60 drive him OF
| Tie has, too, remarkably prehenslle claws, and
keeps them Keen and sharp when taking constitu-
| tional walks over European countenansf.- IA was
| probably the knowledge OF this quality which
| made these people pronounce it bad luck TO drive
! them on. They found II best Ia educate the masses
10 bear the inriction and get used "a a. Nearly
| all the religious and semi-regious prohibitions
| and usages OF the people OF the world probably
| had Their origin In some material benefit. The
| COW was hard 10 raise In India. 1he COW " as
most necessary-so the wise priesthood made her
| sacred, and thus preserved her Hogs flesh " as
subject 10 diseases In Egypt and SYRIA 50 the hog
| was made religiously unclean and Infested win
| devils.