New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-16
AS THE WORLD WAGS.
RANDOM REMARKS OF A STROLLER HERE
AND THERE

Progressive Southerners taking hope In tho
bulwark OF Republicanism that General Harrison Is
going TO raise in Dixie The BoU,b arr not OK
pcotcd to any good in anything In the lounging
room OF the Gsoy House day or two ago New
Yorker and an Alabaman discussing tho political
situation Said the former: 81 am making invest
ments In your State, and It is my intention to move
down there with my family. am Republican, and
have been all my life IT is the next thing to my
religion. The Republicans you get down in
Alabama the better II Will be for you They Will be
brcakwater between you aud any oppression you may
fear from General Harrson's Administration The
Administration cannot harm you without harming u.s.
1t is the best solution of the negro problem. II the
negro Is put over you he will be put over u.s. We
expect to have influence with the Administration
and that influence will be for the good OF your whole
people,
The southerner was much comforfcd " That reminds
me- said he, OF the wicked old fellow VINO dreamed
that he died and went TO the bad place. lie saw the
old devil and the Internal fires and tho little devils
shoveling sulphur and he saw hundreds oi his old &C
qualntances, and when he woke up he was all IN
sweat OF pcrspiration lie thankful IL was
a dream that he told the boys about It, one of 'em
asked him If the fire wasn't uncommon hot. power
fl hot said he but then wasn't so bad as IL mout
"A been for every white man saw bad niger be-
tween him and the fire.
The hand Of thirteen trumps held by player IN
rame of whist in Baden Baden is exciting great oc"'
Of discussion on the subject of the theory OF chances
DR. Pole an eminent English authority says 'ha suon
a hand Is chance so remarkable that the prooao'ly
:. a.. occurring again even In a world much more
v.n to whist than the present so remote as TO re-
quire a good many figures to express IT, ne reohonS
that the chances against such combination as lhr-
teen trumps being held by any one player In any one
hand are lob 10000 TO one. Again. the prooaDihty
OF cardplayer holding thirteen cards Of particular
hofor he deal "a 4
by the same authority as one in 635,ooo.ooo deals
Dc Lesseps would have been a marvel II he had per-
suaded the people or the Government OF Franco to sec
him through wRh the Panama Canal. contractor but
recently returned from tho Isthmus says that moro
money has been sunk IN the ditch than IS required to
complete IT, inquired how this money had been
wasted Through sheer cussedness.' he replied
I'll give you an instance. The best make OF AmcH-
can locomotives. Badwn's, tn NIX are used for haul
inc away the earth It Is excavated They pull mo
cars from the cuts ont to the dumps, where the
unloading ts done The tracks arc down grade. and
~ train gets loose nine tines in dozen it goes over
tho DUNN I counted no less than twenty brand new
Baldwin engines lying at the base Of these dumps
II was Impossible 70 got them back On The rails
without TAX NC them to pieces or liftine mem up
with derrlcks There were no dcrrcks big enough TO
handle them and taking them apart was too much
trouble or the men didn't know how to 90 about II
conseouentlv they were left whore they fell. to he
covered up by the waste earth. These twenty loco
motives must have cost delivered at the lsthmus.
40 COO francs ap ecc so here's one item OF sOO,Ooo
francs literally buried out of sight and nothing TO
show for it,
Nov-yorl, brars graf deal Of its fine eating, but
the truth IS there Is not fed city Of Its size and
wealth in the world. Every day fresh signs of the
deterioration Of food are Take any one article,
executing bread and compare It with the same
product dozen years ago; for instance Deer
Farmers have long since ceased TO improve their beef
cattle There's no money in 1t, they say. The com
monest steer fetches big price in the market as
the best bred one. Twenty years ago, when an I'M
usually fine bullock was brought to this city, the
butchers fought among themselves for possession Of
him. their competition securing for the seller fancy
price The man who outbd his rivals and secured
the prize announced the fact through the newspapers
and the animal, gorgeously decorated with ribbons
and roses was paradcd I'm the Streets so that every
mouth might water at sight OF him. How is 1t TO
day? Fabulous prices paid for milch cows OF
fashionable breeding but as for the steer that
furnishes the steak for breakfast the roast for dinner
and the hash for supper, he IS worm scsrccN
thought few days ago tho finest bullock seen in
this city in dozen years arrived at the Jersey Clty
stock yards lie weighs $500 pounds. and the sight
Of him makes a man hungry Yet his owner had
difficult task in dsposng Of him at eight cents
pound He should have fetched twelve.
Tho turf exists for the improvement OF thorough
breds Something ought to exist for the Improvement
Of beef cattle. with It's vast resources New-Iork
should have the finest quality OF beef
that grass or corn can grow. One OF the curious
features Of the beef business IS that nearly all the
slaughtering is done by Hebrews. They are fast
crowdng out the Gcntles, who content themselves
with conducting retail butcher shops. The Hebrew
butcher continues to slaughter the OK according to
tho law of Noses Modern science has been unable
TO improve on that ancient method.
The manners Of women IN public conveyances vary.
but they al get of a street car In the same way.
Watch any particular one. She motions to The con
ductor and slides the cd=e Of the seat. on which
She sits perfectly stll untl tho car comes 10 full
stop Then She walks calmly to the platform on
the lower step she hesates leans forward looks up
the street looks down the street, looks across the
street gathers up her skirts, peeps down ana back 10
see that they are not too hlgn for prop1ey, gahceS
shrly NJ TO see If tho imIcrtinent men are staring
takes another look around the horizon and departs
The conductor Jerks the bell strap with pernicons
activity clares at the woman until She reaches the
Sidewalk then hastily scans the faces OF the men
on the platform lie Is looking for sympathy But
lie gets none. Ever: glance IS sharpened at the fair
creature who has just alghted
A vounr scochman passed through this city few
DAYS ago the way TO Washington 10 get a polucai
Office His name Is Duncan Lamont and he acEnowl
edged TO an acquaintance that he green" stu
lie has hopes for he IS a kinsman of Mr. Cleveland's
pivate secretary. Before leaving home he and Dan
lad some cores pondcncc on the subject which re-
vealcd the interesting fact that their grandfather
were first cousins. Later was learned that their
rraudmoheIs first cousins too, SO that they are
related on both sides Of the family tree The youngster
avs that Cousin Dam advised him not to take an
oece hecause he didn't think he'd be able 10 hold II
after March d. But he insisted coming 10 America
and Cousin Dan" said come along
Seventy second-st IS Of the smoothest pieces OF
macadam in the United States. a good mscadamlzed
road said an old contractor TO me yesterday, Is rs
smooth as asphalt and as durable as Belgian pave
mont We've continued TO improve the method of
c,,ch rad since MAcAdam showed |