New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-10

is in need of some such help himself
A Port Hunter Second Day Adventist now an
nounces that the world will come TO an end before
January /, 1890 Still the calendar and diary
business is as good as usual
The German press asserts that the Emin Relief
Committee in London is deliberately keeping
the public in the dark regarding the news from
Stanley. The charge seems to be well founded. The
extracts published from the explorers letter to
Mr.. Macl[innon were evidently fragmentary and
incomplete 1t Is impossible to ascertain from
them whether Emin has been rescued or is still
a prisoner. Staney's statement is in effect that
he waited until May for the fugitives and then
started southwark from Albert Lake. Whether
the fugitves arrived before the end OF May or
whether Emin, Jepbson and Casati escaped in time
to join him in his march to the coast does not
appear. 1t is inconceivable that Stanley should
have sent letter to Mr.. MacKinnon without
telling him plainly whether he had or had not
succeeded In rescuing Emin and hence it is evi.
dent that the most important sentences, con-
tanning the pith of the news have been suppressed
somewhere. II the dispatches received in Germany
from Captain Wissmanns expedition along with
the first summary of the letter telegraphed from
LduZlDdr Wcre wen lOuuueu ClHu Is WIFI CtdH-
ley, but If the extracts from the letter alone
to be considered, the natural presumption is
that he is still prisoner. Our London cable
letter positively asserts that Emn with Stanley
Il sell on an average seventy-fve pounds of
snuff month"; a Boston druggist tells reporter
of The Boston Globe7 We believe that
attempt has ever been made TO gather the snuff
statistics Of this State. 1t is known, however,
that whenever Governor Hill takes any all Demo
Gratis in good and regular standing from Buffalo
to Brooklyn proceed to sneeze like sixty.
Conspicuous among the notices on the walls Of
the room in which the National Womans Christian
Temperance Union is meeting in Chicago is large
inscription reading Gods Curse Upon High
License" Whether this is an invocation
malediction cannot be easily dscerned, but it will
occur to many religious people that in either event
il Is particularly irrcverent The habit that so
many estimable people have of committing the
Deity to their side of controversy as though
they were empowered TO speak for Him and TO
demand or threaten in His name is about rs
offensive habit could be. Whatever this use
iul and important association of women may think
about the Deity's views Of high license. they are
in no charged with the responsibility Of de-
claring them, and IL any expression of the Divine
will is TO be offered, il would be better to let it
come directly.
Edward Everett Hale advises every man to cul-
tivate a hobby Of some sort. But some persons
do have such extraordinary hobbies, you know.
There is David B. Hill, for instance He has two
welldeveloped Notwithstanding TO the saloons and
killing ballot-re form measures.
Charles e. Fitch, the accomplished Editor of The
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in the course
of a recent after-dinner speech. remarked loosely
that the State should take of its educated men,
seeing that they did not always take care of them
selves Surgeons not being as generally dissem-
mated as they might be in certain, portions of
Ncw-York, certain skulls were not trepanned when
Mr.. Fitch made the observation referred to- and
consequently their owners unable TO get this
Joke into their heads. The result is that Mr. Fitch
is being represented maintaining the selfre-
futiag proposition which he put forth in spirit Of
banter All of which goes TO prove that he who
makes two surgeons grow where one grew before
is 10 be regarded as public benefactor.
Postmaster.Genera Wanamakcr is giving lot
of trouble to the Democrats who object TO business
like methods in the Postotice IL is fortunate
that he not only understands his duty, but isn't
above doing it,
It has been generally supposed that every in
ventive genius in Buffalo focusing his ener-
gies on n scheme looking to the utilization OF the
Falls of Niagara We find, however, in the list
of patents lately issued to citizens of Newly ork
this record: John w. Cloud. Buffalo. watch"
The sort of watch which Mr. Cloud has patented
is not mentioned. 1t is TO be hoped that by
watch is meant machine cunningly devised to
seize hold upon and grind to powder persons whom
il catches in the act of Drawing the rapids for
money or notoriety There is certainly good
oneuinr for that sort Of a watch at Niagara.
The American navy isn't such small potatoes
after all. II is true that the Talapoosa was sunk
nv n coal barge, but within the last month or
- one British warship has stranded on the German
coast another has foundered off Nova Scotia, and
. third. which has just come to grief in American
uarers narrowly escaped drowning Vlce-Regal
party.
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PERSONAL
The retirement Of the Rev. Dr. Bartol leaves the
pay DR. A. A. Miner the oldest pastor on active duty
In Boston.
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