, 1889-03-21
EXCHANGE CULLINGs.
some Opinions and spicy Comments o
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Some Opinions and spicy Commenr. Col
| lated.
Mnrat Halstead is said to be booked for
tne VIENNA mission. He has faithfully
earned the job and we hope he will act IL.
Inc reason why Tom Patt didn't get
into the cabinet was because Jerry Rnsk
was to 90 there. The president objects TO
Tom and Jerry.
The Rev. Wendell Prime, in a sermon
| delivered in New York, last SUNDAY. said
he would like TO hear that all the t6eaters
bad been burned down in one night. IL
Mr. Prime continues this sort of talk he
VIII draw packed houses. He is mora
sensational than the theaters.
Perhaps the sevsrest criticism upon the
cleveland regime is the undisputed indif--
ference with which SO very many Of its
nominal supporters view its terminal en-.
That republicans should be- jubiant II bnt
natural; that large numbers Of democrats
should not care is indeed striking.
The contrast between the CHEEKY hope
fulness OF President Harrison's inaugural
and the gloomy forebodinGs of ex.Presi.
dent Cleveland's last annual message to
Congress is very striking. II is also very
natural under the circu instances.
Ben Butler is the champion mascot of
the nineteenth century. by the admission
or the new states the government will be
Obliged to purchase 5000 national flags
with forty stars apiece. and Ben, as owner
OF the United States Bunting company.
will be 500. 900 richer by the transaction.
Happy Ben Butler.
Confidence is felt in New Haven that
the, Hon. +. J, Phelps will henceforth
make that city his home. Dnring his ser
vices in England, says the Palladium, his
name has annually appeared In the Yale
catalogue as. Kent professor of law, and
he Is still member Of the Yale faculty.
The Forty.eighth congress had q demo.
cratic majority of seventy.one; the Forty
ninth had democratic majority of forty.
one; the Fiftieth had democratic ma.
republican majority Of from three 70
seven. These figures show the gradual
lessening of public con n6dence In the ability
and integrity of the democratic Legislators.
The man who wrote that disgusting
book. AS in Looking GLASS;" and who
IL known as +. G. Phillips. is said to b.
too poor to pay his house rent. IL his pub
Usher we're IN the same condition there
would be little sympathy for either OF
them among those people who in literature
prefer the decent to the indecent.
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire IRON
founder, says that he b. gan his business
his fellow'sweepers were David MoCaIgo,
now president Of the Allegheny Valley
railroad: Robert Pitcairn, superintendent
OF the Pennsylvania railroad, and Mr..
Moreland. city attorney OF Pittsburg
When Frances HodRson Burnett was
girl she lived in q log house near Kuox.
vile, Tenn. At the age of fourteen she
taught a country school. She was always
writing short stories, and when she was
q ah nnk 10 ~
book The editor sent her a check for
thirty-tiAe dollars and requested her TO
continue writing, After this the girl
made money rapidly
novel application of paper pulp HIS
recently been discovered and consists 10
the production of organ pipes from that
material. The origin of the indu 4try is
somewhat curious, Crespi Riatuzzo, the
curate OF a little Italian village, was de-
sirouss OF supplying his chapel with an or.
gan, bot as the commune was too poor to
find the necessary fund, he and an en9i-
neerof the name of Colombon hit upon
the idea OF making the pipes of paper
pulp, which gave such satisfactory results
that the patent has been sold in Germany
for 92500
The new secretary OF the interior, John
WI ock Noble was DO in Lancaster. O. in
1881. At Miami University he was a fef-
low student with President Harrison. He
graduated at Yale the class of 1851, aud
settled in st. Louis as lawyer. in 1855
In 1856 he removed to keokuk, la. He
served in the war and was mustered out in
1865 as brigadier-0eneral. Then he re-
turned to st. Louis and RECOMMENDED
practice. He was made United States dis
trict attorney bv President johnson. but
resigned the Office In 1870. He has prac.
ticed law successfully since.
! AUST GO SLOW"