New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-27

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| Every now and then an incident comes 10 light
| showing 10 how small an extent the world has
emerged from the condition of primitive bar
barism The United States of Colombia is COM
monty regarded as a civilized country. But o
| paper published in the State OF Santander recently
| announced that In the case of two men who bad
been murdered in that region. the question arose
| as to the amount Of the loss sustained by their
relatives The matter was referred to arbitra-
ton, and the arbtrators decided 10 place a money
value Of SEQ upon the lives Of the murdered men.
IL is not stated whether the murderers paid the
amount promptly and went scot free. but that Is
presumably the case. The people OF this more
favored Nation have. in truth, some things to be
| thankful for
hole with self-operating pulhng-in attach
ment would be found serviccable in the Office
of The London Times just at present.
! Western Australia is going in heavily for rail-
road construction The Government OF that po
tential empire has made a contract for the build
| ing OF line from Euca 90 Perth, something more
than 500 miles. The line traverses the whole
length Of Nuyts Land. on the Australian Blight,
which is still an unexplored region, and IL is
reekoned that ten years will be required for its
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promoters Of this stupendous enterprise in land
| 5000 acres per mile. At that rate the con-
tractors, when their job is done, will have an
estate Of more than 5000, 900 acres considerably
more than half as big as the State of New-YOrll.
Even at this price, West Australians are congratu-
| latng themselves on their good bargain, for the
road will put them IN direct rail communication
with Adelaide, Melbourne. Sydney oDd Brisbane,
and wil OF course enormously stim late inter
colonial commerce and home industries. But what
o chance there win be for land-grant debates and
Investigations in the Colonial Parliament
Chill has fallen In line with the United States
and has forbidden The admission of Chinese inn
migrants Evidently the Chinese must seek a
field for the display OF their activities at home
Nobody else will have them. at least just now.
While what Is called the Queens speech was
being read to Parliament Thursday, William
| O'Brien was being taken 10 the Galway Jail, an
excited crowd having witnessed his departure from
| Tralee. and several thousand persons assembling
around the fail and arousing the fears OF the
police On the previous night there was riot
at Kilkenny, where another Member OF Parla-
ment was tried for offence created by the
Crimes Act. Yet the Queens speech declared that
the statutes recently passed for the restoration
of order and confidence in Ireland have already
| been attended with salutary results sanitary
| is not precisely tie word which Truthful
historian would employ in pOrtraying the results
OF coercion in Ireland, and in this case u was
particularly ill.chosen.
Mayor Horn, Of Boston, is fulfilling the promises
.made in his behalf before his election IN the
Water Board, for example, he has already made
such changes as viii effect on annual SAVING OF
$4,000. He has carried into the Mayors office
| the principles which made him successful bust
ness man II Boston is wise, IL will keep out OF
| the clutches Of the Democratic ring hereafter
The popular impression that smallpox is dis
| ease that has been stamped out in American cities
is dlspeled by the statistics c)llated IN brooklyn
| by DR. Homer L. Bartlett. lie proves that during
twenty-five years 6,4O5 ratients have been treated
in the Smallpox Hospital, Ct whom LIST have
died These figures yield IN average Of 25S
year or a larger number than can be obtainer
| ny adding oil eases Of consum ption, rheumatism
and malarial fever in the general hospital Ia
| one year, 1874 there were 500 cases Il snallpA
treated in the shabby and wretched hospital II
the county These figures prove that larger ~
| commodntions are urgently needed for BROOKLYN
patients suffering from this dread disease. lpe
erection Of q large hospital in tho outlying town
OF Flatbush is proposed. That town already ms
O population Of 5000, and is destined 10 be m
nexed 90 Brooklyn before many years. Why a
pest-house Of this nature should be deliberately
located in the centre Of one OF the future wards
of the city IL is not easy 10 understand. The
smallpox hospital should be built in q none isolfed
quarter, SO that there will be less dangei Of
| Infection
Virgil gave utterance 20 the wrath which 1und
n harbor in minds celestial. Behold how hose
mortals hate one another. Over in Brooklyn o
woman hung out an American flag on Sunday in
order 10 express her satisfaction over the qicide
Of another woman. her bitter foe Probably the
Stripes and Stars were never used for o baser
purpose "
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