New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-06


have permanently lost .heir balance.
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Max ORell has discovered that tire Americans
are not avariciOus ald sets OIL the LAVISH seher-
osity with which they spend their money against
the undue respect they seem 10 snow IT, But 10
support the latter theory, he tells story apout
an American millionaire, whom he says every
body in Paris remembers" and who proposed 10
buy the Arc de Triomphe in order to have 1t prop
erly illuminated for his daughters wedding IL
was Of shs wife of an American millionaire that
the story was told, and though everybody in Paris
may have remembered it, probably nobody be"
leved it, Max ORell was almost as unfortunate
as Mr. Verestchagin. who says on American toio
him his pictures were furnished by his uphosterer'
and that while he did not know much about the
pictures, the frames were good. This story came
over in the Mayfower.
David Bennett Hills look shead-Three more
years at Albany; six years in the White House;
a seat in the United States Senate for life, with
an appropriate salary"
Lucien Saniel in the January North Ameri-
cam comes forward with the proposition TO divide
New-York into two States. 1t is no use, Lucien
Not this year. Mankind has good many pressing
wants, but the division OF the Empire State IS
not one Of them. Practically speaking you
might as well talk Of dividing Rhode Island
To be sure, Rhode Island is somewhat smaller
than New-Yorl, but there is just as much division
sentiment in Providence to-day as there is In
this town-and no more.
There was decline in tonnage last year
on the canals. And according to the Superintend-
ent OF Public Works, that eminent Occidental
operator who is known i'll select wheat circles as
"Old Hutch" is partly responsible for it. Inc
Superintendent assigns number of reasons for the
falling of Of the tonnage, among which Is the
Hutchinson wheat corner 1t is q serious lndlct
ment. man who uses his opportunities 80 as
to retard the business OF great canal system
Is to be regarded as a huge nuisance-one OF the
most dangerous of public enemies. The next time
Old Hutch" comes East it might be well Tor nim'
II he has any regard for his health, to steer cear
of the boatmen of this State. They might celebrate
his interference with the tonnage OF the canals by
treating him to ducking in one of them.
The members of the Excise Commission, VINO
set out with the determination to secure, above
all things, unanimous report, are fnding OUT tha1
they can't mix oil and water. Usually 1T doesn't
pay to try
The amount of civil and religious liberty en-
loved in the land Of the Gar may well be reckoned
from the recently reported case of Pastor
RuchtescheL He is pastor of the Evangelical or
Lutheran Church at ST. Petersburg, and Is also
chaplain of the German hospital there In the
latter capacity he made the acquaintance OF
Russian patient who had been admitted TO inc
hospital This patient was much concerned ZOE
tho safety of his soul. and not having found satis
faction in the dogmas of the Greek Church, APP
pealed to the Lutheran pastor for counsel rof
prudential reasons the pastor hesitated but the
patient was so importunate and evidently sincere In
his craving for spiritual consolation that he finally
yielded and expounded to him the plan OF saliva
ton as interpreted by Luther This satisfied
the Russian and he begged the pastor to administer
the Hoy Sacrament and receive him into the
EVANGELICAL Church. The pastor complied, feeling
it religious duty which he could not avoid; but
he complied with fear and trembling, and with
reason He was quickly arrested and thrown into
prison, and now finds hfe-servtude in Siberia
| threatening him for his offence. And 1t is the
last quarter Of the ninetet lth century, too; not
| the age of Nero
There is a freezing smile on the face OF the
managers of winter carnivals these mild days
And the man who likes little cracked ice in his
| during the dog days is filed with gloomy fore
hodings. And dealers in furs have their own
ouinion about the weather. And coal dealers
! heave tfull-weight sigh. But the majority, we
fancy, take kindly to an open winter.
II the Northwestern Territories are kept ont OF
the Union much longer we shall be flooded with
names for them that grow more terrifying with
! Zach instalment Mr. Springer wants to have
| Washington Territory called Laconica, New Mex
| ico Montezuma, and South Dakota Winona.
Samuel Wilkeson writes 10 1.-The Sun" to protest
| AGAINST Pembina as a name for North Dakota, Its
meaning being simply high bank cranberry"
| Bnt Il NAV be remarked in passing, that the name
! Manhattan. for example, is direct allusion to
| alcoholic beverages. The North Dakotans EVIL
IDENTIFY want the name all to themselves without
anv prefix. and want South Dakota TO take a new
name. such as Algonquin, which Mr.. Wilkeson
| suggestx That Is indeed a noble name. NOT
so much can be said of Takoda, which somebody
seems to have derived by jumbling up the let
ters composing Dakota nor OF 1itonka, Sanona OF
Titonwan. What's the matter with Sciatca, Luni-
bago and Meningits'
Thu man who stabbed his friend TO death
fifteen minutes after the New Year came in is
likely to be a candidate for the distinction OF
first testing the efficiency Of electricity as an
| executaoner 1t wouldn't be the strangest thing
in the world if that thought had place IN his
mind when he determined to become murderer
The Bridge officials are congratulating them,
selves that in case of collision on their RAILROAD
no one would be killed. because the speed OF the
trains is not sufficient to cause fatal smash-up
However that may be. is it not time for them u
give serious attention to the question OF increas
ing the speed? Ten miles an hour is unconscion
ably slow Is there any reason why speed o
fifteen or eighteen miles cannot DO att"inedF i
seems to be only a matter Of running the CABLE
81 higher rate and the present machinery ough
easily TO he able to do this. The structure itsel
would surely endure the strain, since when tram
arc run with engines at night the speed is Otter
much more than ten miles an hour.
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