New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-17
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.


Among the many leading politicians passing through
New York during the week was william Mckinley, jr,
OF Ohio. who found pleasant and quiet quarters at
tho Hamilton. Forty -second-st, and Fiftbave Major
Mckinley takes hopeful view of the political stua-
ton, looks forward TRANQUILITY to the coming contest
Tor the Speakership and Is not I'm the least disturbed
oy all this talk of gerrymandering Ohio with which
Democrats and their allies OF tho Disconnected party
are exciting themselves pleasantly Even II the
tr1cK could be Immediately successful, which he does
not believe 1t would fall OF the desired result In his
case, and by IT'S obvious unfaness the attempt would
eventually recoi upon fits authors. Ohio Is now fairly
divided into districts and the popular majority fairly
represented in the Congressional delegation. Gerry
Wandering Is not only game that two can play at.
PIT mors than that it game that has never paid
as player in any part Of this co93ry Major Me
practical legislation, including reasonable and fair
and wel-consdered plan for the restoration OF the
ancient prosperity Of American commerce on the seas
1t was about twenty years ago on the battle
field Of Antietam that Private William Mckinley of
the Odd Ohio Volunteers leading candidate for
the speakership of the House of Representatives.
earned and received his first promotion in the service
OF tho Republic, being made second-lieutenant for
ganantry and goodcOnduct. Colonel Rutherford j.
Hayes commanded the regiment, and General Jacob
ID. Cox. afterward Governor Of Ohio the Ninth Army
corps, TO which the regiment belonged They had
had sharp fight at South Mountain a few days
earlier, when the brunt OF the action fell on CoXs
DIVISION and the lamented Reno, leading the corps,
laid down his Life. At Antietam they supported the
oon and vigorous attack by the two 5lsts, Of Penn
Syivanla and New York under lIartranft and Robert
y. Potter, by which the Burnside bridge was finally
e carried Ohio has always stood true to her good
country
Almost before the ink dry with which the
warning was uttered in these columns against the
mass OF hanging wires" all over the town, OF
these teacherous seIpens has Kissed and sputtered
and struck in broad daylight in crowded Wall-st
Beyond nearly Tightening lady out of her wits
he thing did no harm. But that was an accident,
truly an accident. All the arrangements had been
perfected for killing somcbody-anybody only, by
some Unforeseen accident they failed to work. Why
are these hideous and homicda old wires allowed to
hang7 And how long they to dange, a dangerous
nuisance at the best and daily to every
passerbyl Nay. worse than that, for knows
where or at what distance the lightning may strike
when once one OF thcse DANGERS makes connection
with wit live vine. A fine specimen may be seen
metallic sarcasm. on the walls of our precious
f II Bs hay yet csn strike policeman in the eye
Senator r. F. Pettlbone, of South Dakota. who
passed through town during the week, spending a
day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel IS one of those shrewd
steady, energetic business men whom the West de-
lights to call rustlcrs.' He has the reputation of
an almost unfailing at his back, being
ported to have accumulated al least moderate
fortune IN the law and real estate business at Sioux
rails. Without pretending to the gifts Of oratory
or political leadership in the ordinary sense. he is
altogether likely to make his mark among the men
OF affairs whom he will find among his future
colleagues and who may be said to form the con-
sentative strength OF the Senate Just the foupders
OF the Nation intended they should for all tho
sense you hear talked nowadays about millionaire
and fha Tscf hnap
OF Thomas jefferson invoked by cOcly young free
traders who have never heard enough about him TO
know that he was protectiOnist TO the backbone.
VIII one Of the agreeable looking young
gentlemen who would not be in the streets
without creased trousersfour regular creases to the
pair, front and back OF each leg-kindly mpart the
secret source whence they drew the namc Prince
Albert coatl If called after Albert the Good, the
Prince Consot The Prince in short rrevently called
by some cynlc churl The PrnL1. then a long way
sl,e d0nt you Know Tor ne ne mas been dead these
MeOus crease that Malay crease shall be forgiven
Won fold them and law them i in raweT ike r as
Bron, when you know you hang them Yankee fashion
hook.
Did you ever notice what queer translations pass
muster now and then IN plays adapted" from the
Frenchf For instance, in "The Ironmaster7 played
as 1t has been for years, Miss Vanbrgh tells us in
her pleasing representation Of the Baroness de Prefon
how the old chocolate king, Moulinet has made his
great fortune by hitting upon process for extracting
vanilla from charcoal and chocolate from burnt
almonds. dare say IT'S very nice" she goes on to
say and very wholesome, but at school noticed
that Athenas (the daughter always drank cacaO.'
The last word this charming lady prnounces rhyme
with Jacky-o, whereas the dictionaries rhyme 1t with
cake-o, or preferably cakay-o accent on the kay
but let that pass out Of the plays and books where
the authors have fancy for administering cacaO to
their helpless subjects, the English word cacao means
the chocolate tree its nut and the proper as
well as the common English name of one OF the
beverages made from preparation OF mat nit,
cOcoanut, which, "a you well know Is the frlit OF
palm. When NJ Ohnet made Athenafs drink cacao no
was speaking French.
Another similar blunder, which had long run.
occurred in the version of Sardous little comedy Of
Nos Intimes' familiar all at dear old WallacRS
under the name Of Bosom Friends When all rush
on to find the lady I'm faint, the good doctor (how
beautifully John Brougham did ~ suspects that the
lover is on the balcony behind the curtains and that
all will be discovered by the husband, about TO y 10
the window to admit the fresh air So the good doctor,
Selling at once the idea and his smelling bottle taps
the reluctant stopper and cries jump out, jump
out' WhereupOn you hear crash at the back, III
dicang that the lover has I'm fact jumped out, the
stopper comes out the wife revives besses The good
DOCTOR and for the moment all IS we'll Now Sardou
wrote Saute. sauie,r which may apply equally 10
lover or a stopper. so would Out with you" put
what man ever cried Jump OUT TO Doule-s'oPPer'
Tho little advertisements the eighth and nlnth
pages of The Tribune to-day run along inc "hoe
ganut Of human necessities. They appeal 10 every
condition OF man and woman.