New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-14

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American apprehends that the average foreigner
may not put greater faith in the new railroad
arrangement than he does himself.
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The effects OF the blizzard last March have
not all been reclxoned up. Facts keep coming TO
light from time to time showing that ill-health
and death can in many cases be traced to the
exposure suffered on the day Of that unprecedented
snowstorm. Two victims Of diseases contracted
while attending to the calls of business or duty
on .Iarch IL have died in Brooklyn within The
last few days and many other similar cases have
been reported Nor is it to be supposed that
all the i'll results Of the unlooked-for visitation
have yet been made known. Many Of those who
faced the storm and tramped through the snow
doubtless had narrower escapes from serious harm
than they even now imagine and permanently
i'm aired health may be the legacy entailed on
others. The lesson Of this experience Is not far
to seek Heroism in high degree may be ex-
hibited by men and women who venture forth
from comfortable fresides under such adverse
circumstances as prevailed on what will long be
known as Blizzard Monday" puu the risk taken
Is clearly not to be run again on any but the mosb
urgent provocation. This is the lesson Of prudence
and proper regard for health and happiness. 1t
is TO be hoped that there will not soon be
repetition Of that unweloome day; but should ID
recur 10 ought not to leave behind it SO long a
train OF suffering and death.
Minister Phelps distributed tho prizes to the stu.
dents OF the Westminster school the other day, and
the London representative OF The New-York Tribune
SAYS OF the speech on that occasion: Like all his
speeches, this was notable for It's American quality
The Tribune would not have ackno wledged this before
the election.-(Mobile (Alal Register
Get down your calendar for 1883, and wen
explain. Yon see, this distribution Of prizes
took place last December, while the election took
place last November. Now, by referring to
your calendar, you will observe that November,
1888 came before and not after December, 1888
in fact, tho history Of calendars shows that No
vember is accustomed TO take the precedence Of
December. Need we say morep We put 1t
TO the Editor Of The Register" as q man,
brother and developer Of the New South that
we could not very we'll in November aclnowl
edge anything about speech which was not pre-
pared until December Are we excused2
We all know that there's nothing like leather"
but few Of US suspected that leather had its
romantic side Still Mr.. Cummings, Of Philadel-
phia, who is an authority on leather, contends
that there is both poetry and sentiment In
leather The man whose feelings have bern
hurt by the unsympathetic application 70 his per-
son of leather in tho shape of boot should
make q note Of this He may have been doing
leather injustice. The leather that smote him
may have been fun of poetry and sentiment the
fault being simply with the kicker.
II Is q notorious fact that this city has never
succeeded in inducing the highest class Of men
To accept the Office of Police Justice, in spite Of
the $4,000 salary that those officials receive.
1t is revelation, however that the present Police
Justices devote themselves TO their labors with
such assiduity that it is necessary to supply them
with ninety-six quart-bottles Of ink at one time.
At least, that is the quantity included in the
requisition which they presented 10 the Board of
City Record last week. Under the benignant
regime of the Costigan rubber-stamp they would
probably have got it without protest or demurrer.
That was a way the innocuous rubber-stamp had.
But Mayor Grants suspicious were properly aroused
by the Police Justices extraordinary appetite
which nothing less than twenty-four gallons Of
ink would safe, and on his advice the quantity
was reduced one-half. II Mr.. Grant keeps on
showing the same scrupul1us regard for The public
interest In things both small and great he is
liable to find himself a very popular Mayor.
"The St. Louis Republic" is of the opinion that
President Cleveland Is thoroughly in earnest in
his determination that the protective idea shall
be whipped out OF the tariff Well, what II he
is2 After March Mr.. Cleveland's opinion on
that subject or any other will be as weighty as
that Of any one Of several millions Of citizens Of
the United States land no more so.
decision recently rendered by Judge Vann
is interpreted by some dyed-in-the-wool
Democratic papers going TO estab-
lish tho unconstitutionality of the Saxton Ballot
Reform bill All. how easy IL is for your Hill
organ to persuade itself that measure is uncon-
stituuonal which is calculated TO interfere with
the selfish and INSCRIPTIONS schemes of Demo
cratic bosses This is a good place to note that
sherifs report that gentlemen who feel the halter
draw are accustomed earnestly TO argue against
the constitutionality of using rope in that I'M