New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-20

mittee has collected about $50, 900, chiefly from
its own members. A bill has been intronuceu
in the Legislature apprOpriating s200o0o-siso,-
900 for the use of the National Guard s2O'OOV lor
the Grand Army, and the rest for the senerai
| purposes Of the committee. There seems now
ever, TO be unnecessary delay in passing inns Diil
and in consequence the Empire State is put at
A disadvantage in comparison with some other
States which have already secured accommoda-
tons and otherwise arranged the essential pre-
liminaries II is important that the bill should
he prshed through and sent to the Governor at
once, in order that there may be at least that
degree Of certainty as to the resources available
for the celebration.
The White Cap joke is played OUT 1t deserves
the treatment appropriate to salt that has lost its
| SAVIOR
DIR. Tanner announces that he proposes to have
himself buried alive and when he is disnterred
after four weeks, TO resume consciousness. This
is rather CHASTITY experiment. One serious OBJ
lection to it is that the people whom the world
would miss least viii be the last to initiate it.
His idea seems TO be to attract attention to the
dangers Of being buried alive, which be thinks are
great. In this he is doubtless mistaken. The
common notions upon this subject are greatly ex-
aggerated In the town of Mannheim, in Ger
many, IL nus Deen inc CUSTOM 10 proVlub dBdinSt
it by keeping all dead bodies o certain time in a
house with bell so arranged that the slightest
motion Of the supposed dead body would give
loud signal During forty-ive years that this sys-
tenn was continued, the bell was rung only once,
and then the ringing was not due to resuscitatien
The doctors who waited during ell those forty-fve
years for the be- TO ring must have grown almost
as tired as Dr. Tanner will IL he gets into his grave
and expects TO get out Of it again.
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Nothing in Commissioner Edgerton's career so
became him as his taking oG-of Mr. Cleveland.
The secretary OF the National Tariff
Reform League, mt whose convention In
Chicago letter from the President
was read last night, finding the sense
Of the epstle somewhat obscured by the apparent
omission Of certain important words, evolved
phrase out Of his inner consciousness and stuck
IL in between brackets. This strikes US, on the
whole, as one of the most gratuitous exhibitions
OF pernicious activity that we have seen in
long time. considerable acquaintance with
Mr.. Cleveland's peculiar style Of composition
leads us TO think that he wrote Just what he in
tended TO write, no more and no less, and that
he viii not thank the gentleman who, having
stumbled over an awkward construction, pro-
ceeded 70 edit the copy 70 suit his own notions
before sending IL 10 the press. Moreover, IL tho
secretary was so badly stalled, why did he not
procure either a revision or a confirmation from
the President himself2 The letter is dated jan |
uary "a, and though the mails are slow and ir-
regular nowadays, four weeks might have suf- |
feed for reply, II not, Geographic communi- |
cation between Washington and Chicago is toll |
erably safe and rapid. Queer lot, these tariff |
reformers!
In referring to Prince Bismarck's pacific nteu- |
tons the German press doubtless means his South
Pacific intentions
Buffalo has an immense moral hero. BE IS |
connected with The Buffalo Courier The |
other day he heard that Thomas c. Platt was in |
Washington. As good. working, jealous Demo- |
cratic correspondent, what did he do? Proceed |
20 evolve from his inner consciousness that Mr.. |
Phtt had come TO the capital with political |
razors in one OF his boots. and political olive |
branches in the other; with plans and speeula-
lions for Cabinet in one Of his inside pockets.
and with fourteen big trunks packed full OF |
political combinations against his party, 20 be /
used II the specifications aforesaid were not
accepted No. not he: not this Buffalo hero
The temptation doubtless was great, but resist
ing IL with q superhuman effort he honestly tele-
graphed, and The Courier" as candidly printed
merely on private business connected with the
United States Express Company's contracts
He stands alone; the modern degeneracy among
Democratic correspondents has not touched him.
By all means let this rare man be decorated with
the cross OF the Legion OF the Little Ratchet.
Ten State conviets have been committed 10 the |
Asylum for Insane Criminals at Auburn within a |
week. more striking illustration Of the folly /
Of keeping prisoners idle could scarcely be fur
nished.
Brilliant, brainy, fascinating, charming, and |
dreamy" That's what The Graphic calls |
Chauncey Depew. Move 10 strike out dreamy |
Mr.. Depew does o multitude OF things but he
doesn't dream. The simple truth is he hasn't /
time. When he falls 10 sleep, he sleeps, for he |
realizes that before he has fairly fallen into |
doze, he may be politely, but firmly. awakened |
by an urbane newspaper man who is bound 10 |
interview him. He may sleep with his right |
hand attached to a bell-rope His sleep may be |
as light as freshmans prize essay on the tariff. |
But he doesn't dream. Such sleep as he gets |
is as undiluted as the Mugwump's hatred Of |
Blaine. Brilliant brainy, fascinating and |
charming but not dreamy"
Mr.. De Lancey Nicolps recent course in refer |
ence TO the market investigation will probably |
be criticised by those who don't like Mr.. Nicoll, |
and doubtless in the minds OF some of his fellow
members of the bar the most reprehensble thing |
about It all viii be his refusal to accept from |
clients money which he saw no chance Of earn |
ing But other considerations apart, this viii |
strike most laymen a novel and refreshing legal
principle.
In comparison with the sum total OF profits" |
which our dear Capitol has yielded 100000 isn't
much but still IL is a very pretty little plum to
pull out OF q s2700OO appropriation.
II the astonishing report that Luther R. Marsh |
contemplates matrimony with the DeBar woman |
prove to be correct public sympathy with the |