New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-25
CHANCES HERE AND THERE.

,u,. -rhrre,s most esteemed contemporaries,
USUALLY an authority figures, says II Is estimated
that about one-ha of the population OF washington is
coIoredp Estimated by whoml in looo washington
oor,ainod os so5 white and 4s377 colore1 persons
half In 1870 the proportion was ABOUT ABOUT uis SAINT.
statistics like veal pies, Is VERY gSou 'i'e' ''N w"
know the old CONAN As maue en-
speakipr Of the worship Of that modern iaise
prophet the Bell Punch. one Of our oo raioaa men
call him Judge Andrews-tod TINS s'oiS inc o'ner
day. The late Thomas A. Scott was one uay oiOss-
ing the Jersey ferry. when he met al Vno Darrler,
or rather barriers his friend and colleague General
Jenkins say Penny had recently got con'rol OF the
New Jersey roads and had sl more recently adopted
a new and rather complete system VI Seli ac,4ns
checks the tollgatherers AZ oIo ,sirer Pub th
had to percolae through several sualners, 50 ane
subordinates were delighted. " Wen Jenklns,D saa
Colonel scott, you are an olo manu- os ma Won s0t s,o u
600 first six months" snorted the Genera Ouessed
wrong" says the Judge, " cost EN- twenty
In the winter OF lse1-'e2, Captain since General,
Martin T. Mcmahon, now United States Marshal for
the southern district of New-York, served In the
Generals Department at headquarters OF the
Army Of the Potomac. Part Of his duty was to make
IN and send out the countersign. This was usually, in
accordance with tradition, the name of some battle.
The big battles with easy names soon ran out. and
Just as in naming feet Of steamers the owner IN
yariably begins by giving the smallest ships all the
biggest and best names, leaving only the Iliputahs
for his eviahans the whole moss. II not the whole
staff was soon rackng its brains for names of we'll
known engagements that could be pronounced and
could not easily be mistaken Sometimes this resulted
| Thermopylae and SerinSapatam Contreras and
Churubusco Pharsalia and Tconderoga passed muster
with all ease such simple little names Magnesa and
COwpens seemed strike the soldier blind ana ialry
parayZe his larynX. One poor sentinel. who NJ mil
Blencker" actually threw down his mlskct and burst
into tears Cowpens. Ma ma. ncfcr soil mea w
/ ~ dn seruN Car n.
despair GoT A'HeJ a ia" Pen 2" SJa' acant you say
non aS G ST s O Soi SS at Of It.
Printed, you know; most beautiful black faced antique
Inc uef BY a9a TWr S bcs GU cs eyr f on e
white paper AS they say out West, some PORK VIII
boil 500
Have you ever stopped TO think Of the enormous
saving to producer and alike, In other words
to the world directly due 10 steam transport and the
, telegraph Take transport alone. Take single
! illustration. In the old sailing ship days teas had
/ to be ordered from China about year before they
we're wanted. The losses at sea were heavy and had
to be provided against by ordering much more than
was needed. Now there would be long delays at sea
which had 10 be provided against by carrying increased
stocks in the warehouses and again whole fleets ar
rived together 10 the confusion and cost Of all con
/ cerncd. The stocks carried al both ends. thus In
creased beyond anything known to the merchant OF
! today were in turn subjected 10 all sorts Of loss
damage and deterioration. Thus tea became stale
hops musty, rats ate the corn and wheat ana
I Altogether the actual destruction Of products and
values in this way must have amounted 10 an enorlnou'
Now that is all saved. Neither does one people starC
TO death while another groans under an unsalaDlt
surplus.
Somebody who suffers from information Of the brain
wants us 10 believe than enfant peru' IS an out
Is the French for foriorn hope"