The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-31
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
PITHY PARAGRAPHS
FROM LIVE NEWSPAPERS

Republican Views Of Mahone-Africa
five Hundred Years From Now-Other
Items of Interest.
FASHION rs FUSERALs.-Says fash
ionable undertaken in Philadelphia:
AS rule. at least one funeral results
from every large funeral. lie was
speaking Of the growing tendency to-
ward more simple and cOmmOn-sense
methods Of buryiDg the dead. IL really
begins TO look a. If advice. persuasion,
and ridicule on this point had finally
had its effect. and that the swell
funeral was coming 10 be a thing OF
the past. Ia what goes by the name OF
society. there are but few recog-
nized leaders. and until these authOri-
ties speak or act. the great, uncertain
limOrOus mass will throw away ITS
money in needless expenses. make
itself uncomfortable, and stamp out It's
own best Judgment. When fashion or
ders a cos is casket and banks the house
and the church with flowers. the peo-
Die who dared not choose for them
selves must provide as best they may.
When fashion DEGREES v0luminous
mourning. delicate women shorten their
/ lives under the folds Of POISONOUS crepe.
Washington Post.
a DIsGRACFTUL bID.-Ne have no
fear that the Republican managers IN
/ Congress will ever seriously try 90 I'M
pose a duty on imported hides. They
would not dare 10 do SO. and the iact
that they have issued campaign docu-
ment for use in the new States. inviting
votes for the PARTY. on the ground that
such a duty would be advantage
Gus u the ranchmen. is not tho
slightest evidence that they have
/ any intention of carrying out their i'm
/ piled pledge. They have made pledges
/ before that were not implied, but eX-
pressed. and have not hesitaled TO vio-
/ late them. There is no reason TO sup
/ pose that they will ever Jay any atten-
/ ZION TO this one. Yet the making of the
proposition is very significant. 40 shows
/ the utter recklessncss of the party lead
els in their greedy J. Times.
REPUBLICAN VIEWS or MAHONE.-An
able political writer in the New York
/ Times says that Mr.. Harrison must
know tic character Of the man with
whom me is dealing, for abundant in-
/ formation has been given TO him. IL Is
/ fair To- assume, therefore, that be has
entered INTO the alliance with his eyes
open. and has committed the RepuDil-
can party 90 the support of one of the
most INSCRIPTIONS politicians On the
country.
AFRICA FIVE HUNDRFD YEARS FROM
/ NOw.-Ihe continent OF Africa Will
present the next grand field FOR human
enterprise. An article on this subject
by our Washington correspondent
gives some very startling facts and fig
ures. which must needs set Us to tnink
ing.
Africa Will tempt the ayaTice Of every
race on the glebe within The next cen
turv. Within the next five centuries DO
may become one of lhe great factors of
civilization. crowded with natl0nahties
which may possibly hold the balance of
political power and dictate Che policy
of the rest II Christerdom.
II is the only large area on the gio0.
that remains unconquefed. ON DE-
..,,,,i.1 ,.s.el. or IN. r,b, ~ ciyiliza.
I'm, Vorocc, Aloeria Tripoli.-NDr
York. Hr0id
The Grand Army declares its com
pcte confidence ina Commissioner Ian-
npr. and then calls for "a full InyeslI-
ra,iou of his administration of the
Affairs Of the Pension Bureau Well
line World is making one on its own ace
count. Aud there is no wh'ewash ln
its bureau. What DO honest veterans
think of the deyei0pm ms u lnr re-
rating scandal thus iaf5-NeT or"
World.
LoNDON's TRADE When tne eco
nai were Iuily ieFe".eo' ID "17 pau
th"t ih' t'ur Oh 'o,r''l'',' }" $40 '"' '' "
against LONDON me $40" 'uO' '''. ','
the volume Oh I'ou9 i''I''''' " a. .''' 49,. i''
more imam counter ",l- ''' ~ ~.
SHRIMP ing oil N3iues ana oi Il'ii',' i ''
liansshl pm'hl ii"'c ""'
wed by The opening oil the uiteci route
ri1 Suez To- the European Oo"ii"eni
goods formerly housed ln LONDON were
unloaded straight from the ocean Fes
sci TO the conunenfal boat 'c"'"'Jf
THE F0R0vING SrArfsNAN.- Jhcrc is
nothing cOmmoup lace ~ the past ami
present relations between Benjamin
Harrison. Of indianapolis and Washing
ton. and William Malone. OF Virginia.
rs revealed through the Ner York.
Times The Harrisonian heart which
election Of less, has recovered Dul 10
lav.shits affection ON iis former mutila-
tor, now The Republican candidate lor
/ Governor OF Virginia with lhe unui-
,idel flood of Administration iaNOf al
his back " J. sun.
Car,rNe THE SUGAR Planters
There has seldom been more
andacious exhibifion than tie attempt
+ If the Ropublicans TO carry the Third
Louisiana Congress district by an APP
peal To the selfinterest OF tho sugar
planters.
A. ,...tl.ra t..tt- stand with .ur.rIu.