New-York tribune., 1889-12-25


structlng after certain datei .. Why not tx
price per yard per day. TO be paid IN advance by
every man or company. who. for any purpose or on
any pretence, NEEDLES with the pavement g. Why
money 10 pay for the restoration OF the pavement oy
the street Department Never mind the criminal
code; tust take his money.
One Of the worst Of modern legislation OF all
sorts Is the for creating crimes and throw
Ing the whole weight Of enforcing the law on the
already and always overworked criminal courts
There the choke another TO death Besides.
you have to prove everything beyond the power OF the
twelfth IDIOT to doubt And the doubling power OF
his race is enormous. Ills constitution, or at all
events, his by laws compel him 10 doubt whatever u
creduty 10 the things that can't be proved because
they are pot true.
There is cult that has for It's creed the daily and
hourly need of new laws. Yet the common sense OF
legislators tells them the real want the enforcement
OF the old laws. And that among other things. Is
why Congress, for instance. sits down patiently un-
der the SLOW and painful grinding Of the antiduated
machinery Of obstruction. Rights Of the minority
Pshawi the minority has rights, except to fair
treatment and full consideration Our forty-nlne
Legislatures, to say nothing 9f the town councils Dy
made more laws S1f IN tS year % iss than you can ind
ir all the codes from Moses 10 Montesquieu SO little
Is their enforcement cared for, that nine in every
ten may be looked upon as mere expressions Of
opinion.
Sweet are the uses Of adversely. At the second
hint In these columns that a particularly brilliant
system OF gas-lightng was to be seen at the lower
end of Madison-ave., away goes every lamp, like
fight Of partrdges. In their places twiddle the
old fashioned fshtails borrowing an added obscur1ty
from unclean glass Very well, now let us start fair
all may see and compare it with electricity at its
best. too on adjoining blocks Perhaps M you a think INK
will not winl Good then why not Try tne eA-
pertinent and prove II!
freight car famine, eh1 Why, of course. on
all roads the cars stand idle half the day some
whole towns lend their streets for storage and some
roads practically own freight cars, but I've ana
move by borrowing and not returning
When the railway was first introduced into England
its adoption was greatly fastened by the fact that the
existing means Of transport had long been outgrown
Goods by canal; and Liverpool, for example
was full OF merchandise that the canals conld not
carry Passengers hired special conveyances or
travelled by coach, and every nlght l,4oo COACHES
rolled out OF the London yards If You were In haste
you might post the 210 miles from London TO Liver
pool in twenty four hours for $780, The world was
ready for the new order.
In America as in the Old World, the towns were on
the rivers roads were few and mostly bad, ana inc
chief travel by water When the time came
for us 10 cross the hills and plains, there was the
railway so we stopped short in our new career of
road making and left the great traffic to the rail and
the side trafhc TO the dirt" road Now, at last we
are face to face with new era OF road making,
the hands and brains Of American engineers for .
generation at least How lc9s tor example snSua an
sisters the waters not merely connected but
untedl
So another slur at the marines. Yet everyone
who knows anything about them knows that, IN peace
as in war, no branch Of the L. ). service has done
its whole duty faithfully, more zcalousy' OF
more usefuy. None has borne more patiently with
senseless obloquy aud ,oning neglect and OF
both the poor marine has always, in every service
been treated to extra ration The truth Is the
marines have. land and sea- glorious record such
some one write the history Of the corps ana set IL
forth /!
Take away the little straners and free the Dig
Bridge for foot passengers The strainers are mere
nuisances. They don't pay dividends on their COST
sooner or later YOU will have TO do 1t in selfdefence
Then do ii gracefully, ana DO IL hcw'
What the leprosy was introduced into Hawaii by
tbe Chinese I'm 1850, was ~ oh no; Captain Cook
found the dread disease there when he first discovered
the Islands overhaul his narrative and see. The term
Of this veteran has expired Muster him out, please
An esteemed correspondent says: "You are so
down on philology what you about rule the
roast? Is II or is it not properly rule the roost'
Richardson saws sO.n Don't know. Can't say How
did Richardson knowt Besides he only suggests It,
The etymology is conesscdy obscure. IL one may
avail of the inalIenabe Yankee prerogattve Of guess
ing why may not " rost.s Shakespeare writes II,
have come neither from "roast7 nor "roost,' but
from the same root as the French rote' or English
-rotan meaning the papal court OF that name tne
English roster (Origin unknownl meaning military
roll in order OF service, and the French word rotnre
meaning plebeian state or commonalty. All thcse
seem TO be cousins and You know we have dropped
nearly every Norman French "s" before "tn retain
ing IL only in such old law phrases as cestuy," or
cestu que trust" Farewell
At last accounts the remains OF the good printer
who set I'D New Pork had not been found in a
sewer. lie still lives. and long may he; but luckily
for him he neither lives In nor was he speaking OF
the proud city that holds Its own, and It's nose ana
would fan hold the Worlds Fair by the green waters
Of Lake Michigan
Prone is nice word truly. Lurld sounds well.
Like the oyster Of country, goes well be-
fore almost anything But kindly omit flowers Of
rhetoric when they don't match; and as the South
rons. put it. do don't prone" when you mean
fat his back, and lnrid' when you mean brilliant
For further particulars small dictionaries.
For nearly a Of years the English newspapers
have periodically announced the last and the very
last and positively the last OF that magnificent but
generally useless ship called the Great Eastern. She
has been huge sinking fund from the day that the first
plac OF her keel was laid IN 1853 and she proved
commercial failure, having performed only practi
cay servceabe and honorable askthat OF laying the
Atlantic telegraphc cable In 1856 Perhaps IL should
be said however that she has been Of service In deter
ring investors from making similar foolish ventures In
shipbuildng. She had lived thirty OF an obscure
and prOtless existence bcfore the positively LAST
Of her as a floating obstruction reached. From
the time OF the success OF the first attempt 10 launch
her she was a sort OF Jonah Men killed by the
breaking OF the gear Of the hydraulic engines that
slowly pushed her. almost broadside into the COM
paratlvey narrow river Mr. Brunei. her constructing
engineer died few days later from anXielv and diSap
pOlntmcnts. Then came the explosion OF one OF the
steam pipes her first trip AZ the cost OF ten lives.
Her single voyages 70 this port to NewOrleans and TO
Melbourne resulted In loss VI several thousands OF
dollars. Finally the evlathan that cost about a
million sterling 10 build sold only recently for a
little than 300 Os0. and she is being broken up
The sale realized g. $50 for the copper "a $50 for the
gun metals e3ls0 for the brass, E4,1 1s5 for the lead
elo 500 for the outer Iron plates. sl20O for the inner
iron plates rvets and beams and $500 for the anchors