New-York tribune., 1889-12-20
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What is the good OF having $4,000 election
when there Is only one canddatel To be sure here
in New-Yorl Tammany would be certain to nominate
another If only to have the money spent, but ,tis
not 50 everywhere. especially not In the country
where the taxpayers look hard at their ts1 All"
Outvote those who haven't any 10 ioo~ "''
When we have the cable or the electric motor for
instance in use on the>street car lines, that unnl
gated nuisance the big car stable, VIII disappear
from under our eyes and noses, ana Win 10 V'o
nmbus of poor neighborhood that always ga,hefs
about its cXhaatlons. But when' Truly the DAYS
of MANY nuisances are numbered, yet some III Dig
plumbers.
After the bad fire on the National Line pier some
body said they had to go four blocks to find IRE
alarm only two blocks somebody else said present
w. But when you have a OF such valuable tihoer
boxes all along the river front, why not put d nro
alarm box on every pier!
The everrecnrrent talk about the emigration OF inc
colored people is something like tie perennial scheme
for sending the ews back TO Jerusalem. Nobody ever
stops to ask whether they want to go. Not even
George Eliot II they do the Yankee SAID IN III
depreciation cf Niagara, whats to h.naer Dun
they don't. DO you!
spealnc of the Duke of Wellington, recalls
curious lnfrmlty of his British Army in Portugal
stealing bee c-hives. The Duke thundered ana 'nun
dercd in his vigorous orders OF the day. Dut "hen
night came the sport began again and away "ehV
tho heehives of the Portuguese. queer sport GER
iany deserving to rank with the hot stove business
No wonder its popularity never became permanent
Why will people historians and Others persist III
crtoisng the ethics Of Office giving hundred years
apo or more as II all this civil service business were
not an affair of last week. Take Wapole and Franklin
for extremes vet both charged with nepotsm Ill
different degrees. Well, in their days there welc
offices of trust and there were Offices OF pront-reau
the Constitution for instance, and see-and franhl
carried on the postolce like his own business anu
set his sonnaw to count the cash "t 70 his
ness was his Why, the old custom Survives 20 o III,
day in nearly every sheri's Office and in the CLERK
Office of nearly every court a century or 80 egen SS,
Times have changed and we with them sun io'
us be kind TO our grandfathers'
Wbv does not some enterprising Yankee-that Is
some Yankee more enterprlsing than usual-inveht
and worry our lives till we buy patent ice-piouEh
or an improved ce-spudl Anyhow, something thaU
in the hands Of the man. or boy Will take the lco
and the tIOdden snow Off our stoops ana paVemehtS
better than the old coal shovel Slow clatterihg'
Ineffective given to making amateur paleontoiogy on
our best brownsone steps and nevermofe @ amour dd
ing 10 ANYTHING as a shovel the day OF this poor, oo
makeshift should soon be over.
Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but on inc
cars of the Thirdave. elevated road ts next 10 noun
ing. On Sunday the snow was not even cleared OH
the platforms But when once inside, this was mer-
cIfully hidden by the dirty windows And what the
floor would look like under the seats perhaps 'ho
builder knows
seldom indeed does "The Century" make SIP
in its proofreadlng but the fatal name of the Duke
OF wellington overcame 1t at last. Accordingly, one
OF those charming letters I'm the December NUMBER
that light up so pleasantly the private life and chaP
acter of the great soldier is written at tho Home
Guards If that does not bring fiery dispatch from
Horse Guards IIades," wherein F. VI. the late Duke
OF wellington presents his compliments to someoody'
then surely the wires not working on that lne
+ NJ. has had hard luck lately: tits not so
long since Harper ended his career with can
for spesking as happened few days ago. OF an
"embargo SENATOR or of young lady as attred IN
snide collars and handouts" Even the maps nave
got tho influenza. for there is the latest keth Joml,
sion giving publicity TO the existence on Long Island
of n town called Patchoguc.