New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-09

The thought is a solemn and tatl@ulhG or
But then the figures may not be Trustworthy
and it is understood that any one dispntinS pei'
is at liberty 10 make the calculation for himself
The Lighthouse Board is seeking TO darkn the
brilliant lights of the Brooklyn Bridge by secur-
ing from Congress jurisdiction and contrI OF all
LIGHTS on bridges over nayigablc streams ms
is not n new thing, but nothing has set peeh
brought forward to show that there is any neces-
stv for the action proposed IL is "largcd' OF
course. that the glare Of the electric lamps
blinds pilots on the river and is thus constant
source Of danger. But is it rot strange that not
single accident attributed 10 this ,ausc has oc-
CURED since the great Bridge was put in opera
ton Nearly seven years experience ought to
have furnished a pretty compiler test oil the
quality Of these LIGHTS from the Sanger point Of
view Only the most imperative necessity should
cause the cxtinguishing or shielding of the lamps
which crown the Bridge liIc a diadem OF
brilliants No attempt to demonstrate such
necessity has yet been made. No such necessity
exists.
Possibly the Emperor william would like 70
have John Most as one Of hs Ministers for the
execution Of his new Socielisic policy. We Will
chcerfully relnqush Most upon the haisers APP
phcation.
The crcmatorv has taken the place OF The
pot,er's field al Paris and since the hrst OF inc
present year all the CORPSE Of persons VINO nave
dicd in The hospitols. and lave not been claimed
for luriul hy relatives or ren'S are sent - ne
GROIN. tc m the establishment for the purpose, in
tlc Pcre In Chaisc cemetery. Until month ago
tle regulation number o crcmations at Pere
/ ,..,ll itraa nor OF
since thc new cdict of til. Project of the Seine
has come into force, as many AS thirty-hVe
c.r,s.s have been sent in ty the various hospitals
! +, o single dav This is more than the present
crcriatorv can dispose o. in the twenty-four
hours. and i'm view Of tlr gruesome ana rapiu
accumulation If subjects measures have oeeh
ADOPTED hy the authorities for the immediate en-
larecmcnt Of the establishment or course 'he
| ,houfht Of cremation adds somewhat I" the
dread with which the .gnorant poor are ac-
| cu.toned 10 re-.lrd the Hospital But on Inc
other hand. il must De admitted that Incarceration
il tho most scientific method OF dlsposnS IL the
dead
Whom a Sneaker Of the House becomes n
| "Cz,r." n corrupt dictator and an odIous
tvr,ut. simply because he insists that The Con
,ressionol Rccordr shall tell the truth, II looks
~ though Cars and dictators and tyrants were
what tie country needs
\ new pitfal ms been placed IN the pain ol
unwary newspaper editors From the RECORDS
of "a trial which hns just taken place IN the court
of Queens Bench, London, it would appear that
there are persons dcpravcC enough to pen lbellous
statements about Themselves and then 10 get an
unsuspccting editor 70 publish them in his paper.
This raises a nice point IN law. FOR IL does hou
follow that because a man makes statement
about himself he cannot suffer any injury 10y It's
nublication Dogberry babe the clerk of the courO
f. write him down an ass. but this does not free
Mr. William Shakespeare from legal reproach ana
liability for giving currency 10 the statement. In
the ease of the London trial referred 10 above
the iury were discharged because they were
unable ia agree as to whGther the editor of the
n,,yspaper or the writer of the paragraph was
the person 10 he visited with punishment. The
latter would verge on the ridiculous For there
is something exQuisitcy Gfbertian about the no.
tion of man being condemned TO pay damages
TO himself for having DETAINED his own character,
or of being sentenced to eXpiate by term of i'm.
ality.
H. is proposed that vioators of corporation
ordinances shall hereafter bc tried in the police
courts. and not in the Court of Special Sessions,
as al present II the change will bring offenders
70 book earlier and more certainly than the cN-
isting system, it would seem that it ought TO Dc
made I'm the interest of clean streets il is es-
pecially important just now that certain corpora
ton ordinances be most strictly enforced.