The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-12
FORGET-ME-NOTS.

Every friend Of Frank Lawler will be glad
to know that he has been nominated for sheriff
of Cook County, the county in which Chicago is
located 1t is generally admitted that Lawler
Will be elected. The office is said to be worth
an enormous sum, something like thirty thou
sand dollars year. How much of that Frank
will be permitted to keep to himself is not
stated He expects, however, to do better than
he has done in Congress, where, after paying
the numerous tributes which were inevitable to
man In his position, he says he had hardly
enough left to feed himself and the children.
After all, It is the enrolling clerk who con-
trolls legislation. The Senate and the House
and the conference committee may wrange and
fight and vote rs they please, but whatever the
enrolling clerk leaves out of the bill is not in
it, Congress proposes, but the enrolling clerk
disposes, as several little omissions from the
Tariff act can testify.
The Comte de Paris has arrived in New York,
and after awhile he will come down to Wash
ington. Comment vous portez-vous, Monsieur
LIE Comte A notre tante
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Mr.. William P Smyth, of Missouri, who is
well known to most of the boys in Washington,
is beyond question, think, the handsomest
member Of the American consular service. He is
also one of the most voluminous contributors to
the State Department periodical known as the
"Consular Reports" Hardly an issue of that
periodical appears without contribution from
our commercial agent at Huddlesfeld, England,
and his contributions are both practical and in
teresting, which cannot truthfully be said about
the bulk of the "Consular Reports" In one of
his latest communications he tells how luck
less British vice consul at Los Angeles, Cal,
has got himself into hot water by reporting to
his government that the horses of Southern Cali
fornia are excellently fitted for service in the
English cavalry Los Angeles is dangerous
place for English diplomats. From that neigh
borhood came the Murchison letter which
caused the ruin of Lord Sackville. Murchison
has been at it again.
Mr.. Teichman, the bright young man who
'came out of the Vest early in the Congress
sional session to send Washington dispatches
to the st. Louis Vestliche Post and other Ger
man-American newspapers, tells me that if he
were permitted to telegraph in English he could
send the same news in fewer words generally by
one-fifth, and sometimes by as much as one
third. My gracious! If the German uses more
words than the English what load the poor
German tongue has to carry! Just think of the
size and weight of the German words
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great deal of round denunciation recently.
Some of it has been richly deserved, but critics
should discriminate. The policemen are not all
bad by any means. Some of the men on the
Metropolitan Police Force are as good officers,
in point Of intelligence, vigilance, and every
other necessary quality, as can be found on any
police force in the world 1t is to be regretted
however, that they are in bad company.
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Passing from the regular police to the old
fashioned private watchmen, who still lag SUI
perfluous in this city, have recently heard
business men complain that they don't get the
worth of their money out of the private watch
men. They are antiquated obsolete, and super
fuous They are not expected to be useful, and
| they not useful, but the business men who
| are mulcted for their support would not care If
| they were only ornamental Make them his
toricaly and archeologically correct, and the
business men will be glad to pay for their sup
| port as picturesque reminders of a bygone day;
| give each cooked hat and waistcoat and knee
breeches, with large buckles on his shoes Give
him also stout staff, a snuff-box, and a
rattle or corncrake with which to tickle
| the ears of the drowsy villages, and have them
pass regularly up and down calling out the
hours Of the day and night, with an intimation
| of the latest event of Importance, something
after this fashion: "Oyez! Oyez Oyez
Half past one, and all s well. policeman muir.
dered in Oyster Alley" DAVID LEwsLEY.