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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-04
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Rad rs arc the arrangements for the care
Of the paupcr insane IN the outlying portions 81
this State. they are infinitely superior to those
which prevail in certain countries OF Europe
not only in Russia. but even in the Dcs' district
Of Belgium, the aged and insane panpcrs are pun
ND by the parish 10 auction and given over 10
the highest bidder. who for the following twelve
months possesses the right 10 get rs much Work
rs he can out of the poor creatures In many
nlaces they are used as cart horses and Oxen ana
in Russia il is n common sight 10 see human
team composed Of poor feeble old men ana women,
,ooc,bcr with a few idiots and lunaics, harncssed
IN ulouchs and heavy wagons. The mercy they
,.ccivc from their brutal driver IS even less than
that accorded to cattle and the whip is laid with
cruel frequency across their shoulders.
Tho banner of Repubicanism will be full-hieh
,dv,nccdp at Nashville to-day. Greetings 10 the
Souihl
Tho Commercial Club df Louisville has been
advertising that city to the world as containing
,hout n quarter of a million inhabitants. Com
mentiuc upon the estimate, " The Couricr-Journal'
q, candid and courageous enough 10 say " tins Is
. GREAT misudgmcnt we think for Louisville
,ylI Enthusiastically fall short Of 100000. IT
is always refreshing so see love for the exact
,ruth get the better of the star-cycd goddess Of
local pride.
Senator IIoar told considerable part of tho
whole truth when he gave as the reason why
debates in Congress are not more fully reported
in the newspapers, that they were so frequently
embarrassing. Space in all newspapers is valua-
HE In the metropolitan dalcs 1t is worth several
hundred dollars per column. During sessions Of
CONGRESS there are many events and proceedings
,.tinp Mace every day in Washington besides
tho CONGRESSIONAL debates which must be reported.
Those fill several columns. To give mp
an additional page TO set speeches, the main facts
!, which have usually been printed and reprinted
many times would he sacrifice of space for
which the papers would have no adequate return.
7, is human nature to magnify the importance
If matters in which ono is intensely interested,
and while of course the press may occasionally
fail 10 perceive the interest of the public in this
or that subject, n goes without saying that III
satisfies the public interest as it judges that
interest 10 exist Senator BARS charges that
the press has been deferred by corrupt motives
from publishing full accounts Of the arguments
in favor of his Educational bill do no credit to
his intelligence In the first place, IT has reported
tbcm many times year after year. and has given
the subject all the attention IT is entitled ~.
In the next place, to charge that 10000 news
naners representing all parties and all communl-
Tics can be bought up like cattle, is TO charge
what is both absurd and outrageous
A few more such speculaticns in Washington
real estate as Mr.. Cleveland made wish Oak View
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-04

few more such speculaticns in Washington
real estate as Nj Cleveland made With Oak View
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-04

The end of the prolonged Dock Department
Investigation is at hand-at least the end so
far as the Mayor is concerned. If he finds the
charges sustained by the evidence, he will
recommend TO the Governor the removal of the
accused Commissioners. Should the Governor
follow his usual custom, he will grant Messrs.
Post and Matthews hearing. Hence it is hard
to say when the final end may be reached.
Meanwhile the necessity for better business
methods and for more responsibility TO the
people as represented in their elected officials
y as great as ever in this important department.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-04

There should be no adverse criticism of the
District Attorneys Office because of the dis
mssal of the indictment against ex-Aderman
Miller. Miller was not a member of the com
bine" made famous under that name by Duffy
Of Dufyville, and although his hands were
soiled by the bribers' money, he did not, retain
it, and testified for the State 1t was useless
to keep an indictment hanging over his head
under the circumstances. All the Doodle cases
are not on par with that of Miller, however,
though the District-AttOrney would like to have
it appear so.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-04

The banner of Repubicanism will be full-hieh
advanced at Nashville to-day. Greetings to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-04

Samson will be repeated tonight 1alvipi does
not appear Wednesday. but on lhnrsaey ne MI
0ntlaw7 (Morte Cvilel. and IN saturday. Oheilo.
Ills engagement extends to March 10. II Is an en-
racement of special importance To the public and the
privilege that IL affords to playsoers should nor De
neglected
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
TIE SOCIAL WORLl..

Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Wanamaker
with their party reached Charleston
yesterday at If o'clock and were met
at the station by the Mayor of the city.
the collector of the port, the postmaster
and a committee of prominent citizens,
who escorted them to the hotel From
many Of the buildings throughout the
city foated the Stars and Stripes
and the State colors. After q visit to
Fort Sumter the party went for drive,
and upon their return to the hotel held
a reception. AT night the Vanderbilt
Benevolent Society, of which the Pres.
ideDt is an honorary member, serenaded
Mrs Harrison AT midnight the party
returned to their private car, and left at
an early hour this morning for Florida,
Mrs. Manchester Laughton and Madam
Hurtado are among the hostesscs who
will preside at dinner parties this even
ing. Mrs. j. Thomson Swami will
give theatre party followed by din
ner.
Mrs. and Miss Bispham entertained
a large company at their residence on
Connecticut avenue Thursday evening,
upon the first of their series of in
formal receptions in March.
Miss Nellie Bayard has returned tc
her home in Wilmington, after spend.
ing several weeks in this city as the
guest of Mrs. Clymer.
The residence of ex Senator and Mrs
Henderson, at the head of Sixteenth
street and the Boundary, was the scene
Of large gathering of their friends las
evening, who drove out, notwithstand
ing the unpropitious weather, aud re
mained for several hours enjoying the
hospitalities of the spacious house.
Mrs. Hoffman Burrows is an artist o
! considerable ability and has recently
sent to some of her friends in this city
some beautiful bits of flower painting
The absence of Mrs John Hay from
Washington during the greater part o
| the season was owing to the illness ii
Cleveland of the lady who for many
years past has been governess to hei
children.
q, Mrs. and the Misses Gouverneur CAV,
the first of their two teas yesterday
afternoon at o'clock.
Miss Van Rensselaer, Berry left OF
Friday for short visit to friends il
Baltimore.
Count and Countess Sponneck hay
invited friends 10 meet the Frencl
Glass at their house this evening.
Mr.. Charles Tupper, son of ST
Charles Tupper, left the city on Thurs
day to meet his wife in New York an
returned with her to this city yestei
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Tupper will leav
| for Ottawa sometime next week
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
TIE LATE French Premier becom-
ing Tirard, resigned
PERSONAL

EX.C Congressman w. H. Scott has
gone to his stock farm at Cape Charles,
Va.
New York says the Boston Her
dld, 'is listening to week day sermons
by Phillips Brooks, while Boston has
to put up with Joe Cooks Monday lee
lures. The contrast is awful y
Nine Tacon. the governess of little
King Alphonso, and of his father be
fore him, has just received the title of
Countess of Peralta for her devotion to
her pupil during his recent Illness She
is 20 years old, and has been in the
royal family of Spain for half a life
time.
Ex-Chief Justice Agnew of Pennsyl
vana is threatened with the loss of the
use of his eyes. Writing to gentle
man in Philadelphia he says: "Nly eyes
are failing, and am advised to read as
little as possible. Two oculists have
warned me against cataract. Judge
Agnew was born in January, 1909.
DR.. Won Dollinger some time before
his death intrusted the translation of his
last work, Academic Studies, - to au
English lady, Miss Ware. Her Eng
ISL NtlslOu lS nuW Com lIlClCu anu III JuC
printers hands, and will be published
in few weeks. These essays include
'"The Jews in Europe" "Dante, !"
Madame de Maintenon, etc.
The death of Count Peter AleXan-
drovich Valouieff at st. Petersburg re.
moves one of the last survivors of the
Liberal statesmen who surrounded the
Emperor Alexander II. AS Minister of
the Interior it was Count Valouieff who
put into practice the Liberal reforms,
the manumission of the serfs, the es-
tablishment of local self-government, of
municipal institutions and other i'm
portant innovations.
Stanley, in recent letter to Brock
haus, the German publisher, says: 'It
is not the entertainments that keep me
from work, it is my visitors and letters;
they are innumerable. AS you know, |
went TO the Albert Lake to rescue Emiu
Pasha, the valiant defender of his prov.
ince. OF my own free will under
| took to go to his assistance, and hope
you do not belong TO those who believe
that dragged away the Pasha against
his will. All | asked from him was d
statement of his intentions, my only de
sire being 10 be of use to him, but you
will read all this in my book. "
'Bismarck's last waltz forms a
very picturesque page says the P,tl
MAJ gazette, in Nine. Carette's new
volume Of memoirs of life in the Tuiler
les. 1t was in 1867. when the King OF
Prussia visited the Paris Exhibition, Z
ball was given in his honor. aud while
the cotillion was being danced Primo,
Bismarck stood aside and looked on
when Nine. Carette stepped upto him
offering a bunch of roses, thereby i'm
plying that in the ladies tour she in
vited him to be her partner Tht
flowers were accepted, and Bismarck
waltzed with his lady through th
crowd, to the astonishment and amuse
ment of all present. When the dane
was over the great man took an artiiicia
rosebud from his buttonhole. handed i
to the lady with the words: Will yor
keep it in memory of the last waltz
shall ever dance, and which shall no
forget?'
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
, pRuSKARp,s DEED.
How the Force Of Habit Made Hin
Break His solemn Vows.

from ne Atlanta Journal.
"The most terrible story ! ever
heard" said Rev. G. Lane. in sermon
preached last Sunday at Trinity Church,
"was told me by man addicted to
drink and It but serves TO illustrate
with what terrible fetters the demon of
drink can bind man.
"The fellow approached me and said;
i am ashamed TO tell the story am
going to, as 1t reflects on my manhood.
but want you to know to what depths
of infamy the force OF habit will drag
one.
'"NTy family had been begging me
10 give up drinking, and finally prom
ised my dear old mother on her death
he'd | swore to her that would never
drink again, and to make the oath the
more binding crept into the parlor in
the still watches of the night, when the
watchers were in another room, and,
kneelng beside ner coffin, ] renewed
my oath with my hand placed upon
| that marble brow cold In death.
"'In less than a week was as drunk
as hog.
"'Some time afterward my little
| udupulGT WIS luktU SlCh VIC WAS
sinking rapidly and begged me to
give up drinking. Ipromised her that
| would, and in order to make my
| promise the more sacred ! took the
wasted little hand in mine and promised
her that no drink should pass my lips
unless it came through that hand, so
dear to me. With sweet smile she
passed over the river, and ! thought
was saved.
"'She was laid out in the parlor. the
blinds were darkened and the doors
shut. That night the terrible craving
for whisky came over my soul. Secur'
ing wine glass and flask of whisky
sought the death chamber. poured
the glass full of whisky and unlocked
the icy fingers. l closed them over the
glass; and, raising it to my lips,
drained it to the very dregs. l re
clasped the cold hands aud, silently
left the room, andihay God have mercy
on my soul. -
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
WASHINGTON, MARCH15, 1890.
TIE WORLDS FAVE.

The subcommittee of the special
committee of the House, which was in
trusted with the preparation of n
Worlds Fair bill, has finished its labnrs
and has reported an act in nineteen sec
tions, which was printed exclusively in
yesterdays CRITIC. Without evincing
any desire to boast OF what was merely
a timely publication of an important
document The CRlTIC feels justified in
directing attention to the efficiency of
its news and Capitol service, and it
points with pride to the fact that yes
terday it was able to give information
20 the public at a point where its able
and esteemed contemporaries got badly
left
The bill provides that World 5
Fair shall be held at Chicago In 1892,
that Columbian Exposition Commits
sion shall be appointed and that this
commission shall accept the site of the
fair from the State corporation of Illi-
BOis il an actual subscription of So
100000 is made available in q salts
factory manner. The sum of 81 500, ,0)0
is appropriated for the Government
exhibit, and it is expressly provided
that the United States is not to be
liable for any debts of either the corpo-
ration or the Commission
If the bill should pass as it will
be reported to the House, it is fair to
Judge that through its provisions every
important public interest will be served
and every consideration of general con
sequence will be regarded. The condi-
tions under which Chicago can operate
the fair, of which it has been chosen as
the site, are clearly laid down. II will
be held in 1892, and the city must show
n'actual, b0Ga tide $1,000, 600 guaran-
tee fund. The bill should have pro
vided for a ceremonial celebration to
be participated in by all the nations OF
The American continent aud to be held
here at the seat of Government Blu
probably this will be arranged fo
through separate legislation.
The suggestion that the Fair need MOI
be held in 1892, but that i. pAdy be
postponed to some mores convenient
year is not countenaneed by the bill
The great voyage of Columbus-tha
TO which unique and supreme historic
interest attaches-belongs to the events
of the year 1892. If the proposed cele.
bration is TO be quadri centennial
commemoration # seems manifest thai
il can only be held with appropriateness
in 1892.
1t is to be hoped that Chicago viii
prove worthy of its opportunity; that i
will provide for the celebration of TIN
heading event in American history in
manner at once generous and proper
and that it will produce an exhibit o
American art and industry worthy o
the great nation of which, for this oc
casion, it has been chosen as the repre-
sentative.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
INTERNATIONAL CopyRIcHr

a Canadian. writing from Montreal
10 the New York Nation, expresses very
forcibly the need which exists in this
country for an international copyright
system. He shows that opposition to
the Chace bill will eventually result in
building up cheap book publishing
business in Canada, through which the
people of the United States will be
furnished, beyond all power of preven-
tiOD on the part of custom houses, with
chrap, pirated editions of their own
authors, printed by Canadian printers
and on Canadian paper. The bust
ness will be carried on not only
with no thought of compensation to the
American author. but in direct and
hurtful competition with the interests
Of the American printer and paper
manufacturer.
He very effectively urges that the
people of the United States have
adopted the policy of protection to home
industry. Therefore the proposed
Copyright bill demands that all books
tbe protected shall be manufactured
he United States. You are careful
D he printers, the engravers, the
Il the paper-makers, but you,
ppose this bill, are forgetting the
A ors. ! mean your own authors
b one of your bone and flesh of your
fiesh--born and brought up under your
own institutions. What have they doae
that the work of foreigners should be
bro night into untaXed competition with
their works?
"The American author has to live,
and sometimes, when he Is very lmpru-
dent, he has wife and children. For
that reason his books are charged with
copyright In short, he gets paid for
his work just like the printer and
binder, and the babes Of the printer
and paper-makeT and author are thereby
nOUrished into active adult citizens of
your great Republic. But, as your law
stands now, you are bringing in the
work of foreign authors to the detriment
of your home authors; you are selling
their books less the cost Of authorship
and you are taking the bread out Of the
mouths of your own literary producers
because you are underselling their pro.
ductions with free foreign literary labor.
"You would not do that with the
Aepermakers. You say books must be
(cbeap-the people of the United States
demand cheap books, II so, be con
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
ENGLISH MILLIoNAIREs.
Some of the Great Fortunes Belong
ing to Last Years Death List.

From ChdftcT.
One ceases to wonder at the amount
of British capital seeking investment in
the United States after looking over a
years record of money left by them
with the United Kingdom, the per
sonalitics" of dead Britain, or Of de
ceased residents of Great Britain. sworn
10 in 1889 for puposes of probate and Of
succession duty reaching imposing
sums. One dry goods iobber in Man.
chester died POSSESSED Of 81 800 600 of
personal property. Clyde shipbuilder
comes next with S., 300, 900, and mem
Der of the great banking house of the
great BarinGs follows hard upon with
$4, 500, 900.
A scion of the House of Orleans,
Count Greffuihe, died possessed of
! S., 300. 900 in England; and Scottish
peer, the Earl of Leven and Melville,
left for division among his heirs
s., 500, 600. What we call millionaires
| nobody there with less than So ,000,-
900 being so denominated-wer nu.
merous. Manchester alone had ten of
them ranging from So, 2,100, 900 of per.
sonalty" to $t,000,000. James Jane.
son, the great Dublin distiller, left
81, 100000 of hard cash, or what may
be called its portable equivalent, and in
England Brewer Dan Thwaites left
$4,000, 600
A Cork brewer, w. H. Crawford,
had a sworn personally" of 81 800.
900, and there were eight other deceased
brewers whose estates were liable tc
succession duty on $6,000,000 1t is
figures like these that impress on the
English mind the idea that there is in
beer, as there was in DR.. Johnson's
day, the potentially of growing rich
beyond the dream of avarice."
Even the railroad magnates left less
impressive aggregate, though one oi
them-Sir Daniel Gooch, Chairman o
the Great Weslern-died possessed OF
$3,250, 900, and of two railroad engi
neers one was worth $500, 900 and the
other $40, 900.
The richest representative of the iror
industry, who died in 1899, was a manu-
facturer of ploughs, worth 81 100, 900
a sum exceeded by the personally" Of
London gas filter, whose heirs divided
the snug little sum of 81 200, 900. Blu
even he does not come up to Johr
Nevill, baker-whoeve heard of a mill
ionaire baker on this side of the Allan
tic?-whose personally" is sworn n
81, 400 900.
1t must be remembered that all this |!
in personal or movable property, ant
that real estate does not count in thu
enumeration, not being liable to success
sion duty.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
THE BOSTON GIRL NOT IN LUCK.

from ne Boston courier
! watch her each night as | sit In the car
While standing she clings to the strap,
And think that too bashful most young
ladies are
She might as well sit in my lap.
A hundred and twenty or SO she may be,
Which wouldn't be much of a strain,
And If she would plump herself down OH
my knee
certainly shouldn't complain.
But she glmces at me In a strange sort of
way
And her brow wears the shade Of frown
That think, If she spoke, the words she
would say
Would he, "Rise, sir, and let me sit
down.
My seat Ia resign, for Pm quite boOr,
Whatever my foes say Of me,
Bnt before do that / want TO be sure
That the lady is single, you see.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
A MAN WITH AN INVENTION.
He Wants a Capital of 81 100000 and
an Advance of ~ Cents.


From the Detroit Free Press.
About six weeks ago a man who
claimed TO be in hard luck entered a
Detroit stove store aud asked for
money. The proprietor gave him a
dime and a blowing up at the same
time, and asked him why he did not
brace up and try to do something.
"say! I'll do it," was the reply. I'm
already working at big thing. 1t is
coal stove and refrigerator com
bined--one side TO cool your provisions
in summer and the other to heat your
bodies in winter"
He was encouraged TO 60 on, and in
about two weeks he returned to in
quire:
do you think it will make any diff
ference which side is the stove and
which the refrigerator
He was told that ii would not, an
he went away to be gone another fort
night, and then to return and ask:
Wouldn't it be good thing to r.
range to save the heat of the STOW. to
run washing machine?"
He was warmly complimented on the
idea, and was not seen again until
yesterday, when he returned with en-
lhusiastic step to ask for private in
terview and to say:
Got another idea! I'm going to
make the cold air which passes off the
ice and escapes by the ventilator run al
least six fly fans in the dining-room.
What / want just now is q capital OF
! 100000 to enable me to experiment,
and ! shall write to parties in New
York today. Meanwhile could you ad-
vance me twenty-seven cents and take @
mortgage bearing twelve per cent. in
terest in gold?'
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15

sistent and take lhc duty on paper and
printing materials and give the people
cheaper books. but you protect every
kind of labor in book except intcilec-
tual labor. In books alone free foreign
labor is encouraged to supplaut Ameri-
can labor
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
A CA R ID
FROM
Mr.. T. E. ROESSLE,
PROPRIETOR or
The Arlington.
The Arlington.
THE ARLINGTON,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
March 6, 1890.

Ny DEAR DR.. LIGHTuILL:
1t gives me great pleasure to state
that you effected a remarkable cure of
deafness and discharge from the ears in
the case of my cousin, Marcus @.
Roessle, and that the cure has proved as
permanent as 1t was radical feel sure
that without your skillful aid my cousin
would have been a deaf innn<all his
life. Knowing of other cases inywhSh
you have been equally successful, l
cheerfully give you leave to refer to me
at any time, and hope that your prac'
tice in Washington will prove distin-
guisbed success.
Yours, truly, 7. E. RoEssLE.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
Opera Criticitm in Denver.
From Me Chicaao Nal,


If any one says high art is lost on the
broad plains of the far West. and that
the denizens of the Rockies cannot ap-
preciate grand opera, let him read the
record of the triumph of the divine
Patti as exhibited in the Denver papers.
Here are some of the raptures of the
musical critics of that city:
The ballet made great hit.
The girls all wanted to steal the cute
little Dago tenor.
The drinking scene made all the boys
thirsty
The chorus looked like a galaxy of
peanut stand queens.
The Salvation Army dresses worn by
the chorus were great.
Johnny Black thought he was at a
ball game, and yelled when the can
tatrice sang Home, Sweet Home"
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
TWO SoVBREIGNS.

Emperor William takes daily fencing
lessons of an hour each from Colonel
Won Dreskv stated, and finds the
""lt. ~ thening his weak left
80 nee her ,ent attack of sciatica
I'"% .Ora has been obliged to give
up wine for whisky and water 1t is
an interesting fact that she drinks Irish
whisky in preference to Scotch.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15

The King of Uriwandi has three
wives, whom he pounds Numerically
when he gets drunk. His course is ap.
proved by Hoyle, we believe. A king
full always beats three queens. CHI
c0go Times.
The Washington critic., 1890-03-15
what Greedy Needs

fiOn Me Asp I0,E SIM
"lf Greedy had one he'd be all right Z"
IF he had whatf"
"a trustworthy corn and u little in
stinct "