The National tribune., 1891-02-12
CHAT OF THE coRRrpoRs.

CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.
One tiresome nuisance is now threatened
with mitigation, IL moi abatement Both Houses
have passed, and the President signed, string
snt bill Furnishing the selling of any form of
tobacco In the District Of Columbia 10 boys
under Is years Of age. The Chief Of Police
promises that the law shall be strictly enforced.
As both Maryland and Virginia have equally
strict laws on the subject, the supplies are cut
Of from the cigaret-smoking boys, who poison
the air on the street corners and places OF pub
JIG resort with the smoke Of nasty little ciga-
rets. A profitable trade is also cut off from
numberloss little shops around the public
schools, which did a large business selling
cigRrets by the cents worth to pupils. Senator
Henry w. Blair and Representative Elisha A.
Morse arc 10 he credited with the passage Of the
bin, which met with little opposition in the
Senate; but in the House 1t was fought by
Hatch, Of Missouri, and several other Repre-
sentatives.
80
Senator Hearst is an illustration Of the old
adage that it is much more dangerous to be
sentenced TO death by Judge than doctor
At least two months ago the abiest physicians
in this city, Philadelphia and New York " sat
upon his case, and decided that he was suffer
ing from cancer Of the stomach in such an
advanced stage that he could live but few
days. The Senator disagreed with them, and
even more emphatically did his wife, who has
Oil along insisted that their diagnosis was
wrong, and that her husbands disease was not
fatal. Her confidence, and the Senator's grim
determination not to carry out the doctors
program, has won over many people TO beliey-
ing he may yet recover. He has chance Of
living, but il is one that a healthy nan would
not take for all OF the Californiaus millions.
80
Senator Staufords miBd is disturbed by con-
ficting emotions-pleasure over the distin-
Fuished approval by New York horsemen
Of bis talents as a breeder, showed by their
paying an average of $1,000 apiece for a lot Of
12l young horses which he sent ON TO that city
from his California stableU; disgust over the
way some Of the Republican papers lcctured
ham f0f being absent from bis place in the SEN
ate, attending the sale, when The critical yOt-
ing time for the elections bill arrived, and
utter WEAKNESS OF a crippled arm resulting
from the collision Of a street car with his coupe.
But the arm will soon heal, and the gratifca-
tion over his equine Success already counts for
more than the pain Of the newspaper flashing.
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"Disproportio used to be consid-
cred the longest word in the English language,
but it has been displaced from this proud hight
by neutrality-suspicious." a good scien-
tife word, describing the tendency among
some members Of the ape family TO fall away
from the man-like form.
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Senator Quay has put forward Col. Thos. M.
Bsyne for Secretary Of the Treasury. The
suggestion is a good one. Col. Bayne COM
handed the 136th Pa, a ninemonths' regi-
ment which did gallant service at Fredericks-
bnrg, where il lost nine men killed, 50 wound
ed and eight missing, and was also engaged at
White Oak Run during the Chanceiorsyille
campaign, where il lost several killed and
wounded. Col. Bayne is now closing his sixth
term in Congress, and failed TO secure a re-
nomination on account Of q fractional fight he
b q man Of recognized ability, and has done
good service on the Rivers and HarB0rs, Civil
Service Reform and Ways and Means Commit
tees. lie is quite popular in Washington, both
IN political and social circles.
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The faculty Of the Baltimore University
School Of Medicine made q happy selection
WHOM they secured representative Marriott
BrOsius, Of the Lancaster District Of Pennsyl-
vauia Tor commencement orator. lie will do
credit b himself aud the University, Tor be Is
an unusually wcll-equipt man. lie is a four
yean veteran Of the 9th Pa, was promoted
on the field for gallantry, and aftor the war
completed bis education and graduated in the
law from Michigan University.
80
One Of the Treasury clerks is a little Scotch
man WHO werships the British aristocrAcy,
aud particularly the Scotch portion Of it. He
De- never weary Of descantng upon the virtues
OF the chief Of bis elan, the Earl Of Fife.
30, bother your Earl Of Fife" said Ger
man feilow-clerk the other day, intorrupting
one Of bis tiresome panegyricsi we have an
Eec,or OF saxe-hop-y in our country who'd
blow your Earl Of Fife into the middle OF next
week
Ha
ToBsilitis Is the fashionable disease in Wash
ington since Mrs. Harrison was prostrated with
a.
%.
ID "a probable that Mrs. Window viii remain
in Washington. She feels that she has really
more OF her old aud tried friends here than
anywhere she could go-uDloss back 10 Mime.
sofa. 80 much of her life han boon spent here
that il is more like home TO hor than anywhere
else.
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The only woman contractor under the Gov
eminent was in the city last week attending 10
hcI business and she attended % il we'll shois
Mn. D G. Lanpdon Of California. who has mail
contracts for about 900 miles Of star routes in
Butte aud Piuma Counties, and employs about
100 men and 100 horses in doing tie work
She Is a widow, aud as thoroughly business
like as any man.
ABOUT PEOPLE.
The heirs OF the late Gen Cadmus N. Wilcox.
Of the Confederate army, have brought suit