The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-12

Malthusianism. Oh, Anniel We are so glad.
Mark Twain's aversion 70 interviews Is such
| that when asked IL il is hot enough LOT MN
| the other day exclaimed with dignity: SIR
decline to transgress my rule against speaking
for publication"
For the past three days Richmond has been
having touch of real GUNNER weather. ms
announcement is made Tor the oenenI OF
| subscribers who are shivering about the sea
side resorts and in the mountains
A New York paper which tries TO give lists
| Of the FIVE most beautiful women at the va
rious resorts puts nine-tenths OF them from
| Now York city, and not single one from
Richmond. That's because our city girls are
not there.
Disconnected. ugly girls should get grain
of comfort from the fact that all the women
who are murdered OF found drowned, or who
commit suicide. or are unusually beautiful.
The homely victim OF misfortune Is yet TO be
discovered.
lewiston Me-. has some economical citi-
zens who carry thrift TO extremes. One OF
them on a recent Saturday night bought a
loaf of bread of baker, and on the following
Monday morning returned TO the shop with a
part of the loaf and wanted 10 exchange it for
hot biscuits.
That an ocean steamship should be on fire
for ten DAYS and safely reach her port with
out suspicion on the part of her passengers
of their danger as in the case of the steamer
Cachemire. speaks worlds for the presence Of
mind for her captain and the GOODNESS and
perfect discipline of her crew.
newly discovered letter of Thomas Car
lylcs has this sentiment: Remember always
The end of man is not thought. but an ac-
ton: series of manful, faithful actions land
of modest, silent, steadfast endurances withaD
which make up worthily mans life here be-
low" That is a swift, vivid picture of a
manly life.
distinguished man who was recently
asked TO furnish his picture for a newspaper
illustration, answered: Unlike the Irish
mans whisky, all my photographs are bad,
but some are worse than others. | send you
a fairly bad one. which your engraver. how
every may succeed in making worse" 1t is
more than probable that he did
What is this talk about dress reform club
in Boston and a parade of dress reformers
ION the first rainy Saturday in October, in a
short skirt, made of waterproof cloth reach
ing but an inch or two below the knees" Are
the dress reformors prepared TO publish 10
rbald world the fact. if fact IL be that the
Boston women have kneesl If knees, then
legs
The Presbyteries in the Presbyterian
Church says the Independent. are required to
return an answer next November 20 the
stated clerk Of the General Assembly as TO
their views in reference TO the proposed reyis-
ION of the Westminster Confession of Faith
This one subject which would have been
enough TO occupy them. has been somewhat
forgotten in the greater interest Of the more
immediate case of Professor Briggs and his
theology. But it is right that this most i'm
portant subject which has been before the
Church for a much longer time, should be
considered on its own merits.
Did YOU ever. gentle reader. stand face to
face with tramp printers pipe, asks a rural
editor. Did your delicate, plnk-tinted nos
trils ever inbaie the plain-spOken aroma that
clusters about the instrument with which
tourist type-sticker consumes last years to-
bacco CROP Have you ever had your hair
lifted. your lungs tested and your soul stirred
by the process referred TO! If not. you are i'll
prepared to battle with the trials and re-
verses which are sure TO rise in your path
way through this vale of tears Until you
have stood IN the presence of this great power
shaken hands with it, 80 to speak, you can
form only slight conception of the trlbula-
tions that cast their shadows across the sane
tum OF country editor
You have heard Of the individual who was
between the devil and the deep sea- remarked
a prominent Virginia. TO New York World
reporter Monday. Well. he was happy
man and in clover, in comparison with Will
uAn 0lhQDle anu ulb pIcSoDL pOllllCdl POSI-
ton. For the life of him Malone cannot tell
which Of the two leaders of his party he hates
the more cordially, Harrison has snubbed him,
and Blaine has never recognized him. And
vet, as the choice is presented to him to-
day, Malone must take one or the other of
them. When the opposition to Harrison was
first developed Malone was delighted He at
once gave assurance of assistance from Viz
ginia and announced that he would again
head the delegation from that State to the
next National convention and STE to it in per-
son that the vote of the State was kept out
of the Presidents column. But then
came the stampede 10 Blaine. and Malone
now is like a sheep without fold What
Malone will finally decide TO do no man can
tell He probably to-day could not answer
the question himself RE is not strong enough
10 get up boom in behalf Of anybody of his
own choice he dare not trust the leadership
of the State delegation to any Of his heuten-
ants. and yet If he goes to the Convention
himself the certainty seems TO be that he will
be swept into the Blaine current and GO 10
swell the Blaine tide. He hates Blaine and
Blaine is the one Republican leader who has
always despised him. These be parlous
times indeed for William Malone"
Foreign.
There il news about Prince Albert Victor
that is sorrowful He is growing bald on the
back Of his head. and his rank is so high he
nearly always has 20 walk in front of his COM
pany.