New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-19

then in comparison with the records of previous
years, when as many as AT victims have been
buried in a single season. Whether yellow fever
attacks the town or not, the mortality is always
terrible in the Mexican port-ranging as hlgh as
ninety per thousand in 1881 healthy year.
Consumption is the real scourge OF vera cruz.
Much is said about the unsanitary conditions OF
Mexican cities, but it is ignorantly SAID Ihe
streets in Vera Cruz are thoroughly cleaned every
day and compare favorably with those Of American
seaboard cities 1t is not dirt that renders the
city of the True Cross the most unhealthy In
Christendom. 1t is the variable climate Inc
heat is ordinarily that of the torrid zone, but
whenever porther blows there is sudden change |
of weather cold rain sets in and the temperature
falls twenty degrees. 1t is climate that induces
pulmonary consumption. Even If Yellow jacks
flag were never seen there, it would still remain |
city of the dead.
Chicago is rent with strife over the bichloride |
of gold cure for dipsomania and its originator |
At least half dozen alleged discoveries are in the
field. Meantime tho Chicago lookup receives as
many dpsOmaniacS as ever.
Should banns Of marriage be published after
the reading of the second lesson, as directed oy
the rubric in the prayer-boOks of the Anglican Eps
COpal Cnurcn JudJ are puDlLoueu uo-"ay, VI '"N-N
they be announced after the recitation of the
Nicene Creed? The latter method is the one
ordered by the original compilers of the prayer
book now in use, as may be seen by reference
to volumes of this kind published prior TO the
reign of George III. dispute is now in progress
on the subject in Great Britain, and the Lord
High Chancellor, who as official Keeper OF the
Queens Conscience" is in position to speak with
predominant authority on the subject. announces
that the original manner is the only correct one,
and that the present method of proclalnung the
banns after the second lesson is altogether wrong
and illegal. being based the misinterpretatlon
of a statute passed for merely temporary purposes
under the reign of King George Ill.
How man has triumphed over space is inter-
estinglv shown by the experiment that Is ABOUT
to be tried at the Frankfort Electrical Exhibition
Of providing all the needed motive power from
Lauflen, seventy miles distant The electricity
will be generated by waterpower in the Neckar
River and conveyed to Frankfort by means oil
cables The Harvesting of Niagara to the uses OF
man may not be SO Tar III the future, alter all
Professor Bcl1more is an accomplished trav-
eller. and he always travels TO some purpose lie
is not a globe-trO5ter in the ordinary sense al
though he has seen a good share OF the earun ,
surface. He travels for purpose and that is to
obtain materials for the lectures with which ne
entertains and instructs the teachers of this city
during the fall and winter Mr.. Bickmore knows
how to observe anu how to translate his obServa-
tions into terse and interesting English Ills
lectures on Saturday mornings are always well
attended He is now on his way home from
Labrador with the scenery of which he mas peeh
greatly pleased. His numerous friends ana ad-
mirers will wait with Impotence TO near the re-
suits of this summer journey in q little known
corner of the globe.
Because o.. 900 persons live on the slopes Of the
Croton must we therefore suffer them to empty
what thew will into that river? Surely not while
such things as dollars, pumps and intercepting
drains are known among men,
The season. the dread season, of tail-end col
lisions and air-brale failures is upon u.s. Acct
dent" is the word, though if you sit in the seat
of the scorned at the back Of the last car in any
train. YOU will soon find yourself wondering why
tail-end collisions are not the rule rather than the
exception. The duty of the " rear brakeman" Is
70 60 back with his flag whenever a train stops
unexpectedly Does he? Oh, no, he waits; he
knows as nearly every one does, that nothing
q L,
that everything happens in minute; in the min
ute when it is least expected, a rule. Naturally
the rear brakeman doesn't want to be left behind.
Presently he does go back. but then it is too late.
At the best, after tagging" his own train, he often
has hard work to catch bis own again before the
other train catches it. lis fine point. Moral:
block system.
The people Of Kansas are discovering that the
Farmers Alliance has done more harm TO the State
in one season than all the grasnoppers for the last
twenty years OF course it is good political
buncorrbe to persuade the farmers that the country
is on the brink Of agricultural and commercial
ruin, but it is suicidal policy to apply in any one
region. The farmers were really never better off
than they are at this moment, and nothing will
demonstrate the fact SO clearly a little more
Alliance muddling.
Oftener than not, the "air-brakc" that fails
lin the reports is not an arbrake at all, or If it
is then an old old fashioned one, long condemned.
Railway officers are such determined foes to pub
lcity that they stand mute and see their own best
tools wrongly condemned rather than speak the
word that would Set it right.
Emin Pacha has once more disappeared into
the wilds Of Central Africa. No news has been
received from him for several months past lie
is alone among the natives having parted with
his European companions and is just as .much
cut of from the outer world as he was when
Stanley rescued him against his Will ana carried
him of, halfprisoner. half-guest, TO the sea-coast
The only indication as TO his present whereabouts
comes from Tlpoo lib, not very reputable source
| Tipoo hints that Emin has made his way back
| IN Wadelai for the purpose of recovering lO5
tons of ivory which he was obliged to abandon
there when kidnapped by Stanley The latter