Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-05-03


the coming summer. Professor Lee Is a
thoroughly:equipped scientist and the ex-
pedltion Will be worth watching.
hnerioa mas Jagged away behind the rest
perhaps the new magazine will succeed in
awakening public interest in such things.
It's editor, Mr.. 9. q. Adams. can do this II
any one can, as his success with the geo.
Rrapnical department of the BROOKLYN In
sutute and its recent great exhibitors
seems TO prove. He's a Newspaper
ana there's no better training than that for
the eultoTship OF magazine.
TWO SAvY-YARps.
=, Ihere are two navy-yards near New
YORK, one known and one unknown 10 fame.
In both, gigantic hunks lilo at anchor OF
aground: in both, the changing of hammers
on iron Is heard and workmen hurry TO and
iro with tools and timbers. Here the pa
reilei ceases, for in the one case the work Is
0t construction, in the other of destruction
In one hayward long, low vessels of sturdy
appearance lie deep in the water and rakish
torpedo boats now and then come to
anchor to be gazed az by passengers on the
iierry-6oats that ply on the East river. In
tne other lie the useless hulls of vessels Of
Whlch the country was once proud, now
the spoil of the iunkmen.
=, fort Washington, on Manhasset bay, is
the scene OF the melancholy dismember.
ment OF many of the condemned vessels of
the fleets which are sold at auction for old
wood and iron. Here where land is cheap
and labor plenty the old battered wrecks
are towed and slowly disappear into heaps
OF rubbishy-lookiug materials. Seldom
are there less than four or five war-ships
and mercbant-vessels at the yard at once
In various stages of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and
rarely-lnteresting place IL is for the coun-
try lads to como of Sunday mornings to
gossip about the old days when admirals
trod those sagging decks and the smoke of
booming guns blew about them.
TALMAGE's DAISY.
1t was in the midst of one of DIR. Tai
images most eloquent passages before he
had shaved of his whiskers. Il was pass
ing through the fields" he said, "pressing
the soft green grass shimmering in the sun,
revealing in the light. the JOY, the fresh
ness which the Almighty had unrolled be-
fore my eyes when 1 noticed something
cleaning like yellow gold beside me. /
picked up daisy"
The Doctor paused, his eye reminiscently
cast down.
"Oh. you wicked old sinner" sympa-
thehcally murmured graceless young
man IN the audience and those who heard
1t laughed and others then - caught on " IN
turn until 1t became general. Nor was the
laughter lessened when the Doctor said,
did not mean daisy in its metaphor
ical, but its literal sense"
POOR STOCKHOLDERS.
One Of tho funniest features Of New York
politics IS the complicated ownership of
the New York Times. The paper is the
most decided of free-trade Cleveland or
gans, but large amount of its stock-as
high as 40 or IS per cent, | believe-is held
by the staunchest kind of Republican
stockholders, who date back to the time
when the paper voiced their views exactly.
They can't sell except at a sacrifice if
they stay in their feelings are daily lace
rated by the Times editorial blasts against
their party, and they have the doubtful
consolation of rejecting that their proper
ty doesn't pay them as good returns as in
the old days when the Times had a party
behind 1t. At present it is hated about as
much by Democrats as by Republicans.
That's queer tiX for the stockholders.
isn't it?
PRINTER AND CONGRESSMAN.
The close of Congress brings back TO
New York O man who is at once an orna-
ment to politics and TO his profession In
Amos j. Cummings. Mr.. Cummings is a
middle-aged man with full, ll-shaped
head, kindly eyes, and dropping nous
tache. Mr.. Cummings is one of very few
well-knOwn newspaper-men VINO can write
an article, set 1t in type, and put 1t IN the
form properly. He served his apprentice
ship at the case in the old days, and it
proved as good as a college TO him. He
was one of the first TO make his mark by
the most straightforward and unpreten-
tlOus style of writing, lie was the first
editor OF the EBenUy Sun, and much OF Its
Instantaneous success was due TO his quick
Judgment and tireless industry. When
such a man goes to Congress the eternal
fitness of things is verified.
PROM GREENLAND TO NICARAGUA.
Mr.. John II. Spears is lucky man. Prob
ably nearly every writer in Newspaper Row
has rather envled HIM his experience of
shipWreck on the Snorer Reef, unaccOm-
with prospect of unlimited columns Of
space for fine descriptive writing up the
story of the wreck.
Mr.. Spears is slender young man of
medium height and Il thorough good fell
low. He was in Greenland last summer
and has written many breezy articles about
that queer PARKWAY land. disappearance
suggests that his health may lmpel him to
take these excursions from the pitiless eli
mate of New York.
THE LONDON SEASON.
i OF Iub very sWblitSJ lOlh III NOW lblh
the " season" is practically over. All those
who rejoice in an English connection or
acquaintance have either already taken
passage for Europe or are preparing to do
so. As London isn't tolerable until spring
the season there isn't fairly under way un-
til 1t is about over here, and by making
quick connections 1t is possible to enjoy
the greater part of both. Thus the ext
gencies of London society avail TO shorten
the season here for the ultra swell.
But there is plenty of fun yet for us who
stay.
THE FIRST MAN WHO HAD TIE GRIP.
I have a friend who claims 10 be the
first man In all America who had the grip.
He said he had 1t with all the possible
complications and symptoms which will
be mentioned in the encyclopedias of the
future, and that he ought to have pen
sion in the interests of science. That, of
course, was more than year ago He has
lust repeated the experience and is ap-