Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
THE BUSY MICROBE.
Reaping a Larger Harvest Than
Cholera, Grip Causes No Panic.
TWO STORIES OF PRINCE GEORGE
Russell Sage Tells How He Did Not Use
Laidlaw as q Shield.
FRESH GOSSIP ABOUT MEN OF FAME
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NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Death and politics
have this week divided the attention O.
microbe is unquestionably bulging with
pride as he contemplates his achievements
The heir to the English throne, two cardi
mails and chief justice, all in one day, con-
stitute a fine showing for the smallest
known bacillus. By making his grand coup
on Thursday, instead of waiting one day,
the vicious microbe has acted thoughtfully.
He has at least deprived the superstitious
of some very satisfactory conversation.
Such a series of calamities on Friday
would have been very damaging to the "1a
clubs" that give to so many harmless men
chance to feel brave and noble.
1t is interesting to note that while health
board reports, newspapers and common OBJ
servation prove that very deadly epidemic
is raging here and in Europe, the average
| individual is not really frightened at it,
and does not take any precautions to insure
his own safety. The grip and pneumonia
do not appeal to the imagination. Ten
| deaths from Asiatic cholera in a week
would send Thousands of New Workers fly
| ing out of town. One case a week of cholera
| in Venice made hundreds of Americans
abroad give up their only chance of seeing
that clean town.
Death in Its Quiet Phase.
Fifty deaths day in New York from
grip alone would not keep the ordinary
man from standing on street corner in the
rain without an overcoat. 1t is In some
ways gratifying to observe that as a nation
we are not very much afraid of death all by
ITSELF It must come with waving of yellow
pestilence flags, sudden deaths in the
streets and other smallpox or cholera char
acteristics that act on the Imagination, or
it cannot frighten us.
The death of the Prince of Wales eldest
son, the young man who was to have been
King, makes everybody think in some form
or other of the question that Mr.. Clemens
Huckleberry Finn put to Tom Sawyer when
they wouldn't make up their minds to be
either hermits or monks Chow much do
Kings get?" was the question, and "Over
s., 900 day" the substance of the unexag-
gerated reply.
Concerning the happy man, Prince George,
who is to be King of England by the grace
OF the grip microbe, every man who writes
for newspaper will tell story. Here are
two incidents in the early youth of that
young man, which were heard in London,
which perhaps have foundation in truth
and hich may have the flavor of novelty
while moat writers are telling how the
young man told his brother to go and sing
"God save your grandmother.
Two Stories OF Prince George.
The stories, at all events, whether true or
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pendence and originality. On one solemn
occasion, having misbehaved himself at ta-
Bile, Prince George was severely rebuked
by his royal grandmother. Full of wounded
vanity and eager for revenge, the little boy
disappeared under the table. Presently he
came forth naked. He had laboriously un-
dressed himself in o crouching attitude.
He was rewarded by the sensation he
created.
At another time, in a critical mood, he
observed his grandmother holding chicken
bone in her fingers, and remarked in tones
of scorn, who's a pig?"
This is to be the greatest year in politics
since the war. Even New York is begin
and in political probabilities.
Two New Political straws.
Two interesting straws have been blow
ing about on the political breezes this week.
As usually happens with significant straws,
they have been blowing in opposite direc-
tions. The first straw was the conduct of
the New jersey Legislature, which on being
interviewed, one man at time, expressed
an overwhelming preference for Cleveland
as compared with Hill
Many excellent judges of politics, in
cluding Hill, believed that Hill had solid
hold on New Jersey. Mr.. Clevelands
course in taking his little baby to live on
New Jersey air has produced great effect,
or New York politicians are out in their
reckoning.
Straw No. 2, rare and unusual straw, is
the similarity of opinion expressed by
George William Curtis and Bourke Cock
ran, one of the Tammany Big Four Both
delegation would be solid for Hill.
Before estimating the Importance of Mr.
Cockran's utterances as a Tammany Hall
representative it is necessary to know that
Mr.. Richard Croker when questioned on
the same subject only shrugs his shoulders
While Mr.. Croker's shoulders are a.shrug-
ging only Mr.. Croker knows what New
York will really do about Mr.. Hill or anv
one else. Able man, Mr.. Croker He
doesn't talk, but he does things.
Doings Among Men of Fame.
In the Garden of the Luxembourg, when
the band was playing, 1 once heard an old
French workingman, in blue blouse, re-
mark: "C'est egal, il ny rien de beau
CONNIE la musique ct les feurs" To which
his wife, studying the crowd, replied: "Oui,
mais les gems, lis sont plus interessant." 1t
is not necessary to translate the words in
full.
The same conversation took place between
Boswell and johnson before the French
workingman was born, and between Adam
and Eve previous to that. Men and their
doings always interest man more than any,
thing else, SO the facts that follow are i'm
portant.
Mr.. Russell Sage has decided to reply to
Mr. Laidlaw, the clerk who accuses Sage of |
using him as shield during the explosion, |
and who asks for S100, 900 of Mr.. Sage's |
said to have given 81, 600 to a man who |
knocked him down. Richard Harding Davis !,
is going out West, and then to Europe to |
write. Billy McGlory is working at the |
blacksmith business on BlackweH's s Island,
and no one has said good word for him.
Laidlaw's Suit Against Sage.
Mr.. Laidlaw was in Russell Sage's Office |
when then the satchel went of, and now he |
is in the hospital more or less damaged Mr.. |
Sage, on the contrary, is as free and active !
as q bird, and as gay. In this contrast the |
editor of an evening newspaper |
on certain dull morning detected the seeds |
of pleasing sensation. He went to Laid
law and said to him: "Here's your chance.
Sue Sage for S100, 900 for holding you be-
tween him and death, as you say he did"
Mr.. Laidlaw seemed to think it was q
good idea and acuuiesced, No one took the |