Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-23

PITHY. POINTED AND PERTINENT
 Charles X. Dana has come out fol Hill. Poor Hilll
 Tho man who can find signs of a republic in the recent disturbances in Germany has microscopic eyes.
 A good many democrats would like to be struck by the same sort oi a boomerang that has hit David 5, Hill.
 "l am a republican" said Senat or Stanford when asked if he would ac- oept the Presidential nomination oi tho third party.
 1t is just as we'll for the Hill boomers to remember that Tam many never named winner in a Presidential race.
 The race war in Tennessee is some months ahead of schedule time; the Presidential election will not be held until November.
 Chicago never gets left, "wheth- CT Il be in Worlds Fairs or dyna- mite crauks after its millionaires. It Is bound to have everything that is going.
 The advertising agents of the prize fighters have begun their Spring campaign early, and the editors of the big newspapers seem as anxious as ever to give them free space.
 The United States is about the only civilized country without stringent laws asainst tho adulters- ton of food; still Congress shows no anxiety to pass the Paddock Pure Food bill.
 "Leap-year democrats" is the new name given by the Hillites to the supporters of Mir. Cleveland, who, by the way. was recently re- ferrod to by a member of the demo cratic National committee as "Den- his" Cleveland.
 There is at least one place in Iowa, and one in New York, where speech isn't free, if the newspaper reports of the mobbing of free methodists at Corning, in the former State, and the dragging of a preacher from the platform at Yonkers, in the latter State, may be relied upon.
 Representative Bailey, of Texas, the kid of the House." is evidently jealous of the reputation enjoyed by his colleague, Representative Kilgore, as a kicker, and he proposes to kick continuously against the House legislating without a quorum, as it has been doing. Bully for Bailey.
 A number of Presidential boom lets now wandering aimlessly around the country might be either galvan- ized into something life-like, or killed, by being placed in an electric chair and having a current of sev- eral thousand volts turned through them.
 Would that the country had more failures like reciprocity, which has in nine months increased our ex- ports to Brazil l3 per cent; in four months increased our exports to Porto Rico more than 30 per cent, and in a single month increased our exports of four to Cuba more than 700 per cent.
 Five-cent Holman tried to derail a little appropriation bill reported from the committee on Agriculture, but Engineer Hatch put on full head of steam and opening the throttle wide carried his bill through with rush, leaving Hol- man to pick himself up as best he might.
 A Washington newspaper man was rash enough, recently, to try to locate Senator Hill on the free ccin- age question, by asking him point blank whether he would vote for or against the bill should it come before the Senate. 'I will not cross that bridge until get to it." was the Senator's diplomatic reply.
 Great is the American heart. Ship number two has sailed for Rus sia with a full cargo of provisions for the starving citizens of that | country, in spite of the refusal of | the democratic majority of the | House of Representatives to allow this Government to aid in the noble | charity.