The National tribune., 1892-09-22

Krag- Jorgensen No. rife, which is said to
possess the best magazine system of all tho
arms presented, and is recommended as a suit
able and satisfactory weapon for the United
| States military service The report states that
"the examination developed the fact that this
country was far behind all other Nations in
the adoption of o modern type of smal-caliber,
| high-velocity magazine gun, aud was suffering
| in military reputation therefrom" But the
| War Department will now, as it has always
done, receive, examine. and test new inven-
tions and new arms, and aid inventors in per.
| fecting them and if better arm should be
| found than the Krag -Jorgensen gun, which the
Board has recommended, it will be submitted
| to a new Board for trial.
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From now on through the Winter the hotels
OF Washington will be teeming with blushing
couples who are stamped "bride and groom In
every fold of the palpably-new clothes, in the
very shiny plain gold ring and high hat, and
in the air of happiness that fingers over the
newly wed like glorious harvest moon in q
Summer sky. There is no use in their trying
to appear as though the 10th mile post in their
journey together had been passed, for they can
no more help the little glances that reveal so
much to outsiders the surreptitious holding Of
hands when tho elevator boys back is turned,
or the air of solictude with which they in
quire whether the other will have sugar in the
coffee or take inst tiny bit of steak than they
can help breathing. 1t is a part of every honey
moon. and even though they were to wear old
Clothes with gloves worn at the fingers or
shoes patched Oh the sole. there would still re-
main that lingering tenderness that tells the
whole story. Even if were to try and
be very gruf in order to deceive outsiders, his
expression would reveal the fact he so much
desired to conceal, for eyes will tell the truth
though lips are able to falsify. After all, this
display of affection is not subject for ridicue.
1t is genuine; it is the truest emotion of life
time. and the honeymoon is period that lives
in memory in the after years when the romance
has been superseded by the reality, and tho
rushing torrent of young love has quieted down
into the tdeess stream of maturer affection.
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Mr. Frank Hume ono of the Committee Oh
Subscriptions to the Entertainment Fund, pub
lished card in the daily papers last week pro-
testing against the lack of patriotism on the
part of the city authorities with regard to the
lighting of that part of Pennsylvania avenue
between Sixth street and the Capitol Grounds.
Mr.. Hume's protest, we are sorry to say, was
well founded. He himself has been one of the
most active and efficient members of the Enter
tainment Fund Committee, and is one of our
most prominent business men. His regiment
was the 10th Miss, and he surrendered in
good faith ~ at Appomattox.
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The fact that the limo of street cars on Penn
sylvania avenue and Fourteenth street have
been changed from horses to cable within
month the work being rushed TO accommodate
the crowds at the Encampment makes acct
dents frequent because of the newness of the
employees of the road to the new order of things.
and it will be special dispensation of Divine
Providence if some of the veterans who como
to the city at this time are not killed or in
jured. On Wednesday, Sept. IA, through the
carelessness Of the switchman at the junction
of New York avenue and Fifteenth street (the
most dangerous place on the line). a passenger
was dangerously injured by the lever of the
grip striking him On the head, as the grip had
hold of the avenue cable while the switchman
had tho switch turned so that the car ran out
Fourteenth street. Visitors should remember
to always stand on the side of the parallel
streets opposite from which the cars are COM
ing, as they will not stop to take on or let off
passengers until they have crossed the parallel
streets.
For some daysit has been rumored that United
States Minister to Italy Porter had tend
cred his resignation. When Secretary Of State
John w. Foster was asked about the matter
last week he said he had not been officially ad-
vised of the resignation, that it had not yet
reached the Department. but that it might be
on the way Further than this Secretary Eos
ter had nothing to say on the subject.
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Postmaster General Wanamaker last week
opened a number of proposals of inventors
or owners of pneumatic tubes, under the act
of July 10, 1892, which authorized him "to
examine into the subject of a more rapid
transit of mail matter between large cities
and postoffices, stations, and transportation
terminals located in large cities by means of
pneumatic tubes or other systems, with the
view of ascertaining the cost and advantages
of the same" After the bids had been opened
and read Postmaster General Wanamaker an
nounced that he would appoint Second As
sistant Postmaster General Bell, Third Assist
ant Postmaster General Hazen, and Mr.. May