The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-21
CONDENSED OPINIONS
UTTERED ON MANY SUBJECTS ny
THR AMERICAN PRESS.
Politics and Parties, the World and the
individual Commented Upon In
Various Keys.

ing OF talking through II hardly aChleVes
the best results. Philadelphia Times
If woman gets suffrage in Kansas h Nv
can it be u feather in her hat if she
doesn't turn out trimmer?-Philadel-
phia Times
Our forefathers created the Senate as
check. They succeeded so well that
their check has become a paralyzer.-
st. Louis Republic.
That Looking Backward" committee
joke has disappeared. 1t is Governor
Flower who is now looking backward. -
New York Tribune.
II begins to be apparent, whatever the
size OF those armor blow-holes, that
somebody's trying to put Carnegie in
one.-Chicago Times.
A Cincinnati man claims that he has
discovered a way of making artificial
milk. That's an old trick around
Albany. Albany Press.
Mr.. Erastus Wiman is another impress
grief through attaining too great facility
in writing.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
A correspondent inquiries whether it
is proper to say politics is warm" or
politics are warm" Neither, friend.
Hot is the word. -Galveston News.
Away with the income tax? Let the
Democratic party keep the place it has
always labored for and to which two
years ago it was elected.-New York
Sun.
Once more, this time by cable, Mr..
CroCker assures us that he is out of
politics. Yes, and all Tamanny will
soon be keeping him company.-New
York Tribune.
The biggest problem that confronts
the Government OF Morocco is the ques-
ton OF who is going to pay for fall hats
for the late Muley Hassan's 1000 wives.
st. Louis Republic.
Hill proposes to make another speech
against the income tax. He does not
expect to beat it, of course, but he in
tends to make it as odious as possible
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Now that the telephone is suspected
of being "A transmitter of disease germs
the good old family washtub cannot be
expected to escape much longer. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
General WallaCe's new novel has its
plot laid in the United States and his
leading characters are Americans. This
will be a new departure for the great
novelist.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Governor Greenhalge of Massachu-
sets will not allow his military staff to
ride horses with dock d tails. Probably
because he thinks there ought to be nc
flies on them.-New York Recorder.
Andrew Carnegie is to set up giant
telescope in Pittsburg. There will be nc
need OF trying it on himself or his armol
plates. The blow-holes in Doth can be
seen with the naked ye.-Philadelphia
Item.
Secretary Carlisle is confident that the
exports OF gold will soon cease. This
view is probably based upon the appar-
ent certainty that in a little while there
will be no more gold to export.-New
York Press.
The importation by Novelist Robert
Louis Stevenson of lot of firearms for
the purpose of defending his Samoan
home proves that he has more faith in a
good shotgun than in his famous PEN
New York Recorder.
Politicians are perfectly willing to let
women be garbage inspectors provided
they will not ask to go on the payroll.
The payroll is reserved for voters.
Garbage inspection is an irrelevant
matter.-Chicago Herald.
The Canadians, too, are going to
utilize the power of Niagara on their
side by duplicating the American cleo
trio plant. The Canadians know good
thing when the Yankees have pointed
it out to Observation-Disclosures Item.
An angry Boston doctor the other day
hit John L. Sullivan with a beer bottle.
but the ex-champion thinks himself not
so much injured as he might have been
if the NJ, ID. had come at him with a
prescription.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The executioner of Germany has just
been overloaded with flowers as mark
of approval on the completion of his
one hundredth job. Faithful public
servants appear to be appreciated in the
old countries.-St Louis Post-Dispatch.
A few years ago it was confidently
stated that ga woman has no head for
mathematics" We are now told that
the senior wrangler of Cambridge Uni.
versity in England is a young woman
who "distanced all her male competl-
tors in the contest for the honors in
mathematics. Chicago Inter- Ocean.
The Capitol at Washington is said to
be without national flag on account of
lhS alilslHtSS VI COuSGtS5. IeTnapS
that is not the true reason. Blount, at
last accounts, was in Washington, and
1t is possible that he has been practic-
ing his great act of hauling down the
fag.-New York Mail and Express.
As usual, the patient, long suffering
public is to get the worst of it as a
result of the Pullman strike. The com
pany is pIg-headed and stubborn, the
strikers are aggressive and eager for re-
prisals, the sleeping are to be cut
off, and the travelling public can sit up
all night or travel by daylight, Chicago
Herald.
When Secretary Carlisle estimated
that the deficit for this year would be
S2S, 900, 900 well informed Washington
correspondents suggested that it would
more likely reach $75, 100000. We are
within ten days of the end of the fiscal