Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-08-24
But I am inclined to think nature had
as much to do with making. him carrion,
DC. anything I know Of at this time.

as much to do with making him carrion,
az. anything I know of at this time.
John L.. Sullivan got sufficiently
drunk in New York the other night. "a
emerge from the temporary obscurity in.
to which he has relapsed of late. Johns
notoriety is becoming painfully extinct
as the days roll by, and only when he
accumulates an exceptionally great sup.
ply of liquor, do the newspapers deem
him worthy Of mention. The one-time
champion loaded himself with booze to
the last stage of approximation, upon
this last occasion, and his abusive tongue
earned him a black eye and a peeled
nose, in the course of an evening out.
Poor old J. Lawrence! There was q
time when his wrath was almost as fatal
as smallpox, but he has so d%egenerated
since the Corbett fiRh;, that he is begin
ming to take discolored optics as a mat
ter Of course.
If anybody thinks he can bluff an In
diana populist convention, he would do
we'll to discover a conveniently remote
hiding place, and conceal himself. The
other day, the populists at Hammond
had nominated a full ticket, and were
just about to condemn the emperor of
Japan for calling out his troops, when a
populist arose to a point of order. Such
a violation of party principles and con-
vention decorum was astounding, and as
soon as the chairman recovered his
breath, he threw a chair at the unruly
delegate, and succeeded in producing
a temporary calm. Notwithstanding
this prompt action, however, several
other delegates became unruly, and al.
though the first fracas occurred at about
3 o'clock in the afternoon, it was nearly
midnight before they coulda | be knock
ed down and carried out.
Kentucky's reputation has always been
highly seasoned compound, and Sena-
tor Blackburn added a dash of pepper
sauce and tabasco when he designated
Senator Hill as a dirty dog and a con-
temptlble whelp on the floor of the SEN
chamber. Mr.. B]ackburn's filthy
and slum-originated language seemed to
convince him that he had done some
thing creditable, for he Moderated
to his friends that he had ad-
dressed Hill in the language already
stated. Kentucky needs to swab out
the mouth Of it's senatorial blackguard
with warm water and lye, after such fish
monger. like exudations, and while I have
never had any excessive admiration for
Senator Hill, he is a white-robed Puritan
where the ordinary, characteristic feat
Tres of a gentleman are concerned, when
compared to this foul-mouthed Ken
Just two days after Budd Reeves
nomination, I made mention of a tele-
gram to eastern papers from Grand
which stated that Budd "Doble"
1as been nominated for congress, and
'emarked the misunderstanding which
Vas likely to arise, and it has arisen. In
The New York Tibune, I find this:
1t was reported a few days ago in a
Dakota paper that Budd Doble, the
lorseman, whose catarrhal name has been
connected with some of the greatest
of trotting horses, and who
las received deserved distinction for it in
The verse of Oliver Wendell Holmes, was
lbout to run for congress in that state. TO
! Chicago reporter, however. he has denied
ne story that he was about to seek this
homo, with the remark that a
nan who had driven horses so long as he
lad had trouble enough without going into
1 attributed the error at the time to
;he intensely alcoholic atmosphere of
East Grand Forks. And it seems the
'umes have reached clear to the Atlantic.
On the last day of the wheelmen's
tournament at Denver, Governor Waite
gave the boys a neat little exhibition, as
! sort of a parting send off. Carefully
anscrewiug the crown of his head, the
governor took out an elongated cog
wheel, and fitted it to the motor Of a
;hreshlng machine engine. Adjusting
he reverse end of the wheel again, to
he machinery inside his Uranium. the
began upon a farewell speech
% the assembled wheelmen. Stimuli
;aneously, the mechanism of the engine
began to r~evolve, in sympathy with the
nter-cranial disturbance, the thresher
began upon it's duties, aud the wheat
oroductof five acres of land was threshed
out, under the powerful action Of the
yu%bernatorlal wheels. Releasing the
,ogwheel, it was again adjusted to a
recently modelled quartz crusher, and
seven tons of rock was tested for gold,
a brief political speech.
The president having left Washington
Tor a visit to his wife and babies at Gray
it becomes necessary for news
paper correspondents to announce that
be is very, very ill. In fact he is just too
awfully i'll. AS nearly as I can judge
from all the reports, he has compound