New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-23

ing.
Some 81 the smaller clubs of the city have
opened summer gardens in their back YARDS,
greatly to the comfort OF their members New
York builders have been so trained IN putting
brick and stone every available loot OF
ground that few people are ever allowed to
realize that yards have any value except 10
bring light and air to rear windows. Perhaps.
like the clubman, we shall some day come 10 ap-
precute the value Of our little plots. little
grass and some vines are great improvement
on paved courts.
II takes a long while for ex-Aesemblyman Cal
lahan 70 learn that Tammany pulls are no
longer In working order
This Is the season when the temptation TO
overcrowd excursion steamers is well nigh IT.
resistble Cheap rates oring throngs 10 the
piers and the chance OF Carrying them sateiy at
n handsome profit is likely to outweigh the re-
mote danger OF overlooking. The storm OF sun
day night left hundreds Of passengers on steam
boat decks unable to get under cover 1t Is not
TO be supposed that under those conditions
there were no more people on board than the
law allows
The sea serpent appears regularly every su-
mer. In the language of the late iameAfed
Daniel Webster. 1t Is sometimes longer than 81
others but never shorter. In fact. 1t seems TO
Increase in dimensions every year. ana recent
one seen by a commander OF one Of the Sound
steamers ,s declared by that responsible skipper
TO have been half as long as his boat. This ofaft
had n longitudinal extension exceeding that 81
church and nearly equang that OF rope wax,
so that the serpent was probably about as long
as a bowling alley. Another captain OF the same
line saw TWO OF these extenuated creatures III
company moving away TO the southwark, yer
hn rs 10 take part in the Cuban instruction In
fact they are more than usually numerous tnis
year and particulars concerning them are more
exact and exciting than common. IL Is Tune the
animal set down In the natural hs'or'
books which now churlshly ignore 1t. making
naught Of the testimony OF the immensest num-
Der OF credible and candid seagoing folK ana
ascribing their visions 10 the stimulating con-
tents OF the ships locker. But they are 100
many and various to be thus accountei Tor. IL
Is really high time that the sea serpent. about
which 80 much has been heard. from the days OF
Hippalus and Nearchus to those OF Captain
Bob" Evans, were finally stuffed and CLASSIFIED
II seems unfortunate that OF all the veracious
marines who get sight OF this walowing mon
ster spouting his foam fountains In the sea, not
one OF them ia able to harpoon 1t and bring IL
alongside for scientific investigation. But 20 far
none OF them have done so. and the prospect OF
such a capture Is not promising. Cleveland Is
more likely to catch a nine-pound Adirondack
trout or hundred and sixty-pound Florida
tarpon. and nobody would back him for either OF
these exploits to any great extent We snail
have to take the animal on trust for some time
hox In ha aaf
lack OF minuteness and vivacity in the descrip-
tions we get Of It. beginning every year with the
summer sostice and winding up with ;he au-
tumnal equinox.
This Is the time when more free baths are
needed
Mr.. Watterson Is In Europe. and The Louis
VILE Courier-Journar' casually remarks. In the
course OF a leading and double-leaded editorial,
that: THE Democratic party Is not an ostrich.
1t cannot think to escape by keeping its head
under cover whilst the rest OF its body Is ex-
posed" II Is apparent that MIR. Wattersons
editorial understudy has never witnessed the
antics Of the Democratic party In Congress.
A recent number OF "Blackwood's Magazine
contains an article on Cuckoo Corner" 1t is
Washington, d. c.. blu. sketch OF English
country life.
The higher education OF women in England APP
pears to diminish their prospects Of marriage,
and the higher the honors taken the less the
conjugal prospect becomes. or the ex-students
Of Girton NEWMAN. Somerville Hall. Holloway
and Alexandra colleges to the number OF l.4S6.
whose post graduate careers have been observed,
II Is found that $50 are engaged In teaching. II
are doctors or medical missionaries. are nurses
or 9 are In Government employment. Is a
bookbinder. l a market gardener and lawyer,
while only 20s Of the whole number are registered
as married-only about one-seventh OF the az
gregatc. which 10 a poor showing on the domestic
side and in the bearing on posterity. No similar
tables have been kept this side of the water.
but there Is not much doubt that they would
show a like result. and II must be set down as q
fact that the higher a woman's learning the less
use she has for a husband 1t Is discouraging to
the men and generally An educational and soco-
logical fact which Ia depressing. but it has to be
reckoned with and cannot be put aside or .ig-
nored
What could be more absurd than century BIZ
cycle run on 30 gweltering a day as Sunday!
II IA past comprehension that sensible people can
undertake such things In midsummer and pre-