New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-25

the legislators listen to the siren voice OF Dady
when the public interest demands that the law be
wiped out?
II the institution" slavery still existed on
American soil the Democracy would doubtless be
q unit In favor Of annexing Hawaii. The Demo-
cratic policy OF territorial expansion seems TO
have been abandoned about the time that human
bondage disappeared in the fires of war.
People are so accustomed to speak in plying
way Of the Austro-H Hungarian Empire as being on
the verge Of disruption. with Its financial stua-
ton as akin to that Of Turkey or Italy, and it,
monarch as the most harassed and unhappy ruler
In Christendom. that 1t is agreeable surprise to
learn that the credit Of the Dual Empire Is so ex-
ceent the Rothschilds have taken over at par the
entire per cent gold loan which is to enable its
treasury to revert TO specie payments In both dvi
sions Of the monarchy the paper money now IN
circulation to be withdrawn In Austria. as well
as In Hungary. the budgets for the last two or
three years have shown large surpluses that
compare favorably with the deficits that stare al
most every other European Government In the
face. And r. since his accession to the throne.
the Emperor has lost those Italian duchies which
always source OF far more trouble and ex.
pense to Austria than OF glory or OF profit II must
be borne in mind that he has added to his possess
sions the fertile and infinitely wealthy prov.
inces OF Bosnia and Herzegovina. which are year
by year becoming productive Of greater advan.
tage to the Empire. Indeed the progress and de-
veIopment Of Austria Hungary under the long
reign Of Francis Joseph may in many respects be
compared to that of Great Britain under the
benefcent rule Of Queen Victoria.
The more model tenement houses We have the
better
It's all right for Senator Ransom. but how
about the other gifted Senators and Representa-.
tives who will be statesmen very much at large
after one more week of usefulness-or is 1t use
lessness at Washington?
The new Park Commissioners have gone to the
right quarter in asking Mr.. Calvert Vaux for
report the Speedway The old Commissioners
t. Will be remembered had low opinion Of Mr..
vaux and did not take pains to conceal IT,
Therein they differed from the intelligent portion
Of the community.
The location of the site Of Paradise does not
bother the gazetteers or cartoSrophers. VINO
leave it off their maps and ignore IT; but now
and then book is written ABOUT II anu Hesi-
tating theories on thu subject appear in odd
corners Of denomiHational newspapers Two
books on the subject have lately appeared by
two German professors OF Breslau. each heavier
and more erud.,e than the other. and between
them they leave the geographical situation Of
Eden very much where it was. The argument 10
an old one. Orlgen. Ambrosius and Moses bar
Cephas amorS the anclents considered II, ana
among the moderns Roland Rosermuller and
others their disquisitions long antedating those
Of the TWO Breslau professors, and each uphold
ing a different theory II has been assigned to
all sorts o. improbable places. Abyss.nia and
iceland among them: but two sites are particu-
larry believed In. one near the headwaters OF
the Euphrates. where the rivers part. flowing
into the Euxm. the Caspian and the Bahrein
CUT and the other al the confluence OF the
rigris and Euphrates where Seleucus Ncator
hullt house of pleasance for his pining Mace
DOMAIN queen now reedy waste inhabited by
the pelican and stork Whether II was one or
the other Of thsse or neither cannot row be GER
tainly known no matter how many treatises are
written on the subject. and il might not te amiss
for the current controvcrsialists to waive differ
ences OF opinion and settle once for all on some
rar.ioular locality thenccforward t. be received
es authentic and further argument admitted
II would save a great wlste Of time and learn
ing and answer every historical aud religious
purpoee quite as we'll II not better than to leave
the region the mere shut;le"ock Of erId;ton. as
the German professors in dearth OF other themeA
are wont TO make i; every and then.
The bond syndicate magnates appear to have
on. all tho coupons of Nj Clevelands reputation
a. statesman.
n he
cholera mjcrobs cannot exist longer than two
DAYS in fresh fish. and only twenty-four hours
in fish sailed or smoked the fear Of infection Is
~ great that the returns 4 the German North
Sea Fisheries for 1894 show decline oil :" per
cent on the profits derived from this source dur
ING the preceding year AS for the fresh-water
fsberies on the River Eibe. which were formerly
a source Of livelihood TO large number OF peo-
nile all along it's banks. they have ceased alto-
gether no one knowingly consentng to touch
fish that has been caught in that huge stream.
rnasmuch as caviare is derived for the most part
from uncooked fish caught In those districts OF
Prussia where the cholera was most virulent, II
uas apprehanded at one time that 1t might serve
40 a vehicle of contagion. The German cholera
nicrobe however seems to be so ardent
natriot that IL Immediately proceeds to give up
the ghost on being brought into contact with
Muscovite caviare. and as this fact Is generally
becoming known. the consumption OF tha' coha''
nent mentioned with much appreciation oy
Shakespeare is gradually resuming Its normal
ratio throughout the German Empire.
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