The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-08
EDITORIAL SPARKLES.

Too many men make it a rule never
to look in a mirror except through a mag
nifying glass.-New York Mail and Ex-
press
Senator Brlce seems to be arranging
things in Ohio on the theory that the
more cat fights the more Democratic
Washington Post.
The Kansas man who offered to take
the place of Maria Barberi in the electric
chair, would make the Populists of that
state an ideal guberaatorial candidate
Kennebec Journal.
In 1896: For president-Grover Cleveland.
Platform-Grover Cleveland's letter sug-
costing IAN amendment to the constitu-
ton disqualifying the president from re-
election. New York Tribune.
Moral for the Pennsylvania Republicans:
Never hang Grape on Matt Quay's door
until you have received the doctors certi-
hcate and the report of the post-mortem
COMMUNICATIONS Record.
According to the Spanish minister at
Washington City. ''the American press
does not want the truth about Cuba"
Campos, judging by the proclamation he
sends to 1t. appears to hold the same opin-
ion.-New York Recorder
If the bar association will devise n
scheme for persuading 80 per cent of the
lawyers to go to raising corn and oats in
stead of breeding divorces and mortgages
1t will render great service to the coun-
try.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
An order has Just been issued in London
prohibiting British ships from catching
seals within certain specified zones This
order would probably attract more atten-
ton IL the British government announced
its intentions OF enforcing its commands.
As matters now stand. however, the Brit
ish poacherS can safely laugh at the order
so Tar as IL concerns any enforcement by
their own government.-Boston Advertiser.
OF all the contemplate. little-souled peO-
pie in the world. we do not know a class
below those who wander about from
church TO church, expecting at each sanct-
nary TO be welcomed effusively. shown the
best seats in the synagogue, supplied with
easy cushions and tufted foot-stools. and
who then go away and write indignant
letters TO the papers because not given a
chrome. 1t is good to get even such peo-
pie as these inside a church, but the
church would do them more good If they
had souls large enough for the truth to
get grip on.-New York Evangelist
II a man were to give another an
orange. he would merely say, 81 give you
this orange" but when the transaction is
intrusted 10 the hands of a lawyer to put
IL IN writing he adopts this form: 'I
hereby give, grant and convey TO you all
and singular my estate and interest. right
title, claim and advantage OF and sn the
said orange, together with all its rinf
skin, Juice. pulp and pips, and all right
and advantage therein, with full power TO
bite. cut, suck and otherwise eat the
same. or give the same away. as fully and
effectually as I. the said A 3. am now en-
titled 20 bite, cut. suck or otherwise eat
the same orange. or give the same away
with or without its rind, skin, Juice, pulp
and pips. anything herenbefore or here
matter, or in any other deed or deeds, in
strument or instruments, OF what nature
or kind sOever 10 the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding. "-Alamosa, Cal, In
Gependeut