The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-22
EXCHANGE SAYINGS.

Cleveland's substitute has not been
heard from on the war question. In
all prO5a ability he knows a sight more
about war than Grover.-Southern
Mercury.
The trouble with most of those
lingo fellows in Congress is that their
heads were glued on before they were
seasoned, and the sap has melted the
glue. thus causing them to lose their
head.-Arkansas Kicker.
Chief Justice Fuller, has been re-
ported sick. If he has treated his own
| constitution as badly as he has the
constitution of the United States, his
condition must be deplorable. -Rail-
way Times.
Plutocracy owns the courts, hence
the millionaires can destroy law as
fast as they can be enacted.-South-
ern Mercury.
Two blind Republican chaplains for
Senate and H use at Was hington
seem appropriate selections, the blind
leading the blind In praying and prey
ing. New York Mercury.
John Bull is conquering this coun-
try without firing gun. He has pos
session Of the treasury now.-South-
ern Mercury.
Several substances whose OdOr is. to
Western nostrils, exceedingly repug-
nant, are highly e>tee med in the East
as perfumes. IL Persia and Afagan-
istan, aSOfOetida is considered deli
persons carry quantity Of it in their
pockets or in bag suspended from
the neck.-Rural Centre.
| No 1o
the spectators and robbed the farm
ess, as usual. Immediately after the
| appearance Of the war blast wheat
and cotton declined. Mr.. Cleveland
is determined to force the products of
LABOR down to the paupar notch If it
takes war to do it.-Southern Mer-
! curry.
There have been many thousands of
pages written upon the financial ques-
tiOn, and each writer has, to his own
| satisfaction, demonstrated the sound
ness of his position. But The Argus
| believes that the first thing to be
done is to get the Nations income
| great enough to cover it's expenses;
and then. If necessary to issue bonds.
! to issue them to Americans, Get out
Of the hands of the foreigners.-The
Moorhead Argus.
What subject for future ridicule
Grover Cleveland will be? His vari-
Gus humbugs. capped by his war mes
sage, will constitute subjects for the
comic almanacs OF the next genera
tion.-Southern Mercury.
The appointment of Walker of
massachusetts,, as chairman of the
House Committee on Banking and
Currency, is victory for the banks of
issue. The principal OF gov eminent
issue OF paper money has not a great
er enemy in the whole country than
this man Walker. He holds this
Craftsmanship by appointment of
Speaker Reed, and Reed is very
promint candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination--Misso uri
World.
Senator PETER proposes to reduce
the cost OF congressional funerals.
After this is &C mplished a move
ment should be started to reduce the
cost of live congress men.-Southern
Mercury.
1.-THE bonds have been underwritten
for two weeks, and if better terms
(boshD cannot be obtained at public
sale the -Morgan-R
syndicate will get them at figures al
agreed upon, and yet our cowardIy,
bribed Congress fails to impeach the
President and Secretary Of the treas
ury for high treason.-Sledge Ham
mer, Mea lville, Pa.
Roumania is the highest taxed
country in the world. Every bottle
of foreign wine has to pay shilling
duty. A case of whisky went from
the army and navy stores the other
day. The transport tax stamps and
other duties amounted to more than
the price of the whisky. There is
tax even on the female servants
Rural Centre.
Grover should take Debs advice, and
save his money and buy gun if he is
going to whip Johnny Bull.-Sou thern
Mercury.
If the newspapers were half as well
recompensed for the nice compliment
tary things they voluntarily give out
about worthy people and worthy in
situations, as they are denounced for
telling the plain unvarnished truth
occasionally about others or even for
keeping silence where the least said
the better. they would be rolling in
wealth.-Montevideo Leader.
The first alcoholic perfume was
Hungary water, made from rosemary |
by Elizabeth of Hungary, 1870, she |
having procured the recipe from a
Hungarian hermit. This perfume be-
came popular throughout all Europe |
in that and the succeeding century,
Rural Centre.
Why does not the United States
borrow what money it needs at home?
Why should great, rich nation like
the United States, be forced into the
money markets OF the stranger as a
borrower? Why should a multi-mi-
lionaire go to the pawnbrokers? Why
should there be panic every month
or two among the officials or the
Treasury? Why shouldn't there be
fnancier at the head of the Treasury,
instead Of common place attorney?
Why should the great governmet of
the United States farm out to syn.
dictate" the task Of protecting it's
credit? If there is necessity for a
loan to the government, why shouldn't
it be arranged for and offered to
Americans? What is the matter with
the motto, America for Americans
The Argus. Moorhead.
Jenny Lind's voice, at it's lest was a
high soprano of bright and remark
ably sympa thetic quality. reaching
from D below to in alt, the upper
register being stronger, clearer and
richer than the lower. She had also
very Ia roo wol do vp oDed limos that