The morning times., 1896-11-15

Historically in the mad rush after either
scientific or financial data. There Is
new blush rose in the cheek Of Pepita and
Carmencita which tells the tale much
better than the inflow of gold or the defeat
of Col. Jack Chinn in Kentucky.
1t is now standing joke in the street
piano exchange that the peripatetic ltal
ian ladies did moi get into the push for
nothing. Another 1enaissance joke in that
exchange is that 'hen the street pianos
now play ''God Sage the Texas" Gor only
He cam the lady impressarios have to
raise their umbrci As against the shower
of free silver frtHn the balconies and
boudoir windows We, think, however.
that this tx slightly exaggerated, as was
the Republican majority in Texas.
BRISK BANANA MARKET
Secondly: Who is SO poor as not to 10
reverence TO the fact that he is now able
to bu bar mas at retail in these lead piping
timesof peace and good will to all hucksters?
1t is q good skater, indeed, who does nOt
fall down ON that fact every time hc now
essays to thread his way In the busy mats
and especially en- route to catch q car at
Seventh and the Avenue. although a great
many accidents OF this kind have been re-
ported from the pavement right under the
very eyes OF Hancock superbus.
1t is very certain that Elizabeth Barr,t
Browning would never have written the
Cry OF the Children had she lived In
these days OF cheap bananas and the free
distribution of their mortal remains And
yet there is lingering hostility in the
breasts and up the sleeves of many Of our
countrymen against that good queen OF
Spain whose royal forbears gave us Saiut
Colombo and the discarded peel or the pre-
mature meteoriC shower
This is said only by way OF emphasizing
the size pf the open-air huckster business
iE West Indian cholera morbus, and With
out prejudice to those who from patri-
otic reasons prefer American ice on the
boulevards to, Imported banana skates.
We prefer, ice ourselves. II appears TO
he always in eur reach in the winter
time.
We We're sitting IN one Of the sunniest
parks Gf the Northwest last Tuesday
watching the dreamy Pclopponesian float
of three queens who were robed princi-
pauy in ermine necklaces and mink buas
They looked like vestal Virgins Just from
the flaming affairs, and as they passed
ancestral oaks which the caterpilier
Washingtoniana had not totally eNter-
minated, we sighed to think that We did
not belong by birth or prescriptive title
to that charmed circle.
And yet one of them said 10 the other,
These is the best times that ever come
down the pike and the other two shil
that the speaker had ehewed the rag
to some purpose We then knew that there
were places for gentlewomen to burn III
good families, and that the roseate hue "f
more than 81 week had dawned upon
the District with, a dawn that had MT
been surpassed since the first sun lighted
up the green scales of the 1cthyosaurus
in the Age of Reptiles and Private De-
tectives.
Thirdly: 1t is true that there has been
unwonted mobilization of the hypnotic
forces of womankind since the first Tnes-
day after the first Monday i'll the current
November? The statistics prove the fact
that many women, whose first husbands
are now actually at rest, have obtained
re-marriage licenses and mean to get mai