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The next time the month of May goee
out after a temperature record we all
want ample notice Chicago Post.
Perhaps in the. course of time that Tur-
co-Grecian armistice will inst naturally
grow into real peace.-Chicago Post.
Lieut.. Peary may never reach the north
pole. out he will prove that his ambition
is never checked by failure. Baltimore
American.
Senators are now engaged in showing
how statistics may be made to work TO
prove either. side of se.-Baltimore
American.
The Sultan now realizes that he is not
the whole thing. but he doubtless thinks
he is all of it except the Czar.-Chicago
Evening Post.
There is a suspicion that Russia has a
cold deck" concealed somewhere. Every
time the Gear shows his hand he wins the
trick.-Chicago Tribune.
If Tllman can succeed in pitchforkinG
the sugar spectators of the Senate the
extra session will not have been in vain
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Greek army appears to be gathering
again at the pass of Thermopylae. This
is probably the starting point for the run
home.-Chicago Tribune.
Emperor William is uncertain and err
ratio about most things, but he may be
relied upon for consistent hatred of Eng
land.-Terre Haute Express.
Weyler says that he is ''about to pacify
Cuba" He is like the individuals spoken
of by Pope who ''never are, but always
10 be blest. New York Sun.
Meanwhile the six great powers of Eu-
rope are still talking. In the matter or
procrastination and lung power they are
simply sublime.-Chicago Post.
Utah opens fire upon Spain at long
range with her field piece. The boom or
her Cannon ought to waken the echoes
in her canyons.-Louisville Times.
If 1.-The original Mckinley man" was
boiled down so as to make fewer of him
the President might be able to do some
thing for him.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
American heiresses need not feel So
downclst. There will be a lot of new
dukes and earls created during the Eng
fish ju5ilee.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Greek campaign in the present war
has so far consisted of 80 per cent politics,
10 per cent of treachery and per cent Of
fghtng.-Cincinnat Commercial Tribune.
In spite of anonymous skull-and-cross-
bones communications, it may be assumed
that Mr.. Reed is safe from any except
oratorcal bombardments.- ashington
Star.
knowledge is power, and from the num-
Der of college graduates now being turned
out there ought to be n power of knowl-
edge available just at present-St. Louis
Republic.
The Cheyennes are reported ON the war
path. This news no longer rouses TO
mantle visions, for the modern Indian war
path leads not to glory, but the jail
Atlanta Journal.
tits to be hoped that Special Commits
sioner John w. Foster will succeed in
arranging for protection of the seals be-
fore the funeral of the last one occurs
Washington Star.
When Cincinnatus forsook his plow to-
serve his country he didn't consult the
Latin professors. In the language of the
late Jerry Rusk, he seen his duty and he
done ;t.-Baltimore Herald.
If the reports from Madrid are correct,
Gen. Weyler will have to give up the
great business opportunities afforded by
the Spanish commissary department in
Cuba. indianapolis News.
The Greek ministers have plenty of rea-
sons to which to ascribe the defeat of the
national arms, but explanations Of this
sort never afford any very substantial sat
isfaction.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Experince with campaign promises
does not seem to make our citizens any
wiser. They are going abroad and paying
English sharpers for jubilee procession
seats that do not exist.-Detroit Free
Press.
A Parnellite leader has been put out OF
the House of Commons because he refused
to sit down when ordered to do so by the
presiding officer. 1t is the old struggle
which England keeps up trying to make
Ireland sit down.-New Orleans Picay-
une.
There is talk in Madrid of sacrificing
weyler IN order to enable the conserva-
tives to keep in power. If the Cuban
boss has pocketed half a million dollars
of Spanish money, as reported, he must
be about ready to be acrifced.-Hartford'
Times.
1t is said that by using kites the signal
service will be able to issue weather pre-
dictions sixteen hours earlier than usual.
This makes little difference; what is real
ly wanted is a forecast which shall he-
about sixteen miles nearer the truth
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