New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-01

BY Europe's craven chivalry. ,,.u.,,,
r.odzooks-The trouble with the Democratic party
is that It isn't doing anything
Zounds-You're wrong there; 1t has been indus-
tr,ouslv building a mausoleum. and now It Is won
darine whether Cleveland or Bryan will get into IT,
No Room for Doubt used to think" said the
man with the melancholy mien, that many OF
these gibes at messenger boys were UNJUST pu'
I'm afraid that isn't the case
i've Of them practising iHr nUSrs eTes t
ting OF his bicycle"-(Washingt Star.
In speaking OF the new municipal administration
Of Chicago The Times Herald" says:
Here is the way the new Council will start:
"A gambler and saloonkeeper for leader and
chairman of the Finance Committee
"A saloonkeeper for chairman Of the Committee
on Streets and Alleys South.
"A saloonkeeper for chairman or the committee
on Streets and Alleys West.
"A saloonkeeper for chairman Of the Committee
on Elections
"A saloonkeeper for chairman Of the Committee
on Gas oil and Electric Light.
"A saloonkeeper for chairman OF the Committee
on License.
There Is not another standing committee In the
Council except the Committee Streets and
Alleys North that will pass upon an ordinance
granting n franchise ard that committee may have
a saloonkeepcr for It's chairman. The taxpayers
can guess how a Council organized in this way will
finish"
His Place.-watts-Not how baldheaded the
Potts-Yes And can't understand why he isn't
at the front Of those baet-skrted troops.-dndian-
apois Journal
There are two business men in an English town
named /. Came and H. f. Went.
Smiths young Flywedge practising law -.
William-I think not. He was called TO the bar,
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Bits.
In the time OF the Sutan's predecessor the
seragllos buildings stretched along the banks OF
the Bosporus for mile and half. and contained
some four thousand persons. the household order
and arrangement being much as they are at pres
emit The Sultan's mother. when he has mother
receives a servle obedience from all Its inmates;
then comes the Hasnadar Ousta. or Mistress Of
the Treasury generally a shrewd old woman. pro-
NOTED from the ranks of the servants for her
talent for housekeeping and gossip. IL the Sui
TAM Valide dies. the Hasnadar succeeds her I'm
der Abdul Medjid tho seraglio was long ruled by
a washerwoman. whose chief adviser a Bal
tad,c or newer OF wood, who could not read. but
had the power of dsmissng Vizers. The Sultan's
four Kadlnes come next. who rank as spouses TIL
he divorces them and marries them TO some OF the
Pachas Then there are five or six Ikbals or IA
vorites; then the Guieuzedes 0rom gu!euz. eye
girls who have attracted the masters glance)
Every woman who marrles from the seraglio takes
with her. besides n large portion In cash. her cloth
Ing jewels, furniture. carriages and servants At
ter thtm come the Kadines- Effendis the mothers
OF the Su.an's children then tho unmarried prin-
cesses OF the royal blood then the foster mo Tiers
and foster-ssters Of the Sultana or princes or prn
cesses Among the attendants are chamberlain
secretaries. guards, eunuchs. scullions. cooks
pages musicians. dancing girls dwarfs bufroons
priests astrologers. BARRIERS and shampooers
tasters OF the Sutans food athletes cock hg hters
ram-hghters. jugglers. and grooms to look after
the five hundred horses contained In the imperial
stables. Tales Of victory from the Thessslian
mountain passes now thrill this extensive house
hold. making It buzz and hum like Q swarm OF
Paphlagonian bees; its note of exultation likely to
strike into rnother key whenever the inconr'a ant
bird OF victory changes It's perch from standard
to The other.
A little girl In a Pennsylvania town. In saying
her prayers the other night, was told to pray for
her father and mother. who were both very H. and
for one OF the servants, who had lost her husband
She faithfully did rs she was told, and then. i'm
pressed with the dreary condition OF things added
OF yourself, for II anything should happen TO
you we should al 80 to pieces. Amen"-tPittsburg
Chronicle