The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
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Fius is built of slippery elm.-New York
Press.
A great denl of noise is made over the
Wagner operas this year. but very little
mOncy.--GhicaC Tribune.
| As previously. there is Il great deal more
word-painting than craftsmanship in the
| Cuban war.-Washngto Star.
| When the Siberian Railroad is opened
you can 20 around the world in forty days
if you can get a pass.-Boston Globe.
| Senator Hill says members of Congress
SO not get drunk. What on earth can he
The matter with them, then?-Buffalo
Express
| There is no longer a pebble on the
Hicks Beach. Sir Michael has thrown it
at the Franco Russian alliance.-Mon-
treal Star.
| That blockade in Charleston harbor ap-
pears to have been fashioned after the
| pattern of one of Weyler's trochas.--Chi-
cago Tribune.
England might make two treaties. One
| for arbitration with the United States
and another for war with the Senate
Chicago News.
If England persists in bullying the other
| European powers it may find out after a
while that insularity does not insulate.-
Chicago Tribune.
England and France may furnish dive
| sion for the world by executing military
couchee-cOuchee in the streets of Cairo
| New York Advertiser.
Legalizing prize fights is disgraceful, of
| course, but it would disgrace some States
less than others. Nevada isn't hurt much.
kansas City Journal.
There seems to be considerable perplex-
ity as to who started the latest Cretan up
rising and more perplexity as to who will
stop it.-Chicago Tribune.
In connection with the arbitration treaty
the Senate is experiencing some difficulty
in suggesting something equally as
good. Star.
Senator Morgan. as usual, is opposed to
about everything in sight, and his volu-
bility rolls on as regularly as interest on
mortgage.-Baltimor American.
Perhaps the sovereign State of Nevada
would consent to let the Corbett-Fitzsim
mons fight be settled by international ar
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
1t is proposed to turn the Michigan
State House into an insane asylum. The
suggestion is liable to be caught up i'll
some other States.-Boston Globe.
Now comes the Congress of Mothers in
Washington. Let's hope it will set the
Congress of fathers good example in
the dispatch of business.-Boston Herald.
1t doesn't seem possible that the Cor
-Fitzsimmons fight will amount to
anything Neither has as yet referred to
the other as ''cowardly cur.'-Cleve-
land Leader.
Prince George of Greece is a cyclist!
let Crete be annexed to Greece. The
Prince will 'scorch' his way through
Buffalo News.
Doubtless the drum major fancies he
bosses the parade. 1t is that way with
some politicians. because they are in the
procession they imagine they are leading
the party-Baltimore American.
A Lexow investigation is much like a
trip round the world. You go a long dis
tance and you see and hear much, and
then-you finish just where you started.-
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Now that microbes four inches long are
being discovered in Chicago drinking
water. we suggest that in addition to be-
ing boiled. it also be run through saul
sage Observation-Disclosures Commercial
Tribune
Representative Sutton's bill in the In
diana Legislature against printing menu
cards in French is undoubtedly revenge
on the hotel man who gave him potatoes
when he ordered ''pommes de terre.'-Chi-
cago Journal.
In Michigan they are trying to induce
Gov. Pingree to take Mayor Pingree by
the nape of the neck and toss him out of
Office Thus far, however, the Governor
has been inclined TO stand by the Mayor.
Cleveland Leader.
Europe may have an occasional war
scare, but Africa and Cuba and South
America do the real fighting. There is
peace in Europe, mainly because the
standing armies are holding war down.
Baltimore American.
Oklahoma wants TO come in as a State.
Now, if Uncle Sam had the chance to
trade off two or three Of the States he has
on hand he might well afford to dicker.
but just now Oklahoma will have to wait.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Thousands of people are said to be on
the verge of starvation in Louisiana. 1t
is all very well to send grain to the Ar
menians. but it is also well to bear in mind
the saying that true charity begins at
American.
The Rrol1ey Martin Rail
The Bradley Martin ball was tame af-
fair 1t passed off without single fight
Tribune.
Mrs. Martin has been more talked about
and more lied about than any public per-
sonage of recent years.-New Haven Pa
dium.
All that the Bradley Martins need now
to put them right up in the Vanderbilt
Astor class is Il salacious divorce CASE
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Speaking of the Bradley Martin ball, it
is said that there are over 800 families |
in one section of Arkansas that are living
on turnips.- ashington Post
The exorbitant cost of these displays of |
wealth do not promote a healthy national |
life. There is in them heartlessness, |
worldliness and emptiness.-Kansas City |
Times.
John Nicholas Brown is the name of |
man who has just given S2O.0s0 to the |
Providence public library, and it is as well
worth printing as if he had spent the
money on a fancy ball.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Bradley Martin ball has taken place
and the $25O,00O has been distributed
among 'the poor" The family will now
20 10 work to see how quickly it can get
the money away from the poor again.
Denver Times.
Those who have had the good fortune to
ook upon IL cake walk and chilling supper
n the upper crust of colored society should
De able To form Il pretty fair conception
IF that midwinter affair ut the Waldorf.
Times.