New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-05

The result ~ the constitutional election In
New-Jersey seems 10 be mot so worse" after all.
The news that Osman Digra Is retiring to ON
durham Is distinctly precious. That worthy mas
hitherto been reported killed in battle ninety
seven times. murdered forty-eght times. com
mItted suicide eleven times. and otherwise put
..or the earth" twenty three times. Total, l'9
times: besides learning to ride a bicycle. And
n, still lives II IL time for Bulwer Lytton to
come TO He and write n postscript 70 The
Haunters and the Haunted"
Good speed to Columbia University in It's new
home. with a distinguished record. an unsur-
passed location and an unequalled opportunity
4, should achieve great things.
Sheriff Guthrie. Of Glasgow. Scotland. whose
posltion is similar To that OF n county Judge
here has been freeing his mind on the subject
Of .'picketng" Mt works where strikes in
rroCress He admits that men on strike are "en-
titled TO watch the gates Of a workplace for the
purpose Of procuring Information. hut for no
other purpose whatever. and would regard
efforts at conversation and augmentation with
N workman continuing in the employment as
"lntimldaiion and therefore an offence against
the law"
yoa q railroad - Dawson city nigh. be oper-
a;ed all the year round. So might one 10 the
Noria Pole Provided they were built under
ground.
The Western Indian is pursued by the land
shark as hungrlly as he used TO pursue the
buffalo and now the ponsive and innocent Choc-
taw is about to sell out his holdings In the Indian
Territory and remove to Mexico. Within year
,.fn no
and the unhappy Choctaw Will find himself i'm
poycrishcd fn an alien country which will not
undertake his support rs the United States has
done It ia Il poor outlook for him. but he will
at least get some valuable experience in ex-
change for his real estate holdings and the
money for which he sells them
The Heather Chinee has discovered n new
RAJ hole OF insrcss into the country. and now
comes In on foreign consular certificates. some
kirk I'm the law permitting Till It is Strengthened
out and the aperture aforesaid plugged up. His
eaCerness to get I'm Is manifest on every hand. as
well as hts claverness In lodging all our statutes
and barbed wire fences 81 exclusion. With these
once removed. II Is apparent that Oriental pig
tails would speedily take possession of the coun-
try. and not only run It's primaries. bur make its
laws. and in all probability. its ballads likewise
with n corn crop assured in four S;ates-Iowa.
Kansas. Nebraska and Missour--of nearly one
billion bushels added To the Astounding wheat
crop the march OF General Prosperity through
out the land ought To he accelerated to a double
quick step.
The rush Of capital upon the gas franchises
of the various cities throughout the country
points the moral that there IS good deal Of
money In them, or that promoters are able to
persuade investors that there Is. Even Ph.la-
dciphia's y-year-od municipal gas plant
heretofore conducted n political rather than
n business basis. bids fair to be handed over
To- lcssees. the argum mt In favor OF this proceed
IRE being that under private management the
uuaIity OF the gas will be improved and it's cost
diminished There is quite likely a cat In he
meal tub OF this contention, but the animal
Will not be on view TIL later.
The voters Of the new municipality Will scarce
" be heartless enough TO interfere with Henry
Georges literary labors by eectlng him the first
Mayor of Greater NewYork.
Bismarck thinks that the Franco Russian al
larce doesn't amount to much. II Il does let
them publish IT, so that the world may Judge
Of It's Importance. He says that he gave to the
public the terms OF the Austro- German alliance
In 1883. Why should not Faure exhibit canal
courage and candor? He omits however IN
p,ention that re never made n,,hI,, 49,.