The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-02-25
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Wagner operas this year, but very little
money.-Chicago Tribune.
AS previously there is a great deal more
word-painting than craftsmanship III the
Cuban war.-Washington Star.
When the Siberian Railroad is opened
you can go around the world in forty days
if you can get a pass.-Boston Globe.
Senator Hill saws members of Congress
do not get drunk. What on earth can be
the matter with them, then?-BuffaiO
Express.
There is no longer a pebble on the
Hicks Beach. Sir Michael has thrown 1T
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 diver-
sion for the world by executing a miit4T
couchee-couchee i'll 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 perpley-
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 -zggesting something equally as
good ''-Washington Star.
Senetor Morgan. as usual, is opposed TO.
about everything in sight. and his volu-
bility rolls on as regularly as interest Oh a
mortgage. Baltimore American.
Perhaps the sovereign State of Nevada
would consent to let the Gorbett- F'itzsim-
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 he caught up iE
some other States.-Boston Globe.
Now comes the Congress of Mothers in
Washington. Let's hope it will set the
Congress of fathers a good example in
the dispatch of businese.-Boston Herald.
l. doesn't seem possible that the Cor
t-FitzsimmOns fight will amount TO
anything Neither has as yet referred tC
the other as Il ''cowardly cur."-Cleve-
land Leader.
Prince George of Greece is a cycIist,
That settles it, The Turks may as well
let Crete he 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 d
rip round the world. You go d long dis
ance and you see and hear much. and
hen-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 lie run through a sau-
sage machine.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Representative Sutton's bill in the In
diana Legislature against printing menu
cards in French is undoubtedly Il revenge
ON the hotel man who gave him potatoes
when he ordered ''pomlnes de tcrre.''-Chi-
cago Journal.
III Michigan they are trying 10 induce
Gov. Pipgree TO take Mayor Pingree by
The nape of the neck and toss him out of
oHice. Thus far. however. the Governor
has been inclined to stand by the Mayor.
cleveland Leader
Europe may have an occasional war
scare but A 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.
The Bradley Martin Ball.
The Bradley Martin ball was tame af-
fair. 1t passed off without a single fight.
Knoxville Tribune.
Mrs. Martin has been more talked about
and more lied about than any public per
sonage of recent years.-Sew Haven Pa
ladium.
All that the Bradley Martins need now
to put them right up in tS% Vanderbilt
Astor class is a salacious divorce case
St. Louis POst-Dispatch.
Speaking Of the Bradley Martin ball. il
is said that there are over 30G families
in one section of Arkansas that are living
on Washington Post.
The exOrbitant cost of these displays of
wealth do not promote healthy national
life There is in them heartlessness,
worldliness and emptiness.-kansas City
Times
The Bradley Martin ball has taken place
and the S2J0.0UO has been distributed
among ''the poor The family Will now
go to work to see how quickly IL can get
the money away from the poor again
Denver Times.
John Nicholas Brown i the name of
man who has just given $4,000 TO the
Providence public library. and il is as well
worth printing as if he had spent the
money on u fancy ball.-St. Louis Globe