New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-04

fnitely superior to beefsteaks cooked unoer the
pommel OF the saddle Tartar fashion.
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A Boston workman was sent TO fashionable
residence to make some repairs, and Immediately
after he left the building valuable watch and
chain were missed from room which Only ne
and the mistress of the house had entered He
was charged with the theft. arrested and locked
I'd. when the watch was found. having been re-
moved by the womans little daughter, Every
effort was made to repair the wrong TO the I'M
Justly imprisoned man. but he declined ell apollo
gies and offers of remuneration. and insisted
that as he might have been convicted and
ruined by the charge, he must go into court and
receive his acquittal there, which was done, thus
rescuing him from situation Of peculiar diff
Guilty and peril.
The Supreme Court once more brings to light
the fact that there Is rapid-transit problem In
this town. If anybody thinks 1t is not worth
solving, let him jam himself into an elevated or
cable car at o'clock on one Of these hot nights.
Professor Gates has made the discovery that
bad feeling and wickedness create harmful
chemical products in the body. while goodness
and benevolence create products which are
healthful. "Of all the chemical products Of emo
tons" he says, that of guilt is the worst. II
the perspiration Of q person suffering from this
feeling be placed In q glass bowl and exposed 10
contact with selenic acid II will turn pink"
Other emotions show other colors. so that X the
professors theory is correct the true character
Of a person readily be ascertained by expos
ing his perspration to certain chemical prepara-
lions. Candidates for public office may come to
he treated that way, after which no doubt OF
their qualities one way or the other can possibly
exist.
Keely's motor shows a serper tine sign Of life
in the tail end Of its history. and is perhaps
being galvanized into vitality for the purpose of
working It off the Debs Commonwealth,
which does not yet know it is dead.
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IT, as appears to be the case, the decision Of
the Appellate Division gives the Metropolitan
Traction Company all the legal authority it
needs for going to work TO change the motive
power on the Sixth and Eighth ave. lines, the
public earnestly desires the company to go 10
work forthwith and finish the job as soon as
possible. There Is a hdeous prospect of up
turned and blockaded streets before u.s. and the
only conceivable consolation is the hope that
there will he no unnecessary delay in demon
strating that an underground trolley either Is
or Is not the best system Of streetcar propu-
sion.
with the costly array Of the worlds arra-
ments the mortality Of war steadily diminishes.
that between Greek and Turk. just closed hardly
being greater than what befell at the collision
which broke up society upon the Stanis-
laus" The old days of hard, downright hand
to-hand fighting, like that practised by Hercules
and RusteH, and the heroes Of the Mahabharata
and the Ramayana, and Saladin and Richard
Cpur de Lion. and Roland of Roncesvaes, are
gone, with no sign Of returning
IT'S gone, the archers craft.
No tough arm bends the springing yew.
And jolly draymen ride In lieu
OF death upon the shaft.
So destructive have all the instrumentalties
Of war become that everybody keeps out Of
range of them, and nobody to speak Of is slain
or much injured. I. is happy contamination,
perhaps, preluding the entire disappearance of
fighting a means Of settling differences among
mankind.