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control the eporters.-Baltimore Ameri
can.
The New York Legislature has begun q
crusade for pure beer A New York poll
tician IL always after drink Of some sort
Atlanta Journal.
Senator Villas seems to think that the
Nicaragua canal will not amount to any
thing more than n drain on the treasury,
Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Havemeyer IL once more required
to devote himself to the monotony OF as
suring an incredulous public that trust
is public blessing. Washington Star.
Alaska's boundary line Is to be investi-
gated by commission. Commissions are
very popular these days. They don't have
to pay the freight.-Baltimore American.
1t is believed that Mr.. Cullom would be
willing to quit looking like Lincoln long
enough to feel like Lyman j. Gage or
John Sherman day or so.--Chicago Dis
patch. pt
| Butler, the Australian who Is charged
with having killed fourteen men, is IN
duly encouraging the Holmes brand of
sensational observation-disclosures Times
Herald.
| Indiana may have three times as many
poets as Ohio. but Ohio has more politi-
| clans than Indiana has, and there is more
money in politics than in poetry.-Chicago
| Tribune
| Those women who want to enter the
| diplomatic service evidently don't know
that ambassadors sometimes know things
that they are not allowed to tell.-Cleve-
land Leader.
| After all, there is reason in Chicago's
| agitation against the Sunday church bells.
A man can't talk up against bar near so
well when such noise is going on.-New
York Press.
1t does seem as II Gen. Weyler and the
| insurgents would get together before
| many moons. If they were ocean liners
they would have collided long ago.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
A man who hangs about legislative halls
| is not necessarily a lobbyist, but If he is
| engaged in legitimate business he is max
| ing an awful waste of time.-New York
Evening Journal.
Azcarraga is the name of the fierce gen.
tleman who will come TO Cuba and let Mr..
Weyler go home to supper. That name
! sounds like a cross-eut saw in a hurry
| Baltimore Life.
Many people are surprised to learn that
any liquor gets into the Senate, but they
mustn't think the Senators are always
dry because their speeches are.-Bing-
hamton Leader.
The project to open in Paris n theater
ut which only moral plays will be produc-
ed seems to be an effort to stop the ex-
portation of Partisan plays to the United
States.--Chicago Tribune.
The history of modern naval operations
shows that our giant fighting machines are
much more deadly for their own men in
times of peace than for the enemy in times
of war.--Chicago Times-Herald.
If the friends of the Nicaragua canal
had been as active in building the canal
as they have been in trying TO get Gov
eminent aid the canal might be open for
business to-day.--Buffalo Express.
Men who have been cured Of consump-
tion-and numerous cures arc announced
are thought TO be mon : no never had
the disease, although tloy mcy have
thought so.-Ncw Orleans =, ..-;;;;:le. -
1t is noted that the number of countesses
who are getting divorced these days is
only exceeded by the number who are
clipping. Court circles have not been so
gay in a long time.-New York Advertiser.
There will be no serious regret that
Idaho has sent man to the Senate who
cannot speak the English language fluent
ly. The fluency of the present Senate is
one of Its worst faults.-Providence Jour
nal.
The announcement that President-elect
Mckinley has taken out $4,000 life in
surance shows that the man realizes what
a serious time he must expect at the
hands of the office seekers.-Evening
Journal.
Legislatures which impose fine of 50
or So for wearing high hat to the theater
may, after all, have accomplished nothing
more than to increase the expense of the
occasion for the lady's escort-Washing-
ton Star.
Eastern husbands who have lost a quar-
felsome half of themselves have Clipped
in $4,000 to test the Dakota and Okla
homa divorce laws. Some men never
know when they are well off.-Minneapo-
lis Journal.
w ne0 the news spTeuus tuht lO,OOO
sandwiches will be accessible in the pen
sion building on the night of the inaugu-
ration another Coxey pilgrimage to Wash
ington must be guarded against immedi.
ately.-Chicago Record.
There is something wrong somewhere;
thousands of able-bodied, intelligent
American workingmen are unable to keep
the wolf from the door, but terrapin are
reported in active demand at $40 dozen.
Chicago Times Herald.
The school children of Chicago are
Obliged to bring their drinking water,
boiled, from home in bottles. Evidently
the purity of thee water supply of the
Windy City is n perfect match for the
purity of its politics. Ameri-
can.
A Massachusetts minister has declined a
81 600 raise in his salary, on account of
the hard times, and now they're talking
about firing him for lack of sense With
this object lesson we do not believe any
raises will be refused in this neighbor-
hood.-Rome Sentinel.
President Cleveland has pardoned a citi-
zen who was imprisoned for swearing in
side the corporation of Washington, ID. G.
The President himself, perhaps, knows
the temptations in that line which beset
fellow as soon as he reaches Washington.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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