New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-19


pered by inefficient administration. There is
now prospect OF improvement and any guam
tity of room for ii.
Ere another Presidential year comes around
Cyclone" Davis. Of Texas. will gather to him.
self such force that no name in the whole vo-
cabuary of atmospheric high jnks" will be
forceful enough 20 serve him for a nickname.
Cyclone. pshaw. mere spring zephyr. The
mighty State OF Texas is going to be turned into
a POI ulist Utopia where there will be rag
baby" in every cradle and the cultivation of
whiskers will be carried on as it has never been
done before. That all men are born with equal
facilities for the cultivation Of whiskers IS an
article OF Populistic doctrine. and In this new
Utopia It Is announced. there Is to be mo
monopolZirg the advantages by a few to the
exclusion OF the many" There is to be free
and unlimited coinage Of words in this ideal
community which is to be located near Arkansas
Pass. Tex. General Paul Vandervocrt. Of
Omaha is going shortly to lead thither pill
grImage OF $4,000 families from various States.
Texas Is TO be redeemed from Bourbonism. and
is to be "the one bright Populist State"
Luea Smith, a black Cincinnati woman OF
thirty is turning white, and the doctors account
for 1t on the theory of the absorption Of the cutie
uar pigment. They do not attempt to explain
how or why 1t takes place. In Raleigh N C.,
number Of negroes are also turning white, ana
the phenomenon is there ascribed to certain well
water which the bleaching Africans have been
I'm the habit of drinking. 1t is more likely white
wash. and will come off with the equinoctial.
1t Is really incredible. this story that the
III motto has cd
his Government that "all the principal public
men OF the United States regard the reforms
"for Cuba recently adopted by the Spanish Gov
"ernment as ample" Senior Dupuy de LONE is
serious diplomat, not given to testing on grave
topics.
The first National Congress of Mothers is in
session in Washington and Is discussing many
topics Of interest. When is the first National
Congress Of Fathers to be called?
| When the heather Chnee in California wishes
| to steal chickens he makes cooperative bust
| ness OF It, and this Is tn" way he sets about 1t
A dozen or two OF them. ca III with a dark-lan-
| tern, are distributed in various parts Of the
quarter where chickens are known to be kept
and an experienced specialist. with a crow ~
like ROSTERS that all in hearing answer it,
mounted on a roof gives 1Ortn MS clarion Inc
responses give precise token Of where the focks
! are kept, and the dark-lantern brigade goes al
its work in a precise and scientific manner. with.
out stumbling around I'm the dark in search OF
the roosting places Of the fowl. Thus saith
lecturer, the Rev O. G. Wheeler. in q fiery dis
course against the Chinese. declaring that he
has been a witness OF this ingenious and subtle
procedure The OF Swart Africa have ere
while carried of the palm in this line Of noe
turnal depreciation. but beside the slick ORR
entail they are. so to speak. nowhere.
Croker has a goodly cheek and a corpulent
unfolding as brass and tenacious az an India
rubber boot. but II he had the jowl Of a hip
popOtamus ne could not bluff through tn,
proposition that Tammany can be made re
spectacle.
In Tennessee a relic has been exhumed, con
sisting. according to the description. "of small
"clay image representing a turbaned figure will
"a vertical aperture the size Of ones finger II
Its head and a smaller perforation at a RICH
angle to this" The rush OF arch@ologists t.
that region should be. ut least temporarily ar
roatad by the suRRcstion that they can get plentJ