The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-02-18
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! OF course the stage can be elevated
Try dynamite Times Union.
Spain might manage to get along with
the American filibusters if she only could
control the reporters.-Baltimore Amerl-
| can.
| The New York Legislature has begun a
| crusade for pure beer A New York poll
tician is always after drink of some sort.
| Atlanta Journal.
| Senator Villas seems 10 think that the
Nicaragua canal will not amount to any
thing more than a drain on the treasury.
Detroit Free Press.
| Mr. Havemeyer is once more required
to devote himself to the mOnOtony of as
suring an incredulous public that trust
| is a public blessing 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.-BaltimOr 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 a day or sO.-ChlcagO Dis
patch.
| Butler the Australian who is charged
with having killed fourteen men. is un-
duly encouraging the Holmes brand of
sensational ournalism.-Chicago 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 if Gen. WeyIer 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 maxi
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-cut 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 a theater
at 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
ernment aid the canal might be open for
business to-day.-Buffalo Express
Men who have been cured of cOnsump-
tion-and numerous cures are announced
are thought to be men who never had
the disease, although they may have
thought sO.-New Orleans Picayune
1t is noted that the number of countesses.
who are getting divorced these days is
only exceeded by the number who are
eloping Court circles have not been so
gay in long time.-New York Advertiser.
There will be no serious regret that
Idaho has sent a man 70 the Senate who
cannot speak the English language fluent
ly. The fuency 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
serious time he must expect at the
hands of the office seekers.-Evening
Journal.
Legislatures which impose fine of So
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 Washing
ton Star
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 a dozen.
Chicago Times-Herald.
That State Capitol Fire.