The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-02-04
TRIBUNETS.


State on the population and resources of q fair
sized County, naturally finds the need of more
revenue, and has decided to license prize-fghts
at $1,000 fight. 1t will take five of these to
pay the salary of the Governor, and Is more to
pay the salaries of the Lieutenant-Go Governor.
Secretary of State, Treasurer and Attorney
General, to say nothing of the Chief Justice
and several other high-salaried officials. 1t is
doubtful if 90 frst-class prize.fghts can be
pulled Off in Nevada in one year. which would
be two and e-half a month. But 1t is cacu-
lated that considerable revenue may be raised
through sale of liquor and sandwiches to the
visitors. do not know of any State where a
prize-f fight could take place with less demorali-
cation to the community. Nevada is about
twice as big as Indiana, with population at
the last census of only 45,761 people. Fewer
real citizens would be affected by prize-fght
than anywhere else in the country that such
an affair could be pulled off. The railroads
should be compelled to sell only one-way
tickets so that if the bigger part of the visitors
should Ego broke" by betting on the wrong
man, they would be left as permanent settlers
in the sage Brush to the great relief of the
They claim that Henry Heitfelt, whom the
Populists have elected Senator from Idaho, has
q very limited and imperfect acquaintance
with the English language. This will not
stand in the way of his entire success as Pop
ulist orator. These, as a rule, have only
limited and imperfect acquaintance with any.
thing. All he needs is to learn by rote small
vocabulary Of epithets about the crime of '73,"
"Wall Street bloodsuckers," ETC.. and repeat
these constantly and savagely. The more he
knows the less likely he is to succeed ia the
Populist forum.
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They say that the costlest product in the
world is the carbon flament for incandescent
lights. It. is worth from $4,000 to $4,000
pound, but it takes ], SOC, 600 filaments to make
pound. They are all made by one man in
Paris, who protects his secret by not letting his
NAME be published.
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The examination papers Of a school boy gave
his ideas on human physiology:
"The human body is divided into three parts
tho head, the chist, and the stumick. The
head contains the eyes aud brains. if any. Tie
chist contains the lungs and piece OF the
liver. The stumick is devoted to the bowels.
of which there is fve-a ., j, o. U, and some
times and ,"
NJ
San Francisco Argonaut: The San Francisco
police have recently been enforcing the law pro-
hibiting work on Sunday, especially, againstthe
Chinese lanndrymen. Last Sunday as large
load of these offenders was being carted to the
Jail in the police ambulance. resident OF the
Western Addition ask ed policeman the reason,
and was informed. Yep" grunted a dis
gusted Chinaman, imam workee Sunday he 60
jail-'gainst law workee Sunday. Man no
workee he so jail-vag. America heap hell OF
county,"
Life: Are you acquainted with any society
people?
o, yes. know . thing or two.
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Town Topics: Daughter-George says that
he fears that he will not be able to support me
| in the style I've been accustomed to.
Father-Marry him, anyhow. can't keep
it up much longer myself.