Arizona republican., 1898-05-16
rbo meek and lowlv natriot is also

| The meek and lOWly patriot is also
 getting there Draped across a base
 ment lodging, in humble street, is
 an ample flag, home made, the white stars cut out and sewed, quilt fash
 ion, laboriously to the blue ground l work, and the long stripes of red , bunting, with the edge turned in, stitched neatly in prim machine stitching to the white ground. The
 machine stitching is not regular, and the white stars are not any two of them alike, either in shape or size It i is possible that the differing glory and geography of the various states in the constellation was borne in mind by ! the cutter and sewer. But it answers the purpose.
 The bachelor girls of Gotham are going to have a big apartment house all to their "lonlies" The building is to be as much like bachelors apart ment house as possible, with elevator service day and night. This house Will have number but no name. Charges for rooms or suites are to be small, and no chaperon will be re- qulred. A restaurant is to be one of the features, where tenants can enter tain both men and women friends. This scheme will surely appeal to the independent woman But heaven help the janitor.
 Once more has Lillian Russell changed her name. By a decree of court, on and after June next the 1alr actress will be legally known again as Lillian Leonard Russell. In reality Lillian Leonard Russell is Mrs. Helen Louise Chatterton, wife of John Cnatterton, otherwise Signor Peru glnl, the singer. The ties of wedlock that bound Miss Russell to the actor singer have never been severed by the courts The matrimonial ventures of the prlma donna are too well known to need repetition. Three times during her stage career has she taken unto herself husband for better or for worse She wants to go back to first
 principles for business purposes.
 A number of enthusiastic patriots threw eggs at the Tribune building yesterday afternoon. The occasion was the appearance of a red and green chalk sketch of Weyler, the butcher, with which that staid paper had dis
 figured it's bulletin board. First there were misses, then came a large brick. narrowly missing the artist" and last of all, eggs were used. One egg struck Weyler in the eye, and then turned his left side whiskers yellow. and a fourth hit the bulletin man. Some arrests were made, but the up- roar didn'a cease until the butchers face was washed off the board.
 The whole world is watching the progress of Uncle Samuel's scrap with Spain. Every European newspaper Of prominence is sending war correspon- dents here, and Mexico and South America are also represented. The Novoe Vremya of St. Petersburg is al- ready on the ground ,as are the lead ing journals of London. Paris, Berlin and Frankfort The representatives of La Monda, printed in the City of Mexico, flies at least 1,500 words every day, and the man from Rio Janerio is also sending home a concise story as fast as the news develops. All of which means fatter dividends for the telegraph and cable companies, and a corresponding outlay on the part of the enterprising gentlemen who enable you to keep tab on the progress Nf the just punishment which is being meted out to a bombastic but cruel race. The sarcastic slaves of royalty will soon learn that we are neither a race of shopkeepers nor land of fanatics.