The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-03-22
NEWS HND COMMENT

To- M, tneN nave recourse 10 tne ltIe-
graphic agencies, and that explains how
during the cuban war the English news
papers received daily services of five and
six thousand words by means of n special
apparatus installed in the editorial Office,
and which turned from morning to night
like Il windmill. All this matter was
supplied to the British newspapers
at the cost of their ordinary sub
scriptiun to the Geographic agency
aud it was materially impossible for the
agencies to recoup themselves without i'm
mense subvention from the Washington
Government. That explains the steady
and systematic hostility toward Spain of
all the false news which has enabled the
Americans to deceive the world. Without
the employment of such means the United
States would never have succeeded In
crushing Spain in the face OF q Europe In
stinctively hostile to their expansion
Aprupos of the dcafness of Joseph Medill,
the founder of the Chicago Tribune who
died recently, this unecdote Is told by a
writer I'm the Times Herald: When llar-
risou was first nominated for President
the convention was held in Chicago, Gres-
ham was strong candidate for the nom-
nation rheIe was a general understand
ing after Mr.. Medil had secured ChicaSo
aS tie place I'm which the convention
rs neutral ground and that the Chicago
dairrs should not make editorial comment
on he doings Of the convention and the
various candidates until after the nomin-
atiCn. Nevertheless daN after day Mr..
Medill had an editorial taroring Har-
rson and smashing the other candidates.
Finally congressman IIorr, OF Michigan,
Il strong Gresham man. accompanied by a
delegation Of protestants. called at Mr..
NrdiIl's office To urge him to dcsist. After
they had entered ana Mr.. llOrr had be
gun to protest Mr.. Medill laid down his
ear trumpet. Mr.. Ilorr talked earnestly
for thirty minutes. using every argument
possible t. change the policy Of Mr..
Mcdll i'm this matter When he han I'M
ished Mr.. Mcdil picked up his trumpet
aud asked.
"Did you say something AR. Horr?'
The delegation fled AT this reception,
and Mr.. Modill continued to 40 with the
Tribune as he pleased, Il privilege which
he maintained to the last
Nloudikr society has to do a good deal
nf imnr0Visii . AS this Seattle diapdtch
viii show: Miss Lydia Susan Raymond,
vino before going lC Alaska was cashier
of Il New York CiR restaurant, WAS mar
rird early In December at Fort Rampant
on the lower Yukon. under most peculiar
circumstances. She made q small fortune
selling hot Waffles nj 81 each. One Of hei
best Gust, mcrS wlS an old-time Yukon
character known as Captain Beers who
keeps RampaTt'S big saloon. Miss Ray
mond took sick following stampede TO a
newly discovered creek. Her little cabin
was not suitable for sick woman. Capt
Beers built her a substantial cabin and
then pers uaded her to marry him that he
might take care of her. She agreed, but
there was no minister. Fort Rampant is
without laws, so there was 40 Justice of
the Peace a scheme that has been used
in the north urder similar circumstances
was decided on. The miners were called
together and witnessed the signing of the
marriage contract. The Company's agent
then pronounced them man and wife.
Including eight performances Ia be
given this week, the season Of grand
opera to come to an end next Saturday
Will. says 4 New Ork correspondent, nave
comprised ninrty-ninc performances OF
twcnty-svVen different operas. and II is
significant that the Wagner operas have
enjoyed the greatest popularity of all
I here will. at the end of this week, nave
been a total of forty performances of
Wagner opera. "Lohengrin" leading the
uucessiuu with niue performances. This
hi,.s been by far the most successful sea-
son of uNcra ever experienced in New
York Successful financially as well as ar
tiStiCaly. The people have enjoyed Tho
greatest operas SuLg by The greatest SING
rrS AMI the management has reaped a
golden harvest of American dollars. So
rveryhody Is pleased.
Dewey's fleet now includes the battle
ship Oregon the monitors Monterey and
MonadnOck. the cruisers Olympia, Balti-
more. Boston, Buffalo. Charleston. and
the gunbuats Concord, Bennington, York
town, Munocacy, Helena, Princeton
Wheeling. CusIinr Petrol. Don Juan de
Austria, iSl4 de Lu2on. Isla dc Cuba and
Vixen. or mis- r"llaneOuS vessels there are
th. Callao Culgoa. Iris, Manila, Naushan
Snlacr ANA Iafiro, while the Scindia. al
Honolulu. belongs to the squadron. There
are. also the Rrutus aud Celtic that go "a
and from Manila and the Yosemite viii
Z" lrSt to Manila and then to Guam
Ocean tugs. it iS said. are also 10 he sent
to Manila.
People who have "A grudGe against tele-
phone companies in general VIII, says inc
sun be pleased ITO know that the women
OF New South Wales refused 10 he ground
down by any soulIess corporation. TheN
determined to get the worth of the tele'
phone rent, no matter how much time Vt
took so they CCnversed over the wires
by the hour until the central office p"o-
pie were driven to distraction Things gol
to such a point that the postmaster gen
Grad i'm Sydrry was appealed 10, and ht
issued am order forbiddng loquacious wo'
men from monopolizing Il telephone fol
more than ten minutes at "a time.
There has been a surprising and unac-
cOuntablc decrease i'm the number OF mar
riages annually performed in Cincinnati
since lSu. I'm that year, when the populd
tinn of the city was 9a6. .9n6. 3343 maniagt
licenses were issued in Hamilton county
In lS!5 the popula alton was 33bo$ and th'
number of licenses 367; in 1857 the popu
lation rose To 10000 and the marriages de
crea sed 10 yS6I, and last year, with FUR
ther Increase in the number of inhdbit
ants. there were but 2A1 marriages re
corded
SAYS Zurewill "AmeriCm audiences
/ are inte7ligently appreCiatire, sometime
! cfusVe | remember, at the close of on'
/ of my lectures, a lady rushed eNcitedly a
| me. eXclaimhg: 'Oh, Mr., Zangwil,
realty cannot go urtil I have shaker
! hands" I grasred her hand cordially, say
I ing: Madame, do not let me prevent yo'
/ from going
When the new State Board Of Chartiat
! Of Kansas investigated the insane asylum
| at Topeka they found four luna.iCs run
ming the heating plant, while the men en-
/ ployed to do the work were sitting arounC
a beer keg playing cards.
SUI GENERIs.
/ From the Philadelphia Record.
| The two VOYAGES of the Oregon :,rnIIu,