The National tribune., 1899-08-17

Grated peaches are supplied also as part Of
the regular ration for health's sake.
The gossips think that Secretary Roots
call on Gen. Merritt, in New York, may
they hint that Gen. Merritt may resume
his old command at Manila. This seems
unlikely. Gen. Merritt has acted OF late
years as if he had quite enough of active
service. Besides, he has taken unto him
self a young wife.
One Of the queer happenings has been
an exchange OF places between the Auditors
OF the War and Navy Departments. This
exchange was not voluntary. but according
to orders. MIR. Frank H. Morris, Auditor
of the Navy Department, has shown es-
pecial ability in bringing up the work OF
his office, while it is claimed that Mr.. w.
V. Brown, Auditor of the War Department,
has allowed his to fall behind. Therefore,
the transfer.
About $50 Of the men holding minor
positions in the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing had their pay increased last week
but six have been receiving as much as
$1,000 a year. The rest got from $500 to
5000. Printers assistants, to the number
Of 60, were raised from $500 to $47O year
and 45 operatives were advanced from
$3.50 to S54S a year.
Scene ON New York Avenue one day
last week:
Small pickaninny made supremely hap
py by getting five cents from his mother tc
buy Long Desired Hoop.
Retailer complacent over getting the
aforesaid five cents in exchange for the
| aforesaid Long Desired Hoop.
InE ntnIF frn ,,,,f1
| tlcipation into the delights of possession
and gleefully trundles the Long Desired
Hoop away.
Long-Desired Hoop slips down the slot ir
the electric road, and with the usual per
versity Of inanimate things, makes init
mate contact with the electric conductor.
| P1ckanlnny reaches out to recover his
Long-Desired Hoop, receives a shock thai
sears his young Senegambian soul with
strange terrorS. AS soon as he can, runs
away howling.
| Long-Desired Hoop sees the oppor
tunIty of its irouic life, and short-circuits
the entire line for miles and for hours.
| cars stop everywhere with the stoliC
indifference to fate of balky mules; railway
people say things; fat men and womer
make remarks derogatory to the sobretN
| and competence of conductors and motor
men, get off the cars, and perspire along tn,
glowing asphalt; sweet young thing.
murmur How tiresOme," and follow thei
| example; business men go to the neares
| brokers' and hammer down the stock.
The man who sold the Long-Desire,
Hoop Is ahead two cents On the transaction
j. Nota McGill, who was appointed b,
Cleveland Register of Wills for the Distric
| OF Columbia, resigned last week the reSip
nation to take effect Sept 80 Presiden
Mckinley Immediately appointed as hi
successor Louis A Dent. at present Consu
to KINGSTON Jamaica Mr. Dent is
spent most of his life in public employ
ment in Washington. He was clerk il
the War Department, stenographer to tn
Secretary of State. private secretary I
II. b. Hit, etc The office of Register O
Wills pays $1,000 year.
i Ordinarily the men in the Philippines vii
be issued the usual rations, but for raid
and long, swift marches an "emergenc
of 10 ounces of bacon, 16 ounces of har
bread, four ounces of peameal, two ounces G
roasted coffee or half an ounce Of tea, forl
grains of saccharine-a substance derive
from coal tar, 200 times as sweet as sugar
two-thirds of an ounce of salt, fourteenth
OF an ounce OF pepper, and half an ounce O
tobacco.
The War Department is hurrying up tn
construction of an immense ice-makin,
and refrigerating plant at Manila. Thi
will provide space for hanging 1 200 tons @
beef and 200 tons of mutton. II desired
one-half of this vast quantity may b
kept chilled, while the other half will b
held frozen at II degrees Fahrenheit TIL
refrigeration will be accomplished in tn
ordinary manner, by the expansion @
ammonia gas, manufactured on the prem
ises. Ice will be turned out at wonder
full rate OF nearly10O,00 pounds every
hours, or more than two pounds per dieI
for every officer and man in the army
The Postmaster-General has issued
J fraud order against Isaac L. Walton, tn
ex-Slave Petitioners Assembly, and tn
ex-Slave Assembly, Madison, Ark. Poo
J negroes have already been swindled out G
about $4,000 by Walton.
j. A. Wormser, a wealthy and prom
nent citizen of Holland, has been in Wasf
ington for a few days on his way back froI
Grand Rapids, Mich, where he had been |
purchase 1000 double desks for the use {
the schools in South Africa. He says ths
American-made furniture is the best in tn
world, and rapidly coming into use every
which he says has no equal on the globe fC
grandeur and picturesqueness.
The news from Plattsburg is that both TIL
President and Mrs. Mckinley are muc
improved by their two weeks stay O
Lake Champlain. Mrs. Mckinley gain
health day by day.
The police are having hard time breal
ing up gambling among the Chinese Tn
greatest difficulty is to get Chinaman
testify against his countrymen.