New-York tribune., 1902-12-01

The caterer who supplied food and fluids for
Chief Devery's guests upon police boats at the
time Of the Dewey celebration has tried to get
bis bill paid by the city. but the Corporation
Counsel holds that the person who received and
ordered the feast should settle the bill There is
testimony to the effect that the original order
came from Devery himself OF course. the Tam
many district leader who is glad to spend money
without stint on primary potations and barbe-
cues will not hesitate to liquidate this COM
paratively small account Certainly the caterer
should look to Devery
The Nobel prizes for research are notably gen.
erous, and will undoubtedly stimulate tnvesu-
CATION in many fields. Major Ross. of the Liver
pool School of Tropical Medicine, receives an
award of $4,000 this year Tor his experiments
and discoveries in regard to the transmission Of
maarial poison by mosquitoes. An excellent
work ffty recognized ard honored!
The result of the Professional woman's
League show at Madison Square Garden may
be taken to signify that the fair must not try to
run q fair unless they are willing to pay for
the amusement out OF their own reticules
The Zionist movement was born OF moonshine,
with no other element in Its composition at any
stage Of its growth. It made an appeal to the
ina gina tive side OF the dispersed children or
Israel but the level headed among them always
knew that the scheme would not work 1t would
have been Of no effect for the Gentle to point
out to them that in going back TO Palestine they
would only make It another Ghetto but when
one of their own most learned and honored
rabbis like Joseph Silverman, OF the Temple
Emanuel tells them the same thing. they are
in reason enforced to give It heed Even the
most jealous Zionists might usefuly remember
that their people are not nation, but relig-
ious order. with possible bond of political CO.
heson. They cannot rebuild Jeru and
make the enterprise an economic success. and
the sooner the notion is given UP the better
with university authorities divided the
subject OF football all the good and bad points
Of the game are sure OF full discussion. that
the public may soon be able to dilate with
rational emotion concerning that important
branch OF academic business.
No matter what wild antics long pythons from
Singapore may be guilty OF upon the decks and
In the rigging OF arriving vessels, 1t Is un-
disputed that the supply of stories told TO the
marines in recent weeks by lineaI descendants
OF Ananias surpasses anything and everything
previously known here. and that some of the
revisers of copy" In local newspaper offices
need blue pencilling themselves.
New-York must and will have the Pennsyl-
vania tunnel. Aldermen who persist in lighting
against such popular and much needed I'M
provement must be classed either fools or
knaves. Let them take their pick.
Reports from Europe assert that Turkey has
ordered sixteen batteries of field guns from the
Krupp works and huge quantities of Mauser
rifles elsewhere. VIII hungry battalions of
Sublime Porte soldiers who have received no pay
for weary months wonder how the Sultan's
Treasury Department raise the money for
these belligerent expenditures? Perplexing
the mysteries of Golden Horn finance and of
Byzantine chests.
Considered emblem of his condition Of
abundance Uncle Sans Thanksgiving turkey
was bigger than a Soudanese ostrich or Tim
buctoo cassowary. but tender all through
red headed Chesapeake Bay duck.
Cuba's qualifications for self-government
stand their preliminary tests well as any
body expected
PERSONAL
When he was a young at oxford John Nor