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SIXTEEN PAGES.
JUL SKITS THIS MORNING,
FoRVKiv.?Tlic nows in London; Prince lljs
Butrek plays his strongest card for pease; Un
Vent. I.-iwc-mt. is in a i>r.(-i-*:im_nt?he must
(illicr go to wur or suKmit to the dictation of
tha ullics. rrrr? Dublin continues to do honor to
Mr. Morley and Lord I.ipon. rr.?-? A \v_>ii m la
a circus st Dabil! put her head iii a lion's mouth
mid wits horril.ly .acerutod. : *- ? The Govern?
ment of Santo Domingo has ininti ti con.-.-..shins
to American railroad cont mclure, ?rr.-.-? Arraiigc
Baeata or** being made lor tba retun of John C.
Lno to New-York.
Domkmic? '1 'hree sink* rs and two policemen
?were wounded la a riot. at. Shenandoah, Fenn. :
a boy in a mo!) ol ateHpW itt Pittsburg wee
wounded by nun-union eolored workmen.-:
The jury failed to egree in the case ol Mrs. Wilbur
against Qsscp Lathrop at VilliBUaitic. Conn.
BS ? ?: The confession of Deni ons that he killed
Hrs. Stone was repeated by aaren] aliacaata at
Rochester. .*. The nnaaber ofUqaor aaleeaa has
been reduced in Pennsylvania. _____ A hearing ou
the bill lo prevent nienhaden fishing was given
by the House CoBUaiMea on Fisheries, a ??_ John
I.. DeCSaiPi vu*- president of the Metropolitan
.National Hank, resigned. =??= Fricght rads frere
?further reduced in thc West, r- ~~ Tin* low wages
BS-diflnlf. caused disMitisfaction among the weavers
in Fall Ki vcr. Mass.
City and Scbkrban.?Forged checks signed
With tin- nain-- of President .Mihiin. of the Man?
hattan Life Insurance Company, discovered, ?
Prep:,rat m.,s for th** eel.?Iitiil ion of thc twcnly
lilth anniversary of tba I'liioii L'ttgue Club. ?
1,'.mo.- of a gun trust being formed. :._-_- City
ul tun na- of Vassar College nut, ___. -.- The Souey
mansion sold for $100,000. .. Several new
cases o! smallpox discovered in Ibis city and
Hrooklyn. __=_ A bartender in Harlem was mur?
dered ou Friday ; no clew to his assailant found.
?. A young drug clerk ran ii way with u brother
ding clerk's bride. -r^=_ Stocks fairly active and
?freely Bold for the " Bhort" account at concessions,
closing steady.
Tho Weal her.?Indications for to-dny : lwiin,
followed by cooler, clear weather. 'J'unpcraturo
(yesterday: Hig.icst, 44 degrees; lowest, 'io;
"?MTilge, 31. ______________________________
Thc (jiii-stion involved in tho bill to which
thc nieiili'idoii fishermen object is a limp-eone*
to get at thc facts on which it is to be del er?
mined i_ nol so easy. The question is whether
tho nieiihadou industry is dccicasing or de
.troving tlie supply of food rishos. If the
liiiswci* is in the alliniiativr*, the OOM lu**i"ii that
thc menhaden iishiciiee must be resUrieUd is
li resistible.
Tho intel collegiate stiuj-'gle lot the honors
of thc baseball diamond will be eonlined this
year, us usual, to the nine* of Harvard, Yale
and Princeton. Keverul other OoBogeo would
have been glad to enter the race, bul the pioneer
clubs preferred not to enlarge the field of com?
petition. Twelve game's will bo played, be?
ginning on Api il 28 and closing un June 26.
Three readable letters from Europeon cap-j.
itals will bo found in this issue of The Trib?
une. Our London correspondvut tolls some
interesting tilings about two new London
papers, the BSSBSS of which may have been
borrowed from New-York jnumale. From
Paris we learn that the new lintish Ambassa?
dor has mado a delighttul impression, and
BOOBS of Uie differences between him and his
two predecessors are pleasantly described. A
Constantinople letter gives an account of a re?
cent ooOsWISBWe illustrating thc attitude of
Lussia toward liulgaiia.
An extraordinary appeal la behalf of a con?
vict has been mado to Governor Oglesby, of
Illinois. 'J'he convict is " Joe"' Maekin, who
Bras found guilty of being one of the chief
'?inspirators in the Chicago election frauds in
1SH4. 'J'he petition has been signed by the
Judge who conducted the trial, the, prosecutor,
every member of the jury save one. tho Mayor,
several Judges, a United Ktates Senator and
many other prominent cilizena. All this is
because a confession has been made by one
Gallagher which exonerstee Ma. kin. Such a
j elition is entitled to groat weight, and if the
Gorenor ls convinced that Mackin has suf?
fered unjustly, he will no doubt come to his
relief promptly.
?
The attempt to revive the six-days' go-as
Viu-please walking match will be viewed willi
languid interest hy all sensible men. A mob
of half a lui..died men are to -start on tho long
trump to-night, but the majority of them will
probably fall by the wayside within two or
three dajs. There is n<? reasonable B-poota**
tion thal Howells rei ord for twenty-four hours
oi EiUgcK.ild"- for siv days will be broken, lt
is believed lh;il tho scoring and judging are in
thc hands of honest men. but thc show as a
whole is sun..mided by a low and debasing
alinoapheic. An a teat of human endurance
lt is BOCl(M and _k a (-lseaSBBMB_M it hu ks
?:f.vel!-. After all, what difference does it
t.:.'k( B h'tl.'T a man tan nm :uad walk t*ix
bundled miles in a week or six thousand ?
Oolhetor Migone is having marked BBOSSSa
in his ( ffoiU i,, jun the Custom House for the
fo\v benefit -jf the IKtiiiktiiIic party. ISot
inly has _*? brought the Civil Service is gula
tions into contempt and made Civil Kervico
I'cf'.iTii a byword, but ho has permitted nepot?
ism tu ll imVh iinchciked. Perhaps he is not
aware thal the ItYvised Statutes provide that
"whenever there are two or more member-, of
B family in the service in the grades covered
by the Civil Service Act. no other mcinbcr of
Midi family shall be eligible to appoint mont to
Buy of Maid grade..*' This law has bern vio?
lated fn more than one case, as tho instances
elsewhere quoted .how. ls its infraction to be
passed ovor as lightly as was the ofTcncS if
Collector Sullivan and his subordinates in Iho
recent watch episode?
? -*
An interesting contribution lo the world's
knowledge of PrnaMfllt Lincoln is made this
morning in a letter from Springfield, printed on
the ninth page. Tho late Judge Gillespie'*,
memorandum fortunately relates to the time
that in'eivene,) between I incoln's election and
Inauguration?fortunately, because- it is of his
inmost thoughts and dilutions at pieuscly ihat
period that least is known and least can bo
revealed. Perceiving that, Huehanan waaj
"giving his case aw;iy," helpless to modify Ihe
situation which he clearly comprehended, and
under the imperative obligation of keeping
afloat in the face Of the public, he welcomed
the chance of opening his heart to an old
friend. Jii<1_e Gillespie's death prevented (he
completion of his narrative, but it is a vivid
picture as it stands.
DISHONESTY IS POWER.
Two Democratic managers were senlcnced to
State's Prison at Indianapolis on Friday for
forging returns, in order to secure, a Demo?
cratic, Legislature and United States Senator
from that State. Mr. Turpie votes in thc
Semite to-day, a bogus Senator in a stolen "Kal,
bieune tins*, crimes wero perpetrated. No
one expects him to have the self-respect to re?
tire from a place and power which do not be?
long to him. No doubt he ia too hOBMl a man
to steal a dollar from his neighbor's pocket.
Hut he has stolen and keeps thc share of power
iu tho Senate which belongs to 3.0,000 neij-h
bi'is. tho Republican voters of Indiana. Dues
tho man not know that his keeping and Using
of stolen property make his own all the crimes
by which the pretended Democratic majority
in the Indiana Legislature was obtained?
Ex-Senator Thurman, one of the woithicst
and most honest Democrats of the past half
century, brought into court conclusive proof
on Friday against Democratic managers at
C"1 unibus, fastening upon them the ctime of
forgery in order to elect by fraud a Senator of
Ihe T'nited States from Ohio in place of Mr.
-"herman. The fraud was discovered in tune*
and defeated; the Senator w ho had honored
the Nation by his splendid services as Secre?
tary of thc Treasury was elected. P.ut the
duty of prosecuting and punishing the criminal
remains. F.x-Sonator Thurman, who hos con?
sented in lead the prosecution, holds that he
would not be worthy Ihe name of Democrat if
he should refuse to punish cunio by Democrats
for tho party'i, sake. How widely he differs
from the men in the Senate, and in the present
Administration who have plotted, and labored,
and instigated crimes of many kinds, in tudor
I*, steal a majority in the Senate ! lie deflates
that there can be no escape for the accused ;
lhat he has absolutely fatal evidence against
th-mi. Then they will lie behind prison bars,
while the men who sot them on to def mud the
people postals as great lioformers in high
offices or other places of responsibility.
Tho fact comes out that Senator Gorman.
whose long career of fraud in Maryland has
beea exposed by members of his own party,
and who, nevertheless, is the chosen confidant
of Reformer Cleveland, has been placing tho
wires to capture Oregon by methods peculiar
to himself. Every respectable Democrat
knows what that means. Money will be used
freely to hire repeaters and to bribe clo'lion
otliccrs, and false returns will defeat thc will
of tho people if possible. Yet where is the
respectable Democrat who raises an effect iv?
protest? In tho Houso of Representatives, it
is said, four Democratic members refuse to
violate their ( aths by voting that a Repnb!i? an
member is not entitled to his seat. Rut how?
ls it with the great majority of members of
that porty ? Do they refuse to take part in a
fraudulent decision by which the people will
bo robbed? Do they refuse lo hold in his
stolen seat tho person from Floiida, whoso
pretended election was effected by means de?
scribed in Friday's dispatches?
A distinguished gentleman declares that tho
public morals have sadly deteriorated ; that
even Mr. Cai land's telephone scandal seems no
longer to hurt the Administration, la tha.
true? Aro men who account themselves up?
right and honest in private life ready to uphold
and defend every kind of dishonesty that may
be committed by prominent Democrats? If
that is true, they who excuse aro on a level
morally with those who steal, or forge paper-*-,
or prostitute their public trusts for private
gain. Rut are there not among Democratic
voters many who aro indeed honest and up?
right, who wait in the hope that the party it?
self will discard this rotten Administration, but
who have made up their minds, if it does not,
to satisfy their own consciences b.T Voting
against such a party ?
AN AS1T-RUSS1AS COALITION.
The importance of Prince Rismarck's diplo?
matic revelations lie* in the necessity for mak?
ing them The essential facts of his alliance
with Austria have been known since 1879.
It was no BOOM! in Europe that the Three
Emperors' League was dissolved after thc
Treaty of Rori in. The League had boon Prince
Rismarck's brilliant expedient for seeming
Germany against wars of revenge aftor Sadowa
and Sedan. In consequence of this tripartite
agreement Russia was enabled to invade tho
Rallian in 1877 after making a compact with
Austria, with the knowledge and approval of
Ifinco Rismarek, ceding Rosnia and the Herze?
govina in exchange for assurances of neutrality
during tho campaign. After the Treaty of
Rerlin was negotiated there was a marked
chango in Russian feeling toward Germany,
j Prince Rismaick was held responsible for the
disastrous failures of St. Petersburg diplo?
matists. Russian soldiers had gone to tho
gates of Constantinople and dictated a tri?
umphant peace; but tho results of _acriiices
and victfOry had been frittered away in the
Rad?will Palace. Prince Rismarek was de?
nounced by Rathol! and his achoo! as the un?
scrupulous eii'-my who had oiitiiianu'iivrc-d and
cheated Russia, after he had been generously
allowed a free hand in dealing with Austria
and Franco. Ile diacerned the forces of Rus?
sian opinion and Immediately secured himself
against future resentment by making in
September. IK79, a defensive and offensive
alliance with Austria. This fuet was known
at thc time, ul though the precise terms of the
coalition wero not disclosed. In like manner
it was an open secret last October that Italy
hud been formally admitted into the anti.
Rubbbu coalition. When, therefore, ths lexi
sf tho original treaty of alliance is proclaimed,
no secrets aro revealed. The aigniffcance ol
the disclosures lies in the necessity for break?
ing the of*i( ial seals of what was nominally a
se* tot convention.
There are. as shown in our special cable
dispatches, two BSpSO?I in which this e\ti.im
dinary act of Ptinee Rismait-k may l*e vi*--cd.
It may be considered either as a challenge to
war or _s an 'ivsurnnoe of peace. it follows
thu in trod u. Lion of an army bill in the Rei ch
st.-ig by which 7f*),0('0 men will be added to
the effective military fores of G( imuny. Il i* an
official proclamation of a coalition against
Russia, If either Germany or Austria bo at
lacked from the east. Prince Rismarek is not
a ntatfBHB-B s*ho BB?.ea diplomatic laretations
without cause or provoeatj,m. The \cry f.n I
that he has considered it B-C-SQB*"f 1" publish
th'* text of tin's treaty is an infallible pc-nf
that (lie Russian dem-,nst tal ions on the BBStCfB
fiontier have beOfl BBfiOUS tntd menacing. It
has been most diflicult to ascertain the nature
and extent of these military mano'tivres ow?
ing 1" the conflict?lg dispatches from SI. Pe?
tersburg. Vienna and Bl ilin. Prince Bis?
marck's action ia decisive in this respect. lb*
_M viitually challenged Russia to a war willi
Austria and Germany, and lu* would not have
done this if his wcll-inf"i toed mi l.t.ny staff
had not convinced him that tin* armies of the
Northern Power wore aolitilly threatening the
allies with invasion. If the BBSS-SB BBBB0*
vics coiihl ha\e been reasonably explained as
si i iel ly defensive, tho warning would md haver
been sounded Rom Rerlin that war willi etthet
A?ttr? or Gci lilli.y would inevitably involve
war wiih both, and BSOSS?lptively with Italy
also.
It il this Bipeot Of the COaliUOB which ex?
cites imniediat.- shu tn. and in conjunction with
the success of the Russian war loan in Franco
causes a shari) fall in prices of European securi?
ties. The situation <>f the Continent must be
regarded ns veiy serious when Ti ince Ris?
marek. throwing off his u-nal reserve, heavily
i oin forces the army ttM*tTTOB and delies Rits-in
to a war of Continental magnitude. Rut
serious .and Cres critical as the situation may
bc, theie i" an assuiance of unbroken pea. e in
the formidable character of the coalition it""lf
Russia cannot challenge any Continental Power
lo a military duel. If war there must he. GYr
.Kan;.'. Aust ria ind Italy will be leagued against
Russia, with England in open sympathy with
the allies and Fiance isolated and condemned
to inaction. From so unequal a conflict ihe
Northern Power may wil recoil in dismay and
despair Against (he impregnable rampart of
a Eur ipean coalition Boasts cati lead only a
foi lorn hope.
AS ERA OE AECH1TECTI RM. REFORM.
In describing the impressions of Martin
Chllzzlewit as he ascended the Ray of New
York, in his search f**r Kl Dorado, Charles
Dickens drew a gloomy view of the low, dull,
straggling, ill-built city to which his hero
was approaching. The picture was not a false
one. lt was scare, Iv exaggerated. The con?
trast presented only a fe** years ago between
tho sombre, squatty town that had grown up
on Manhattan Island and the majesty and
beauty of the nil ural scenery around it was
painful and disquieting. No spot on the planet
odored greater nUractions as tho site of a
metropolis, but of all prominent cities thia was
ono of thc least grateful to th,- eye. It gave
travellers a most unjust notion of the Am.iii .in
-character. It iadicsted a sordid haste in the
construction of homes and business houses.
It lent color to all those graceless tales about
ITankce eagerness for the dollar and Yankee
indifference to nil questions of taste and all
requirements <>f cult ute which so seriously
offended sensitive Americans before steam and
(?!('? -tricky brought tho continents together, and
afforded conservative Europeans better op?
portunities to make our closer acquaintance.
Fortunately, such descriptions of New-Y.uk
can no longer bo truthfully made, lt is rapidly
beeoming stately, impressive and handsome.
There has never been any want of artistic
fancy among its citizens nor of talent among
its architects. The true reason why its build?
ings remained fm 00 long a time crude and
Unsightly is to Ix* found in the fact tliat the
town was engaged in tho necessarily preliminary
work of taking its own measure. Before in?
vesting fortunes in immovable blocks of gran?
ite, lt was necessary to feel certain that there
was no probability of ever wanting to ni"Vo
them. Before croctinj**: magnificent homes,
prudence required that some indications should
be given as to how far tow-aid the Harlem trado
had determined to advance. Society, too,
needed to become permanent, an.d fortunes
substantial and g.neial. Whsa one thinks a
moment, he cannot be surprised that the archi?
tectural conditions of New-York continued
humble for years after the. city became tho
recognized centre of commercial activity and
practically tho capital of the Western world.
The part taken by Tut; Tuidi'ne iu bringing
about an architectural reform ls well remem?
bered. Rs colossal building was among tho
(ir_t of the. many handsome and enduring
structure- which now abound in the business
portions of the ciiy. It gavo to the country the
first solution of the pioblem of how to erect a
really fireproof building. Now, however, from
its tower can bo seen hundreds of splendid
structures, resting upon indestructible founda?
tions and rising from eight to ten stogies high
above iho ground, pictures of massive strength
and permanent utility. Every year adds largely
to tho number of these stately buildings, each
containing the mainsprings of many great
business enterprises, full from basement to
roof of commercial life. Their erection has
become so ordinary a proceeding that invest?
ments of a million or two of dollars in them
occur almost without public notice or record,
ind they risc so quickly as to suggest a magic
hand, while the busy throngs thal pass and
repass scarcely lift their eyes to look upon tho
marvellous feats of mechanics and engineering
going on above them.
Nor is this reform confined to business houses.
It has become Hie chaiactcristic tendency of
tho architecture of to-day. .Ml the private
dwellings, the hotels, tho retail stores, the
chinches, the theatres, the schools are hoing
constructed with a view to permanence as well
as artistic effects. Tho stringency of our
present building laws has undoubtedly aided
in accomplishing this excellent result. They
were secured through the pressure of an Im?
proved public sentiment, and they have oper?
ated to prevent a vast amount of flimsy build?
ing. Iudeed. except in tenement-house dis?
tricts no howeo have recently been put up that
aro not a distinct credit to the city. R seems at
last probable that New-York will soou bo as
worthy in its appearance as its glorious sur?
rounding*, demand.
RR I DC E SEOBQ A A Js~A TION.
No reason really worthy of consideration
exists that should deler the Legislature from
reorganizing the Board of Trustees ,,f tl,,. New*
York and Rrooklyn Bridge. Public sentiment
in both cities, so far as it has manifested Itself.
is emphatically in favor nf a simpler, mere
compact and more responsive govsiniag body.
Tho convincing reasons why this is desirable
have been set f,,rih ]n those columns repeat"
? ?dly, and no attempt at an answer has beea
made by anybody except some member, of t)?..
Board of Trnateeo Itself, who ,,f coane were.
influenced by personal considerations and were
thereby disqualified for ea pi Seeing an unpreju?
diced opinion Within the past month,
moreover, we have ben glad to make record
of the fact that the Mayors of the two citiea
have declared themselves decidedly in favor
of B reorganization. II Ifl worth while to rei all
IO the minds of tho members of the Legisla?
ture just what the two chief magistrates had
to say OB this important subject,
Major chapin, whose mcsoBgo preceded ths!
of Mr. Hewitt by a oreel., OpokaSS follows.
"Undoubtedly thu BridflS would bc adminis?
tered with more economy and with a far ttSSSBS
?SS?8 of accountability to thc people of thc two
cities who have mortgaged their property to
pay for it, were its charge given to a body or
organisation possessing >i<? such satonomoos or
imperial (hara, ter as that now existing."
Mayor Hewitt, iu discussing tho Bridge
finances and other malters connected with the
structure, said: "lu this connection I may
add that I agree with the Mayor of Brooklyn
in the opinion that the management of the
Illidge is unnoCCJSarilj cumbersome, that the
DUmbar of trustees can be advantiigeously re?
duced, ami that the management would be
more ettckul and the results more profitable
if the control of tho Bridge were placed in the
hands of :i single executive olliccr. to be ap?
proved by the Mayors of the two cities."
The testimony from these two sources is un?
mistakable. lt is, we believe, the first time
that tho Mayors of New-Yorh and Brooklyn
have spoken olbcially on this subject. The
suggestion as tn a single executive otliccr to
be approved by the May*,rs is open lo the ob?
jection that those two officials might fail to
agree and a deadlock ensue. Tho Bridge
OOCUples a unique position. It belongs to both
cities, and neither probably would be willing
to relinquish its caro and management wholly
to the other. Certainly Rrooklyn, which con?
tributed two-thirds of tho cost, would not con?
sent to a Rridge commissioner chosen by tho
Mayor of New-York, and this city would
naturally fear undue encroachments were thc
control of the fliiuotuis vested in a Rrooklyn
man. A single commissioner or superintendent
with whom the BdsyOM STOW associated might
be :i satisfactory aili.ngement. The make-up
of the governin*-' body is a matter to which the
Legislature should give careful consideration,
and we havo no doubt that the subject can be
disposed of in such a way as to give entire!
ntisfhetion to everybody except, perhaps, the
present trustees, who have shown an unac?
countable desilS to hold on to their ollieos.
In tj-eating of this whole matter the Legisla?
ture may wisely lake into a. count the best way
of aaaaaging the Illidge pi,lice. As at present
constituted the polic*- force of the Rridge are
responsible to nobody but the trustees. Is
then* any reasOB why they should not be sub?
ject to the Police Commissioners of thc two
cities? In lhat case there would be an end
of the constantly recurring complaints about
their rudeness and bad manners. Tho middle
of tho Rridge is a well defined point, which
would naturally mark the dividing line be?
tween tho jurisdiction of the cities. With
such an arrangement the number of Rridge
police could be fixed according to the actual
in els of the struct nie as -determined by ex?
perts. jU present the Rridge is over-policed.
The plan hero proposed seems better filled
than any other that has come to our attention
f'-r adjusting the dilliculties that have arisen
in connection willi thc Rridge police, whoso
ill manners and overbearing and dictatorial
ways have become insufferable.
CREMATION VS. COST ACION.
It was Sir Henry Thompson whose writings
first set on foot the movement for cremation,
in England and so in America. What he has
lo say. therefore, in thc January " Nineteenth
Century" about the progress of cremation is
of special interest, for he has given much Limo
and thought during the past fourteen years to
lurthering a sanitary reform which bc deems
of the highest nnportanro. This opinion must
tarry with il great weight, because of his
eminenco in medicine,
The progress made has been mainly outside
r-f England, for there th*' BOW idea cncoiinteicd
a characteristically stubborn british prejudice,
which caused five years to be wasted, even
after a crematory had been built, in the elfort
to obtain a judicial decision that an Englishman
has the legal right to have his body burned,
if it is his desire, provided the procer-s be
effected without nuisanco to others. This
mighty feat was not accomplished until 1884,
and since that time twenty-three incinerations
havo been pei foi med. Even now tho advo?
cates of cremation aro making unsuccessful
efforts to Fccuve legislation affirmatively legal?
izing the practico. These facts show that cre?
mation has made far greater progress in this
country, where there is already a considerable
number of crematories, than In England?a
difference easily to bo accounted for by thej
quit ker intelligence of the Americans, and tho
greater readiness with which they accept new
ideas.
Sir Henry Thompson takes pain* to dispel
thc idr-a that there is any expectation of mak?
ing cremation compulsory. All its advocates
seek is to gain proper faciUties for those who
w ish them, and to convince as many as possible
lhat burning is preferable to burial, both on
sentimental and sanitary grounds. For
thoso who will not bo convinced, there will
always bo earth, and to spare, for burial. Rut
tho figures he gives to show that, in a largo
number of cases, cremation seems a positive
duty to the living, may almost bo called
startling. It is a familiar argument that the
presenco of dead bodies in the earth corrupts
water supplies, cte. Rut less Is known than
should be of the proportion of positive danger
in burial, where death has resulted from zy?
motic diseases?that Is, smallpox, measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough,
typhus, enteric fever, simple fever, diarrhoea.
dysentery and cholera. Every body from
which life has been expelled by one of these
maladies becomes, when placed in the earth,
a tactory of countless germs of disease, a large
proportion of which will inevitably come to
the surface. The number of deaths In England
and Wales from these causes during 1881 was
10 per cent of the whole, and in 1885 over
13 per cent. So that while man is constantly
engaged in a fierce struggle with disease, ho
is at Ihe same time sowing seed with a lavish
hand for his own destruction. There is no
method but that of burning by which these
germs can be surely destroyed.
The only practical objection which the op?
ponents of cremation hate been able to make,
aside from the sentiment,-*.! ono, is that iti
would destroy traces of poisoning, and perhaps
stimulate that variety of crime. Sir Henry
Thompson does not attempt to disparage this
objection, but thinks it can easily be met. In
Ihe first place probably not one per cent of
deaths aro from uncertain causes, and of these
only a very small proportion are likely to havo
been caused by poison. Exhumations, which
cieniation would prevent, are very rare. Only
three exhumations were ordered In ono of tho
districts of England in which there were during
the same period 10,*>00 inquests. Tt would
seem strange to continue the buiial syst-m,
nith all its socmels, simply lo guard against
so small a percentage of danger as this. Rut
there need bc no more of this danger than now,
ond might eerily be less. The appointment
of a medical officer, ns among Continental
nations, without whose Certificate nobody could
Ko buried. VOUld 1>? a better j,rotc lion than
we have at present,.
The seiitinienLal objection is not one that cnn
be firgited arith, and must be left lo in*li\ idnal
judgment. '?Rul it is a question whether this
consideration ts not much more powerful uni,
the old than with younger poisons ll is a
common thing to meet young people of both
*.e\e* who serious!*! intend tint their bodies
shall be bunted. If this ls ? trustworthy in?
dication, the passage of years will steadily
The Street-Cleaning Department nets from the
taxpayers ?1,-00,000 pei year, almost, f'.'.j.OOO
per week. What has the department been doing |
with the money th'- pest week ? The condition of the
crossings in the most important and populous
thoroughfares shows that it has uot been used to
the best advantage.
Pyromania is what the wisc men call the ten?
dency developed in little Maj- Wilson, the lire
bug, iihos,,- fonduess for striking matches and
watching a blaze bas resulted in acts of arson
nnd murder. No one will BTltowalj pretend, of
course, that this crippled child was responsible
for crimes of such gravity, and no ono would
wish to SSS her punished with undue severity.
Rut we object to pyromania. Thero are alto?
gether too many miltons already. No law?
breaker, young or old, who hns powerful rela?
tion*, or is otherwise handicapped er afflicted in
life, is over troubled to obtain a name for his
acta whieh ohaagea them forthwith from felo?
nies into misfortunes Tho criminal lawyers aud
the medical experts.can always ba relied on to
provo that lt ls some sort of a mania. Parents
whose children show a taste for matches nnd a
fondness for tiring cuit-ins and sofas should BO,
lie deceived by what the '.vise men say into 8ii|>- I
posing that pyromania is incurable. It will
probably vi* ld without much trouble to a vigor?
ous application, in the first, instance, of thf* n.a
lei?al shoe. It ls fortunato that May Wilson
was si, quickly caught for more reasons than one.
Carelessness on the port of the physicians was
at first, suspected, as one of them had been _mok
ing shortly before the principal tire broke out.
But now it is evident that little May was the
culprit all along.
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The beereellem of Monmouth County who liave
been trying to get around tho excise laws by sell?
ing checks for enough bottles of beer to fill a
keg, nnd then delivering the keg in bottle Instal?
ments, remind on** of tho endeavors of their Demo?
cratic brethren to demoralize the country through
Insidious Instalments of free trade, destined to
make up the full keg of business upheaval ul?
timately.
a ?
The past week has been prolific of elevator
accidents. On Wednesday the fatal act*of an
attendant in the Roosevelt Hospital took place,
whereby a helpless patient waa hurled down to
death. On Fri<_ay no less thun three mishaps
In connection with elevators were reported. One
occurred in Fifty-seventh-et., where three men
went down with a car which had JuBt safely
carried up a mass of iron weighing about a too.
All the men were badly hurt, but none fatally.
In Newark an elevator with two men on board
tumbled from a fifth story to tho ground floor
because of the breaking of a rope; both men were
seriously Injured. The 6amo day a porter in
Whlte-_L walked into an open shaft and got a
fall of forty feet, These, occurrences will oon
llrm the theory which some people cherish, that
accidents of the same kind are apt to occur In
groin*. But of course there is no connection
between the cast, mentioned; it is only a singu?
lar coincidence that they followed so rapidly one
after the other.
?
Those people who scoff at Mr. Flower f.s a per
(M'tiial candidate for otc office or another should
remember that when Mr. Flower had a chance to
be elected LiOBtOBant OoraiUflf in lbs J he declined
it with thauks.
? ?-,
What hns Colonel Lamont !>een doing tliat "Tlie
IKifTalo Courier'' should sneer at the rumor that
he entertains an ambition to In-come ihe Demo?
cratic candidate foe Governor next fall? "The
concocter of such a story,'" remarks "The Courier"
"must regard the public as an ugv-regand fool."
And why, pray? Does "Tho (',airier" hold that the
power behind ti.e President has no right to BSpilS
to tba UabernatOfial throne? The Colonel must
bave been treading ou "The Courier's" favorite
corn.
Following thc leeoflom.Tidal iou of Thi* Tkib
UNK, Senator Frye hus launched, ?ju Congress,
lin* movement for an Intermit ional Marine Con?
ference, in a bill admirably framed. I'poii analysis
of Its provisions, lt seems to limit tbs soo-ie of
the proposed conference to the S--Option Ol uniform
rules of action for navigators, and to an authorized
dis.ussi,,n and compartson of the marine systems
of the various nation*?life _i .ip--, hydrographi',
-ig'i.tl-servlco ct*: ?with a view to securing a
m-ro general adoption, throughout thc world, ol
the best features- of each. We 000 no 100000 wdiy
the messum should not, msstve general oon_scad
allon here and abroad, und result iu the saving
of mauy lives and much rateable piui-erty.
? ? ?
A slory ls going the mund* telling of a small
I boy coughing up a taiga nail which had been in
hu stomach boom Uaae. Whieh ismiads n** thal
i.o vernor Hill lately forced President Cleveland
lo swallow it lurno pieoa of iron. Il is under?
stood that it eateeed his soul.
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Aceordinir to " 'liie Ijomlnn Telegraph" a
learned eenasal in Basisefl lately apptteS aa a
judge to adjourn a OBSa " until after the lunch
lune ol' the court," us the phuutilf had missed his
lian.. lin- Jadge denied the motion, sa*,mg,
" Vou Should ask that ths ease sa postponed until
aller ' ths adjournment,' for ' thc court ' does not
Ininti; that is .ml un SgSSb m th.- life of 'the
court' 1 do nut bpcuk of what individuals du,
nugment the number of those who believe in
cremation. (
ARK WOMEN COMPANION RLE TO MEST
Some conundrums ure SI If gillaslllg No sooner
an* they propounded thea the cry geas up, " 0
give us a harder one." Her*- is a couliibutiir to
ono of lim current BSBSJBS?MS devoting un article
lo answering tho <|ii'Stion, "Are Women Com
pauloaabla to Maul"1 Never was lhere such a
labor of superfluity. Are roses red? Are violets
lilue t A.e stars bright? Are wemen eonipunion
able eempaaloaable to men? (lo to, go to. If
a reporter for rita TBiaOMS could have inter?
viewed Adam as he was emerging from I?len,
delicately Inquiring if our first, father found our
li.-i in,,i ii, r cmimiiioii-iblc, what would the r ?
suit have bSBUf Why, we think we hear Adam
replying: " Voung man. I have no objsotfon ts in?
forming my ta a soils newspapsc that while I havo
my own opinion of Eve's judgment of BppicS
which is not necessarily for publication?I regard
her as a veiy BSmpsnloUSble POieO?," And tho
first man's tribute to the companionableness of tho
Bret woman, thc last man is c, rt.-in to echo in
regard to tho last, woman. Or if ba fails to, so
milch tha arana i*,r tho last niau. Ila will simply
prove that he is no gentlemen, but merely a
" gent,"
Women companionable to men? We should
say so. Consider, O magazine writer, the sii*niti
cance of the p naity fog bigBBSj or polygamy.
Woman has a way of making lc rs.-lf so irresistibly
companionable to man that certain susceptible
Benedicts, anim iisIibIiihI bj tbs terroa of ths
Btw, are sure to indulge thasaaelvea la a su-A-r
sbandaaoa ol such oeaapaBiooableaem at tha ex?
pense of what a well-known ?rYssh.Bgtfia gentle.
mau might Style the g<-ne:al " personal comfort."
An acute philosopher of the modern school has
borne elo.pi. nt testimony to th*- cmn'.nniotiaMe
neaa of woman to mun lu the obeeriatioa that ** as
a sweetheart a WOSUU! has few e'luals and no
auperior," and all bJetorjr provea thst the state
nuTiL is aa B_aSSS?able ns the maltiplicatiuii table,
lt may be conceded that some women are more
companionable than others. It will be remem?
bered that Mr. Willer once confessed to his
daughter lidia in tho privacy* of the di,mistic,
circle that he found her mother "a little wear?
ing; and that Socrates had in Xaatippe ti potent
provocation to spend all his evenings und the h*-li
di.ys nt tho club." Rut exceptions determine
nothing It is the general rule that the world
regards.
If thc ij ii cst ion could be submitted to thc popu?
lar vote, that crucial test, wc feel confident would
prove a magnificent demon.trntion of the com
pafl-onableneaa of woman le man. There is no
polities in the question, and the aflirmative ballets
would be run out of all the boxes. Woman is
lure. She has come to stay. She meeis a gnat
popular want. She is companionable to man.
but 'tbe court' docs not lunch." Th-* ?nc-ln'
would seem te be well taken, and still nra s em fe
r^nt caber to have hcaid ihe tcim a full ben'h."
?.??
It appenrs from the annual report of th" Ruj^r.
int m lent. <f th-Niagara Falls BrstrvsMea tha' th*
local hack?SB have reformed nnd no longer pry
upon Um public. And fl t, SOSM PSSS?B?t. -VII
argue that Un- lirst gi:n of the millennium has ye'
to bc fired.
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The Mayor ought to writs ? letter to BOBBebedl
immediately on tbe villaiiu-un- eonditioa of lia
City Hall ida/ii. Vi -terday it was covered willi i,
sheet ,f i'?- so slippery ihat sassy pecsea v.ho
picked his way painfully across it wa-, ni S?B0M
of a fall lhat would fracture a limb. T!,,s Mg
Iowa tak.-s out of thc |K>eket.s of its ta.vpiijreia ne.ie
thOfl ?j':lit.i.'.(,'io.. ea, li year. Can't lt alford to
sprinkle ashes in front of Its Cly Hall?
.-a>-?
It is B?asntSSd at Albany that
" Crace, 'Ut a elm inline so-ind,*
is not one of th*- pBBSBM of Dat i-l tl ai is t., * ,r,
nt a favorite |k,sulm of I>.tvi<l H. Hill. j? tmtwiR
the run.or that tue Ile. --land Democrats tal|. of
running ox-Mayor OSBOS K>r OaraSBSS BS?I fall
has something to do willi Ile- ', .winni s UstBStS
PEESONAIe.
OSVOSBSS THU will give s rseostteo lo hit persons
friends on Tuesday neening i"\'., ar.J lils shuts.
L-gMnUra reception ? weeli later.
Kx Senator David M'-rrlwether, of Kentucky. IM
appointed successor af He?"? * lay, In* reeetnlly U-on
visiting Wasblngton Ile tat eighty rears eM.
Mr. W. T. I!,>rnai!ay, tim weil henani trave-llrr nnfl
writer, MJI that In school snd college lc formed i
inoi-tal hst'<*d of aljeli.a and inTthciii.'itl*. lu g,-re:al.
His career *?*.! ihsii'si i,y randing Aw___od'? "Bfrdf
uf Annul.'-" and lui I haillu'. " Equatorial Alric _"
The Hor. ('.illira!th ll. Ferry, who has ieee,ted s
call to tl," House of lYayer (?RaSBM I*. I'. Chorch), st
Newark. N. J., ls one of UM most lareeMtal min
Isttrs in Hali imo'e. Ills work then: has been chl-Hy
aiuoiig Hie negroes.
a reception w,n be alien to PreaMaal MeOaah on
Tuesday evening by Iho Kenn I lub. one of ile levi ag
social organisations of Philadelphia. ThS foi mal re?
tirement of tho venerable philosopher fra'T tho head
of tho colleen, over which ho lins pu-sllod fi'i a HOM
of years, will lalo place at tho annual inoctuig of
tho Hoard of Trustees at Prince-tun on Tunrsdiy. It
ls worthy of note lhat Ur. MaOSSh NSatfOl sSkfal
i,,i;r,.,?t|i.ii of his choice tvs president of PrliKotou
on May, 1008, after his rOBMrhaUa Isbon In coimee.
ti,,n with the nie, ting of tl," Kvangeli* al Alliance
In this city. In OMoSor of thc sam.* ye.,r he returned
to this country, an I sunn alter delivciTU his Inaugural
11,1'ln-ss as president of U.e college.
mi-s Mu.uk, aha int* just hean font.?ly bah ul beg
to lYInco Oscar of Bandon, ls of German anaeetif
and ls rela'e,! to thc hu-band ?,f ('ai .Ma I'.e !
sin* ls au accomplished mnslelns ?id writes clever
1", -ins.
The late Karon AK-ert von Dietrich, of Sfrn-lui.-g,
was a descendant of Is-nil nie von Dietrich, who
signed Ihe treaty by which Strasburg was wwi ?'! to
.'rance In the time of Louis XIV., and a grandson of
Frederich von Dietrich, first Mager Bf Btiasbarg 'lur?
ing tho Kevolutlou, before whom Bengt! do l'isle
flV-t sang the ? Mari-Hial-e." Karon Aib'-rt always
rnamined loyal to Franco and gave up all lils ofliciai
Iionors rather than take tho oath of allegiance to
Germany. Ho ami bis brothers were thu tlrst to In
freduce tho Beesonwr stet making psooeoi in'o
France, -hey employed 3,0-0 men lu their foundries.
It ls said that when M. Alexandro Dumas, the
younger, admits a friend t? Ms heart, he l-l faithful
to him to an extreiuo degree. When III or In trouble,
AI. Dumas 1. at his door. Ho consoles lum, he en?
courages him and aids him. And ll these fra-ndst"
remember their benefactor In a last will and tca.a
nirnt, as somoflmes happen-, they know that go'id
u*e will lu* made of tho money. IK.w many ol BE
Human's friends have been belied by the bequests
of his : ci, V :
TUE TALK OF TUE DAY.
The Mississippi Kepis! a tn re will have a *hirt sci
sion. A drink of whtsl-.ey can't be piuCureJ iu Jack?
son for love or money.
Cincinnati has "a hello who whistles like an angel."
Wo halo never heard an ang-'l whittle ,* aud wc think
they had better stick to their golden harps and Iel
whistling alone, au*,how.?'Norri.town Herald.
Publishers of novels now at lac. books to chains on
the elevated mad stations. Passengeis who are com?
pelled la walt for a train thal ls blocked, will thus bo
able to rea^ moro or less entertaining llteratore.
There ls a grim monument erected In the Atchison.
Kan., public cemetery placed there by Mrs. It lc ha rd
Hiti-rls, who still re-ide-i In tlie city with her two
children, and who seems to have made tho peculiar
death of her hush.-ind a lesson to all young men who
might visit the place of burial. The monument, as
described by a correspondent, ls a dull-red granite
shaft, broad at tho base and tapering toward the top,
and ttands on a slope some fifty feet back from the
main road. The Image of a snake, about as large ai
a man', arm. ls wound around lt from the base to the
apex. On the four sides of the pedestal ls ougrai en.
In large plain letters, this InerlpFlmi:
! RICHARD HARRIH. j
,* mei! February 1*. IBOF,
! ef Kellrlum TreiDeos, !
Ags?i ll Years,
?(neston Traveller.
An old fellow In Franco bas been married sovea
times. And a woman-hater says that he ought to be
disciplined hy tho church for having committed the
seven deadly sins.
"Oh, brethren,*" shouted a temperance orator. "Iel
tu build high fences about our homes and shut ont from
our communities the hateful liquor tra-lic. Nuw la
tha time to put up the bars, and?"
"Right you are," yelled a man In the crowd; "I've
put up one In my grocery, and am going to put up
another as soon as f eau get tho _xturo_."?(Washing.
ton Crltto.
The I'nlversHy of T*e*-nsylva"*'. will break ground
In tho spring for a handsome library building which
will cost 0150.000. Of this amount SI20.000 has
already been raised, and the trustees ox*oeot soon to
raise the remaining fCO.O-oO for the building sud
.fl., i Un io additional for an endowment. A move?
ment ls also tinder way to erect an alumni *i*_tl, to
contain a large auditorium for th*- use of the students.
We nettee thal the United States Circuit Court has
been rendering a decision In referei.ee to " organelle
music." Organelle mosie 1 f/*t's see. Al. yes, that
must be niusto made by a little organ. The pure art?
less note of the Mugwump newspaper would seem to
b. tho Idea.
An Arinuna Seance.?Omaha Man- Went to s spirit?
ual seance down In Arizona, eli * Anyihlng happen*
Alisona Man-Well. yes. Hie medium wui.t Into
a trance and then aunuunc-d that he was a .-pint
of a man who had boen murdered, and tbat the
murderer sat in the audience.
"Well, weill Did an/body rn ni"
"We all ran."-(Omaha World.
That w-a? a remarkabiv lot,Tl,.cut hair dre.ss.ir who
told a reporter the other day that she had stu,lid up
I lately and found that Psyche was tlie most beautiful
j Grecian woman that ever lived. Her hal.-, tee, was
Invariably done up by means of tho simple knot that
' bears har name.
Nothing much has Keen HOS recently about K.n.-aS
\ City, Kansas, but Its cl.liens declare that lt has a
i tatara -'?'! that lt w!H soon b'iaii to loom u_, un IU
; own account.
Friend (to pla! nt Iff): "Well, I see you won your
I suit. I congratulate you."
Klnlntlff: *? Thanks. YOB, I beat the scoundrel."?
same friend (to defendant): "I'm sorry to hear
i you l"*i your suit, old man."
De lc nil ant: ? Vee, lae scoundrel beat mc."?-d-'pocli.
Says "The Arizona Howler." "Tho Kandy logged
dude Irum K.,st,,ri who keep. 'Tlie Rlpsiiortei*' going
while Ifs measly old editor ts sobering up pSBOMSai
to be afraid of us, aud poSBOa our ofilee on a nm.
j The little tetlow needn't bi* afraid Drought ui> as
| wo have I" cn, in ihe stein old school ot Journall-i'i,
' nheao isle **_s to take a mau of your sU", wo aie
, Incapable of warring on a tanda*loot dude Ia ta,
little creature, you arv safe under tho shield u! ' 1U.S
BentorV eenteoojt.**
Nol a new Uangi-r Fair FBSBSBgnS (on ocean -?t''aiuor)
' - W nat's i h-* mat t_ i .
Captain?MB-loili of wild lugs are t.?s-lng about "1
th* ocean fnun a wrecked raft, and wo\_ Just had
n very narr*.* esea|ie from a cllisuui ni.li fli'in.
l*anlon my ba te, but 1 must huny down lo tho anHB
to make a note of the fm*! In my log ho"*
* Log Kook! Mercy! lt musl be a very common oo
earreaos thea) lOnehn WaaM
A Weslern critic of Ihe Demorralle party *?)"*
that yon never eau K-ll whether K ls going to play
' the lion or ths donkey. This ls not happily I"'
The late Kdwlu Kitrent used to say: "1 pla ay 1/"ar,
and I pla ay othello; but, slr, I am Hamlet " ?*?*.
In a similar way lt would bo proper to say of the
lrs'inocralli* r_rty. lt trlew to play th- Baa, hui
1 it is tha do"-i">. ahesssss it smogs that mesosl?b
j which u fr -.ueutly.
In a Virginia tottn :
l*hllaiiiliiop..s' lo lilltor: I seal a b?.ia?l of potatoes
and a sStsk of Hom to lh?* lour wu.au -od ??hlhlruU
rou railed alleiitlo!) tn In >oiu* lal WOt-'s ^als*"**.
|..l,l?i- with tears ta his SS?SI A""' ,l",> BRM
vin- mat-.ull> ivc.Tvo.1 too, 1 (tssiiie you.
Khllai.ll..oi*_a : I'm very Rla-I ??> Joter lt. and I
.-allcil to see if HBSa wa* aiiykliing -lao 1 cuiuU do
te__Bl_ri ISa slr, there ls. My wife wants a dress
and tho boy and giri noed shoo, badly. -(Washington
cania