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Show The Chicago Tragedy IT is to be hoped that the calamity of a week ago in Chicago river, will cause steamer inspectors in-spectors to cut off the roof-garden decks with which those excursion steamers are supplied. Many of them, when we last saw them, only required re-quired a rush of passengers to one side, or a sudden squall out on the lake to capsize them and no ordinary amount of ballast could save them under such circumstances. The authorities and press are loud against the officers: the inspectors in-spectors are the men most to blame. The boats that ply between Chicago and Milwaukee Mil-waukee tempt providence on every voyage. HP HE necessities of the great war have caused copper to advance to nineteen cents per pound in New York. The necessities of the great world would cause silver to advance in a week to one dollar per ounce if our government had but the sense of justice jus-tice to recognize it at that price. The necessities of the great war will pass, after a little the necessities of the great world after the war shall have passed would maintain the price of silver and it would be a blessing to all the millions of the poor in the world. I T was told that once at a great banquet in Lon- don, the Duke of Wellington was asked to give those present a brief description of the- battle of Waterloo. He arose and looking over those present for a moment said: "It, it, it was a h 1 of a fight," and sat down. When the Wizard of the Wasatch returned to his cavern in the mountains on Sunday Sun-day last and by Mrs. Wizard was asked what kind of a time he had, he replied: "It was a h 1 of a time." |