Show N NOTES 0 T E IF MR MB christopher COLUMBUS were a candidate this week for any office within the gift of the american people we are inclined to think he would get it WHEN edwis EDWIN BOOTH heard that corbett had also taken to the stages stage he be expressed his thankfulness that the championship still remained in the fenion P 1 pro profession THE PROMINENT liberals at the ogden convention yesterday appear to have given their undivided attention to the business or of declining the nomi nation for delegate to congress in this particular they were delightfully unanimous I 1 WITH JOSEPH L RAWLINS expounding the principles of democracy and frank J cannon doing the same for republicanism to in their respective pie plead for suf suir frages rages it would be a little interesting to know just what charlese allen alien jim Is going to find to talk about in his particular plea forthe for the same kind of favors now THAT charlie mitchell paraded by sporting send sentimentalists mental into as the gentleman pugilist has hae been sentenced to imprisonment ani the tread mill for brutally assaulting an old man there can be nothing unjust in the emph emphatic and very dreadful decision that he be is a disgrace even to the prize ring THE NEW railway between jaffa an and d jerusalem will soon be opened for traffic A station lo is being built on the road between the latter place and bethlehem A month ago the first engine was seen at this place and hundreds of arabs arab and turks christians and jews fel labins and bedouins Bedou ins had gathered to view the novel tight eight MURAT HALSTEAD has one of the buoyant happy spirits that trifles do not depress nor omens omen send mend into sulkiness he calls judge cooley a constitutional crant ay judge Gre grasham shain t a presidential crank and wayne macveagh a professional crank each and every one Js is an old and cold chestnut adds the he vivacious marshal cheerily EDITOR CHARLES A DANA of the new york sun took the pains to follow the example of mr blaine before leaving tor for europe the other day that if ie be paired offs off s for election put pur poses with a friend opposed to him in politics some people will perhaps be malicious enough to ask whether he paired with a republican publican Be or a democrat NEW YORK city is agitated because of a franchise recently granted an electric railway compa y the discuss on of whether or not the people will submit to the trolley system sounds strangely enough out here where it has bus not only been established but regarded rey ardeil as an indispensable albeit u unsightly asig atly and even dangerous commodity for two or three years ULYSSES president of ban domingo is a thrifty soul and possessed pos poP essed ased of no mean finan ciering genius withal with ing to negotiate with the united states government lately a loan of be serenely offered kofl red as aa collateral the real bones bonea of christopher columbus Colum buc it to is needless need lesa to say eay uncle sam declined the offer be is not in the pawnbroker business IT was vite quite an achievement for new york city i ity to shut out the cholera chole ra and nd so BO effectually edff actually and suddenly obliterate the gernis germs that were wafted wafred ashore A good deal of fault was found with the harshness to which some incoming passengers were but governor flowers little epithet and the results following atoned for all that EUROPEAN PAPERS contain notices of a peculiar one case of nervous disease at a hospital in leipzig the patient sees flees light giaves waves of different colors emanating from the foreheads of people who stand before him and concentrate their thoughts on an object the question deetion uee tion is whether the perception of ocolor olor is only a hallucination on the part of the patient or whether his nervous condition enables bam to notice a fact which escapes the senses of persons in a normal condition who eau an tell tel TEN THOUSAND workmen are employed floyed upon the worlds world Is fair build in I 1 n chicago a toiling perspiring army which up to the close of september yielded over cases to te the hospital stair staff through accident eighteen men have been instantly killed and about injured among the latter is not included ahardy celt who fell sixty six feet and alighted ng bolt upright on a convenient the beholders expected to see his spine telescoped but they know their man he sat on the sand pile for a moment regarding the height from which he had bad fallen then arose brushed the sand from his trotters trout ers and remarked with profane emphy emp bysie ste gumpl empl I 1 but that was a divil of a jail A NEW ENGLAND paper points out that while old style chronology makes the date of the discovery of america the of october and new style chronology makes it the which gives opportunity for a double celebration in now new york and chicago there is in no dispute whatever over the fact that it was 2 in the morning when the discovery was made yet only one place so far as reported celebrated the event promptly on the hour and that was smith college masha massachusetts chu where the girls sat up for the occasion they evidently had a lively appreciation to the fact that while it was columbus that discovered america A ed erles it was a woman that discovered columbus HENRY HEMBY WATTERSON will deliver the oration at the dedication of the th worlds world fair on friday hon W 0 P breckinridge having finally declined to do so As sn an editor we all feel a fraternal interest in the great director of abe courier journal and acknowledge his eminence as an orator he has few superiors superior et as a statesman he has ban made his bis mark as aa a politician who asks for nothing and gets it he h to is a shining light but as the paternal source of the star eyed goddess of reform he be is known wider and more generally than in avy other capacity those who hear bear mr Watter sons oration will bear something well worth listening to not the fact that his time for preparing anything has been alto too limited |