Show 11Vnu THE opening of spring I comes as regularly as the floods and the leaves the defunct Schuyler Colfax repeating his alleged lecture i on the life and character of the late Abraham Lincoln The name and life of Lincoln are sacred in America Ame-rica and ought not to be handled by such profane and unclean hands a as those of Colfax If the Smiler j j must talk let him say something a about the Credit Mohilier a subject J with which he is familiar and I which he cannot soil I jl WEST INDIANS have a curious i test for telling whether a person has negro blood in his veins It is I iJ called the nose test The negro I has no division In the gristle or l cartilagenous portion of his nose t Buck as all or pure white blood can f feel at its tip with the end of the fingor This is the last thing to yield to the white accession Any negro blood is marked with a nose the gristle of which is undivided f and the object of putting this paragraph f para-graph in is to prove that no person will read it through without touching touch-ing the finger to the nose |