Show i I EVENTS AND COMMENTS t I t TilE r Qq S paje7 killed the biU 1 11 C passed by the House gmirg the suffrage UTilE Lt t t to women h THE FirriETU Congresslike the Forty I ninth will not contain a member by the name of Smith Tile DEM CKA < XIO papers are calling on President Cfcvsland to organize the F i I Democratic party i THE DEATH inBoston of s man named Wiggins would seem to indicate tbat Providence is feeling around for the prophet THE NEW YORK Sun declares New York is the dirtiest city in the civilized world Constantinople has had that reputation hitherto A NEW Yorker publicly offers to live on hay and oat for 100 days on a facer of from 500 to 1003 = Er The crank oat to win Hay 1 REV SASI JONES recently said in a sermon in Omaha that he hd come there to save Omaha from hell Certainly Cer-tainly the reverend Sam is not appalled by adifficult undertaking THE JHA6E Liberty Enlightening the World is a mistranslation What Bar tholdi called it in French iii Liberty Lighting the World The idea was illumination not instruction WHAT MOST be considered the heaviest gun at present in existence has just been shipped at Antwerp for Italy It was manufactured by Krnpp is 46 feet long weighs nearly JIG tons without the breechpiece and 118 tons 3y hundredweight hundred-weight with the breech THE TVTAL receipts from all sources of internal revenue taxation for the fiscal year ending June 301E6G were 116902 SG9 as compared with 112421121 for the year 1885 121590039 the year 16S4 144553341 for the year 18S3 and 140523273 for the year 18S1 A FEW DAYS ago the SecreUjy of the Treasury received a conscience contribution contri-bution of J1OO from a remorsestricken individual in Louisville Ky This is I said to be the only instance on recordin Kentucky where wounded honor has been satisfied without a contribution of lead Ir IS strange said United States Senator Evarts a few days ago thntin administering justice the wisdom of this world for six thousand years has discovered no otherway than for both sides to hire a man to exaggerate their side and then try to find out the truth between them A GEO GUi who forty years and four months ago bought a clock that has been running steadily since figures out that it has been running 14720 days 353250 hours 21193800 minutes and 1271850000 seconds In winding the clock his hand has traveled 50 miles The clock has struck 2295320 times and ticked 12716 000 times SAYS TUX Boston Globe In IBM the Republican Presidential ticket lacked just ten votes of a clear majority in the old Bay State In 1888 it will lack 10000 votes of not a majority but a plurality The next Presidential vote of Massachusetts Massachu-setts will be cast for a Democrat Two years hence New Hampshire Massachn j liens and Connecticut certainly and j Maine under certain conditions may be j I found in the Democratic column j THE REPDBUCAS organs a few days ago published some remarks attributed to Mr Joseph J ODonohue of New York a leading Tammany man on ilrCleveland and his civil service policy In an interview in the New York Herald Mr ODonohue says The story lIS published con 1ns remarks that I did not make I will have the neccs ary correction made I am not a Cleveland man and never was but at the same time 11 am a Democrat and shall continue FO I have a high regard for President Cleveland and while I mar not agree with him as to some Ideas of public policy tbS does not cause any unpleasant or personal Illwill on my part or on his part TEE DEATH of C A Arthur leaves but one exPresident R B Hayes among the living The death ot two exPr si dents Grant and Arthur one Vice President Hendricks four nnsuccess j fnl Presidential candidates McClellan l Hancock Seymour and Tilden and one unsuccessful VicePresidential Ci n didate B Gratz Brown within a little over a year is something remarkable in the nations mortuary annals An ex Yfce President Colfax also died within i the past two years Of the men who have been candidates for the Presidency on cither the Republican or Democratic ticket all are dead butFremont Hayes Blame and Cleveland Only five Yice1 i t i UrcBdential nornines of either of the I I two big parties remain with nsHamlm Pendleton Wheeler English and Logan Six years only have passed since the GarfiedHanoock canvass and yet Eug hih alone of the four men on the ticket of the leading parties icjJbat coolest is still alive |