Show I EVENTS AND COMMENTS b J ANOTHER 10000000 bond call is crafty to the Republican organs and orators I TjiiiEE 4KB some fcpots in the Atlantic I Ocean o vr four miles in depth Reminds Re-minds us faiatSy of Joseph Cooks logic WILL ME LOWELL deny that he said Unit Her Majesty the Qeen of England aaJ Empress of all the Indies icu ing Upper Bermab is old and tough t LOBB LO PALE has gone back to England Eng-land 3e Lud can lecture over thereon there-on what he knows about importing theatrics tramps into the United Statas A CHICAGO paper advises businessmen business-men not to crmk liquor during business hours This wlil doubtless cause a great mans business men to curtail buslnuss hour A BVCUELOI artvertisedfor a helpmate one who would provide a companion for his heart hs hand and his lot A fair one replying asked cry earnestly How bg is your lot GEORUK ALFRED GATH says he had a tendency to blush when he first entered a newspaper office This was when I George Alfred was young He is old I enough now to let the newspaper office do the blushing No ADVAMJEin eastbound rates before the 17th of November is likely to occur At the meeting on that dateit is thought by prominent freight men that grain rates will be aavanced to the basis of 30 cents per 100 pounds Chicago to f I i New York MB ATKISSON estimates the annual loss of property in the United States by fire at 100000000 the cost of maintaining main-taining fire insurance companies at C r 35000000 and of fireextinguishing appliances at 2500000 a total of 160000000 THE POSTAL Telegraph polemen and E the Northern Pacific Railway employees do not eeem to be in accord althon hit h-it is given out that Mr llackay has secured se-cured the rightofway along the railroad rail-road lines As fast as the postal men dig a hole the railroad men fill it up IN nis annual report the Commissioner Commis-sioner of patents M V Montgomery says the fees turned into the Treasury f during the calendar year 1SS5 amounted to 103710 making a balance in the Treasury on account of the Patent Office fund of very nearly 3000000 IT is rumored that the Lord Chancellor Chancel-lor of England is to be retiredon a pension pen-sion of SfX30 a ear As there is no record of the Lord Chancellor ever having hav-ing broken his leg while hunting for dandelions American statesmen will wonder how he came to be entitled toy to-y all this J THE JIOKEST settlers took p 7415886 ncres of land last year Jind the homestead home-stead laws by preemption And yet we are told by Republican organs and orators that the Land Office is hostile to honest settlers The trouble ia that the Land Office is hostile to the land thieves and the Sand rings THE KMCUTE of Labor have undertaken under-taken one good work at least and that s is the equalization of wages all over the country in favor of colored labor at the south Equally skilled labor should bring equal wages whether done by white or black hands There should be no industrial oolor line LAST WEEK Railroad Gazette contains information of the construction of 292M miles of railroad on seventeen lines ti making the aggregate reported thus far this year 4558 miles against 1870 miles for the corresponding period In 1885 2932 in 18S4 4917 in 1883 8314 in 1832 5639 in 1851 and 4353 in 18SG z IT is said that from Trinity spire a birds eye view would disclose 16000 saloons including New York Jersey City Newark and Patterson Sixteen thousand murder mills which ire feeding feed-ing upon the wealth of the nation without I with-out making any return but misery John L Sullivan and Paddy Ityafl have toned sn agreement to meet in a boxing match in San Francisco within two months After this is over the two big pugilists with a elected iompany will work their way eat takiae iu Warfiew big towns Xew York JoIMliL Church fairs and other institutions desiring the services of these revivalists would do well to obtain their dates as soon as possible g Jx HIS oration on the unveiling of the Bartholdi statue Mr Chauncey M Depew said As the centuries roll by and In the fullness full-ness ol rime the ras of < < libertys torch arc fhes beacon gsr of the world the central niches In the earths Pantheon of Freedom will be filled by the figires of Whtngton and Lafayette 3 Undoubtedly the figures of Washington Washing-ton and Lafayette will occupy central niches in the earths Pantheon of Freedom Free-dom But what sort of Pantheon of Freedom will it be from which the j figure of Abraham Lincoln is omitted I L |