Show 1f EVENTS AND COMMENTS i f iI I i I GENERAL CROOK declares that the I 1 s j II Indians should have the ballot to use t instead of the bullet iz i MACOS Telegraph Sullivan has got i his arm out of a sling and is putting gin I i slings into his bread basket i i I 1j 1 THE 1IC Legislature have provided I i t I i pro-vided a bounty of one cent per head for I 1 the destruction of English sparrows I 1J > J i WHAT A rare and refrigerating spectacle specta-cle would be a game of political freeze out between Sherman and Edmunds i PEOPLE SHOULDNT worry so much i f about the cold and silent tomb They wont worry half as much when they I get there I 1 THE PITTS BURG Leader says it is all i f nonsense to talk about ladies dressing I I for the ball Nowadays ladies undress for the ball 1 COLONEL McCLjRE says that Wash 7 t ingfon is a great mud puddle of croaking r croak-ing sore heads but the country is with ° the President j EVEN THE grave diggers of New York are on a strike Wonder if old St t Peter wont be the next to strike for 1 i higher wages for tending the gate f I 1i IF JEFF DAVIS attends the national 3 drill at Washington May 22 as it is 1 f announced that he will do it will be his first visit there since the war 1 SCRAKTON Truth A maiden lady says that if single life is bad it stands tq I reason that double life is twice as bad i t But ladies rarely understand mathematics mathema-tics j i I 4 BURLINGTON Free Press The cost for j i the cigars and whisky of the average 1 man would buy his wife a three hundred hun-dred dollar sealskin sacque but it t i doesnt j 1 i I boutliern Leader If the negro prevents I of I pre-vents an organic union between the j northern and southern Presbyterians if 1 I i it is a mockery to send missionaries to k J Africa I lit i REV Jo COOK thinks that Beecher J t S ought to have died twenty years sooner t i li Joseph can die any time that suits him i fl I S His exit 15 just as unimportant as his I e 1 j I sojourn Alta w 5 11 I CHARLES SON of Clement L Vallan 3 digham of Ohio announces his retirement l H I retire-ment from the Democratic party and 1 l a j his support of Sherman He never will L I ° J be missed 11 t CHICAGO Tribune The fact that Jt fl Chicago man made a lunch of a 1000 bond has been telegraphed all over the 1 civilized worldand it is worth the face I of the bond as advertisement for the ity a I t REPUBLICAN PAPERS we showing their I l1 j devotion to the colored man by asking 4 1 t t i I if Trotter the new Renter of Deed I I 10 f is a barber they will have a close I J s f shave with thevote of his people next I I j t t r I time Alia + f I i ± f CHARLOTTE SMITH of the Working I i Woman nominates for President and J 1 h VicePresident Henry W Blair and i I ill Henry George respectively This would I F give the country a chance to poll its + 1 I exact crank vote I I f J t t ii 7 I PITTSBUEG Commercial They keep 1 t l f springing frejjh Anarchist sensations in I 1 i I i Chicago but about the only sensation 1 0 ij 1 I that the public really cares about is to J 1 receive a report of the hanging of the ji l I r lot who have been caught and convicted I I 1 < t I i con-victed i 3 S l t lj I POLICE JUSTICE to a young scamp who i J 1 appeared before him for the twentieth time You are incorrigible Iwil 1 f iJ have to send you up for a year this < i I + time This is what bad company has 1 I i led you to II Bad company I dont I j i iil1 see it I spend the most of my time t l with you I t S NEW ORLEANS JDejaocraHenry l E 4 M Stanley refused to allow any newspaper I r news-paper correspondents to accompany his j fJ j expedition Stanley has been a newspaper news-paper man himself and he has enough I 1 of the old leaven left in him to keep 1 i 1 4 I others from getting ahead of him in the j i i I matter of news M OQSGRESS HAS again quieted the titled title-d J the Des Moines River lands in Iowa 7 I That is the noisiest title in this country t tfk and has been for thirty years The E f State Legislature has repeatedly chloroformed I I f chloro-formed it and Congress has often I i rocked it to sleep but in a few minutes 11 i I i i it needs quieting again It t t J j i J I j 1 t j DURING AN exciting game of poker in g 1 St Paul theot er day one gambler bet 1 11J his wife as Its equivalent of 500 and I 1 i ° raised his opponent 250 The latter n I called n found he held four trays to the I I 1 others four deuces and after raking i I 5 in the stakes put on his hat and ran 1 t He was a bachelor and is said to have 1 t known the lady Er We known one i or two old batches hereabouts who I would like a same of that kind j E f I th |