Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS Pittsburg Post The amount of steel billets of American manufacture recently Imported Into GreatBrltaln or contracted for are said to reach 22000 tons Steel bars from Carnegie mills are now regularly regu-larly Imported into Staffordshire for sheet iron mills and Into Lancashire for wireworks wire-works at 5s to 7s 6d per ton less than the actual selling price of Brittish billets St Louis Republic Of the three resolutions reso-lutions Introduced In the senate dealing with the Cuban situation the most important im-portant is that calling for the correspondence corre-spondence and reports of the confaulgen eral of the United States at Havana re lating to imprisoned American citizens Before any action Is taken by congress that body should be in possession or full information with regard to American prisoners and wih conduct of the Spanish authorities towards them The essential preparation for proper action Is accurate knowledge When we know just where we stand we shall know what tocdo New York Commercial Advertiser With the approach of Ash Wednesday much is heard of the ways and means of killing time during Lent There are lenten sewing circles which are merely afternoon teas In disguise There are lenten dinners with the roast course omitted but with ample substitutes There are all sorts of lenten amusements I the object al which seems to be to have as good a time a usual only under the rose This annual hoodwinking which is all that Lent means to certain persons or groups of persons resembles nothing so much as a masquerade Under the dominoes and masks are the real men and women bent on having a goud time whatever their disguise San Francisco Chronicle Taking Crete Cuba Formosa Madagascar HawaII Samoa and the Philippines as types about the worst real estate investment a nation I can have nowadays Is a populatejdlaland Chicago Chronicle President Cleveland has very properly vetoed the claim for I pension by Mrs Maria Somerlat She drew a pension as a soldiers widow from SC7 till 1SS1 when upon her remarriage I the allowance was stopped by a Republican Republi-can pension commissioner She got a I divorce from the second husband and the claim Is now put in again I Philadelphia Record Next to the BradleyMartin ball the question of Jonah and the whale still remains the most exciting topic of discussion i tHe ecclesiastic I circles of New YorK The latest phase of the Jonah question is presented by a clergyman there whosays he knows a man of veracity who relates that he knew a sailor who was swallowed I by a whale and was thrown up again In something less than three days That I ought to settle the question I |