Show SOJED EDlOIAL C13M3IRSTS Boston Herald One of the ballot commissioners com-missioners Is the father of a girl who was born a day or two ago His law partner said to him uIf you tvlll let me name the baby Ill make her a handsome hand-some present No said the commissioner commis-sioner 01 shall name her either Fanny or Faneull Hall or Calliope for Music Hall Those are the only names I can think of now New York World The American people peo-ple are not willing to pay for powder to b used in firing for freedom I is a defect of our system that there Is no immediate method ot causing Mr Olney to understand this Baltimore Sun Mr Chauncey I Filley is the Republican boss in Missouri and of late has been busily engaged In adjustIng Y f t ing local Republican differences ai In St Louis and securing a full registration throughout the state So intently was Mr Filley engaged in looking after the business of other people that he forgot his own and as a consequence failed to present himself for registration So he is disfranchised and there Is no way In which he can secure the right to vote at the November election rsht St Paul Pioneer Press Further good fortune appears to be In store for the American farmer In a prospective great advance In the price of potatoes owing o to a disastrous prevalence of owJng the potato fields of England Scotland Wales and to a smaller extent In those of Ireland Immense reports from the tubers will probably be required from America to make up the shortage ann our farmers may well smile as they look at the great product of their own fields this year Atchison Globe In view of the hideousness hideous-ness or the maatup t n s mens hats a lover of the feathered tripe hopes the hIdeousness w1 teatheree pi SKt < uid uiaf inC mitunerniaue jird will become so frightful the feminine sex will rise in a body and refuse to wear corpses heads any of slaughtered longer singers upon their |