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Show SPIRIT OF THi PRESS. Foolish Forelga Trent. Philadelphia Tresn. Over one hundred passen gers of the disabled (,'unarder Hervia have decided to abandon their proposed European vacations, aud havu reclaimed their pr.s.-iage mouey and gone home. Tbe accident to the vesnel turns out to have beeu a distinct benefit by reason of tho object lessou it has afforded of the merely capricious cause of a large portion por-tion of this terrible annual drain of money from this country into the pockets pock-ets of F.uropean hotol keepers, railway companies, and purveyors of all kinds of amusements." The desire for foreign for-eign travel which is chilled by the breaking 01" a crack-pin can certainly be satistied by the varieties of fashionable fashion-able follies furnished by this hemi-spere. hemi-spere. A sound public opinion ought to grow up against foreign travel which has not the pursuit of health, wealth, knowledge or rational relaxa tion for its object, These motives will brincr few American dollars into alien coffers. |