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Show EDITORIAL NOTES. The telegraph informs us that John L. Sullivan is in good humor. Thanks. Thirteen members of the Fifty-second congrebs have died. A fatal number, indeed. Suppose we suspend European immigration immigra-tion during the prevalence of cholera entirely; en-tirely; will it do any harm? Jat Gould is home again and restored in health. There need be iio fear that he will fill six feet of real estate while he is reaching reach-ing out for the earth. Mr. Harrison has had his fortune told at Loon lake by a pretty girl in a yellow gown. She probably told Mr. Cleveland's mis-fortuue mis-fortuue simultaneously. General BrnwELL scatters too much. Nominated as the Prohibition candidate he Js stealing General Weaver's and Tessie Ci.afh;'s thunder at the same time. A foolish contemporary remarks that Ciiauncey Depew manages to be across the pond every time there is trouble on his road. Motc likely ho tries to avert trouble when he Is at home. Governor Boyd of Nebraska declines a renomination. Governor Boyd's head is horizontal. He kuows that accideuts never happen except iu off years, and this year is a Hakkisox year. If you want anything that you don't see in the Idaho Democratic platform, just call for it. It is so easy, you know, to make promises when it is certain you will never be called upon to fulfill them. Vehmoxt is going to vote September 6 and Maine September 12, and when the elections elec-tions are over the Democrats will probably attribute their defeat to the absence of their members at the Scllivax-Corbktt fight. "While hundreds of former Liberals are joining the Republican party we do not hear of a single convert tho other way. If anything any-thing more be needed to prove the disintegration disin-tegration of the Liberal party, here it is. A commanding officer, who in times of Dcace marches his troops in a temperature of 100' until half of them succumb to the heat, may be considered a great disciplinarian disciplin-arian in Europe. In this country he would be regarded as a great brute and treated accordingly. Ten thousand people listened to the speeches made each by a Republican, Democrat Demo-crat and Populist at the Detroit fair, but tho Associated Press reporter very considerately sent out but one, the Democratic speech. That reporter will bo taken care of if the Democrats ever get into office; meantime the Associated Press should put him on the retired re-tired list. Cholera has reached Hamburg, in Ger-! Ger-! many, and that brings it close to our doors, because Hamburg is a seaport town from which every week thousands of emigrants sail for New STork. Tho situation is serious indeed, but we believe the health and quarantine quar-antine officers In the East will be fully able to cope with it. Forewarned is forearmed, for Satnrday a |
