Show EDITORIAL PITH I lime New York Press nole that Chicago Is circulating a report that at tho New York iwirso snow there were many ponies drunk The burbling paragrnphlst who porpetratud Ih11 must havo been Imbibing that cultured bcvorago horsos neck nccc which wo aro Informed upon authority 1lhorly has JUHt struck Chicago Maybe ho got outside of a few ponies 0 The SpringfIeld Republican says A fea ture of soAeidl brokerage houses in New York city has been the crowds ot women besieging tho oillccs of the broken con corns and hysterically calling for their money Tho stockgambling mania In re cent years has como to number women among its victims by tho hundreds In tho largo cities Many brokerage establish monls classing bnckeishops as such I advertlxo themselves as special patrons of thIn class of gambling custom I Is very shocking to oldfashioned notions and yii Is U any moro Indicative oi demorali zation In trio rico for wealth than tho spectacle ailorded by tho stock gamblers of the other sex I The St Paul Press notes that tho Roy C M Sheldon Mill continues to act as a sort of authority In deciding what Christ would do In all manner of situations Among his latest declslono Is one that Christ would probably piny cricket and another that ho would hardly play foot baiithmat I Is as it I Is played at present Of course theo decisions arc given In the gulso of opinions merely but many people seem to have a superstitious belief hele that Sheldon knows all about i and accept them as authoritative It Is I lS nuthorlnUc I a se rious question whether Mr Sheldon Is not rather HtlmuKuIng Irreverence than i i doing good in assuming tho position or permitting himself to be forced Into It I of 1 eoct of notes and queries man of i 1 tho Divlno Master e 1 Tho Fourth Assistant PostmastcrGen I oral in his annual report suggests that i 1 Congress should pass a law 1 which Avlll 1 prevent lekgntph and express companies in their interstate truille rrCtnl < trulc from Riving old i and encouragement to lotteries and green green goods swindlers This Is a sound and wholesome iccommondallon Those corporations cor-porations haAO been often too lax In their methods with regard to dishonest schJmcs declares the Now York Tribune l o 000 TUo Dewey arch committee has aban doned time Idea of rebuilding tho monu niqmmt In pnarblo and Is considering tho proposition to reproduce It In terra cotta Avhltowashcd 01 mad < > as nearly like mar blo In color as possible The question mlr nosv IB flow to raise tho money in New York to pay for the cost or whitewash I remarks the Philadelphia North American Ameri-can 0 |