Show HABITUAL CRIMINALS will fare hard in from this time forth under the new law two men found guilty of robbery it being choir third conviction for the same offense have been sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of their lives GENERAL MAHONE it is reported now wants to be postmaster of richmond ho evidently does not propose to be suppressed no thirty thousand adverse majority ingoing to keep him down EVEN have organized a trust those residing in new york and the surrounding citie have pooled numbers and issues for higher THE SENATE evidently expects two democratic members from montana seats have been reserved for them on the democratic side of the chamber LOUISIANA is cruel to widows it has a efaw prohibiting women to remarry till ton months after the death or divorce of their husbands A MAN was hung in a wisconsin town the other day for general worth loss ness tho precedent is an alarming ono too many THE ONE serious objection to the removal of tax from tobacco is the en it would afford to the cigarette i rg prof Loi memory system is creating greater interest etian over in all parts aitho c and persons wishing to their memory should bend for his prospectus free as advertised in another column THERE is an element of gross unfairness in the proposal that mr wanamaker Wana makor shall now be ousted from the postmaster generalship that gentleman when he took his lease upon the place paid a high price in advance for a four years occupancy there aro very few men in try who would have paid so much because there u o very few who have enough business integrity to make the lease pay at such a price mr wanamaker has shown that to him with his genius to retail trad the office is worth the money he gave for it A SOOTHING in use in quo bee has been analyzed and found to contain nearly 40 per cent of the liquid extract of opium A number of children had been s effectually soothed by it that they awoke only on the other side of the pearly gates before attention was called to ita deadly character EL tho democrat who was elected to congress from the sixth new york district at a special election hold en saturday last by over majority is a poor man and one of the deooe out of scanty sayings from 12 per eek as the driver of an ice maeon he paid for a two years turm at columbia college of life and the faith to have lapsed into a state of innocent desuetude jor an unlimited period NOT will bo the leader of of representatives 1 a little town near chicago there is a school bouse close to the track of a trunk line railroad the consequence of this juxtaposition of the two things is one that never would occur to any but the boyish mind the boys got up a game which consisted in their seeing which one should be the last to jump across the track in front of the express train that passes there at fifty miles an hour just after school lets out this game has already cost at least throe lives the other day a railroad employee went to the mother of ona of the boys to tell her what her eon was doing she told him she could take care of her own children and no interference by tattletales tattle tales she gave him a scolding he will never forget one reason why ho will never forget it is that the boy was killed by the express train one week afterward the engineer said he saw the boy standing by the track but never dreamed he meant to try to cross it ahead of the train SENATOR PADDOCK has introduced a bill for the erection of public buildings in all cities having over population the nebraska senator will also introduce a bill the railway mail service out of the control of the civil service commission SENATOR PADDOCK says that under the present system the railway mail eer vice of tho west is becoming demoralized zed when a postal clerk resigns or dies it is to fill hid place immediately and the slow processes of the civil cerviaco corn mission are a bar to good administration AND NOW the grand junction col nuis croak eth its little croak as follows ANDERSON of salt lake city has refused to grant naturalization papers to imported saints the saints will of course appeal to the united states supreme court and the incumbents of the offices will h old until a decision can be reached this is the play they ara working THE SENATE is evidently determined that business shall not lag for the want of bills to consider over were introduced on the first working day of the session of this probably half a dozen will receive attention the rest will simply lie in committee pigeonholes pigeon holes and never be heard of in tb e senate proceedings THIS is ahe centennial congress the girat congress was called to meet in hew lork march 4 1789 and on that day only twenty one members of both houses were on hand to begin with tho house did not have a quorum until april 1 nor the senate until april 6 brazilians BRAZI LIANS APPEAR perfectly satisfied with then now government as no doubt they aie and air an 0 along as s n fc ey do in this country after wu ii e c iad presidents THE SELECTION of alii city in whirl to hold the worlds fiur couii 0 o la 11 and could be mado before ahr holiday recess the chances ore huweler hu wever that it will not be made for five or six beeb yet THE of JUDGE gives three of the eight associate justices of the supreme court that part of the country lying west of the mississippi eliter aho vho is to go on the supreme bench is the man who decided that when a state adopted a prohibitory liquor jaw it must pay for all the breweries and distilleries THIB owing to bhe nearly equal division of the two parties house promises to be one or the most lengthy ear held 1 A man writes me that he can swear in seven different languages he says his style of delivering is effective and be can swear the smoothest and vilest of any man in the swea field he wants to hire out to compositors on large dailies and claims that in ten hours he can do all their swearing for a week with his tongue tied behind him give him a call and listen to his bened aged words of inspired eloquence Is there any opening here for an intellectual writer asked a seedy individual of the editor one afternoon yes my friend replied the man of quills a considerate carpenter foreseeing your visit left an open ing for you turn the nob to the right what is this scandal abut wana lakeit why he uses his inside knowledge of the bureau to help business along he las information about the weather twelve hours in advance and knas exactly what to display in his windows parasols or umbrellas patent leathers or golos hes borrow fire to overhead electric wires A live wire crossed the wires of the electric time company and burnad out all the connections at the blazes were started in many places at once on Saturday last the crossing of two electric light wires set fire to the seven story office buildings nos and fifth avenue chicago owned by shepherd of the northwestern university the dangers of exposed wire are being considered in all directions here is a new peril to guard against bays the san francisco examiner A building may be so solidly constructed as to resist a wave of fire sweeping against it from the outside but electricity brings the enemy behind the walls into every room and if there is an unguarded spot it finds it out every telephone fire alarm messenger box electric clock and electric light becomes a source of danger the befit fir department part ment in the world ii no security against an attack that may strike a hundred points at once editor to a gentleman just arrived we dont want any poetry gentleman no editor nor prose gentleman no editor nor blank verse gentleman how would a tw two o dollar bill anit you for a years subscription in advance editor why my dear sir why yon say so at first to office boy james give this gentleman a couple of chairs and the floor to spit OIL father to editor I 1 would like you to give my sona chance iu your printing office editor what can the boy do father well at first he do any thing more than edit your paper and take general charge of tho mechanical department ani later on when he learns sense hell be handy to have around to wash windows keep lamp chimneys clean and sift ashes the newspaper of tho future to morrow Bs |