Show THE railway in boston recently made a successful experiment iii removing the snow from the track by tho means of electric ers each of the sweepers is a platform car provided with large cylindrical brushes at each end similar to those attached to street sweeping machines A fifteen borao motor runs the brus hesBy means of this device the electric cars wore propelled with less difficulty than cars drawn by four horses THE los tribune annual and southern california statistician is the most complete work of the kind ever published on the coast it is a book of pages of statistical matter for ready reference its treatment of the products of the climate and the commerce of the southern counties it contains an article 01 the mineral and agricultural resources of lower california its climate and products TUE OLD of the central and western states propose to have a big celebration at chicago the of this month if there is angole class of men in the world more than another who should got together and enjoy themselves in talking over old times it is the men who braved the fortunes of the days of 49 among whom the pioneers of utah stand in the lead THE NEW YOKE legislature will be asked immediately on assembling to give a big financial gift to the project of a worlds fair iu new york city early action will be urged for its probable effect on congress against the aspiration of chicago call on him call at the family meat market two doors north of the post office and buy 10 As of beef for buo ouo dollar fine pressed head laef ciomo cured bacon pork pies and potted beef always on hand proprietor Prop rieter two doors north of the post office OF the postal savings bank are prepared to make another effort when congress to lecuse legislation authorizing thu introduction of tho system in this country tho system though oi comparatively recent origin has been carried to great perfection in europ and has within a few years extended to the four quarters of the globe it was adopted in england twenty five yeara ago and owes its development there mainly to the on meat advocacy of HENEY FAWCETT thy honored postmaster general of great britain who inaugurated so many improvements in the postal service that have proved ot universal advantage it is now in operation in prance belgium austria italy and the netherlands and the postmaster general of germany is seeking to introduce it into the empire it has boon successfully established iu canada Australia and other colonies and is now being considered by the government of japan DONT GET mad when the newspaper makes a statement which interests you and which is incorrect or does you some injustice errors will creep into print and statements wiil unavoidably appear which displease some one the paper that makes an erroneous statement will always willingly correct it and make all reasonable amends if correction is requested in a decent manner an explanation will generally bo made for any story published and satisfaction given for any wrong bonu thereby if the demand is made iu a gentlemanly or ladylike manner tho surest way is tho world to got the dose doubled is to get mad about it act mad about it and end tho interview by making the editor mad IK the immigration figures for 1889 we find that abero was a falling off in the number arriving at castle garden of as compared with the arrivals of 1888 and when compared with tho arrivals of 1887 in 1887 the enormous number of immigrants arrived it the port of new york and in 1888 immigrants entered this country at the same point in the two years the arrivals at other ports swelled the total of new immigrants to over in spite of the falling off for 1889 the arrivals at new york alone are enough to make a large city their numbers are equal to the population of ban francisco they would fill two congressional districts they are more numerous than the population of colorado delaware florida nevada oregon khoda island or any of the territories at the time of the last census their numbers are moreover only a part of those arriving in the country when the returns are made from other ports the total will doubt lass reach above in comparison with the arriving in 1881 the in 1882 the in 1883 and the in 1887 these numbers may seem moderate yet they form an immense army ABE now tareo justices Jast ices of the supreme court MILLER FIELD and BEADLEY who are past the age when they may retire on full pay it is quite likely therefore that will have the selection of their successors and it may bo that will also retire daring the present administration as he will have the right to do HALF A DOZEN secretaries of state have reached the presidency and MB BLAINE perhaps thinks that his claims on the latter post and his chances of securing it are as great as those which were possessed by any oe bis predecessors early in the days of the government when JEFFERSON MADISON and the second ADAMS went to the white house after having held the leading position in the cabinet the latter seemed to be the natural stepping stone to the former the passage of JEFFERSON from the lower to the higher post however was not hinline inline diate and direct nor was that of VAN or the other ex secretaries who subsequently sat in in the presidential chair |