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Show The Park Conimiysion is ready lo l'Pjrjn work; the city is also ready, and (he people willing, fc?o. liri away! fl The smooi liricss with which M micro's programme is jjetiinir alone: seems too Hj'' i,rood to .bp. true. When will tho porl- cullis dro? A noted sociologist Hays that the woman of (he future will' wear sandnls and suspenders. That will certainly he an airy costume, but why the suspeu-dors? suspeu-dors? Hj Marjoro, it is said, will not (o I lie ( Uy of Mexico direct from Juarez, hut in- way of. San Auionto and Laredo, Tew. It's a long way around, but Hj probably safer. Hj The defeat of President Tail's noin.-inro noin.-inro for U, S. Marshal for Oregon by flic two Senators from that Slate, is vindictive polities. rinilcl small. But ihon, it was small men who did the trick. Trade reports show Uiat; our cotton 1 manufacturers are selling moro col!o:i j jjoods to South America than ever bc- fore. And no doubt at-prices consiclcr-:ibJy consiclcr-:ibJy below what they charpo Amcri-Hj Amcri-Hj cans for fho like yoods. "Lawic-ene3 Jias been Uio aeUvo poison tbrinfrintr about the death of j every iintfpn,'' nays the Jvloniphis Com. mercial Appcnl. A truth that .should j bo brought home to (he conscience of every community in the United Stales. A lady member of Newport's smart --et startled Ihe guests of a hotel by appearing in I ho corridor in green ti'chts. .Shocking! And in staid old Philadelphia, (oo! But then, you know, the smart set thirsts for sensation. An eminent Tiuibority on sculpturo that thnro 'are more siatuos in "W ahinctoii than were, produced (luring hc entire Italian renaissance. But he shrewdly adds that few of thorn have n value: . Wo bad suspected this. Tho orjjau of Ihe whisky drug stores undertakes to minimise tho action o the board of governors of tho Commor-chl Commor-chl Cbib in declaring atrainst prohibi-lion. prohibi-lion. But that organ fails to show how tho liquor .traffic voiild be better in drug stores than in saloons. Dial's shrewdness has not deserted him; ho insisted I hat Vico President Corral should resign first, so that there would bo no chance lor tho 'Vice Prcsi-rnt Prcsi-rnt lo lay claim fo the. Presidency after Diaz had resigned it. Shrewd old fox! -; In Canada the Beli Telephone com-pany com-pany is ordered to give independent companies loug-distanco connections over its wires at a slated price; tho order tp hold good for a year, to sec how it works. Tho hearing was had and tho order mudo with :t quickness io niako people in this country dizzy. Oh, come, now; we may or may not agree on tho question of recalling tho judiciary; but when it comes lo Hep-resentativc Hep-resentativc Litlloton citing as a prece-dent prece-dent for such recall, tho shout of the -mob to crucify Jesus Christ, the com parisou is so scandalously overdrawn That one must wonder at (he make-up of a mind which could even imagi-nattvelv: imagi-nattvelv: .join the two. Representative Littloton .must have jiad a . lit .of hys-1 hys-1 erics while doing it. The church organ, the Dcscrct News, cpmmeutH in :i dissenting tone on the London Times 's editorial reply to Pros-ident Pros-ident Joseph F. Smith's appeal to the people of 'England. But it. is siguifi-cant siguifi-cant that it doesn't print that .Times editorial. Yet it criticises it. Those o who want to see what it is that the B News's criticism' is directed at, as well H as the feebleness of that criticism, will liave to- get The Tribune of last lon-day lon-day morning, which contained the Lou-don Lou-don Times 's editorial in full. It is grievous to read of tho fatal dis-aster dis-aster lo the young men of Provo who Hl met with .such horror on their "joy B ride." It is a sorrow uurcliovcd to (heir families, and their friends. Wc H have no desire to point to it as a les son; but it is certainly true that there Hl is far too much .joy-riding, and it is a wondcrtliat more disasters do not oc I'vr ihgn are TOpo.rt,cdy It is a verj an(l business, hard to eradicate, but full ol! peril all I ho while. JOvery time a joy ride is proposed. Ihe idea is scoffed that any harm can come "to us;" and then (ho horror comes,. The mania, it is to be hoped, will wpur. itself olit " lime, but it should be frowned Upon by all. " |