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Show i American business relations with Abyssinia are looking up. They have in in order in cot tliero at all, for Abyssinia is "up in flip air." Andrew Cam eerie says that the knit-line knit-line needle is more powerful than the Nword. But we doubt if either would amount tn much in Jiis hands. In the proposal "to do awav with orange blossoms for brides, the apple blossom is generally urged as a substitute: substi-tute: but, some mean old bachelors have the gall (o suggest lemon blossoms. blos-soms. The insurgents arc said to be in full command of the situation in northern Mexico, and such, indeed, seems to bo the ease. It is to be hoped, therefore, that they will command peace and order. A bill has been introduced for the coinage of a tvo-for-a-nickel piece, it should bo 'chiefly of copper, not oJ nickel, which is a delusion. The '2 cent piece should be big and easy to handle. The Koutoii Globe is guiliy of this atrocity: "Punch curiously wants to know why they call themselves tho Mormon elders, instead of the Brig-ham Brig-ham Younger!?. Anyone who knows might write." The, revolt, in Madero's army mnsl cause a sharp rise in Diaz stock. II must also set the seal of approval un the Diaz dipiomacv, which is playing a waiting game, ready to lake advantage of whatever nmv turn up. "Our idea of good fishing is when it is so good that there is no necessity to lie about how good it is, " Miys the Detroit Free Press. But in that ease your fish stories would probably be held to be the biggest lies of all. Tho forecast of the vote on reci procity in the Senate is 55 for to .'56 against, in a Senate of 1)1 members, Colorado sending but one Senator. But tho gabfest will go right, on, just the same, with no hope of changing a vole. Another massacre of dews in Russia is threatened at Kiev. It is time thai the civilized nations of the earth should seriously consider the "question of making Hussia tho outlaw among na lious, nud rofiibC to have diplomatic relations re-lations with her until she stops those atrocitics.- Missnuri has a commendable pension law for widows, to enable them to keep their children in school. The amount is $10 a month for ono child nnd $5 for each in additiou. Excellent results should be expected from such a law, and the reports of its operation are uniformly good. Now York City is trying In hatch a t new charter, but the draft submitted is almost universally condemned. Even Mayor Oaynor. charged with its authorship, author-ship, puts in an emphatic denial. It's mighty hard for 'rain many to do any such work to the'satisfaction of tho .decent citizenship of the great metropolis. metrop-olis. II has come to a pretty pass, indeed, when a Kcntuekinn can be actually indicted for helping to lynch a negro. If the eighteen "well-known citizens" of Owonsboro who have been indicted for their playful recreation shall be sent to the penitentiary for their frolicsomeneas, then, indeed, the eoflin of liberty may as well be buried. j " Thomas C. Cutler of Trenton, Utah, is evidently not one of those who hold i that a woman can't throw a rock ! straight. On the contrary, he contends j that two young women of that place ; "rocked" hint so effectually that ho j had to take to his bed, and he wants them punished for assault and battery. I Tlis case is a Sad one, for even if he wins ho will lose. People don't take kindly to tho idea of a man setting the law On a woman. I Tho hoodlum in Washington is moro I considerate than the hoodlum in &ome . other places. But he must have his ; pranks. On Sunday night last the Gen. Phil Sheridan statue in bronze, riding his bronze horse in Sheridan circle at I Washington, vns decorated somo time I during" the night with a lace-bedecked I nightcap and au ornate "nightie" I " 1 adorned with lace insertion and narrow ribbon of baby blue. In many places nothing would have served the hoodlum hood-lum but tho overturning of tho statue. |