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Show Mr. Dooley (Peter Dunne) has tried ; one of those White House dinners, along with Hennessy on the side. The public is assured that Grover I Cleveland has recovered from his cold and again reposes in innocuous desue- tude. j ! The picture of John Judge in this is sue is published through courtesy of Salt Lake Tribune, in which paper it first appeared. i 1 The Chicago Tribune rises to ask: ! "Why should Ellen Terry retire from I ; ' the stage, when she stil! looks so young I in her photographs?" f . It is not surprising to read that the j " Lync h and l'lunkett factions in Gal- Aay had a little scrimmage by way 'f "divarsion," but nobody was killed and only slight damage done to Ihe j elegant C,alvay whiskers. The trouble Japan is having In raising rais-ing that littl." loan of SiS.OOO.OOO shoti'd be interpreted by the Japs as an evi- ! deuce that the outside world, while it admins their pluck and spirit, is a little dubious as to their ability to w hip Russia. opening of the saloons on Sunday is ire- first note of "reform" that has been sounded by the anti-Tammany admin-I admin-I isi.riition in New York city. The con- I elusion reached, is that efforts to cletse I thrin have a!! proved failures, includ ing the Raines law. Tho news editor of the Salt Lake Tribune invariably alludes to our na- j tiw aborigine as "Poor Lo." The fie- i qii'iiey of the adjective made Lo so weary and lonesome that he has asked the editor to include jack and the I pan.e. j A new coast defense gun' recently j tested at the United States arsenal in ' Watvrvliot, N. Y.. fires a huge projec- j tile a distance of twenty-one miles. A I few more improvements along the same j lines of force and space will render lighting-ships somewhat obsolete, says j the San Francisco Monitor. j Wifh 3.". 000 unemployed persons in V P.erlin living from soup houses; Fundi miners on a gigantic strike; discontent all over Great Britain: Spain threatened by revolution and Italy bankrupt and beggared, there seems to be no people across the pond absolutely contented but the Icelanders. Ice-landers. At least if they are unhappy nobody knows it but themselves. While the writer is putting these lines on paper, a gloom hovers over the couch of a dear friend, and the agony of a beloved wife melts one to tearr. Dr. McKenna. who met with the accident Thursday morning which v ill without doubt deprive him of life, was one of nature's noblemen, whom Fitz Freen Halleck must have had in mind when he wrote: - ; "None knew him but to love him; i f None named liim but to pi-aise." People who keep up with the daily : 1 history of the world generally skip I; Central and South American news, be- i cause the daily reports from our sister ' j republics confuse the reader in an en- , deavor to keep track of the army I which won yesterday, so as not to mix I ' it up with the other which gained the I victory the day before. However, the I casualties before Panama number . f V enough to make the engagement re- f -V spectable, even more than usually occur oc-cur at a football game. Sir Robert Hall, the English astronomer, astron-omer, in a lecture at T.oston, said that "at the end of a million years it will take the earth seventeen minutes longer long-er to revolve once around its own axis than it does today. The aggregate of loss in four million years will be about an hour, making a twenty-five hour day." That means another strike by trades unionists for shorter hours. An editorial note in Thursday's Salt Lake Tribune says: "The offer of Mrs. Jude to establish a home for aged and infirm miners is a most noble thought, creditable to her generous heart. The offer is contained in a letter let-ter printed this morning, addressed to Bishop Seanlan. It will be a benefaction benefac-tion of great service in this whole mining min-ing region; and though the thought is kindly and high, it has to do with men of high spirit and independent character, and Mrs. Judge is fully assured as-sured that here beneficence will not be abused, for she knows the men. The proposal is another in the shining list of good deeds for this region, that we trust is but fairly begun. An energetic demand is being made that Captain Clark, the gallant commander com-mander of the battleship Oregon, shculd be given the command of the European squadron instead of Crowin-shield, Crowin-shield, chief winder of red-tape in the navy department and head of the cabal against Admiral Schley. The latter did not distinguish himself, while Clark gave invaluable service. I To send Crowinshield on a junketing voyage around Europe, where he will be feted at every port he touches, while Clark js retained in a minor superintendent-- on shore seems preposterous pre-posterous and ought to arouse the protest pro-test which is being made against it. The consolidation of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads, two great competing.and parallel lines, excites the opposition of the people of Minnesota, and Governor Van Zandt will probably bring suit in the name of the state to prevent it. The proposed pro-posed scheme of consolidation, if effected, ef-fected, would leave the farmers and ranchers of tiie northwest at the mercy of the monopoly controling such united lines. Hitherto . competition gave them choice of shipment over either at competitive rates. Montana ' should join Minnesota in its opposition opposi-tion lo the deal. Colorado is already aroused over the proposed consolidation of the Gould and Harriman interests. Here is an interesting Boer war detail de-tail ,as described by an Englishman just back from South Africa: i ne local warriors, known as Town guards, are cautious as well as val- orous. A Boer force being reported ; in the neighborhood, they are sent out to surround and capture it. Thereupon the guards, march forth, make a de-tout de-tout and proceed in the direction opposite op-posite to where the enemy is supposed sup-posed to be. "Returning in due course the guards report that thej were unable to capture cap-ture any Boers, as they lied on their approach in proof of which statement the guards exhibit articles thrown away by the panic-stricken fugitives. "These articles, so necessary in this emergency, have been previously stolen by Town guard -heroes from deserted Boer farms." |