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Show In Elizabethan days the Irish were forbidden to wear the.coolin flowing hair. There was treason in it. And now Kaiser William orders all physicians physi-cians to shave their beards. There are microbes in them. Union and Times. Our Catholic neighbor of Salt Lake City pays a cordial and courteous tribute trib-ute to the character of the late Lorenzo Lo-renzo Snow, head of the Mormon church in Utah. President Snow enjoyed en-joyed the esteem of all who knew him, irrespective of difference of religious creed and all that sort of thing. He was a good citizen and a deeply and practically religious man according to his lights. It would not be easy to pay a higher compliment to the memory of any individual. Monitor. A special commissioner of the New-York New-York Tribune, after a careful study of the Filipino character, extending over a period of several months, pronounces it unfathomable. He has small hopes of the ultimate Americanization of the people, despite thercseate views of such eminent authorities as the youthful Mr. Wilkinson, who has been entrusted with the business of educating the population of the archipelago according accord-ing to American ideas. He doesn't think the timber is suitable for the purpose. Themore closely our Asiatic acquisition is scrutinized the more thoroughly convinced become reflective reflec-tive minds of the gold brick character of the transaction which made the islands isl-ands ours. Monitor. Herr Most has been ordered to jail for a year to expiate some anarchist sentiment found in the columns of his newspaper. It is a comparatively easy matter to secure the conviction of at least one class of anarchists in the present state of the public temper, the class that merely breathes and writes destruction. A far more dangerous class, the one that applies rope and torch at its own sweet will, without regard re-gard to law or justice or anything else, pursues its ghastly way unmolested. Monitor. ' Miss Marie Corelli is difficult to suppress. sup-press. Those novels of hers are flaming flam-ing meteors. They are examples of whit an unrestrained imagination, a highly-colored vocabulary, and Niagaras Niag-aras of audacity can do when properly managed. Nevertheless she is a perpetual per-petual delight. If she has not the inspiration in-spiration of the Sybil, she, at least, has the contortions. She is now in rather a difficult position. Unfeeling persons charge that her biography which has recently appeared was written by the prophetess herself! This has, of course, caused her to writhe in the limelight. She asserts in her apologia apol-ogia that nothing could be further from the truth. On the contrary, she contends that she did everything in her power to prevent the publication. It disturbed her sense of privacy, as it were. It broke in upon that sacred seclusion se-clusion in which the true artist should always be enshrined. The letter is delightful de-lightful reading. It is full of sarcasm, invective against the whole tribe of bookmen, and a delicate egotism that perfumes the pages as a rose does a room. New Century. |