Show from tb june IS PONS under the heading A jump lie quiren our ponderous morning contemporary batea a dose 0 its own medicine and goes out of sight in the water question it prepares itself for the leap by narrating an incident which is ludicrously inopportune from its standpoint and BO highly appropriate froin oura that ve are tempted to reproduce it of course with proper credit it is like the 0 the st ioui I oui i there vaa a ot liaw and great iron girders aaroa tin the lt arch M placed on tins piers mid ready to go into position some toni ot ice were laid upon it it contracted dropped into place and there tafta a bridge days the moral which the public are requested to draw is that TUB ig slow in bring ingon tho ice we realize that the public depend a great deal upon tu STANDARDS attitude on the water and every other issue which comes before them it ratifies us to enow that this Is the CASO and eliat the public so ar bae not had occasion to repent it we are proud of possessing the public confidence and thankful to the for its compliment beverding Bev erting however to the bridge simile a metaphor which is very neatly expressed we think we discover one mistake that the call for ice is premature whenever it ia necessary eplen city and the ill find us on hanl with a supply sufficient to contract the expanded arches of pubic discussion and restore the editorial cranium of tho commercial to its normal smallness pursuing the simile further the piers of our future ater system are not yet laid tho girders aro not on the ground we have tho old ture which has sufficed for several years but it is manifestly inadequate for alie greater traffic which hag now developed THE DAKnis devoting its present investigations to the location of new piers for the larger and more expensive structure now found necessary we might almost eay we are examining alie foundation beneath the whole stream upon which these piers are to stand aa a perpetual monument of careful patient engineering upon this de rends the success of the alper structure and while tho thinking part of the community is studying the preliminary work the Conin Kreta curiously misunderstanding its prerogative and with a strange misconception of its duty begins at alie w rong end first and pompously walking op to the edge of alie stream bamps in with its ice which melts beneath the waves and is lost forever t in ir 1 ri 11 1 1 i boasted jump of the rural justice 0 the peace before whom a case of elan der was being tried he listened with deep interest to the etory of the complainant nant and at its termination arose with stern countenance to render judg ment the defendent defend tnt suggested that liia story had not been heard and that it was entirely different from tle one just related 1 I will not hear it thundered the ferocious bigwig my mind is made up and if I 1 listened to contradictions I 1 would only become confused the complainant wins this case let the courtroom court room be cleared |