Show TAKING TAXING IT EASY the time and talk of congre As is at present mainly occupied with the tile vexed tariff problem with which the democratic seems to have a task about as easy and successful as sisyphus in hades with the tile rock he wag vas condemned to roll up a 0 steep mountain side and which whenever near the summit would fall back into the abbes ti to bu be hoisted again with similar itie cess still the gentlemen compoi composing ing 0 that L talk alk 41 ing tournament appear to take it as easy as possible under the tile circuns tit auces As it Wadi washington ington cories corna pendent describes the tile congressional circus circus accordi according tim to time honored custom when the protectionist are ate talking the free pradera go down in the restaurant and get something to comfort the heart of man and wine wine to make him ofa of a cheerful countenance when the free traders take their turn at the crank the crotee zionists promenade in the corridors corr idora or retire to the cloak room to smoke thus everything goes on harmoniously A hundred and fifty members are down on the list for speeches and the amplo employees Y of the government printing office are correspondingly happy fortu daiely for the speaker he can retire to his cosy room just back of the hall of representatives as the house is under committee of the tile whole and the maco inace ia is under the table and tako take catnaps while the tile alonse diverts itself go going ing round and round like a squi squirrel riel in in a it revolving cage THE tur old testament Ite revision vision company after twelve years of labor completed its work last F friday april 25 tb at room 42 bible house new york city tho tile last work was the final revision of the books of daniel and ezekiel all that remains is to arrange the variations from the british revise era to be printed in the appendix after the old testament reviser sers had completed their work a meeting ing of the two companies the one on the old and the other on oil the new testament was held dry drs day crosby Coward Thay rhay cr er durest kandrick at adrick lee chase short ll iddle chamber and osgood were present A delegation consisting of members of die committee who expect to bo be in europe the coming eummer summer was appointed to attend the final meetie meeting 11 odthe of ahe british committee the first week in july they arc are drs green day chambers ai ken and mead it is now expected that the revision of the old testament which requires time to lie carried carefully through the press will be gi given ven to the public nest next fall fa 11 or the first of next year As WE wr gave currency a few daya days ago ton to n report from washington that mr blaine intended to institute a libel suit against puck for the cartoon in which he figured as the 11 tattooed man it is only fair to state that according ton to a later statement that gent gentleman lemau denies the rc re art p rt that he lie propped to sue puck fur for libel lie ile felt very much cut up over the c cartoon which attracted so much attention and thinks etwas about the tile meanest attack that was over ever made upon him but lie will take lit no public notice of it turm HAVI been becil eottie stories in circulation about attorney gon gen cral B rew retirement from the cabinet hut but they are untrue As asa a senator remarked the other day lay A do dm e of dynamite k i tho the only tiling thing that will remove brewster postmaster GE GENERAL arral greaham lias gone to florida with hia his wife who has been ill for several week weeks and did not recover so rapidly in a this climate as he hoped the tile journey to florida was taken lor for her benefit |