Show JAY GOULD the wrecker has touched the wrecker and the earthly end is recorded when JAY GOULD closed his eyes yesterday upon this scene of his triumphs I 1 a characteristic marvel of the I 1 t 11 century was completed it has been the fashion to hato liate mr GOULD for many years past it will now be the fashion to pronounce unco scathing sermons upon his career many morals will ba be pointed and the man will lo 10 condemned for evil or possibly applauded for some detected bit of good but few will appreciate him as bo lie was merely an inevitable result of our civilization in which the ab abnormal or lias has become so frequent as to bo be re really the commonplace comon place sir mr gould was the apotheosis of that system of modern progress by average man of strong purpose brought into contact with rapidly recurring opportunities port unities can elevate himself in private life to the enjoyment of princely power he ile accumulated wealth mercilessly just as millions of his fellow citizens are pursuing their particular purposes without overly sensitive scruples ho ile showed no greater pertinacity or heartlessness than thousands of his fellows fel lowa but his operations being upon tho the scale of has the attention and invoked the comment of the world he ile ia is not recorded as a philanthropist during life whatever his last will and testament may show ho lie lived like the millions for self alono alone lie was probably no better and no worse than the average except as the selfish use of an inestimable fortune makes a man worse than other men who would do the same thing under the same circumstances instead of reading a useless lesson from jay gould himself we should look at the situation which makes possible the fortune which ho he briefly and alone acquired the wisest statesmanship must bo be turned to this all important question how to preserve the highest possible liberty and yet BO so curtail the opportunities of any one man as to prevent liim him from accumulating as jay gould has done lone in less than forty years the average possessions of american citizens WHILE MR CLEVELAND is shooting ducks down at that appropriately named island where lie has pitched his tent liis his especial organs are busy formulating and defending his prospective policy the brooklyn eagle which is the official mouthpiece mouth piece of tile president elect declares that the alliance of HILL and mummy to secure the new york for the latter will be regarded as a declaration of war against CLEVELAND and that war will be met with war this announcement indicates that the ti tiger tier er is not afraid of CLEV ELANDS Ds damn and that CLEVELAND proposes to twist ita its tail OCR OUR particularly jovial lellow fellow citi zen colonel 0 31 Bno voir indulged in a witty and forceful speech at a liberal school primary last night among other brilliant points he lie stated that the liberal party was nonpartisan non partisan we are sorry to convict our talented and admired friend of plagiarism but justice to the public demands it that particular joke belongs to mayor elect BOB bon by whom it was recently originated and no such jocularity however sidesplitting side splitting ought to be repeated without proper credit I 1 PHOEBE HEARST of san francisco tile late senators widow will give to establish a museum in golden gate park the rarest curiosity which it will show will bo be the disposition of one of the rich pacific coast widows to make such an all endowment THE CHOLERA geria gerih propagates propagates so rapidly that in forty eight hours I 1 bours one will produce produce others the first application for office to the coming administration must have been exposed to cholera TUB on the tile late duke ice of yu I 1 Marl boroughs life footed up a ro round nd million of dollars bat but it extend beyond the Krave bloston globe I 1 certainly not it was life insurance not fire THE had operas thousands of yeara years ago new york press the libretto and the music may have been slightly changed but the same old girls are singing in the chorus yet EDISON COASTS roasts that he be lives like a poor operator liis his usual diet being cracked wheat there are no poor operators in this section NEW MEXICO kl Exico is to bo be admitted as a state at once two more republican senators hurrah for tile resurrection of hope |