Show THOSE ARK bleet words corbett and fitzsimmons have for each other A little drab bine has brought each to realize that the other is the greatest men on airth himself excepted of course how condescending on their part the most distressing feature though is that they promise to continue their talking machines in full operation THE ray ot ogden and the salt lalie have engaged in a contest in political economy from present indications the tribune has somewhat the advantage in the argument but we expect to eee alie xray X ray handle the tribune in its next issue as did corbeit Cor belt the editors are very evenly matched one is sterile by nature and the other exhausted by calli THE dispatches tell of the shooting of a man in carson over the prize fight we fail to observe any great difference between bull tights and prize fights in the former men are killed in the ring by infuriated beasts in the latter humana lifa is taken by maddened beasts out cf the ring carson has a murder case on its hands now to help dissipate its filthy profits in prizefighting prize fighting PRIZE james J corbett of california has bad his colors lowered by robert fitzsimmons Fitza immons of cornwall england the best man hag apparently carried off the honor if we may so term a victory in a prize ring after the sixth round corlett failed to exhibit either hitting power or clever generalship while eemmons eim mons proved to have always in reserve a blow of sufficient force to knock the wind out of the best man that ever entered the from the standpoint of the pugilist it was a great to the general public it was anything but an ennobling contest of which the nineteenth century debould be proud THE of the bureau of statistic haa published a summary cf the indue trial conditions of the argentine republic china japan and Hee that in ahn argentine republic there has been a general advance in prices since 1886 that wages have shared in this advance in china there has been an increase in silver prices of imports since but no changes in prices ol 01 chinese new avenues of employment have been opened in china by reason of the development of manufacturing industries A general advance in prices is reported in japan since 1856 and since 1892 wages in that country have increased russia shows an advance in the prices of some articles since but u change in factory wages and an actual decrease in agricultural wages the figures from which the statistician draws his conclusions are fur by ministers and form altogether an argument in favor ot the silver as compared with the gold standard us the increase of wages and prices has been in silver using countries tui san francisco chronicle gives the farmers 0 the country little sage ad vice that they would do well to heed and profit by it baa been generally noticed by the press of state that the facts which caused a rise in wheat last autumn were generally known by speculators annae weeke before the informed of them this ia not because these beote were not ae accessible to producers AS to speculators but because the i latter spent the time and money necessary inform themselves which the banners did not having bouett and paid for the the specula tore naturally used it solely for their own benefit just as the farmers would have dene had they been smart enouch to get it this tion about stocks and demand is brained bv painstaking study of conditions of markets and countries and can be exactly as welt obtained by farmers as by any one else if they will pay for it the individual farmer can acet ft by devoting his time to it and providing with the means of informing himself no man can foretell small fluctuations accurately because no one can ret all the fact bat any important change in supply and demand can be and always Is outlined in advance by leit dealers and the others follow in their wake last of all the farmer of it A rood farmers club which has learned how to study should be able to judee of markets as well as anybody the beauty of the thing Is that when one has learned bow to inform himself about one thine be has learned how to study every other subject it is the art of study itself that is essential and which is generally lacking postmaster GENERAL since hie announcement that be will uphold abe civil service rules has been the object of much praise principally from democratic sources the deliver news baya it is a blow at abe spoils system ruthlessly pursued by clarkson under abe harrison administration it is a very long step in the direction of civil service reform toward which the federal government has been recently tending it will assure a more faithful and efficient conduct of the postal there being more than in the united stacee the politics of a good postmaster Is not the matter of most concern to the patrons of his office they care not so much what bis views are regarding the tariff or the finances if their mail is promptly distributed in a business like manner serving for four years and perhaps under different administrations is less danger of a postmaster be coming offensively partisan he will pay less attention to packing primaries and more to the duties of his position knowing that his tenure of office for four years nt least depends on the manner in which his office is conducted and not for the service he may render to a congressman or some political bsh this Is certainly a great gain in the way of reform and Us excellence may be from the howls which will go up from the disappointed placemen and the party managers whose power has heretofore largely consisted in the distribution of the post offices to their favorites |