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benefit, and for which the count: New York’s srocks were blown up at ought to pay proved; Hell Vast expenss arbor im- the Times and Tribune did not grumble. Si annah has proportion- ately just as much right to have the obsta cles to her navigation removed, To be sure, ait; but that is no ymmerce asshe has should dd die. Nor is the expense in her as was that of New York year-old child cannot do as much work or eat as much foc why the child should be neglected alt at dinn reason why such be suffered to languish Becau a full-grown man, that is no reason ther epublicans will have the satisfac- tion—or oth rw the Democrats make a determir nd on the platform which they (the Republicans) have erected —the River and Harbor Bill. HALF-BREED INSINCERITY. Wirt all the outward semblance of a stri- tfter harmony, it is y much to be doubted whether the Half-breeds desire it, 1. If they do, the peculiar abont securing it, and the suspicion that hey wou defeat at the hands of the Democracy rather than a victory by the alliance of the every day. ‘There welcome effort evinced by the proy law Reid that cards should be sent to the res- idences of certain and the filling ntlemen, out of these cards s ficient fo uld he accepted enrolment at_primarie justifying the Half-breed’s title to the name of wow-tail and kid-glove brigad with nee, ‘The working politicians, Mr. Biglow and others, denounce this high and mighty way of treating polities, in no They say that if these en think themselves too work of the primaries, itics alone altogeth- ce with them, If they had better lea er, and we confe o be purified, they must be purified at the fountain head—at the aries. Hf the Half-breed party t power of purification—which cireum- ave any nees have led us to gravely doubt—they had better exe wer directly and per- sonally, not by ¢ nd by the influence of names which, perhap not such names to conjure by, after all, as the bearers fancy But the truth is we will find sincerity and earnest, hard work nowhere among the Half- Breeds. ‘They have n up their mind to a Democratic triumph, and would rather re- joice at such a result: than. otherw The jublican party has long been second, in their minds, to questions of personal ambi- tion and andizement, and they are pre= pared to sterifice it, unhesitatingly now. for tion of personal spleen, Har- ny has become a mere name, and a name hout any power to influence the selfish lings of the ave f-breed poli- gained ute | it is worth doing | | into HE DON” it in mine. A STREET-CAR NUISANCE. Tuene iso t and growing objection to travel « surface roads. ‘The cars are often rendered impassable by the prevalence of large basket the appe: whereof is fre all appetizing. ‘This may be difficult to ren y, but should not be impossible. Presu- mably some me exist for transfer- ring these bundles and baskets, but it seems is must tous some better way might be found than crushing ther already overe order of the Board of I soiled linen inside th ently this order is v There is a alth against urs, Very » but it seems to be nobody's business to complain. Inany | case, the front platform should be the place such bulky packages, if they must have rapid transit, which, we confess, does not seem at all necessary. It is far from pleas- ant for an expensively dressed lady, or gen- tleman either, for that matter, to be brought ontact with a greasy market basket or a bundle of foul linen—indeed the latter is neither pl us for anyone: Just now, nt nor salubri the commencement of summer, when the Board of Health 1s springing into on of annual activity, THe Jepor would call its attention to this nuis It a rule exists, there ought to be some way of its se enforcing it. Now that a few of the Phanix Park *¢In- vincibles” have been hanged by the pro- flaw, like any other murderers, it is beginning to dawn upon the survivors that perhaps they are not quite so invincible as they thought they were. "rT MIX IT. s—Sure, the payple wants the aqueduct 3. they ought ta hare plenty of wather, THE OLD DROP-CURTAIN. Yes, I can see the The That « int is cracked and peeling, tnvas shows at the discolored horder; streak 1 sf AL spre om stage toceiling, Is dismal evidence, a mute recorder How the old drop is worn—has had its day: You're right—'tis time that it was put away Well have anew one modern to We will not classic myth L wish my vision could be telescopic, But will it know such tri ¥ nphs as the old? ecolleet that ni Of Hamlet. What a hi When the close phiudit —our first production KI hn) to draw the eurtain back ain! Its Greek ears and Mian towers Were fairly pelted, then, with modern flowers That wi Dear eut sa splendid season; heavy tragic fill the building, then, from pit to dome. The raising of that curtain had a seemed, to draw the populace from he Nowe they want spectacle and panors is curtain does not sort with modern drama. it has served us even there—when, later The quaint old towers of the Mia met the When Camit What then? The Was known too well in a town dimmed eyes of the spe death scene rang the curt Troy, the poets ss Behind that canvas circled in their orbit ‘The brightest stars that graced our later day— The tragic, comic, the intense, the morbid, Wh he heart's But they have faded; with them fades their cui Achilles shield jowy and uncertain. Jack! We will A fete champetre or pic-ni The Rhine! That's good: you Fit emblem of this faded friend And paint it brightly; some ealled this one cold— But will it sce: ach iriumphs as the oldt Pat it awa a new one— iy comicbooks.com