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FEB. 5rH, 1885. 1155 Broapway, New York. Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, ro cents. Back numbers can be had by applying to this office. Vol. I., 50 cents per number ; Vols. II., III., and IV., at regular rates, Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. VERYONE must deplore the dastardly attempt of the dynamiters last week to wreck the Parliament buildings | and Tower of London. We are not surprised that the crimi- nals were not found among the visitors detained in the build- ings, for these are not the days of chivalry, and these deeds are not the deeds of men ready to sacrifice their own lives for | They are the deeds of underhand | the sake of a principle. blackguards, whom the name of coward, low as it is, would honor, and the London police may rest assured that the fiends who placed the infernal machines in position were themselves at a safe distance from the scene; probably near enough to view and gloat over the suffering inflicted, happily smaller than it might have been. . * . TT HE assertion that O'Donovan Rossa was connected with the crime we do not credit. The mere fact that he claims to have had some responsibility in the matter is proof | to our minds that he had not. . ° . OSSA is a blatherskite of the first water, and it would be giving him too much importance to arrest him. As for hanging him, we hope this suggestion will not be carried out, as it would be a pity to contaminate an honest hempen rope with O’Donovan's neck. What he ne is a good ducking in Newtown Creek, or some place of a similar degree of cleanliness. And when ducked he must not be taken out too soon. W = notice that the 7r/bune speaks of these destroyers of property as “ Dynamiteurs. This is a better word than the others we are accustomed to use. Dynamiter is too American. The profession of the Dynamiteur is one which the édeau monde delight in follow- ing, and the elegance of this new term fills an aching void in | | to aterm of twelve years in | our language. S a coineur of teurms Whiteleur is a corkeur! reguleur . + ‘Le ESIDES the many advantages of having Mr. Evarts in the Senate, there are manifest disadvantages which our legislators failed to take into account when considering his | candidacy. One of the largest of our corporate interests will suffer greatly if the rumor be true that the Western Union Tele- graph Company is negotiating for ten miles of extra wire for the Associated Press report of Mr. Evarts’ opening sentence in the Senate. Even with this it is feared that a few yards will lap over at each end of the line unless Mr. Evarts can be induced to cut it down to twenty thousand words. . ° . ND the Western Union Telegraph Company is not alone in this regard. The Congressional Record, that repository for oratorical gems—that sub-treasury of thought, and we may say that unabridged amalgamation of forensic art—will be changed from a weekly ten pages to a daily Encyclopedia Britannica. We believe it has never yet happened that a single un- punctuated phrase which exhausts every font of every known type in the composing room has reached the Record office, consisting of the preparatory remarks of a distinguished sena- tor, thrown off in a moment of abstraction for the purpose of clearing his throat. The hour has come when this may be expected. . ° . HE wise man maketh preparation beforehand. We have never heard of the Record editor being accused of | wisdom, but certainly in this instance he should have enough to take time and Evarts by the fore-lock. . . . E consolation remains to us. If the Record should care for advertisements, there will be miles of space next to reading matter, which, be it known, every advertiser demands, and perhaps in this way our popular national mag- | azine will be enabled to recover its losses. Let us hope for the best. . . * SOME EQUALITIES OF THE LAW, UDGE COWING has sentenced a young man convicted of stealing a pen- knife worth twenty-five cents Philip Lohges who was convicted of shooting his | brother-in-law five _ times, thereby killing him, was yes- terday sentenced to Sing Sing We congratulate that able editeur, Misteur Whitleur Reid | upon the discoveury of this long and eageurly looked feur | weurd. i the penitentiary.— 7rébune, | for seven years.—Morning Jan, 30th, '85. Papers, Jan, 30th, Any further comment on our part is unnecessary. comicbooks;com