AMERICANA. Mr. McKinley - the gentleman from Ohio, whom possibly our readers will remember as the author of the McKinley Bill - compares his tariff-reform (?) effort with the emancipation of the slaves and the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. It is suggested that the battle of Waterloo would have been a more fitting comparison. "Sine Qua(y) non," his followers said; And now they peep their heads above The soup tureen's smooth brim, The Vermont Legislature had quite an animated discussion over a bill providing that every hotel-keeper should post conspicuously a placard with the words, "Don't blow out the gas." In the committee to which the bill was referred there was quite a debate as to the wording of the notice, some maintaining it should be, "Don't blow the gas out." Finally it was agreed upon that there should be a diagram on the placard showing how the gas should be turned off, and explaining the danger of blowing it out. Exchange. A short time ago, ex-Alderman Whelan of Chicago was shot and killed by a man named Hathaway. It was a matter of common notoriety in political circles that Whelan was the gobetween or clearing-house for bribe money passing between corporations wanting a franchise and purchasable members of the city council. An afternoon paper says that before his death Whelan deposited $30,000 in a bank in this city as a step towards its transfer from a certain elevated railroad in need of franchise and certain aldermen desirous of realizing the financial value of their votes in granting it. The paper points that Whelan's death leaves this tidy sum in a peculiar situation. Though in Whelan's name it does not belong to his estate; the railroad people dare not take action to recover it, and the aldermen have no claim on it, and dare not enforce it if they had. A negro being asked what he was in jail for, said it was for borrowing money. "But," said the questioner, they don't put people in jail for borrowing money?" "Yes," said the darkey; "but I had to knock de man down free or fo' times before he would lend it to me.". The Green Bay. Is it any wonder the women are unanimous against our tariff laws? The Treasury Department has just denied the application of a Chicago lady for the free entry of a seal-skin sack taken by her to Scotland on a recent visit, and left there for repairs after she returned to the United States. She was informed that the privilege of free entry does not extend to personal effects which have been advanced in value and improved in condition during their absence from the United States. - Boston Herald. We invite attention," writes a Georgia editor, to the announcement of a candidate from the Forks for school commissioner, and we will say this much in his behalf: If ever a man needed an office with a school attachment, he is that man. Read his announcement: To the ediTyr i am A candydait to the Offise of skule KommiSioneer and Ask My Frens to Cast a Voat in My Beehalve. I am a 1 Arm Man, Bein cut oph in A. saw Mill, and Knead the Offise."" NOTA BENE: (This is not a Lottery Advertisement.) By sending To-DAY your subscriptions for other leading magazines and ́papers, you will save money, and in many cases obtain both for less than the cost of one. Read the following prices, and learn that truth is the watchword of this, as well of our other pages. These prices include one year's subscription for To-DAY. CASH must accompany each order. If this list does not contain the periodical you want, write us. In nearly every case, we can save you something. After the first number is received, complaints of nonreceipt of numbers, and change of address, should be sent direct to the publishers. NOV 28 12) это- Day Vol. II. No. 28. Thursday, November 27, 1890. Published weekly by J. MORRISON-FULLER, at 3 Somerset Street, Boston, Mass. SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR. POLITICS: EVENTS; COMMENTS; LITERA TURE. DDDDD C C C C C C C C C C IN MEDIAS RES. The conditions under which this paper is published render it impossible to give the weekly record of facts the character of news. This is especially the case with the foreign items for which we shall not hereafter rely on the American newspapers. Nor does it seem feasible to complicate the classification by separating items accordingly as they are or are not "news." Suffice it to say that the facts are, in the main, collected from daily papers; that their importance does not generally depend upon dates; that our record of them cannot have greater authority than the sources have, but is evidently more trustworthy than any single newspaper. Price 5 Cents. fund ought to be devoted to turning out practical farmers, and say that the University turns out only lawyers, doctors, base-ball players, and dudes. The University men say that the means have been used to the best advantage, and that it is not their fault that farmers' sons do not rush to the University for instruction. A powerful lobby has been organized, and the result is in doubt. A minority committee has presented to the Vermont Legislature a report on the subject of Local Option and High License. The report says: "The present prohibition law is a failure, and practically a dead letter to-day in many of the larger towns of Vermont, - after nearly forty years of trial, and with the benefit of every strengthening feature that the law-making power could devise, because in these towns it is not sustained by public sentiment, because it does not express the popular will, and because there is a general demand for its violation on the part of reputable and responsible citizens who have large interests at stake in the town in which they reside, and to whom the good order, morals, and material prosperity of their town and of the State are dear." While favoring high license and local option, the committee does not desire the overthrow of prohibition where it has proved successful and met with popular favor. The committee recommends that the Local Option bill be so amended as to allow one licensed dealer in liquors for each one thousand inhabitants, and provide that one license may be issued in towns having less than one thousand inhabitants. Another amendment suggested is that no music, entertainment, or playing of games be permitted in saloons. Among the bills rejected by the Vermont Legislature are: the bill fixing a uniform rate for railroad mileage tickets; the bill repealing the law which declares cider an intoxicating liquor; the bill appropriating $30,000 for Vermont's exhibit at the Chicago Exposition; and the bill taxing all church property except the church edifice and parsonage. The New York Ballot Reform Act contains the following provision: |