Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

For and Against ,If the question as to the Sunday opening of the Fair were put to popular vote, undbubtedly it would be decided in the affirmative.—New York Sun. More harm would be done by closing it than by keeping It open. If it is open there will be a place for the croyds to go that will keep them out of mischief. —Kansas City Journal It Is only proper that the World’s Fair managers should give respectful attention to the appeals of the many excellent people who have asked them to close the Fair Sundaya—Safi Francisco Examiner. If the Fair is too wicked to be open on Sundays It is too .wicked to be open on Saturdays, and if the Puritans are to be consulted the, Hebrew* and Adventists will want to be heard next—St Joseph Herald. Thb people who do not live In Chicago, and on whom the .success of the Exposition mainly depends, have also some rights in the matter, and It would be welWor them to speak out on the subject—Js’ew Orleans Times-Democrat The workingmen of Chicago and nearby cities' can tee the great exhibition Sunday without entailing the double cost of the admission and loss of wage > that would be the case on a week day. Surely no harm could, come to thefr spiritual welfare by so doing.—Terre Haute Express. It Is a queer fact that the Chicago saloonkeepers join hands with the Sabbath Union people In desiring that the World’s Fair Shall bo closed Sunday. The Chicago saloons are open Sunday as well as the churches, and the saloonkeepers realize that the man who is attending the Fair will not toss any coin on their tars. —Springfield Journal. From the recent action of the World’s Fair Commissioners on certain phases of the Sunday question it is quite certain that the ultimate decision will be that the Exposition shall be opened on Sunday, but machinery will be stopped—the Idea being to allow the people the opportunity of sight-seeing and at the same time to get rid of actual work on that day as much as possible. —Baltimore American.

Mitylene,^ Is John Bull going to become a Turkey gobbler?—Baltimore American. Was the Mltyiene occupation, after all, only a picnic party?—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. When the Sick Man of Europo is at his wprs.t a dose of English war ships S roves an effective remedy.—Boston 'raveller. The Island of Mltyiene Is elevated to thfrank of a very large-sized and entirely visible chip on the British shoulder.’—Pittsburg Dispatch. Things have come tp a pretty pass If a party of British officers can’t pop a few co'rks on a desert island without spreading a war-cloud over the whole firmament.—Minneapolis Journal. If the British marines were landed at Sigri by due authority they can never be made to leave until the British view of the case has been conceded or a great war has taken place. Now, Indued, the foreign situation is becoming Interesting.—Richmond Dispatch. That “occupation” of Mitylene Is now reported to have been nothing more than an officers’ picnic. The "ordnance” taken ashore consisted probably of champagne bottles—loaded—and the “fortifications” erected were doubtless the Oriental equivalents of clambakes. —New York World. If tbe British lion had squatted on an American island instead of a Turkish possession, how quickly Mr. Blaine would ifave seized his tail. Those good people who see some twisting done as soon as Mr. Harrison should get intp the White House have no one to look to but the Czar. —Courier Journal.

Way-Up Buildings. A building which has b:en planned In Chicago is to be thirty-four stories high —as high as the Washington Monument. What does Chicago want with an Eiffel tower?—Buffalo Express. Chicago is to have a building as high as the Washington Monument. It will be used to illustrate tho ascent of the Western mortgage as a soi»t of introductory for it in high life.—Lincoln Call. If the Chicago Odd Fellows put up their thirty-four-story building there may be expected to De a surplusage of goats in the lake city. Climbing up and down the thirty-three flights of stairs will undoubtedly replace the ancient favorite of the lodge-room in initiations. —Kansas City Times. Chicago plans a building to be as high as the' Washington Monument A scheme like this was tried on the plains of Shlnar, but it didn’t work. Chicago won’t get to heaven that way, but good people will rejoice to see her displaying gn interest in that direction at aIL New York Evening Sun. The craze for erecting high buildings in Chicago has reached such a point as to make the people of that city pause and consider whither they are drifting. In a limited city like New York there is no room to spread except upward, but Chicago fi different. Her building ground is unlimited.—Bismarck Tribune. The announcement that Chicago is about to erect a thirty-four-story building would seem to indicate that the climax of her crazy building boom had been prptty nearly reached. Chicago is a great city and will a ways be such, but she is clearly overdoing the building business, and will as certain as fate pay thfe penalty for so doing.—Kansas City Journal.

Dress ' Reform. The dross reformers of Boston havo decided to appear on the streets in short kilt skirts. —Duluth Kews. Miss Kate Field’s suggestion about knee breeches for women will not bear thinking about. How are the sidewalks to be kept clean if there are no long dresses to sweep them?—Philadelphia TiHies. A Chautauqua dress reformer asserts that .(‘corsets ha»ve filled more graves than whisky. ” This is probably an exaggeration; for corsets have staying powers where whisky has not—Phila delpfifia Press. Tenxjtson celebrated his 82d birthday anniversary *by publishing an appeal for $200,000 t» btliid a home for boys’in memory of “Chinese Gordon. ” Sir William Gobdon-Cumming’s relatives nd friends are being socially ostracized for their loyalty to him.