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PRESS COMMENT.

"Deeds, not words," is the motto of the real estate man. - Washington Critic.

Give a weakling punch enough and he will soon make a Judy of himself. -New Orleans Picayune.

If all men were to pay as they go there would be less going and more paying.-Lowell Citizen.

Mrs. Cleveland could carry Utics unanimously if there was such a thing as her candidacy for an office. -Utica Observer.

There are 2,400 unmarried women in the foreign missionary field. That shows what may be done with part of the superfluous female population. -Boston Post.

The croton-oil divorce case has been settled at Gloucester by payment of lawyers' fecs. It sometimes looks as if almost anything might be settled that way. -Philadelphia news.

A Spanish officer has invented a war boat that will stay under water four days. The great trick in this country is to get one that will stay above water that long. -San Francisco Alta.

One of the curios phenomena attending the Concord school is the sudden intered the daily newspapers take in the most abstruse and useless sort of philosophy. -Boston Transcript.

The Hon. William F. Cody writes from London to say that he has not got the big head. Yet we must bear in mind that am ind who has the big head never knows it. -Philadelphia Press.

Mr. Henry George now assails the Chuchman. It might have been more prudent for Mr. George to complete the annihialition of the pope before commencing on the Episcopalians. -N.Y. Sun.

The organs which continually refer to Roscoe Consling as a disappoined man do not know whatthey are talking about. He never set out to be President, but he knows a man who did. -Chicago Herald

The only way to keep party organization straight in municiapl affairs is to let them know that there is an alert, determined and active body of independent citizens who will bolt unfit party combinaitons.-Chicago News.

If a young man can'tcrowd himself into the good graces of the Standard Oil Company, or marry a heiress, the next best thing to do is to set up business as a claim agent. The pension laws have done something for crippled soldiers, but they have also made the pension agents rich and prosperous. -Philadelphia Recod

In Minnesota, the number of saloons is diminsihed under high license, hwile in Rhode Island it is increasing under prohibition. There is a moral in all this, but there is no necessity for stating it. Practica termperance reformers know it and prohibitionists wouldn't beleive it. -Philadelphia Press.

There does not appear to be any reason for suspecting that a large number of government disbursers have been recreant to their trust, even contructively, but, in view of the developments of the last few months, those who have respected the proprieties most scrupulosuly will doubtless be the first to welcome and investigation which will remove from them every shadow of the general debut and suspicion. -Washington Star.

Mr. Pickering is one of the few men who deem it a crime to spend money for ornament. He is entirely unable to appreciate the fact that the glory of a city consists in its architectural monuments and its beautiful streets and parks. Freedom from debt is not the only desirable condition in life. The Digger Indian doesn't owe much, and yet he is not a creature to be envied. The decayed and constantly decaying Oriental cities are not bonded to death. As a matter of fact, the nations, cities and men who ow the most seem to get along best. -San Francisco Chronicle.