The Old, Reliable Evening Post Has

been stirring up several of its New York neighbors on the amount of space they devoted to the prize fight. It has counted up out of its own head and found that during a period covering two weeks before the fight and two days after it The World gave 48 columns all told, The Sun 46 and The Herald 35 to the affair. The Post then asks the said papers why they continue to treat the winning bully as a popular hero, instead of the low, drunken bully he is. The fact is, perhaps on athletic grounds, but fact anyhow, that a good uiany more people took an interest in that prize fight than were willing to own it. For instance, it is said that the editor of a well known evening paper in New York editorially hoped that the "wild beasts would get the full extent of the law," the evening before the fight, and next morning was down town early, asking eagerly and excitedly whether Sullivan was whipping the other fellow. Early in the days of the present ad■niinistration a colored man was appointed Btenographer in one of the departments at Washington. Immediately thereupon the whole army of colored messengers at the capital began to study stenography. They are diving deeply and intently into the science of dots and pot hooks. Each hopes that iü time he, too, may be an ofScial stenographer. Colored employés in the Pennsylvania Kailroad company are studying so hard that it ia said the ofScers whose messengers they are do errands themselves rather than disturb these eamest seekers after shorthand knowledge. An usher in the Pennsyl ania general offices has made an invention which, he says, wil] allow cable 6treet cars to cross other cable car tracks at intersecting streets. Toothpicks and their manufacturera ara alike 'way down in the mouth on account of the low price of the former. Can it be that the American nation is ut last wrenching itself from its beloved toothpick? Can it be we are growing aesthetic, and at last recognize that it isn't pretty to piek one"s teeth in public; that it is, in short, abominable? If so, what now will become of those who are wont to gouge the insides of their heads out at hotel tables for the edification of their weak nerved neighbors opposite?