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champion Mow fom Tell Washington Cor. Philadelphia Times. “Did you say Tom Ochiltree is elected?” asked one democrat of another. * a “Does he say so? Doubtless. Well, then, that gives us one additional majority In the next House.” “But Tom’s a republican?” “Does Tom say so?” “Certainly, why he’sthe man who used to boss the Boss. He was Grant's paragon marshal.” “Thought so, and hence I at, that gives us one more.”’ “How do you make that out?” “My unso- sticated friend, it’s evident you don’t know m and his brillant reputation tor veracity.” iar-Congressman— Preparations by the Prosecution— Tom naimeeele: Senator Spencer Expected to Westify Hicim’s Abuse of Government Wit= eases. Dispaten to the New York Times. »v. 20.—The counsel employed | it in the star reute case have preparations for the new trial, which a the first week in I es have been summoned, It is pr stifled in th r ails of service on the routes will not be calle Decause they will not be needed, and It is also made the will witne: be here. Probable that some new witnesses will | Jone addicted to romance?” “Well, eome- svpear. It le understood that the Kov-| what that way inclined, asa story that he told ernment is using every means to. discover y cbt ex-Senator. pen. | 00 himself just after the war would indicate. * confident that he will be | ‘Let's have it.” . Allthe persons recently arrested asa| “Well, it was Just after Shiloh, according to result of the bribery inquiry, except Juror Dick- | 1 my new coat was perforated like a son, have bee: to await : by the bullets of the d—d sharpshooters of of the grand jury. J e Hoo Arizona, 4th Ohio, who had tried to induce me to the allegea d this | ade a Statement in re the flag which Beaury told me to take up tto bribe Juror and carry to the front after seventeen poor fel- lows who had borne it before had in quick sue- cession bitten the dust, and] was in rather a dilapidated condition. Well, Toutant seat to me and handed ine a telegram from Jeff direct | Ing me to proceed to Texas and hurry up a lot | more of our fellows. Whilst riding one xj day about sundown through the Arkan- y wat It as bottoms I sought and obtained accom- wen, who is a witness in | modation at a princely mansion, occupied by a ssed from | mother and dauzhter. I soon.saw they were in 5 | deep affliction. -Have you lost a relative in the war? I asked of as her mother left the roc | replied, ‘an onty brother at Shik iy bold as to ask bis name, young lady?” “Upon | her informing me I remarked that it was a for- tunate accident that had thrown me under their young friend, that young if were messmates’ and bosom hen he fell by my side with his ed me to cut off a lock of ‘man of tl an to abuse him W.W. Ho: said that Henry A the Dickson ployment How ernme sons are there yet in the gov- | wh not only in sympathy With the star route conspirators whom the | his hair and take it to his widowed mother. ernme st ts prosecuting, but who render them | Wouid you believe me? I had scarcely done so ive aid and support whenever an opportunity | When a grapeshot carried away the packet con- taining it.” ‘Indeed, sir,’ she replied, ‘and may Lack the name of my’ brother's benefactor? Itree, miss, at your service.’ ‘What! not jor Tom Ochiltree, of Texas?’ “Aud you saw him die?’ ‘I did.’ !” she cried, in. impassioned tones. mother, rejoice, rejoice! My brother still lives!” She had heard of Tom.” Ht was but the other da Miller was brea vwed that the to light. the case of another 1 Helm. When Juror | “3 rge that he had been | * for the acquittal of ex- ease of Detective This ts n govern nt emple an made the a bribe to ¥ Senator Dorsey the us sheets of aie ses the ring opened thei gates of abuse | PASTIMES OF WEALTHY GIRLS. upon him they have upon every other —_ Witness who has presumed to give damazing | 4 Faney for Arraying Children in Al inst the: of Juror and in- nt of : EY . . ist him in arti-| _ C42 you guess what is the newest fashionable tobi | diversion for young women of wealth and n has a son | leisure, inquires Clara Belle in the Cincinnati ntice in the eovernmer quirer. Dressing Ive dolls. That is to say, ertwe azo this lad was they make toys of little girls: sisters, nieces, 8 puploseem cousins, anything in the shape of a little girl 1 will do, if she be comely. This has suddenly become a rage In certain circles. I know an Sorts of Finery. ow it seems who bas been an apy printing off Ads , uses the three-year-old offspring of one of her papa’s poor tenants, a pretty little chit, on aces costly costumes with all the rofafresh pursuit. The child is as cute ssible In Kate Greenaway garments, and dy takes delight in dressing her after some aint pleture. Two or three afternoons a ek she is arrayed ig something novel and aken out fora walk or drive. Of course that not last long and the child will soon be re- urned to ¢a . itis not right for a to divert thems i But whateve sai. if Heim is star reute jobbers of one of ans, ne ingenious girls of my acquaintance are king their own capes, muifsandcutts by sew- ing together fancy feathers from the wings and r breast of native birds, which they fasten to he is not a tlt: m in the employ of the thin sik or muslin, line with satin and edge government. It is the pusiness of the govern- | with a border of feathers, arranged asa fringe. ent to pr hese thieves with the ut-| Decorating with feathers, in fact, 1s greatly in an known to serve them for amusement. Some aré wearing col- wold any position under and small mutls of dark velvet, bordered with theirown hands with feathers, those ot 3, Pheasants, peacocks, etc., being em- d. The plumage intended for trimming 's and bonnets is also purchased and taken to s to fancifally decorate other articles ot as the busine: should the governm see = George E. Spencer, the Fugitive. From the New York Sun, | The recular report of the commissioners ap- pointed by the President for the Union Pacific Failroad will show the whereabouts of George E. Spencer, who is wanted as an important wit- ness in the new star route prosecution. It will be remembered that Spencer suddenly departed from Washington during the last trial, when he ‘Was about to be put on the stand. —_—_—__-+-____ Mer Fearful Love. . From the Chicago Tribune. “‘Let us sit here.” Brierton Villa is ablaze with light this summer evening, while on the lawn that ' stretches away toward the heavy postern gates The President was informed three months f pencer's fight, ‘and of the value of his | there are little knots of merry young people, ny in the star route cases, particularly | the Chinese lanterns with which the grounds are st Brady. It is alleged that Spencer w Jon when Dorsey paid Brad sumof money as a commission or bribe 's in which Dorsey was prinelpally in- sted. It does not appear that Gen. Arthur | taken any action whatever upon the notice which was served m rezardin: pencer’s , illuminated bringing into strong relief the pretty dresses of soft white goods that the ladies wear, while the rustic seats scattered here and there over the velvety lawn lose much of their angul- arity and hardness of outline when seen in the dim half-light that pervades the place. asks Gladys Me- t y in one corner of a chair made of the gnarled branches of an old oak that, after braving the storms of cen- turies, and tossing its limbs in bold deflance of / all the forces of nature, had been cut down at " the mandate of a landscape gardener, in order that the owner of Brierton Villa might have an " | unobstructed view of his broad domain as he sat lin the conservatory of a summer afternoon, looking out upon a broad vista of meadow land, | garden plat, and flelds of yellow crain. Very pretty was the picture as Gladys sat there In the big oaken chair, her soft brown eyes looking | doubly beautiful beneath the fluify mass of | golden hair that overhung them. while the tiny t enmeshed in silk of finest texture that peeped out trom beneath the peignoir dress was in itself a poem. I for the convie- he has never the especial couns neer to the tary of the Interior, wit is conne Union Pacifle cx in W: ‘on at th whe the | his presen 1. js supp defiance 43 v. the chiet r of th Attorn Genera! tad fall kno It was his daty to b which he fled. ans to find him. The e tacts. ack te the ‘ make | ©] am never tired,” says Reginald O'Rourke; repos Is the strongest possible im-| “at feast not when with you"—and then he Mr. Brewster's pompous procla- | pauses suddenly, as if afraid he may have said jainst Brady and Dorsey. |too much. But’ as he stands there, looking at PUBLIC DEBT OF ENGLAND anxp) {!lys with a wistful, tender, Lwould-eat-a- le-for-your-sake look, the girl cannot but feel that to win the love of this man is seme- thing of which any woman might be proud. And then, as Reginald seats himself beside her .| and takes her hand in his, the girls face isaflame with blush THE UNITED STATES. Some Interesting Figures. twenty-five years Eng- | Jand has reduced her national debt 000,000, exclusive of her investment ot 00,000 in acquiring the telegraph and 000 the un- lated balance of debt created for the pur- sé of the Suez canal shares and for loans to | local. corp ns. Had not this 2150,000,000 been defrayed, the total liquidation in twenty- | five y yuld have been the rn 1,500,000 a year. all this h: me showing is not st know that 1 love you, darling,” “and can you not love me a little in return? But the blushes have fled from the pretty face now, and in their place is a look of haunt- ing fear—a where-has-the-hair-brush-gone-to expression that fills Reginald with horror. “What has Laypeneds he asks, bending over her. “Is it possible that I have been mistaken; that you do not love mez” For answer she places her arms about his neck. and as her face falls forward on his ulder, the girl breaks down in a storm of sobs. “God help me,” she says, “I love you far too well.” “Then why are you weeping?” he asks,kisaing ‘way the tears as he speaks. in} Looking up to him with the beautiful brown removal | eyes in which the tear drops are shining, she u answers him slowly and with infinite pathos: it of Because Iam sorry to think how soon you tunity is will be broke.” for foste —- compl at more ought to been done, at time th € Zov well advised the surpins to the deasome ta Much € pegs SS AILSaints in Paris, | From the St. James Gazette. ‘There is one form of religion at least in France which has not outstaid its welcome. This is the culle des mortes—no mere phrase, but a great re- | ality. Churches may fall into ruin, monks may be driven from their monasteries, and sisters of charity from the bedside of suffering humanity in the hospitals; but were an attempt made by the government to close the cemetery gates on the Ist and 2d of November it would suddenly learn that France is still Catholic fing the p of a recent da protective tariff, course, han we Nay gained. On July 1, ced” to) $1,918.31 y $5 000 ay oF over £4,000,000 a month, or 21,000,000 a week. Does this show that the United States lost more than they gained, by | this pernicious high protective tai We think | HOW IT STRUCK BILL NYE. Result of the Political Tornado in Laramic. The illustrious patriot, sermon-writer, would be-politician, humorist and Laramie post- master, Wm. Nye, esq., thus refers to last Tues- day's tornado: We have met the enemy and we are his'n. We have made our remarks and we are now ready to listen to the gentleman from New York. We could have dug out, perhaps, and explained about New York, but when almost every state in the union rose up and made cer- tain statements yesterday, we found that the job ot explaining this matter thoroughly would be wearisome and require a great deal of time. We do not blame the democracy for this. We are a little surprised, however, and grieved. It will interfere with our wardrobe this winter. With an overcoat on Wyoming, @ plug hat on Iowa, a pair of pantaloons on Pennyslvania and boots on the general result, It looks now as though we would probabiy go through the winter wrapped ina bed quilt and profound meditation. 4 We intended to publish an extra this morn- ing, but the news was ot such a character that we thought we would get along without it. | What was the use of publishing an extra with a epublican majority only in Red Buttes? We resume our arduous duties with a feeling of extreme ennui, and with that sense of sur- prise and astonishment that aman does who | has had a large brick block fall on him when he | Was not expecting it. Although we feel a little lonely to day—having met but a few repubil- | cans on the street, who were obliged to come out and do their marketing—we still hope for the future. Now about those bets: If the parties to whom we owe bets—and we owe most every- body—will just agree to take the stakes and not go into details; not stop to ask us about the | State of our mind, and talk about how It was done, we don’t care. We don't wish to have | this thing explained at all. Weare not of an \inquiring turn of mind. Just plain facts are | good enough for us, without any harrowing de- | tails. In the meantime we are going to work to ern some more money to bet onthe next elec- tion. Judge Folger and others, come over and see us when you have time and we will talk this | matter over. Mr. B. Butler, we wish we had | your longevity. With a robust constitution, we | tind that most any man can wear out cruel fate | and get there at last, We do not feel so angry as we do grieved and surprised. We are pained to see the American people thus betray our con- fidence and throw a large wardrobe into the hands of the relentless foe. SS ‘The Fashion Club at Sugar Pine. From the San Francisco Argonaut. bg reais at Cable Mansion, and my name ts Sarah lane. Tam hot up in grammar, and I talk exceedingly plain; But, 3 well as I am abie, I will try to tell you now The Fashion Club at Sugar Pine disbanded in a OW. row. But first I would interpolate that I have never joined, And the information I submit has clf€fly been pur- lotned, From a post of observation close beside the parlor OF, And it's accurate and truthful, if 1t isn’t nothing moi pening proceedings of that Club at Sugar win of Sonora brought a gaudy fash- plate, bmiltted it as something very neat and very | late; | And she quote the Chair * | To ald the Introduction of a style so debonatr. ‘Then Miss Dugan the elder begged permission of bts of poetry, and warmly urged the floor; Till sue could’ prove that fashton-plate appeared in" ‘Then Miss Potwin made apology, and closed with the remark: That it seemed she had encroached upon some relies of the ark; And, putting on her sweetest smile, she sald that she was sure She woutd yleld to an experience s0 varied and mature. Now, I hold "twas not expedient, nor soothing to the mina, To Introduce statistics there of this peculiar kind; Nor did it help the matter for the lady who was Iweant To ralse her volce an octave and {gnore the Presi- jen Then Coe Stately Miss ‘MCGowan tHet"td #iy a jo ‘word or 803 5 art But her style was rather “heavy, and std didn’t have a show; So she sank upon the sofa with a melancholy afr, And awaited the conclusion of this intricate affulr, For, In less than half a minute, every member took her stand Boca one Sie or the other of the topic then in and; And they all expressed opinions with g frankness that fs rare, Until five were ‘in hysterics, and the rest. were swapping hair. Ido not need fo tell you the recital gives me pain, For I live at Cable Mansion, and my name ts Sarall Jane; And, - well as I was able, I have tried to tell you Ow The Fashion Club at Sugar Pine disbanded in a ro) we OcToBER, 1882 pe eee HOW JAMES ANDERSON PERISHED Shooting of the Louisiana Witness in Nevada. From the Eureka Sentinel, Nov. 5. Thomas Dale says that he and Mr. Reek were standing together on the sidewalk, he on the edge of the sidewalk, with his back toward the street, and Mr. Reek standing just infront of him. While they stood conversing quietly Dale says that f looked across the street and sald, without excitement, “There comes An- derson.” A moment after, he says, the shooting began, the first shot being fired from behind him. He did not see Anderson at the time. He was grabbed by Reek, who held him in front of him. He struguied, and got out of the way as quickly as possible. Thomas Robinson was In the Empire saloon, and heard anumber of shots. There came an interval In the reports, and he stepped out on to the pavement. He saw Anderson statting out in pursuit cf a man, who was running away. He did not know who the man was. He saw Anderson about to level his pistol, and cried “Don't, Jimmy, yqu'll kill innocent peo- Thereupon Anderson let his weapon fall by his side and was picked up by several men who ran to his assistance. Dr. Stowell says he saw a good deal of tne fight from his drug store. The two combatants fought around and shot around Thomas Dale. Reek was not hit at all. Anderson was taken into Dr. Schnetder's drug store. A great crowd followed, against whom the door had to be locked, that the few who entered might not be embarrassed in their attentions to the wounded man. The wounded man suffered dreadful pain. The doctor gave hima dose of morphine and also used chloroform to quiet the pain, but the pain was so great that the anesthetics had but partial effect. Mrs. Anderson, the highly esteemed wife of the unfortunate man, was admitted through the door. Her distress we refrain from des- cribing. It can readily enough be imagined. Shortly after her arrival he was placed upon a bed and a stretcher and carried home on the stalwart shoulders of sympathetic men who were present. oe Similes that Don’t Assimilate. if What strange similes people do make use of, tobe sure! They say that a thing Is as black as | the ace of spades, when their comparison would be much stronger did they say as black as the ten of spades, which 1s ten times blacker than the ace. A man tells you that he has been working all day like a dog, when you know and he knows that a dog doesn’t work at all. He tells is that the sky last evening was black as WILLIAM Ww. STORY. ‘The Sculptor’s Discourse Upon Michel- angelo—An Analysis of the Genius and Character .of the Greatest of Maly’s Artist Mr. William. W.<Story, sculptor, poet and auther, lectured hefore the Long Island Histori- cal society in Brooklyn, N. ¥., this week, to an audience which crowded the spacious hall as it has never been filled before. The theme of Mr. Story’s lecture was ‘“Michel- angeloand the Medici and Sistine Cha pels.” He opentd ‘bylmying that the death of the Pagan religion was the death blow to pagan art, and to it succeeded the long night of the Middle Ages, broken scarcely by a single gleam of light. Christianity not only struck the death blow at pagan art, but to all art as well. Art struggled for a time, but gradually faded and withered away until it had well nigh perished from utter atrophy, and ruined and half dead found a re- fuge In some church or monastery. The sculp- tured figures of gods, goddesses and herves were buried in the ground, while their pictured eem- blances were swept from the walls of the tem- les. How could art survive when beauty and appiness and all that made life worthy or de- sirable were a crime? Only arms survived; the world became a vast battlefleld, and out of it all only came the flower of chivaly.The seasons of history, howeyer. said the lecturer. were like the seasons of the year; nothing wholly dies. Spring came at last, the spring of the Renais- sance, and art, science, literature lived again. Liberty aroused herself, and declared for the rights of man. Then began the long conflicts of the Guelphs and the Ghibelines, the great com- monwealths of Italy arose, and oneafter another arose those men whose names shine like ptanets in history—Dante and Boccacto, Petrarch, Gi- otto and the whole illustrious company which gathered around the court of Lorenzo the Mag- nificent, Music bezan to establish herself, and art sent forth her sudden and brilliant corrasca- tions of genius, and among these was Michel angelo, the greatest genlus which ever wreaked itself upon stone. THE CITY OF THE RENAISSANCE. As Italy was the country (said the speaker), so Florence was the city of the renaissance, and around her still linger the memories of’ that brilliant time, while she 4s filled with its monu- ments. Every street and piazza ana byway seems filled with the ghosts of her glorious past. In this connection Mr. Story briefly and in felicitous phase, outlined the glories of Flor- ence. Within her wails history and romance meet everywhere, and there fs scarce a street or square which has not something to recall ner golden time. Continuing, he sald that of all the great men who shed a luster over Florence, none dominates over and pervades her like Michelangelo, All places which knew him are haunted by his memory. but his home was here. The house which he Inhabited Is here, and in it are gathered every relic of him that could be found, and they aré guarded with jealous care. Here etands his folded desk, lighted by a little slit of a window, in a small room scarcely large enough to turn around in. Michelangelo was born near Florence, Marci 5, 1474 or 1475, ac- cording as you reckon from the Incarnation or Nativity, and he died February 23, 1564, ine or ninety years old, in’ Rome. He was of noble family, and early showed his predi- leetion for art. He was taken into the household of Lore: encouraged and helped. His early efforts at sculpture are not remarka- ble, and'did not show the genius whieh after- ward charaeterized him. He soon, however. began to distinguish himseli his individu- ality began to devélop. The Sistine Chapel was comipleted when he was 38 years old, and was 6.when he completed “Phe Last Judy ment.” Throughout lls long life he was en- gazed upon many and varied works. He was by turns sculptor painter, arcl and poet. One ef-his i the cupol . Peter's, which he never saw In soine respects his plan was de- stance when this was done the work lost. lecturer next sketched the character of Michelangelo, ang the sorrows and Simi and annoyances which beset him and f him. The #tern, Intense, massive ¢)aracter of his genius was polnted out, his faith high and his energy inex Never in his whole life was he guilty of a mean ora dirty action. The lighter charms and graces of life were not for him, but he plowed a deeper furrow in his time than any of his contempora- ries. Earnest, intolerant of that which was small and trivink iis soul was as HS his art; but throughout all he was humb! learn, sacrificing always hlinself for his high ideal. Violent and irasclble in his temper, he was generous, patient and forgiving of wrong. At last. at 89, he died peacefully. The great Hane did not go out, but still burns witha clearer uster. The lecturer next spoke of the Medici Chapel in the church of San Lorenzo where are the tombs of Lorenzo and Julian and in front of which appear the wonderful sculptured figures of Day and Night and Dawn and Twilight. Over these are the statues of the two Medici. In de- scribing the four allegorical figures the speaker said that whatever might be their faults, and they Were evident, they were grand, al- most supernatural shapes. The _ gouiptyr. had not sought to be true to nature but rather to embody his thoughts in stone. They are types of ideas. There is no joyousness in these fcures—a terrible sadness and emnity ‘Appears to weighthem down. What Michelan- gelo meant to embody in these statues can only be guessed at, but certainly it was no common thought. They are seasons and epochs in the ‘y ofinan. Tt would seem as if the sculp- uzht to fellin tiem the sad condition of suntry and the sorrows which oppressed him for her sake. Whatever be the interpreta- tion of these statues their grandeur has never es d. They were executed when he ‘3 old and not in good health. THE SISTINE CHAPEL. Mr. Story next told the tale of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where shines forth the glory of Michelangelo's genius as a painter. He drew a comparison between Michelangelo and Raphael. They were, he sald, the antithesis of ch other. Raphael was soft, pleasing, delight- ful; the other was grand, ragged, massive. Speaking of Michelangelo's characteristics the lecturer said Dante was his favorite poet and Sayonarola about his only friend. He could tolerate annoyances, troubles and opposition when they did not infringe upon his dignity as a man, and when that was at issue he withstood the Pope as freely as if he were a common aan, He began the work upon St. Peter's when over sixty. He undertook the work with re- luctance, claiming that architecture was not his art, but in this great temple his colossal genius shines forth as grandly as in his sculpture or his painting. Asa poet he is stern, rugged and intense. His poetry burns with the fire of his soul, as though he was strug- gling with the limitations of language to ex- press what was in his thought. His verses, sald the speaker, stand out like giant rocks in the general sweet mush of Itallan verse. In conclusion Mr. Story told with graphic force of the opening of the vault of the Medici Chapel in 1857, and the condition in which the remains of that illustrious family were found. Some of Ge cos is had been plundered of the jewels andzornad™@nts which decked the dead. He compared their memory—their very names almost forgottei—with the fame of Michel- angelo. n their lifetime they thought they honored hit witt'a smile. To-day they are for- gotten, while his fame fills the world. Wanted Forgiveness. From the Arkansas ‘frayeller. “Hold on,” satd’a man to an Arkansas gentle- man ot theld seljool, “I want to talk to you amoment. Last night I professed religion and aud I want you to forgive me.” “You hayen’tdone anything,” sald the gentle- man. “I owe you $10”— “Yes, and that’s why Iwant you to forgive me. Every day or two for the past six months Thave stopped you and asked zou when you were going to pay me and you have lied each by his successors, but in every in- | LIFE AT THE ANTIPODES. Virtnes Vices of Australians— Philadelphia Actors and New Eng- Jand Preachers. Sydney Letter to Chicago Inter-Ocean. The two great vices of the people of Australia are gambling and intemperance; and secondly, thelr great virtues are their straightforward. ness, their warm hospitality and their unques- tionable honesty. As to the gambling, it 1s only necessary to say that more money changes hands upon the result of the Melbourne cup (which is run, by the way, on the Ist of Novem- ber) than upon any established sporting event in the,world. The reason forthis ts that almost every inhabitant of the colonies has something to risk upon the result of the race and does risk it, as a matter of course. Intemperance and immorality in a degree seems to be the special birthright of all young countries, and here they have certainly been in- herited in full measure. Almost every corner In this clty, as well as in Melbourne, is occupied by a grog-chop, and drnaken men‘and women are regularly seen upon the streets. Those who drink here take their liquor systematically, if | not judiciously, and in as large doses as they can get it, I believe. The result is not “ene more stagger and in you go;” but a well-sus- tained spirituous influence prevading society Of the immorality of Australians the Rey. El- lls, of St. Andrew’s cathedral, lately stated from the pulpit that he had heard that there was not a virtuous female in Sydney over sixteen years ot age. It 18a common saying here that the country has “rivers without water, flowers without scent, birds without song and women | without virtue.” The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, who has just concluded a most extensive lecture tour of the colonies, has been very successful, at least financially speaking. Wherever he has been (and he hits been everywhere) large and en- thusiastic houses have greeted him, and the box-office or the plate have been accordingly well-filled with the much-despised lucre. He has not made himself more popular here, how- ever, than in America with the newspapers, and has been pretty severely handled by some of them, the Sydney Bulletin being particularly | savage in its criticisms of his lectures and his theories. Theard him say to an audience of Englishmen, Americans and Colonials the other evening that American and Colonia! newspapers were notor!- ous for filling up their sheets with ‘bosh” as dolls are filled with sawdust. Such a remark coming from a man who is lecturing on the sub- ject, “Does Death End All?” speaks for itself. Such a remark coming from a man whose whole time Is spent in strained attempts to popularize his language and address, whose every philo- sophical, metaphysical, or rellgious pill is sagar coated with a yulgarism or provincialism of speech; whose every gesture, every sentence, every metaphor is an appeal to the’ popular mind; whose every theoretical gem is set in a padding of popular- ism, and all this where the man’s tastes and In- clinations, if strictly followed, would lead him to scholarly style of address and a purely liter- ary and natural expression of speech. remark coming from such a man was ridiculous | tome in the extreme. I lauched with the rest | of the audience when he delivered himself ot | i speakers, who have | spapers, but T laughed, | nd not at the joke. | ce is now occupied by | 4 | Such a} wea good bus’ theater throuzhi ic entiously taken care of. pecially well put on the acted and sung in an unusually It is @ palpable copy of the Royal Comedy Company, London, but itis a faithtul copy, and. in some respects, ts an improvement | upon the London original. 'W. E. Sheridan has been hizhly praised by the press, and his support | n above the average, but he has not y encouraged. ————— Dressed Beef. From the New York Times, November 15. The rise of the dressed beef business has dis- turbed some important ‘‘vested interest.” Mr. Vatiaéryitt has cars and railroads which the live stock shippers have hitherto freely used to his great profit. Mr. Eastman has at great expense equipped himself with stock yards where he Is accustomed to receive cattle from the west for distribution among the local slaughterers. These latter have the necessary slaughter houses, sledge hammers, butcher knives and other “plant” for transforming a live steer Into dressed beef. These receivers, distributers and slaughterers here have their correlative buyers and shippers in Chicago. Until the dressed beef specter rose these gen- tlemeh were, soto speak, “well fixed.” They took theirample toll of the abundant grist that caine sto their mill, and the world looked fair and bright to them. They were fat and com- fortable. Some months ago certain {ll-bred Chicago persons began ta annoy them by an im- pertinent interference with their business. These upstarts were familiar with the nature and composition of fat oxen. They had ob- served that the hide, horns, hoofs and viscera make up nearly one-half the weight of the live animal. It occurred to them that ifthese inedi- ble parts were left behind, the roasts and steaks might be sent to the east at such a say- z in freizht money as would enable them to dersell all New York butchers to whom beef was sent on the hoof. Putting their ideas in ice, they found that they had reasoned They did undersell the New York ‘This was a overy of such moment that we may be pardoned for dwelling upon it for a nt on the attempt to trace out some of its quences. The idle man of theories at once essed beef business to be one of reat reforms of the age, 0 clearly does it commend itself to his Judgment. Its import- ance consists in the even distribution of its benefits. A man who invents a steamship that ‘osses the ocean in a single day is not so great a benefactor of his kind as he who takes three cents a pound off the price of beef, for every- body eats beef, and not morethan one-twentieth of one percent of everybody crosses the ocean. There is really no reason on earth why the | wonld be bet | were to make their own appointinents and be | responsible mination System. A general meeting of the Military Service In- stitution was held last Saturday at the head- quarters building, at Governor's Island, New York. General Crittenden presided, as General Hancock,the president of the institute, was absent at Fort Monroe. The principal business ofthe Meeting after the discussion of an informal | lunch in the Paper entitled “Admission to the military aca- demy,” by General James B. Fry, and the very great interest entertained by officers of the army in the subject was evidenced by the large gathering of members of the institute. West Point was well represented, both by a number of officers and members of the academic board. General T. F. Rodenbough, United States army andassistant inspector general of this state, acted as secretary. General Fry's paper was an extremely Inter- esting one, and covered much gronnd when the vastness of the subject is considered. of the present system of examinations, Fry said: “Under the present system the dates are (for examination) known to the board only by numbers. Questions in the various sub- jects, written out beforehand, are submitted to the candidates, who, under the eye of an assist- ant professor, but without aid or consultath work for a limited time to produce the ans in writing. The merit in these answers is Indi- cated by numbers fixed arbitrarily by the board. Ifthe number recetved In a subject does not come up to the level prescribed the board re- jects without learning any more about the per- son concerned than these written questions and answers conyey—without in fact knowing wao the person is. This has the effect of putting “cramming” at a premium instead of a discount tor entry to the Institution In which cramming is most roundiy condemned and most positively interdicted. ONE RESULT OF THE SYSTEM. This examination is free from partiality and prejudice, and affords a record made by the can didate himself with which the board can defend its action, and, in case of complaint, confuse and confound the candidate and his friends. Nevertheless itis harsh and unwise, and is di- rectly at variance with the mode of proceeding at all subsequent examinations. While (if the questions be proper) it might be made to fulfill the requirements of the law, it is not the way to secure that material to which the course of in- struction at the military academy can be applied with the best results. It gives no consideration to lack of years or lack of opportunities for schooling. It calls for just as much book knowledge from the western farmer boy of seven- | teen as from the man of twenty-two from Bos- ton, the seat of learning. No account is taken of the fact that the training of the former may have been such as to give high development to traits essential in the genuine soldier—industry, energy, fidelity, obedience, courage, persever- ance and self-reliance. After deprecating the present free school sys- tem, particularly of New York. where fourteen studies are pursued, as tending to encourage “cramming” without good and lasting result the speaker gave a number of interestin: stances zures of the results of the dif systems of examinations at the academy. concluded by saying that the facts t show that the examination required by law is not condycted as it oucht to be. He thought it er if the members of Congress for them, see Side-Giances in Vanity Son in New York hi uniformes ite messenger bi A drawing room in Fifth avenue, New York, mm) ceiling of New bangles are of five, ten and twen coins being genuine. drat xia 1d, from which dangle lollar gold piec ‘d abroad are ‘coming to the social markable rapidity.” York Mail and Express is authority for the statement thet table covers of coarse netting over light-colored silk are the latest thing in alleged decorative art According to the talkative Mrs.Grundy,of the New York Mail and Express, “decorative art is running riot again among ladies who have abundant leisure and means.” Miniature Jumbos, with nodding heads, are the newest thing in candy boxes, and in a con- fectioner’s shop window are dozens of them, all wagging their heads in true elephant fashion. Clasps to fasten cloaks and other wraps are wooden masks with open mouths; others are animals’ heads of bronze or silver, of a size that enables the wearer to be seen several blocks distant. As many Rhine stones as diamonds are worn nowadays, and possessors of the former say that it takes a clever person to detect the diffe ence, for a good Rhine stone is as brilliant as a true diamond. In the new silver jewelry, darkened to re- semble old silver, many humorous conceits ap- pear. Comic are on the brooch, while others have Greenaway,children,owls, monkeys, doves and fighting cocks. . They tell of a woman at a wedding reception who put her card on one of the presents exhib- ited, destroying the card that was on it. and thus got the credit of being generous, whereas she had not given the bride anything. Lilies and sunflowers will not be so freely used the coming season; dalsies are still worn for corsage bouquets, and choice roses will be profusely used in decorating houses when wed- dings, receptions and other festivities are going on, The young woman who won the first prize in a competitive swimming match, held recently in St. Louis, is described “‘as a long-limbed young creature, with bright brown hair and blue eyes, and acomplexion that held its own under the wash of waters.” “Spinster dinners” will be given in New York this season by betrothed young women on the eve of their weddings to friends of their own sex exclusively. One of these dinners is appointed tor November, and will be “chaperoned” by the mothers of the bride and of the groom. ———_<e>—_____ Concealing His Nationality. Froni the Philadelphia Press. Lee Yoo, the Chinese lawyer, who earns his dally diet of rice in his laundry on Federal street, below 5th, in the city of Camden, violated all front with beef-eaters of New York should be taxed for bringing hides and horns over Mr. Vanderblit’s roads all the way from Chicago. This is what the musty professor of political economy says of the reform. But practical men also give it their approval. To bring cattle here on the hoof makes bad beef. The,wretched creatures are bruised, starved, scared, heated in summer and chilled in winter, until every tissue and fluid of their system undergoes a degenerative change, and when they are slaughtered and cut up here their flesh is notin proper condition for the table. Meat is kept in refrigerators here, and it may Just as well be Kept in refrig- erator cars, That bad dresged beef has been sent from Chi- cago to New York is no valid objection to the plan, for it was bad when it started. The stock yards there receive fever-stricken cattle indis- criminately with others, and we may be certain that we have received very much more of it on the hoof than we ever shail in the dressed form. ‘The remedy for the evil is arigid inspection, and that is an entirely separate problem. What- ever effect the practice of shipping beef dressed instead of on the hoof may have upon the ality of the meat will unquestionably be on the right side. There will thus be a double gain. The consumer will be relieved of need- less charges and he will get better beef. An incidental but important advantage will be the removal of abattoirs from our river fronts and the abolition of rendei establishments and bone-boiling works. Neither statutes nor swearing have ever given us any relief from these abominable nuisances. the traditions of his bequeued race yesterday by appearing with a fall head of hair. The cher- ished and honorable pig-tall was absent. Lee Yoo's head was covered with what in his native country would be the emblem of idiocy or of disgrace. It was not a genuine growth of hair, however. Lee Yoo ho bought a wig tor $1 and he wore it with the vain hope that his na- tionality might be disguised, and that with his fashionably cut clothing, white shirt, low shoes and silk hat he might pass for an unadulterated American. And nothing but his yellow face and unmistakable Mongolian physlognomy would disabuse this idea, except, perhaps, his utter disregard for the value of the liquid consonants in his speech. He speaks fairly well, but like all his countrymen his tongue seems to be par- tial to an indiscriminate use of the letter “1.” “When China man clome along tlo Melica,” sald he, seating himself on a starch box and motioning his visitor to do likewise, ‘he sla) Melican man no goodee—he no weal plig-tail. Aftel while he slee all Melican men diout weal plig-tail,and he slay, ‘how lis?’ “I weal plig-tail; and Melican man laugh and hollal ‘Chinaman eats lats.’ Well, I dlon’t likee. I wlant tobe like Melican man, slo I glet cloat, plants, shloes and allee lest just like he glot: Nilo goodee. Bloys hollal; pliepol laugh just like blefol. Thien I gloe to clity and gettee wiig. Allee light now. Bloys laugh, nobody hollal. Just like Melican man,” and the satisfied Celes- tial grinned a grin of contentment as he stroked his beardless chin, and winked his almond eye just like a “‘Melican man.” “And do you mean to wear the time?” asked the visitor. all the “Allee time,” re- the | ips say that young women who have HE WAS NOT A HUMORIST. What Mr. Henly Saw While on a Tiste to Massachueetis. From the Detroit Pree Press. It is not alw the eastera tenderfoot who ts made to suffer, and the bold, bad ‘ser is not always the one who reaps the benefit in little deals between the two. Sometimes the effete | east gets hold of the western “rustler” and makes it very interesting for him even at the latter's own game. Mr. Healy had been for years sheep raiser and wool promoter of California and the Pacitio | coast, later, however, going into the business of | purchasing sheep on the coast for the Utah and | Wyoming trade. These Caliturnia sheep when at home feed over the old placer grounds of the Golden State, eating the rich grass that has sprung up along the broken and furrowed val- | le once In the flush times of thi ly ‘© the miners of the great ¢ | Whatever they used to call It, hunted for gold during the week, and on Sunday did thelr wash- | ing or lynched some one by request. During the past summer a mammoth dipping , Wyo corrall_has been erected at Laramie City ming Territory, where all home and f sheep are dipped. that eccentricity as the scab, feet Lo | arsenic, seab. hav Ag ign to abolish and discourage genius among sheep known tank is virtual filled with solu da and other politic ponentigor the At this great watering place 150,000 ah this summer resorted with thelr families. t many of them were trom Callfornia,and | were our own sheep. | At the lower end of this trough, where the | sheep came out, Mr. Healy noticed when the trough was clear of dip there was a sediment of black sand. ack sand does not catch the eves of the novice, but when an old “4er no- tices the metallic glitter of that material he nat- urally goes after a good pan and begins to in- vestigate. Mr.Healy did so. He was surprised | to find that he got from 20 to 80 cents to the pan jin fine gold. He set an old-timer to panning at the foot of the dip, and cleaned up $12 per day in dust for a week »ctagonal chunk of truth began pinto Mr. Healy's intellect. The dip- Y sheep does not necessarily get out any of the dirt to speak of, but the Boston people who scour the weol must be the ones who have en to them ag! . golden fortune. Mr, Healy came to this conclusion at once, and, acting upon It, he went to Boston immediately, and as fast asa hack would carry him he went to one of the largest wool emporiums and scouring resorts of that great city. It was a | house that handied Pacific coast wool exclu- sively. M Healy said he war to spéak to the boss prevaricator of the ranch on an hnportant matter. He was shown into the conservatory, | where the managing editor was beating down ® big Colorado sheep man on his prices for his wool. | Mr. Healy waited patiently tll he could get the ye of the speaker. When he got the proper opportunity he s “sir, [have made a discovery that I desire to act upon at once. It will bring you millions of | dollars eastly and surely, and i only ask that | you will ‘use me white’ in payment for the dis- very. It I give this to you I want €100,000, li make millions for you, and you needn't xo out of your establish xcept to go to pe when you feel like it to buy Venus de Medicis and Vents Milos and other fne-halved i br ¢ Duwing inte your | patical calcula- sands of Wool per Fifty per c f that is black, gold-bearing sand, runnin ) cents to the pan; or, If you will be judl- tons. annum. | cious in buying of men w old hydraulic gulches of ti lit up to #1 to th: ray = @ pan ave- two pounds of sand, and you have trom 000,000 to $6,000,000 per year. Do you tum- ‘ou old grizzly moss-agate of Massachus- Do you get on to my little scheme, noble duke of the kinsdom of coafish 7 “Do I?" murmured the sage. “Do 1? Come with me.” He took Mr. Healy out to the rear of the great scouring rink, and showed him where two Chinamen were at work with gold pans. “You think, Mr. Healy,” said he, “that Tam a putty man from away up the creek, no doubt. You do not know me. You are in error. I am an old “49er myself. Icame home by way of the Isthmus many years ago, andI know black fine rubies and flour gold in it as well as you do. Ihave been on this little racket now for geome years, andl am doing moderately well. I early learned that the growing coat of California sheep was in many In- stances abonanza. Peeple thought Iwas mon- keying with stocks or dabbling in oil when they saw how I was getting ahead, but I just told them that I was temperate and shaved myself, aud used an oil stove and went without a hired girl, and wore celluloid cuffs and collars; and economized, but they wouldn't believe I made my money that way. They concluded Iwas writing humorous articles for the New York papers at a million dollars apiece, and I allowed them to think so. All my - bors think Iam a millionaire humorist in dis- guise, but Iam not. 1 pledge you my word I am not a humorist. Believe me, noble delegate from the sunlit peaks of the Rocky Mountat fuzzy exponent of a thritty young comm alth, T not a hum am just trying to plug along from day to day, and by an upright life tryingto so live that when my summons comes to join the innumerable carayan, and some more things like that, I shall not go like the quarry slave at night with a head on me like @ corner bracket, but, sustained and soothed like a Mor- mon apostle in the numerous bosom of bis approach iy a That's the kind of a tropical shrub from Calaveras county Iam.” Then Mr. Healy went away. He had never been thrown in contact with the people of Mas- sachusetts before, and, unless Important busl- ness calls him there again, he will spend his de- clining years in the great, wide, trusting end humane west. “tee SEARCHING FoR A Scene in New York, Mrs. Catharine Mills, a pretty little woman from Philadelphia, with a baby, after spending the night in the streets in fruitless search of her husband, asked Justice Bixby at the Jefferson Market police court Saturday, to commit ber to the almshouse. While waiting his decision her baby gave such piteous cries that the Jus tice’s sympathy was aroused. She sald that she would like to becommitted as a poor person. She could not part with her baby. “I came all the way trom Philadelphia to find my hus- band. Ihave walked up and down the streets and have not seen him. He left me in Phila- delphia six weeks ago. Our baby 4s six months oid. My husband was kind to me when we first married. He turned to drink, and his employer turned him out of employment. Then he came to this city, I think, to find other employment. God only knows where he is now. I’m tired and hungry. The baby is hungry, too. I've eaten nothing since yesterday morning.” Jus- tice Bixby sald, “Take this woman and child and get them something to eat.” Turning to the mother he sald, “I’m going to send you back to Philadelphia. They'll have to support you. Mr. Blake, of 3d avenue, superintendent of outdoor poor, will do that for me.” Later Mr. Blake sent Mrs. Milis and her child back to Philadelphia after she had enjoyed a good din- The baby was not forgotten. Justice Bixby slipped €5 into the unhappy woman's hand before she left the court. Curious Habits of Insects. Probably the most careful and interesting In- vestigations of the habits of insects are those conducted by Sir John Lubbock, who has just given to the Linnean society an account of his several hours a day for. a fortn {i ) Rot. Since the first of July the debt has been | Teduced over $60,000,000 more, or at the rate of Rearly 34,000,000 a week. Does this show that the tariif is killing the country? If Congress had only provided the Secretary of the Treasury with some effective means by which he could more effectively utilize the surplus reserve, we would have seen the debt reduced fully $100,- 000,000 since July first. The fact of the matter {s our neichbors across the sea are so anxious to lead the United States into the free trade that they very often allow their better sense and judgment to run away from them, and they make assertions, doubtless depending Gpon the ignorance and thougitlessness of Americans, that are as fallacions as ‘they are ab- eurd and as weak as they are commonplace. The sibilant as an initial: A German, who only left the old country about a year ago, but has become very much “Americani: peaking Rothing but English, recently remarked, as he bought some school books, that all his boys’ Rames-commenced with 8, hence. that all their France in its devotion to the dead. Even pro- fessed freethinkers are Catholics on these days; mingle with the “faithful” in paying November has witnessed since the institution of All-Souls by Pope Gregory IV., more than ten centuries ago. In France there are practically two Jours des Morts; for, All-Saints being ob- served there as a general holiday, thousands of persons take advantage of the facilities thus afforded for visiting the tombs the a a the canonical festival of the dead. Probably én ‘no Ist of November were the three great ceme- teries of France more crowded than they were . _ To the sightseer Pere-] naturally offered the themassest Mhtnronged every jonneand poche masses Ww! venueand way of this vast necropolis. the portals of one of the Reddest of the Paris faubourgs, it counted among its visitors on Wednesday many hundreds of workingmen now en strike, most of whom confound Priests, aad beurgeoisie in a common Once books and clothes were marked witii tat que “E suppose your boys’ names are Sain, a. OF some such names.” “No; : : io letter. Bimon. within the gates, all that strangel: ‘posed society seer to to moved by ‘but senti- ment. In the whole range Freifth custom. there Is no fact that impresses the mind with ink, mad Ifwe must la-Choise | vary the formula. . ttraction,but _noth- | Every one is tired of not be scientifically accurate when one meets a thous teiferet | friend? The following is submitted as a speci. Je -Ah, Mr. Smit athe with light ralag weather with Smith leaving your mind in a state whether the sky was blue or red, elther of y bi ae are teen eee p simile. Then he tells you that Soandso is as that eultus to their departed friends which each ‘asa hatter, as though ae to anger than the aver @ says that somebody has- sixty, however, ing figuratively, exception to thi ey ill now to Chicago, where they rather like Daihoes. We run no risk in saying that eed Lee, ies snother cavernous smile and a they will go, for we assume that this question ae cag pension Hl bared ‘Next wieek I isaiready settite. ‘The laws of trade, though | 10°. eae iy and stlart against some tem} opposition, will give | yr et y wi nloe Chinaman. tu the beef and Chicago the bones. "The finest Mellcan Man, and T slay, you blet, ole man, T of beef, notably the corn-fed steers of | Mt ican, allee samee like you. Ti he slay, ‘linois, Kentucky, Soathern Ohio, and Western — dlink, and eviythling allee light. Virgina, will still come to us on the hoof for customers able and wi to pay the extra expense of careful and of a few days keeping here to allow recov travel-fever. The beef of the million dressed. time. I began to expect your lies and to look forward to them, but now I have professed re- ligion and will never again ask you. I cannot again cause you to commit a sin.” The old school gentleman grasped his hand and pressed it with warmth. ~ The music-box was of uncertainty close toa window. to his were more ehuman. When m dcting like you know that he is only speak- A pair of lovers at Gadsden, eluded and of course nobody can take Boston Transcript. the old folks by having @ minister come to the house, and while the unconscious parents were in the back room their daughter was quietly married. The Westmoreland sountr, Pa, medical so- clety propose to have ali doctors arrested who are practicing: f Buchanan diplomas. Jonathan Watson, the famous off dicts that a belt Of oll wil Be. discovered tat the present oil-producing strata. The chief of the fire department of Columbus, stroved a stable ts that Cty last Thursday: toa a et 5 a pel ae that was pith: ned to & corner of carpenter In Newport, R. 1., pers as Hone Ars eh ot the Further conversation “the Tne Yoo, whe anes one haan gd anxious to sink his Chinese characheristicy cs come for gain. He proposes talk about the weather, why not “Tt is a pleasant day.” admitting that itis. Why ‘The Skulls of Swift and Stelia. I see we have cloudy cheerful smile)—Ye to colder northeastern: ¥) =