The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1876, Page 6

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ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, at 8 P.M, Mr Montague. UNION Si UARE THEATRE. ROSE MICHEL, at 5 P. at K, SUNDAY, JANUARY o : sere = From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be threatening, * with rain or snow. Tue Henarp py Fast Mar Trarns.—News- dealers and the public will be supplied with the Damy, Werxty and Sunpay Henan, free of postage, by sending their orders direct to this office. Watt Street Yesterpay.—Gold was steady ‘at 113. Stocks were moderately active, but ‘ower than on Friday. Foreign exchange NEW YORK HERALD, The American ‘Gulliver. the House of Representatives, through Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, the chairman of the com- mittee, have reported the following proposi- tion of an amendment to the constitution of for special consideration next Tuesday :— ARticLe XVI.—No person who has held, or may here- eligible to said office. ¢ Mr. Frye, of Maine, in behalf of the minor- report in print a substitute proposition. It the sense of that article of the constitution of the Confederate States which limited any incumbent of the Presidential office to a single term of six years; but, in advance of seeing its actual language, it is useless to discuss it hypothetically. | tated the country forthe lasttwo years. It re- of the question which the Henaxp was the first | to discern and to discuss, It confesses, late and reluctantly, but all the more emphatically for the lateness and the reluctance, that in spite of the subterfuges which have been essayed to ignore it, it is and long has been the most government of nations, does not omit from the first century of our existence the test of our capacity to circumvent the ambition of a President, any more than it did those other civil war and the impeachment trial. If Congress had moved in the matter two years ago, when the Hrratp sounded the alarm, it might easily have been possible to exclude President Grant from continuance in office beyond the 4th of March, 1877, by such means as Mr. Knott proposes; but it is now too late. While Congress and the States have been sleeping the President has quietly sown tares. While scoffers at the danger have been decrying the alarm the machinery for the renomination has been oiled and put into running order, * ready to start at the slightest motion of the gineer’s finger. The ‘‘third term” qynes- tion has become a question for negotiation between the people on one side and President Grant on the other side, in the nature of compromise, and for this very serious con- dition of affairs those self-sufficient souls, and they alone, are responsible, who re- proached us with hoisting a false signal light when we were vigilantly kindling the beacon on the watch tower of liberty. The network which encompasses the land and centres in the White House is woven with admirable skill and strength. Its strands run from post office to post office and from custom house | to custom house. The body politic is bound | was strong. Government bonds and invest- ment securities were firm. Bismarck has neurdigia. Even his sick- esses are military, for he complains of shoot- ing pains. Tristany is now stated not to have turned Alfonsist after all, and his fellow Carlists sre bombardin n Sebastian. A Storm Surr T to interrupt telegraphic sommunication between Liverpool and Lon; fon must be of the most destructive kind, and it is probable a long list of losses by sea aad land will reach us shortly. Tae Ministertaists’ Success in the Span- sh elections will not surprise. any one who knows Spain. There was evidently great sare exercised in the construction of the elec- tion machinery. Such republicans as Cas- elar are said to have been defeated. A Trrece Cotmiston has occurred on the Sreat Northern Railway of England. The break in telegraphic communication pre- vented the sending of full details of this anusual calamity. Two trains collide and a jhird train runs into the débris of the other two. Tae Work or Laytyc Conner Stones and »pening public institutions, which is a great portion of the English Heir Apparent’s duties, has devolved upon his brother, the Duke of Edinburgh, during the Prince of Wales’ absence. Yesterday the Duke opened a Royal Aquarium. Tae Encuisn Rrrcemen are working hard to have their team in first rate trim for the coming match, and it behooves our Creed- moor sharpshooters to take advantage of evéry favorable day for practice. In Eng- land the practice can be carried on through the mild winter with little discomfort. Tar Exevarep Ramnoap is working hard to complete their line to the Battery, and have completed their plans for running a | track on the east side of the city. We can- not but wish this company success, for they have shown commendable’ energy; but a ingle track, although better than none, is not what New York wants in the way of rapid transit. Tae Front Near Trevicne between the Turks and the Rayahs has resulted in a com- plete victory for the latter, with a loss of 450 killed to the former. The Porte meanwhile gmakes great display of determination to rrush the rebellion, but the news from Rome | that the Turkish government is now pre- pared to accept Count Andrassy's plan of re- form shows that the prospect of peace would be welcomed at any cost. ‘me Vatican will not resist the govern- as firmly in its meshes as Gulliver was by the Liliputians, and the resource of Gulli- the United States, and it has been assigned | after hold, the office of President, shall ever again be | ity of the committee, has obtained leave to | is ramored that this will be substantially in | Congress, therefore, is on the point of en- | gaging formally in the debate which has agi- | | cognizes, finally, the imperative importance , vital political question before the people, It | realizes that Providence, in its divine design | to set up our Republic as a model for the | is terrible tests of the abolition of slavery, the | en- | la debating club. It suffers Senator Conk- A majority of the Judiciary Committee of | ling to grow ten years wiser while he grows only two years older. It permits Secretary | Fish to redeem his diplomatic reputation, which his course on the Spanish question is | imperilling. It soothes and consoles and pacifies a hundred elements which Mr. | Knott's proposition only rasps and aggravates | and inflames, For these reasons we urge it upon the con- | Sideration of Congress and the States with a calm confidence that events will justify its wisdom, as they have already justified our early assertion of the President's dangerous ambition, We did not make our successful diagnosis of the disease without at the same time considering the necessary remedy. The end was foreseen from the beginning. | London Yesterday, Our London correspondent, struggling with the difficulties of a storm, which cut | off communication with the Irish ca- ble and necessitated his despatch com- ing hither via Paris, sends us a full budget of news from the English ' capitaJ. This is a triumph in its way which journalists can appreciate, and our readers , will not fail tc acknowledge, In the cable vocabulary our correspondent knew ‘no such word as fail. We = learn from him how the English press | busying itself about American | | affairs; what is thought of the defeat of . Holman’s resolution attacking the Resump- | tion act ; what is thought of the monetary | unit plan, and how the Telegraph commiser- ates our envoys: abroad on the pro- | | posed reduction of their salaries. We mean | of course, the envoys of the government of the United States. Economy of this order certainly has its very ridiculous side, ; and “an American Minister in a shabby | coat, though it might delight the parsi- | mony of new-fledged reformers, would not | be much addition to our national dignity. | They are getting up a committee | in Dublin to induce Queen Victoria | to visit Ireland this year. We hope she | will go, for the tendency is so great to | go away from that country that it must need royalty to induce people to remain there, | much less to return once they have left it. The storm throughout the country will | be a great topic for days to come. Railways in Distress, As represented in the Albany reports, the billon the management of quasi bankrupt railways seems a thoroughly good measure. It proposes to give to bondholders or similar creditors of railway corporations which have | been put into the hands of receivers their proper share of influence in reorganization. Nearly all railroads are first organized as swindles. This is a primary fact in the | natural history of these corporations. On | paper they represent so many shares of | ver is the only resource for us—a compro- has not the magnanimity otherwise to set us free, Our own proposition of a constitutional amendment which shall extend President Grant's term of office to the 4th of March, 1879, fix the Presidential term thereafter at six years, and prohibit any re-election, is a compromise which is practicable to-day, just as Mr. Knott's proposition was two years ago. It will cease to be soon the 14th of June, the day fixed for the Republican National Convention. The in- terval is brief, and every week's delay dimin- ishes its practicability and increases the likelihood of a desperate political strugghe between the unorganized people on the one hand and the thoroughly organized office- holders on the other. History records too many instances of the downfall of a numer- ous undisciplined militia before a small army of veteran soldiers, and these military lessons have been carefully pondered by a military President, who holds them as good for the warfare of politics as for the strife of doubtiess, within his disposition, to defeat any such constitutional amendment as Mr. by the Senate, or, if it should pass Congress, by postponing its adoption by the States. Besides, there is an irreconcilable difference of opinion among the opponents of a third second term if the President is to be elected for only four years. Since neither President Grant's own sense of patriotic duty nor the sad entreaties of the few remaining statesmen of his party in- embarrassment of his ambition to retain not offer him a boon which he will not dare to reject, or the rejection of which will shock even a popular conscience that has two years is such a boon. It is addressed to the people at a time when there is no great concentration of opinion upon any person as | @rival candidate. It recognizes in a dutiful mise with the Emperor of Liliput—since he | Knott's, either by commanding its rejection | term as to the expediency of prohibiting a | duce him to deliver the country froin the | stock at so much a share; in the company’s | money drawer there may be one per cent or less of that nominal capital. All the shares except, perhaps, one in a hundred are as ab- solutely printed swindles as are counterfeit | bills. Not a cent has been paid for them. | They have been distributed as a sort of em- bryotic bribery to secure the franchise, Con- sequently a company with a nominal capi- tal of a million dollars sometimes ‘begins operations” with just enough money to put outa sign and buy aset of books. Its first operation is on the pockets of adventurous people. . It issues bends, and by the sale of | these gets the money on which it really builds and equips its line. It becomes bankrupt by the natural force of circum- stances and by that dishonesty in manage- ment which vitiated its very origin. Then the bondholders, who are, the real owners, appeal to the courts and put in a receiver. But in all the operations the shareholders | are contemplated as owners and the bond- | holders as creditors, and the shareholders | alone have such an initiative in future or- The Board of Education and the | Schools. The Board of Education, while contem- plating the good results of the Compulsory actand the increase in school attendance which is its immediate effect, shows the old- time inaptitude for dealing with the real question of public instruction. The trouble which agitates the Board now, as it has done for a number of years, is the question of | teaching the French and German languages | in the public schools. No decision has been reached, and we trust none will be for some time to come, for the question is one which in the end will solve itself. If the common schools attain that excellence which will compel the respect of every parent seeking an education for his child, it will be as im- possible to keep the modern languages out of the course of study as it has been found by the old-fashioned college professors to exclude them from the curriculum of our col- leges. Until they attain this excellence, however, it will be impossible to introduce either French or German with any- thing like satisfactory results. The way, then, to make the modern lan- guages a part of the regular course of in- struction in the schools is to make the schools the worthy vehicles of the highest culture, But this cannot be done by a reso- Intion of the Board of Education. If the schools are badly managed and fail to afford elementary instruction of the best kind to the children of rich and poor alike, all the efforts at teaching German which may be made will not impart the language to a sin- gle person in a century, The course of study, like the system, must be one of growth, and when instruction in the English branches in the public schools has reached something like perfection the addition of French and German to the regular curricu- lum will become a mere matter of course. Under such circumstances the duty of the Board of Education is plain. It is to see that the primary and grammar schools are brought to the highest degree of excellence, i and that the Compulsory Education act is fully and fairly tested. For the next few years no other questions need agitate the worthy gentlemen who direct public educa- tion in this city, especially as the realization ofa reasonable expectation in this direction will make every other question easy of solu- tion. Mr. Boucicault in London. Mr. Oakey Hall has sent us, as a matter of important news, a cable despatch, dated the 21st inst., which he received from Mr. Boucicault in London. This interesting document is as follows :— Loxpos, Jan, 21. To Oakey Haut, No. 13 West Forty second street, New York:— Profound excitement here among English popula- tion; 3,000 failed gain admission last night Adelphi. Carriages nobility surround theatre. Manifestation apprehended to-night. Saturday public dinner in London. Home Rule Association convened; passed resolutions. Public reception offered Dublin, Cork. English press whipped. BOUCICAULT. We are obliged to Mr, Hall for his kind attentions, but are obliged to say that his courtesy is far more valuable than his news. For more than a week we have had reports of the excitement from our London corre- spondents, whom he seems to have bewitched, although they have unaccountably failed to send the startling information concerning the carriages of the nobility. The manifestation which was apprehended did not come off on Friday night, and we suppose that Mr. Boucicault has postponed it—as he some- times does his plays—for the benefit of a more thorough rehearsal. Mr. Boucicault is the Admirable Crichton of the modern drama. If he does not write quite as well as Shakespeare he adapts much better. He can not only write a play, but he can put it on the stage, officiate as prompter, as scene shifter, as call boy, paint the scenery, direct the box office and the orches- tra, and act the principal character with in- imitable grace. He is his own great adver- | ganization as their nominal and altogether | fictitious ownership gives. This injustice blood and iron, It is within his power, and, | the law seems aimed to remedy. It would | ® rival. | be well if, insuch a case as we have stated, it required also the vitiation of all these fraud, ulent shares. Tammany Hall. | Tammany trouble, and it seems to us evi- | apparent purpose. Every evil consequence our politics may continue indefinitely with- | out the violation of a single clanse of this bill. the General Committee which is supposed to Senator Woodin’s bill does not touch the | to see Boucicault as Conn!” tising agent. In this capacity he is without He had the genius to enlist Mr. Disraeli in his service, and the Prime Minister of England is put in the position of those old men who go about the streets be- tween two boards on which ig_jnscribed “Go to the Adelphi to-night!” “Don't fail He compels the British aristocracy to recognize the Irish dently framed for some other not clearly | drama. He makes the British pross his un- conscious instrument. He is capable of | traceable to the influence of Tammany in | writing a letter toa paper and accompany- ing it with an editorial denouncing himself; then replying in another note indignantly The Tammany Society owns and | vindicating his reputation, and sustained by controls Tammany Hall and exercises over | an editorial retraction also from his own bril- liant pen. We do not say that he wrote | office, no policy is statesmanlike that does act for the democratic voters of this city all the articles in the London journals, but ' such an influence as makes them the mere | there is little doubt that he inspired some of puppets of that society; but it docs all thisin | them. He is at once both of the’ battle- such @ way that no-law can possibly take grown callous under the executive abuses of hold of the fact when the whole control is | himself up indefinitely. the last fifteen years, The Henaxn’s propo- separated into specific acts. Tammany may | wonderful of managers. Ifa rebellion in sition to extend his present term of office for safely defy any Legislature to forbid any act | Ireland were necessary to the success of and suppose that it will thereby free the Democratic General Committee from the in- fluence of the Tammany Society; but a stat- ute declaring that the act incorporating that | the English press, and the Irishman who has | dores and the shuttlecock, too, and can keep | He is the most “The Shanghraun” Boucicault would organize it and probably lead the Fenian troops him- self. Why should he not? He has whipped | manner the public services which General | society is repealed will do effectually what a | done that ought to be able to whip the Brit- | Grant rendered to his country on the field of | battle, and President Grant afterward ren- | dered in his veto of tho Taflation bill. It rigmarole of sections and sub-sections will | fail to do. It is to be hoped that it is not intended to cheat the public in this matter. isharmy. This remarkable cable despatch is proba- bly a revelation to Mr. Hall. He now sees | smooths his descent from the pinnacle of If the indignation against Tammany should | how “Crucible” might have been made as | power to the foot-worn pavement of private be lulled by a bill put forth as a Tammany | great success as ‘The Shaughraun.” He death warrant, and that bill should not | should have written to Governor Tilden a | life, It gives him time to set his official house in order before he leaves it forever ; to complete the rewardjng of his friends and accomplish the required purpose, it would be a great opportunity lost. If Mr. Woodin's long letter demanding the capture of Tom Fields and Genet; he should have had all the meutal inspection of the Italian seminaries. | the punishment of his enemies; to assist in | bill is intended to prevent railrond compa- | hacks in New York engaged to block up the {t would be a good thing if the Catholic burch dignitaries learned a little sense and Were not perpetually retiring from an- ‘tenable tions, which a moment before proclaimed would never be de- serted. The Itolian government is avowedly anxious for a modus vivendi with the Vatican, | the great jubilee of the Fourth of July, 1876, | with a mind unperturbed by personal care, } and to witness the restoration of specie pay- ments under his own auspices on | the Ist of January, 1879 It con. clusively avoids the reprouch that | republics are ungrateful. nies from packing party conventions and even the Legislature it may be an advan- tageous measure; but we fear it would prove inoperative to that end. streets ; he should have spread reports that, the Tammany Hall people intended to attack the theatre, and he might have got up an indignation meeting of New York lawyers to censure him for deserting the Bar. Mr. Rossta has sent out a denial of her alleged | Boucicault would have done all this and It stimulates | intention of concentrating troops in the | more. He is evidently now meditating some ‘but the Church prefers an easy system of | t) renewed and increasimg activity the en- | spring on the western frontier, ready for a | new coup in London. Those carriages, those : | deavors of those politicians, like Bristow and | march on Constantinople. Denials of this | people, those dinners, those nobles, that M. Gaseperta’s Apprat to Faaxce in his | Tilden, who hope to attain the succession nature are often as untrustworthy as the whipped English press and that Prime Min- | through real or pretended reforms. It de- | original reports, for success is the one test | ister are not invoked for nothing. Some- stroys the motive for such debates as Blaine by which diplomacy judges its achieve- | thing profound and dark and mysterious | excited last week on the Amnesty bill in the | monts. The relation which statements bear | is going on in the Adelphi Theatre. We martyrization. private speech at Aix is praised by the Lon- don Times fpr its moderation and fair spirit of compromise, The publication of the National Defence Inquiry Committee's reply to the republican attacks is evidently | House of Representatives and Morton is try- | to truth is a matter for the opposite party to | should not be astonished if Mr. Oakey Hail | ing to raise this week on the Mississippi judge, but the immoral aspect of untrathfal- | should have a cable despatch soon announc- | being used as ® campaign document, | question in the Senate. It restores the im- ness is not considered by either party, A | ing that Mr. Boucicault has received a pri- much after the American fashion. comical to Amorican thinking to sce the _ gepublicans df free speech in a while at their disposal, of their offices, finance and revenue. instead of orcanising as the southwest she would like to be It is | mense army of office-holders to the business | nicely poised, neatly feathered, sharp barbed | vate note from the Queen asking him to leave i which they are now neglect- lie that will fly far and stick fast, is diplo- | London, or that he has been imprisoned in ing for caucuses and conventions. It enables macy's choicest weapon. One thing is cer- | the Tower and supplied with a ream of the monarchists have the Congress to give its attention to matters of tain, that if Russia is not ‘moving troops in | paper, ink ad lib., a box of new French pla and an old Irish subiect | | delay will soon, we hope, be removed by UNDAY, JANUARY 23, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. cise Pulpit Topics To-Day. In the topics to be discussed to-day by the ordained and unordained preachers of the city, several things are assumed and argu- ments are built upon those assumptions. For instance, Mr. Hepworth assumes that every man needs a little care, and he therefore demonstrates that God exercises such care over every one of us. He also assumes that men must eat and drink to live, but that, notwithstanding this, they must also die, and he therefore argues that life is more than meat. Dr. Armitage assumes that men are sick, and he offers them the balm of Gilead, and encourages them to accept it by showing that even trifles have a value above that of apparent usefulness. Mr. Cotter feels himself specially called to tear the mask off Christianity, and he will attempt that process to-day. It is to be hoped he will not injure himself in the effort. Mr. Evans will explain the nature and functions of Christianity when ‘thus unmasked, and Mr. Henderson will tell us how his great intel- lect threw off the swathing bands of super- natural religion and now walks forth in the boots and breeches of scientific religion. Professor Brittan will analyze a few more of the lunatics of fashion, and Mr. Mulford will give usa history of his wanderings in England. While those gentlemen are un- masking Christianity and ripping things generally Mr. Lightbourn will direct his arrows against infidels, and Christ will walk complacently in the midst of His golden can- dlesticks or bend Himself under the world’s sorrow in the Garden of Gethsemane to pro- vide for men the great salvation that Mr. Lloyd will offer freely to all, and the Christian perfection, which is the soul's invisible attraction, and which is to be presented by Mr. Harris, Every evil doubtless has its compensating good, and war, as Mr. Seitz will prove, may become a means of culture. Mr. Platt will defend prayer miracles again. Do they need so much defence? Miss Willard, of Chicago, will defend the weaker from the right of the stronger; Mr. Saunders will tell us what re- ligion can do for a man and what God calls upon the nation, the Church and the individ- ual to do; Mr. Giles will tell us what and where the Garden of Eden was and how we may return to it; Mr. Knapp will present the possibilities of Christian life; Mr. Leavell will give us an apostolic exhortation; Bishop Snow gives a general invitation to the supper of the great God; the healing of Naaman the Syrian and the paralytic at Capernaum will be discussed by Messrs. Phelps and Merritt; the conversion of St. Paul and the woman of Samaria by Mr. Kennard; justifi- cation by Mr. Rowell and popular scepticism by Mr. Egbert. Seats for All Passengers. If the experience of the last ten years is any criterion by which to judge of the dis- position of the street railway companies to accommodate the public the expectation that they will voluntarily provide seats for all passengers is a vain one. During tho last decade the only improvement introduced by the companies is the bell punch, and, as this is intended for the benefit of the stock- holders and not for the convenience of the passengers, it reflects no particular credit on the management of the lines. The only way, then, is to compel that necessary accom- modation which the companies neglect or refuse to give’ Every passenger must be provided with a seat and means must be devised for conveying all the passengers wishing to be carried. As the companies re- fuse this the Legislature must compel it. In another column we print a letter from a correspondent which reflects the general sentiment on the subject, A new policy will hg the result of a little legislative action, and but little compulsion will be required to infuse new energy into the companies. In a few months our street railways ¢an be supplied with new carsand the whole system reorganized if the managers of the street lines are waked from their lethargy. At the present time they fancy their narrow policy to be the most profitable. If they are com- pelled to give every passenger a seat or for- feit their charters a new sense of duty will come over them, and, as @ consequence, it will onge more be possible to traverse the city with a reasonable degree of comfort. Coaching Clubs. The regular days for the coaching clubs to parade in London are observed as holidays by many people, and Hyde Park is always crowded on those occasions, and we fancy that it will not be many years before the same feeling will show itself in our people. An Englishman cannot conceive a grander picture than a dozen four-in-hand teams prancing along in front of magnificent | coaches filled with British beauty. Similar scenes may soon be witnessed in our parks, and our people will be just as much pleased with the show as are our consins across the @cean. The coaching club of this city is growing rapidly, and the Philadelphia organ- ization is also said to be thriving and bids fair to be another grand suecess, We also learn from Baltimore that there has been some action taken by a few spirited gentle- men of wealth to organize a coaching club in that city, and at the next May meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club we expect something definite will be learned as to the fature move- ments in that direction. Our coaching club is now in a very flourishing condition, and new coaches for new members are in course of construction by the best makers in London, which will, no doubt, be in readiness for the first summer parade of the club, which takes place in June next. It takes several months to get a coach made and sent over to this country after it has been ordered, but this members giving their orders to coach builders at home. This course must be pursued sooner or later ; in fact, it should be done as soon asthe club decides on the style and form of the coach to be used and American makers are furnished with models of the work required. Artists for the finest work of coach making can always be found when re- quired. ’ We should not be surprised to learn that every large city in America had a coaching | club in progress of organization before the | ' close of the present year; and it is under- stood that lines of public coaches will be established in this city after the man- | ner of those running out of London to away ; one of which will probably be ram from the centre of the city to New Rochelle and back daily, while another may take the west side of the island, and go out by the way of the Boulevard and Kingsbridge, and | soon to Yonkers and Tarrytown. Should this be done there is no doubt that the en- terprise will be well patronized by pleasure seekers during the summer months, particu- larly. by those who cannot get away to the far-off watering places to rusticate for weeks at 9 time. Many members of the coaching club will, no doubt, also enjoy themselves in this rational manner at their own Water- ing place—New York city—where every lux- ury would await them after their drive, and they will find it far more profitable and healthful than wasting their time in idleness and sweltering in the great caravansaries of Saratoga and similar places of summer re- sort. , There seems to be a charm about coaching that can only be appreeiated on the top of the vehicle as it is rolled over the country by a spanking team of four, handled by an accomplished whip, whose graceful manner of manipulating the ribbons gives confi- dence to all that he is master of the situa- tion, and particularly when he gives a salu- tation to a favorite by raising his whip hand to his chin as he dashes along. We hope tose several public coaching companies running teams the coming summer, so that all classes of respectable people may enjoy the pleasure of coaching trips to the country. Our Paris Cable Letter. "Selling live bear's grease” is the apt and concise form in which our Paris correspon- dent cables the republican rejoicing over the result of the election of delegates to choose Senatérs. As the Senators are yet to be elected by the delegates, the article may not be delivered as the republi- cans expect. We learn also from our cable letter the result of the awards in the American prize play competition. The authors did not reach the required excel- lence to gain the, first prize, so that either the critics were unduly severe or the writers rather poor. Since the time of Sophocles, Aschylus and Euripedes, com- petitions of this nature have not resulted in producing great works destined to live, and we accept what the authors give us with as good a grace as possible. The Athenians who competed for glory do not find many successors in this degenerate age, and as the best playwrights accept the golden test it will not be surprising if not one of the leading dramatists of France thought Mr. Michaelis’ play worth the candle. Oper- atic notes flit hither. Cary is negotiating with Gye, who is looking keenly around, as Mapleson is this side of the herring pond. The American colony has been busy marry- ing and attending balls, which are all noted as superb in their way. t PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, New Orleans has strawberries. Birds carry contagious diseases of cattle, Missour! farmers are sowing winter wheat, Ex-Senator Matt Carpenter is in Washington. German boys dare not whistle in the streets. 8. 8. Cox is sometimes sorry because he is so funny. There have been cases where a bread poultice was good. Cheyenne is full of adventurers who are trying to get to tho Black Hills. , Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, is at the St. James Hotel, on his way to Washington. The season is so warm in Milwaukee that they are Picking their second crop of pretzels. . Richard Grant Wiite,. who was recovering from his recent severe illness, has had a serious relapse. The Hub once again calls Emerson its high and mighty Brahma, but the fellahs rally round Simmons. The blue daisy is described as being one of the com- monest of spring flowers in different parts of Morocco. “Every man’s life 1a @ fairy tale and written by God’s finger,’ was a favorite saying of Hans Ander- sen, The Chicago Inter-Ocean Mephistopheles twits an Omaha man with wearing a chandelier on his shirt bosom. An Atlanta paper says that what Georgiareally wants are more good straight roads, Yes; or less good straight whiskey. The Boston spirits are now able to mould paraffino hands and faces of themselves. Now let them give us a plaster cast of Tweed. i 4A Colorado man who laid in a great many grasshop- pers fast summer has bored holes in them and sells them for Arctic rubbers. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks that railways may al- ways prevent canal improvements by a temporary re- duction of the freight tariff, Light Horse Harry Watterson has been sick ever since he left Washington with Halstead, and the Louis- ville lemon and sugar market stagnates. + A lady wants a recipe for beef soup. First, hold the cow over a hot fire so as to singe off the pin feathers. Some people like to add a little rice, The tallest of the snowy Himalayan peaks may, above the clouds, be seen tipped with the vermilion of sunrise, while the plains still lie dark in night. Mr. Jenkins expresses his belie! that the drinking habits of England are owing in great measure to the want of comfortable homes for the workingmen. It is estimated that 14,000 American women began the new year with a good resolutiom no longer to ‘“sharpen’’ a lead pencil with the back of atable knife, A Passaic father wants to know “what will keep « respectable, but poor young man, from hanging round the front of the house?” Tell him the girl ts sitting on the back fence, . The veteran statesman, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, has found time to produce an original play, “Alfred the Great in Athelnay.”” Only a limited number of copies witl be printed, It is said (hat Henry Bergh in his early years was so tender hearted for animal hfe that when a mosquito lit on his nose he'd pick up a aigber and smash himself ‘up against the wall, < Dr. Pritchard, of Raleigh, N. C., says that editors should be prayed for. Raleigh has an editor who twits other papers with appreciatively appropriating Herato “personals” and thon wittily appropriates them bim- self. “Mymosa.""—We are unwilling to print your poem, “Silver Threads Among the Gold.” The man who | first wrote it was bald-headed, and he thougnt he wag writing a recipe for pointing ow the white spots ona brindle dog. In the whole trans-Caucasian country there are not Tore than 25,000 Russian troops for al! purposes, and of these not 10,000 can be allotted the various khanates recently conquered directly or brought under the pro- tectorate of Russian Turkestan. Our statement that 116 pounds of an average man are pare water has led to several curious questions Our authority for the T16 pounds was scientific. If it be correct, Alexander H. Stephens, who weighs only ninety pounds, would owe himself twenty-six pounds of pure water, and Zach Cuandler, who weighs 19@ pounds, contains seventy-four pounds more pure water than he is entitled to, Serence and religion always did conflict in this way, A physiognomist writes that regular white teeth, seen at once upon the mouth opening, but not preject- ing, nor always entirely seen, denote acuveness, truth and goodness, Small, short teeth, which are seldom Pure white, denote strength; long teeth always imply weakness and want of spirit, Those which are irm er the color, denote strength ana ipper gum is much seen immediately