The New York Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1876, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET., NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorw Herat. 5 Letters and packages should be properly sealed. P Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Wir ae OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH 5) STREET. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE L’'OPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME AMUSEMENTS ‘TO-MORROW. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, a 8 P. M. GLOB:. THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P. M. BOOTH'S THEATRE JULIUS CHSAR, at 6 P. Mr. Lawrence Barrett, THEATRE COMIQUE. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, a1 TIVOLI TH VARIETY, at 8 P. M. TWENTY-THIRD 5’ CALIFORNIA MINSTRE! TRE. OPERA HOUSE. P.M. M. M. ©. 8. Nichols. THEATRE. wor SHARKEY, at § P. M. THIRD AVES VARIETY, at 5 P.M WALL. 'S THEATRE. i STOOPS TO CONQUER, at 8 ¥.M. 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The largest dealings were in West- ern Union. Money on call loaned at 3 and 4 percent. The bank statement is unfavor- able. Government and railway bonds were steady. Gold sold at 113 5-8 a 113 3-4. Txosk Wno WisH to Srupy municipal politics this Sabbath morning are referred to an article in another portion of the Hsraxp, Bancocn’s Tria has reached the stage of oratory, with Mr. Brodhead making one of the closing speeches for the prosecution. He massed his powers upon some of the very weak spots in the defence, Rarm Transit was under discussion yes- terday before the Commissioners, and we may soon hope for a decision, the opponents of quick travel having failed utterly in their endeavors to show either a strong case ora strong following among the property owners, ‘Tue Man Wuo Kitten the “Irish Giant,” O'Baldwin, has been acquitted, on the ground that if he had not the late giant would have killed him. At what height does ® man’s liability to be killed without danger to his slayer, if the big man quarrels, begin ? All the tall men are anxious to know. Tur Fara Pantc at tur East Broapwar Fine yesterday morning may have been en- tirely owing to the mad haste of the inmates to escape; but it does not seem that there were any fire escapes attached to the house, as we hear of men attempting to put ladders that proved too short to the windows in the rear. Mz. “Pic Inox” Ketxzy, of Pennsylvania, fired his soft money broadside at the hard money side of the House of Representatives yesterday. We are to wait for ‘the practical extinction of the national debt” before we be- gin to prepare to get ready to think about the desirability of resumption. Nothing like fixing a date; it shows he means busi- ness. Tae Coxxrixe Ruxmes.—We print to-day additional contributions to the Conkling poetry, and it will be seen that perfection is still far from being attained to. Consider- ing, however, the unfortunate condition of many of the poets, it would be unkind to sriticise them too severely. Voltaire in his ironical defence of the Song of Solomon said that ‘*we could not expect a Jew to write like Vitgil,” and it certainly ought not to be ex- pected that these unhappy fellow beings who are deprived of their reason should | write like Longfellow or Whittier. Aw Important Part of the ecclesiastical machinery has received a severe blow by the decision in England of the Judicial Com- mittee of the Privy Council that the sacra- ments of the Church cannot be refused to a | man who does not believe in the personality | Metropoiran Journalism — Extraordi- nary Prosperity of the New York Newspapers, We print elsewhere a collection of articles that will be read with interest by all who esteem the press as a bulwark of our civili- zation and a palladium of our liberties. Nothing marks so clearly the advance of this metropolis as the advance of its journalism. Nothing affords the Henaxp, as peaceful newspaper, more pleasure than to welcome every evidence of prosperity on the part of its colleagues, The time was when the newspapers had nothing better to do than to carp at rivals and circulate stories calcu- lated to wound each other's feelings. @ brighter era, although the nefarious busi- ness about the Tribune's clock remains un- explained. It is for this purpose that we print in full the annual circulars with which our morning contemporaries announce their programme for the year; their club rates; their views as to the state of the nation and their willingness to instruct society in the elements of Christian civilization for a very small amount of money, paid annually in advance, As our readers will see, the metropolis is blessed with six morning newspapers printed in the English language. We donot include the Journal of Commerce, That paper is something so much above the ordinary journalism of the day that we despair of doing it justice in what must, after all, be a mere cursory survey. ‘Thése six journals are (we name them alphabetically to avoid ill feeling), the Star, the Sun, the Times, the Tribune, the Witness and the World. They are handsome papers and animated by the noblest feelings. The Star is independent on all subjects but the Beecher .trial It supports the cause of temperance, and was a chivalrous defender of the fallen Tammany statesmen in their days of sorrow as well as their days of power. Its circulation is enor- mous, “averaging seventy-eight thousand copies.” This is a good circulation, and speaks well for the popularity of Mr. Beecher and the growth of the temperance reform. Among the writers for the Star is ‘Hon. M. T. Jugg, Esq.,” ‘the most pathetic of humorists."* It has correspondence ‘from London, Dub- lin, Paris, California.” Next to the Star (alphabetically speaking) isthe Sun. This newspaper, according to. its prospectus, is also in the enjoyment of great prosperity. It circulates eighty thousand copies, two thousand more than the Star, But while the Mar is sold “in Brooklyn, Jersey City and Westchester,” the Sun ‘‘already has its read- ers in every Stateand Territory.” The editor of the Sun, unlike him of the Star, gives his readers a platform of principles for the year. “It will, it is hoped, lay the foundation for a new and better period in our national his- tory.” ‘The fashions are regularly reported in its columns,” and the ‘markets of every kind.” ‘Terms, invariably cash in advance.” There can be no nobler mission for an editor than to help ‘lay the foundation for a new and better period in our national his- tory.” When, in addition to this tran- scendent and patriotic responsibility, we have the fashions and the markets ‘regu- larly reported,” we can ‘well anderstand why the Sun has readers in all of the States and Territories. Passing from this widely reach- ing and ambitious journal we come to the New York Times. The Times is ‘‘a-political, literary and general newspaper, devoted to reform in municipal, State and general government.” It is a republican, To quote its own discriminating words, “its attitude is that -of independence within the republican party.” This means that it will keep its pew in church and speak out in meeting. This isa position caleu- lated to make an editor's work interesting, especially when he says, with commenda- ble emphasis, that it is opposed to any third term ‘‘proposals, no matter by whom they may be started.” Furthermore, the Times will keep a sharp eye upon the disturbers of society. It ‘thas opposed those attacks upon the family as the basis of society which are so frequently made and which have led to so much misery and shame.” In addition to all this there will be ‘original articles from practical farmers,” and every attraction cal- culated to make it the ‘‘paper for the farmer, the mechanic and the people.” ‘Remit in drafts if possible.” Side by side with the Times (and would that their relations could be always as harmonious as they are this morning in our placid and friendly columns) we have the “leading American newspaper,” the New York ‘Tribune, ‘founded by Horace Greeley.” The Tribune is more eloquent than the other journals in giving its platform, “It will maintain with the old fervor the old republican princi- ples.” It will ‘never be the servant of caucuses or conventions.” It will ‘“ap- prove what it finds good in the acts and pro- fessions of either party.” The difference be- tween the Times and the Tribune, as we under- stand it, is that the Times will always keep its pew in the church, and say what it has to say in meeting, while the Tribune will take its chance in the galleries and attend both churches alike and do its scolding on the sinewalk. It is pleasant to see that “the Tribune will keep its columns free from personal wrangling.” We do not know how much we can commend this resolve, as, if there is one thing the people do not wish to read about in the newspapers it is what one editor thinks of another. Furthermore, the Tribune's “‘staff includes the most accom- | plished men in the profession, and among its outside contributors it numbers many of the most eminent men in the country.” For clergymen there is a reduction in the price of subscription. ‘‘All rqmittances at sender's risk.” of the devil. If the leader of the great oppo- sition, the Prince of Darkness, by whatever mame he may be calfed, from Satan to Old Nick, is a nonentity, is a mere abstraction; if, in the words sceptically applied to the | famous Mrs. Harris, ‘there ain't no such person,” all that part of the publie which | dias been kept virtuous by the apprehension | hat it might be turned over in brimstone ith the long toasting forks that figure in portraits will be greatly relieved | their minds, and the reverend gentlemen | ho have passed their lives in preaching | at sort of doctrine will begin to wonder if | they might hot have } eiiioved. % more usefully | Here we have our religious contemporary | the Witness, a very modest and very pious paper. The Witness is a Christian journal, and when it has business difficulties, as is sometimes the case, its editor finds no re- source so useful as a prayer meeting. What we admire about the Witness is its faith and frankness. When the subscription list falls, instead of rushing into large type, like Com- modore Tooker, and averring that its busi- hess Was never so good, it avows its condition, and calls upon the faithfal not to let the Lord's laborer starve in the vineyard. This quality of absolute trathfulness is so rare among journalists (we mean those outside of New York) that the But we think we see the opening of | Witwss desorves the | highest honor. People are not adfea to buy it for fashions or markets or politics, but solely because it is in favor of the Protestant faith and opposed to the Pope. “True religion” and the “spring trade” are the animating motives of the Witness, and, barring what it has to say about the Pope, who is a very old man and a good way off, we commend it to all who like good, sound, stimulating doctrine, with abundant texts of Scripture as seasoning. ‘The Witness stops when subseription expires.” And now we hear the noise of the battle and the shouting; the sound of trumpets and the distant strains of martial music, for we are reading the order of battle of the World for the great campaign of 1876, There is no uncertain sound in this—no equivoca- tion; no doubtful attitude, We are.re- minded of the bulletins of the young Bona- parte in Italy. ‘Fellow democrats!” it begins, and we feel like the soldier when called to ‘‘Attention!” ‘Fellow democrats of the Union! let us discard minor differ- yences, but not democratic principles.” We are called to rally under the flag of “Madison and Jefferson and Jackson ;” the banner of ‘‘Hard money, free trade and home rule.” The Times may pout when it is not pleased; the Tribune may try to do justice to both parties; the Sun may keep its blazing eye on the fashions and the founda- tion of anew period; but the World will “daily preach the gospel of democratic truth.” ‘For fact and fiction,” says the edi- tor, rising with his theme, ‘prose and poetry, the wisdom and the folly of men and of all nations, all, when rightly understood, are but ministers of the great immortal un- changeable principles of the democratic creed—the creed of common sense, of ascer- tained law, of enlightened freedom.” All of this is for twelve dollars a year, postage paid, ‘‘cash in advance,” and ‘‘no travelling agents.” Altogether this outlook is gratifying. We are glad to see our contemporaries in such good humorand with so many evidences of prosperity, It has beena hard year for some of the papers, but the skies are brightening. The Hxnatp, which sup- ports all religions and does justice to all parties; which is quite satisfied with the world and does not print a celestial print; which sees good in all creeds and in all parties; which thinks that whether one party orthe other wins the sun will shine, the rain will fall, our liberties will be safe and the people will read all the news and insist upon buying it—the Heratp throws open its columns in the spirit of the broadest hospitality to its gifted and strenuous colleagues who have so many noble aims, these champions of liberty, reform, religion, temperance, the fashions and the spring trade. And now that we are beginning the centennial year the best advice we can give to our readers is to read all these really great newspapers— to buy them all and to pay in advance. At the end of the year they will be better able to appreciate our own modest efforts not to overturn the universe, but to print a solid, sensible, practical journal, which minds its own business and does not aim to regulate. the spheres. Our Paris Cable Letter. With France on the eve of a general elec- tion politics is naturally topmost in Paris, To be truly Parisian is to present a strange inconsistency of character, for it means that one must be gushingly excited over every- thing and cynically unmoved by anything. The most sanguine of political leaders who fulminate to excited crowds must utter an airy bon mot,,whatever fortune betides his efforts. The refrain to the bloodiest chants of the Revolution was the light-hearted “Ca Ira.” Hence the great bal d'opéra of last night in the new Grand Opera House was as bright with republican Pierrots, Bonapartist Arle- quins and legitimist Louis the Fourteenths as the gayest child of the good little King of Yvetot that Béranger sung about could de- sire. The ‘Chevaliers of Fatherland,” which is a French play, with au American subject, places its action on board a Potomac steam- boat, and appears to deal with the his- tory of our war as ruthlessly as Shake- speare dealt with the geography of Bohemia, The steamboat busines? reminds us of Sardou's ‘Uncle Sam," and suggests that foreign dramatists believe we take a state- room ticket when we want to do anything dramatic, or that steamboats are the most picturesque things America produces, We wonder they have not thonght of a Third avenue car. Thus we learn how others see us. Prime donne in Europe would seem to divide their time between the law courts and the green room, for we are told that both Nilsson and Lucca have suits on hand. Thus, with some new pieces and much ball- room brilliance, the world of Paris hops along. London sotiety is just now spreading its gossamer wings for the season, and our cor- respondent gives us a sketch of the field over which they will flutter. Society must have gossip, but in London it does not nedd the same fantastic materials that would be re- quired to furnish forth a conversazione in a Parisian salon, The nearest approach to un- substantiality among its present topics is whether Victoria shall be Empress of India as well as Queen of England. Disraeli’s weproof of the cynical Lowe for daring to suggest that India one day may not be British will be discussed with becoming English gravity; but we cannot expect the drawing rooms to be equally penetrated with the exquisite sarcasm of white-browed Rob- ert’s query in the same debate:—‘Defender of the Faith! What faith?” Parisian so- ciety would go wild over it, and Charivari wonld picture Buddha, Brahma and Mo- hammed, each claiming the Christian Queen's protection. Then we have the Eastern question and the Suez Canal business, as seen in the British metropolis. Minister Schenck again poses as Samson Agonistes, hoisting forever the empty bucket of the Little Emma mine, with his diplo- matic eyes out, a sad picture for all time. We hear of ‘‘Anne Boleyn” being cut down by the managerial scissors, as the poor Qneen herself was by the headsman. Mr. Irving has given Othello with little satisfaction, and finally England is seen under an Ameri- can spell—on the stage, the platform and in the varlor The Charities of York. Among the wisest and wittiest sayings of Jeremy Bentham is his observation that “boards are fences.” Behind these great screens all individual responsibility seems to be lost, and none can be called upon to answer for corporate culpability. We have before us the last annual report of the Visiting Committee of the State Chari- ties Aid Association, which was instituted under an act of the Legislature of May 21, 1873. The ladies, numbering nearly eighty, who make up these visiting commit- tees, have performed their unlovely work with such minuteness, fidelity and intelli- gence as to give grounds for hope that in time the great barrier of official indifference may be overcome. The report embraces full details of all the charitable institutions under the charge of the city government, and, while it admits that within the past year many important reforms have been effected in cleanliness, ventilation and nursing, these reforms seem to have been spasmodic and only maintained with great difficulty. The Visiting Committee to Bellevue Hospital found that institution not only withont soap for two weeks at a time, but without adequate supplies of necessi- ties; for instance, a total absence of ice where special diseases required its use, short rations to the wards, eggs for special diet boiled in the tea, great scarcity of proper surgical instruments, hot water dif- ficult to obtain and none in the wards at night—in short, a loose, hand to mouth method of employing the appropriations. It is pleasant to find in this miserable picture that in the nine wards allotted to the Training School for Nurses the sys- tem is perfect and that the rule of the War- den is just, impartial and productive of good discipline, In the Charity Hospital, the epileptic and paralytic pavilions and the Park Re- ception Hospital the same false principles and defective administration obtain ina greater or less degree, the same inadequate supplies and absence of all system or even of any standard of decency. The criminals who perform the manual labor steal the clothing, the air of the close and foul cellars is heated and supplied to the wards, while in the Charity Hospital the overcrowding was such that five patients were found in two beds, and many other instances of the kind are cited. The epileptic and paralytic pavilions appear to be chambers of horrors, although the pavilion for typhoid and other fevers shines out as comfortable, airy, clean and well managed by a good nurse, The Park Reception Hos- pital is fortunately closed, after a manage- ment that would reflect shame on Hot- tentots. The whole report is summed up in the | following concluding paragraph:—‘The con- clusion to which your committee is brought by its experience in the hospitals is that, while the utmost parsimony is practised in the kind and amountof material and provisions supplied, the discipline is so lax that the responsibility for any deficiency is hard to fix. If, instead of keeping all supplies at the lowest ebb, those in authority would furnish them according to certain fixed and established rules, and not only place the responsibility but enforce it in the proper quarters, exacting a high stand- ard of cleanliness and order from patients and employés alike, it would, as we believe, prove economical in the end by checking waste and theft, and it would also infinitely raise the moral tone of the institutions and tend to teach and reform their ignorant and often degraded inmates.” The committee, at the same time, bear testimony to the courteous manner in which the Commissioners listen to their representa- tions, and express their belief that, while the Board are honestly desirous to effect im- provements, they are hampered by a system fastened upon them by tradition and by maladministration in higher places; but before such radical changes can be effected in our costly and ill-managed institutions great and sweeping reforms must-take place. There is one crying evil which should cease to exist at once, and which is probably the great keynote to the whole neglect and wrong described in the report—it is the present reckless and guilty system of politi- cal appointments. Let that system be abolished and each department be adminis- tered by responsible heads, and all other evils would vanish in its train. It requires, however, very strong influences to accom- plish this. Visiting committees can report, but they cannot abate nuisances or change laws, Their influence, therefore, though great, must remain purely a moral one. Blackmailing. ‘The letter addressed tous by Mr. Laning, of Buffalo, which we printed the other day, in reference to the issue of a hundred thou- sand dollars’ worth of stock in a bell punch company to Mr. Henry Richmond, to be dis- tributed between the Times, Tribune and Herat, has not been explained. The own- ers of the bell punch franchise claim that Mr. Richmond received the stock and never delivered it, and we were asked by Mr. Laning to say whether or not the Hrratp had received its share. We repeat the reply wethen made, that ifany one claiming to rep- resent the Heratp received any shares trom Mr. Richmond the person is a swindler. We said also, what we now repeat, that it seemed odd for the clients of Mr. Laning to form a company to prevent car conductors from cheating and at the same time use the stock for bribing the newspapers. For the whole transaction is bribery or an attempt at bribery. ‘ We have no doubt that Mr. Henry Rich- mond will be only too glad to explain what he | did with the stock, He is a reputable gen- | tleman, and not one we would deem guilty | of anything disreputable. This business of | blackmailing strikes at the very foundation of the press. We have much more to fear | from that than from any repressive laws. Newspapers have grown so large, and their management requires so many persons, that there are a hundred unseen chances of black- mail in all offices, There is not an editor in New York whose interest is not to suppress the whole business; because we will do our profession the justice to say that there is not one among them who would not have sent Richmond and pis bell punch gertificates ways anxious fora trade, who lack in all sense of editorial dignity, aud would be only too glad to intergperse the editorial page with puffs if they were paid. ‘Then there are “bummers” about the press—vagabonds and adventurers who care nothing for honor. ‘The bell punch stock may have gone in this direction. Butin the m Mr. Rich- mond has a splendid opportunity of making full explanation, and we niay be enabled thereby to put our hands on the scamps who have been selling out the Times, Tribune and Hunan. Pulpit Toptes. Two of our Brooklyn pastors will address the Order of United American Mechanics to- day—Revs. W. ©. Steele and 8. H. Platt—on the religious character of this Republic and the danger that threatens it from Roman Catholic influences. Mr. Clarke will tell his people how they may be saved, and Mr. Lloyd will take the man who wanted to be saved in his chariot as an example for others who are trying to serve Christ without leav- ing chariots and every other worldly influ- ence behind. As Lent draws near Mr. Brooks will show the importance of special seasons and agencies of devotion, and in view of the revival services now so generally carried on Mr. Leavell will urge his hearers to seize the opportunity to be saved ; Mr. Rowell will demonstrate that the salvation offered in the Gospel is an uttermost salva- tion and one that, according to Mr. Phelps, makes the dry bones live spiritually, and in that respect is, as Mr. Hepworth be- lieves, very like an Old Testament re- vival. Mr. Johns takes the burning bush as an emblem of the Church on fire, and when it is thus ignited souls will be saved easily and in great numbers, or brought to Christ, as Mr. Jutten puts it. But Mr. Sankey’s singing plays as important a part in the evangelists’ services as Mr. Moody's preach- ing, and Dr. Rylance will take a broad view of the value of music in worship and in life, and show its influence upon both, Mr. Greene will urge his hearers to invite Christ to their homes and will picture what happy homes He will make them, and Mr. Merritt will state the price of human redemption. Dr, Ewer makes a special plea for the seventh gift of the Holy Ghost—holy fear—and Dr. Armitage explains the symbolic meaning of the meat offering of the Temple. Mr. Bon- ham will give an account of the great revival in the Church of England, and Dr. Schere- schewsky will describe the growth of Chris- tianity in China. Dr. McKim will compare the functions of the Hebrew prophet and the Christian preacher, and show whetein they agree and wherein they differ. Mr. McCarthy does not like the promiscuous blending of the names of Jesus and Satan by Mr. Moody, and he will undertake to prove it unscrip- tural. Mr. Seitz will show that pain is a means of culture. Dr. Caldwell will de- scribe the place of Baptists in the history of religious liberty, and Mr. Giles will explain away the Scripture narrative of the temptation and fall by showing that the serpent referred to in that narrative means the sensual principle in man and the woman was his self-love. So that after all we are wrong in supposing that there was “a woman in the case” or a serpent either, and a very little step further will.do away with the man also, and then there will be no need of temptation or fall. These two principles, Mr. Giles thinks, caused man to arrogate as self-derived his life and faculties, which are from God alone. And this constituted the fall, which was not a sudden, but a gradual process, extending over ages. Bishop Snow, too, has a theory which will explain the new heaven and the new earth and will give choice lots to all applicants. ' Theories are great ; anything can be proved by them. A Suggestion for the Horse Railroads. Itisavery weak argument against com- pelling the horse railroads to provide every passenger with a seat and furnish sufficient accommodation for the business of the com- panies to insist upon the right to stand up in the street cars, and it is still greater folly to declare that these things cannot be done. Cars can be constructed so as to afford seats for twice as many persons as are now seated, and this would go far to obviate the diffi- culty. Besides, the accommodations can be vastly increased by changing the plan of running the cars. Now there are none ex- cept through cars—that is to say, that all the cars which go to Harlem Bridge, for instance, run through to and from the ‘City Hall. Much of the difficulty in the way of providing passengers with seats would be obviated if in addition to the through cars a turnout or way system was adopted. There is no reason why a line of cars should not be run between Sixty- fifth street and Harlem. Another line on the Third avenue road can be run between the depot and Cooper Institute and a third line between Cooper Institute, and the new Post Office. The plan would greatly increase the facilities of the road without increasing the number of cars in an equal ratio, and way passengers would have some chante to find seats. As it is, a seat can only be ob- tained at the beginning of the trip, especially in the mornings and evenings. The Third avenue road is the best on which to try the turnout experiment, and if it is attempted we are sure it will have the very best results, Tae Panis Orrice or tue Heraty.—Else- where, this morning, we reproduce a list of the newspapers now on file in the Paris office of the New York Henarp, This list em- braces journals not only from every part of America but from every part of the world. The American abroad will find at our Paris office not only the journal of his home, but journals from every part of Europe. The advantage of this is that the American abroad finds a home in the Hznaxp office. The site of our Paris bureau is central, near the great boulevards, No. 61 Avenue de l’Opéra, in the heart of the most splendid and most famous sections of the magnificenteity. The success of this experiment is exceedingly gratifying, not only as a depot for the gather- ing of news, but as an exchange where our friends abroad can meet at all times and in- terchange those pleasant personal courtesies which give life and animation to a resi- danoe in foreign lands If ever a poor, innocent word, whose com- posite career, hitherto quiet and unobtra- sive, has been misused it is the one now rapidly becoming hateful to us—‘‘Centen- nial.” Last year faint mutterings of the approaching tempest were heard, the first fateful tremors of the coming avalanche were scarcely concealed; but now the storm has broken in all its fury. Unoffending citizens are required to purchase Centennial matches; a bold, bad bootblack offers a Centennial “shine;” in fact, everything, from the prize saddle of mutton down to the humble but succulent buckwheat cake must be dubbed Centennial as an additional source of attrac- tion. Until the breaking out of the present fitful fever the poor word has done respecta- ble duty as representing the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of some author or scientist of eminence, such as Burns, Sir Walter Scott or Humboldt; but now it is employed to round sentences and decorate conversation with the most unde- served cruelty. ‘ Newspapers of large or small circulation are obliged to keep the wretched word standing in type of every size, from prominent large pica to modest nonpareil, to meet emergen- cies; while every lady or gentleman of respect- able standing in society sees his or her name advertised as on some Centennial committee, either for balls, tableaux, private theatricals, kettledrums, Lady Washington tea parties, or the banner—in short, we have all gone for the time centennially mad in some form or other. Meanwhile, and during this temporary patriotic lunacy, it is interesting to inquire what is to become of the long list of private charitable institutions existing in this city. Numbering nearly one hundred and sixty, a few of which only receive an annual small contribution from the municipal ap-, portionment of loaves and fishes, these, for the most part admirable in- stitutions, have depended upon Private, support, and the funds for their continuance have been hitherto largely drawn from the winter amusements and entertainments which they have created and which this sea- son have been so largely appropriated by the Centennial craze. We do not propose in this place to criticise the value of these institutions or even to suggest the increased importance and strength that they would gain bya consolidation of their powers of doing good. Perhaps it would be a very difficult enterprise to bring about; but “L'union fait la force” is a good motto and represents a world of truth. -We would suggest that the only way to supply the coming deficiency to the private charities of the city is to impose a social tax, so that everywhere that people are socially or convivially gathered together a good, round fine be paid upon the spot by any one making reckless use of the word ‘Centen- nial,” to be properly applied to the hapless institutions we have mentioned. So shall sweet charity revive and flourish in our midst, and the hearts of the poor widows, orphans, cripples and other objects of public pity be made to sing for joy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Henry Watterson is very sick. England has 372 equipped field cannon, A decoction of seaweed reduces fatness. ‘The study af botany cured the idiocy of Ampere, A London fog is now called a pea soup atmosphere. In London the births exceed the deaths as two to one, The last census shows that 9,000,000 Poles comb their bair over back. Miss Frances Power Cobbe says that the age of real art bas gone by. Hon. Proctor Knott looks like a fat parson with pink cheeks and a white mustache, Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is going South, All wise politicians are going South. fi For a man who always thinks he is going to die soon Mr. Beecher hangs on pretty well. ‘ Maine’s lumbermen suffer from depression in the building trade and from want of snow. A postal card poet sends this Tennysonian rhyme;— To ear eaty great precedent may we fast and long And spura altke third term and third termer Conkling A jewel, which was formerly in the possession of the Diamond Duke, Charles of Brunswick, has been sold to the Emperor of Brazil for 85,000f, This gem isa ruby of rare value, General Jack Logan’s new play will be entitled, “When in Doubt Take the Triek.”” General Logan bim- self will appear as the knave, and sing, ‘‘Hoid the ace, for I am coming.” % ow. W. W.) eings, illogically:— Nail to the mast a name without a stain; Proudly aloft our banner swil For the only man who can beat Blaine Is the nation’s pride—our Conkling. A social philosopher has discovered that mon fill up all the window ends of seats in railroad cars; not because they are swine, but because they want to keep husbands and wives from sitting together. This thoughtfulness of seat-grabbers is purely American, ‘The Duke of Westminster writes appealing to Lon- don for subscriptions for the Association for Nursing the Sick Poor. It is proposed to form nursing districts and in each district to establish a district home, coms taining a staff of fuily trained nurses under a superine tendent. Virginia City, Nev., bas thirty-eight gambling hetlx, Senator Jones is no longer the silver-tongued; but he sits tossing a white-swaddied baby on his knee, and sings:— bs Tutfolari, tutfolee, Tutfolari, twang. The Memphis Avalanche spitefully says:—‘‘It may as well be understood that politically the South is of much more importance to the Holmans, Coxes and Randalls than they can possibly be to the South, and, aside from political considerations, they care nothing for this section.” Deaeon C., of New Jersey, furnishes bread for com- munion service in his charch. He saves the dice-hke bits that remain when the sacrament is over. The other day, while the communion bread plate was pasa. sng, bis little son said, “Ma, they aro taking quite a good Jeal, and you was goin’ to have bread pudden te morrow. Ain’t they mean?’ * «ytike’’ sends the ae ova ‘i the pious monk To praiee tuoct ised for Bossce Conkling” Senator, Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, and Con. gressman Chester W. Chapin, of Massachusetts, aro at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. From all over the country comes news of dangor to women patients who are subject to low bred, bratay keepers in insano asylums. Mr, Sanborn, who ig usually apt to jump at conclusions when he does not fully anderstand facts, seems in the Massachusetts case to be altogether right as to facts and conclusiona This subject is one of the first in the country in importance, ‘M. Dumas ts tall, etalwart, very pale, and his first aspect is proud, cold, stern and a little defiant, But he quickly thaws, and shows himself the most {fascinating of causeurs. He is gay, cordial, vivacious and simple, full of anecdote, wit and laughter. He seems to wear bis heart upon his sleeve, and to hear his conversation is like drinking champagne of a fine vintage. Bilow seys:—‘‘While I have been giving concerts L bave neviced one thing—that the people who came te hear me ame not only for the love of music, but te Toceive jpstrugtion in the art of music, lama keeg observer of my audiences, 1 see the ladies so intently watehing my execution, some with the score with them and following me, and all of them evidently we tending to prodt Uy Wye geslormanoe”