The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1876, Page 8

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Tae Great Anr Fesrivar just held in the Bavarian capital is the subject # an interest- Ing letter from our correspondent at Munich. The costumes of past ages were reproduced, and especial splendor was displayed in a living representation of the marriage of Charles V. A Coyrsst for an estate worth one million five hundred thousand dollars is now pend- ing in the courts. There are serious charges of fraud in relatiom to the will of the late Mr. Eldridge, and the vast amount involved will attract much attention to the investiga-_ tion to be made. Tur Dancers or Tur Sea have been illus- trated, happily without loss of life or prop- | erty, by the breaking of the propeller blades | of the steamer California. The vessel was on her way to New York when the accident dis- abled her, and was fortunately within reach of assistance. If this disaster had occurred {n mid-ocean we might have had to record the California as among the missing ships of which tidings never reach us. A Fatauiy Destructive Laxpsiir occur- red on Friday night at Caut, a small town on the Rhine, and killed twenty-six persons, The heavy rains which have latterly been prevailing in Europe have so completely | saturated the soil that where the angle of | slipping is at all exceeded there is great | danger. Many of the Rhine villages are | built at the feet of steep mountain slopes, and it is a matter of surprise that these land- Blides are not of more frequent occurrence. A Specran Canter Desparcu From Bupa- Pestu, on the Danube, informs us of the | flestruction of five hundred and twenty-one houses in five small townships along the river from the sapping and softening action | of the floods on their walls and foundations. | The destruction of houses in Pesth alone | from this cause is immense, and it is to be | feared that even the best built portions of | the city will be reduced to ruin if the floods continue. Thecomplete submergence of the large island of Czepel, with its five villages, is a calamity almost unparalleled in the his- tory of river inundations, and will create fearful distress among the inhabitants. To add to the general depression produced by the floods there is danger of a famine in the desolated districts, over four hundred square miles of winter corn having been en- | tirely destroyed by the floods. | Tar Usvsvarty Disasrnovs Storm which | struck the town of Hazel Green, Wis., on the afternoon of Friday has caused a sad loss of life, besides levelling a part of the town, The immediate cause of the dis- turbance was the northward movement of an area of high temperature as far as Milwau- kee, evidently due to the pressure of a high barometer, accompanied by an exceedingly low temperature in the Gulf States. On Thursday the temperature at St. Marks, Fla., was only forty-nine degrees, while at &t. Louis, Mo., it was fifty-five degrees. On Friday the temperature in Chicago was only me degree below that of St. Marks, wing fifty-two degrees. Yesterday Chicago yad a temperature of sixty-four degrees to wmly fifty-one at St. Marks. A volume of tighly heated air was thus enclosed by the | wo volumes of cold air and a tornado renerated, which took a general easterly di- | ction. The conditions are favorable for a | tepetition of the storm in the region of the lakes, - | a bachelor and an exceedingly careful man- False Economy—Saving at the Wrong | End. We accept the doctrine that in the admin- | istration of all of our affairs, local as well as | | national, the time has come for economy. Ever since the close of the war we have seen | that with the sinking in all values there | would be a sinking in the wages of labor, in | the cost of living, and a return to the econ- omy and thrift of the past. A war brings | many things in its train, but nothing in so | marked a degree as the tendency to extrava- | gant living. This, of course, affects all | classes, the humblest as well as the highest. We saw it in France after the madness of the imperial times; in England after the Water- loo triumphs; in Germany even after the victories over France. In America we have never heen a careful people. The opportu- nities for gaining wealth, for recovering from | financial disasters in a country of silver and gold and coal and petroleum, are so many | that poverty is a matter of ill-luck. The | millionnaire of to-day was most likely bank- rupt yesterday, just as the bankrupt of to- day may be the “big bonanza” to-morrow. In the long run, however, the fortune that | comes from petroleum, shoddy and bonanza mining shares is apt to go as rapidly as it came. The habits remain, and one of the first duties of a people emerging from a long war is to recover from the habits of wasteful living inseparable from the ex- | penditure of vast sums of money. Whatever looks like economy in the ad- | ministration of our affairs will meet with the approval of the people. But we must not | make a mistake in our endeavors to reform. The first principle of all service is that the laborer is worthy his hire. A badly paid workman will do bad work. Enthusiasm may dosomething in encouraging a laborer to excel. But enthusiasm is not apt to last long it the rate of compensation interferes with the laborer’s self-respect. Self-respect can never be maintained when laborers are stinted to a beggarly pittance. As in private affairs badly paid work is not worth its money, so in public life small salaries are only so many temptations to corruption. ‘Two results will follow from such a policy— corruption or the limiting of office toa small, rich and favored class. The President is reported as saying that he did not intend to appoint any one to his Cabinet who did not have a large fortune. What he meant was that the demands upon the Cabinet Min- ister who cared anything for the dignity of his place were so large that no one could meet them without a good income outside of his salary. In the present Cabinet there are several Ministers who have fortunes. The Secretary of State is known to have a large fortune. The Postmaster General and the Secretary of the Interior are each of them very rich as the result of success in trade. The Attorney General has a moderate for- tune. We do not know how it is with the | Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Navy or the new Secretary of War. Neither of them has the reputation of pos- sessing more than moderate fortunes, while the President himself has never been what we would call rich. Our Presidents, as a general thing, have not been poor. Wash- ington, we believe, was the richest man in America in his day, excepting, perhaps, one orit may be two New England merchants who had amassed great fortunes out of the Indian trade. Washington's wealth enabled him to serve through: the Revolution without accepting from the young and poor confederacy more than his actual expenses. Adams was in good circumstances for his time, and his for- tune was shared and partly inherited by his prudent and gifted son. Jefferson and Mad- ison were rich in lands, but they were hos- pitable men who took no care of their means. Jefferson died in poverty. Monroe received a great deal of money from the government in various ways, but he died almost in want. Jackson had the estate and income of a planter in moderate circumstances, but he became poor as he grew old and had to bor- row money from Blair. Tyler, Harrison, Taylor and Van Buren were in good circum- stances. Fillmore and Pierce had fair in- comes. Lincoln had a fine practice, the savings from which he had carefully hus- banded. Johnson was moderately well off, as was seen when the banking house in which he invested most of his money failed. Buchanan was in the enjoyment of what for ager was a reasonable fortune. We should think that the presents to General Grant in houses, money and so on, as well as his of a quarter of a million of dollars when he | entered upon the Presidential office. But with the exception of Washington, and it | English nobility are tethered, | i A | gardener's” wife. | savings in the army, gave him the best part | may be the second Adams, none of our Pres- idents have been what even in their own | times would have been called rich men. Hl Therefore the rule that only rich men | should aspire to the high offices of the coun- | try would have ruled out & large part of the | eminent citizens who have been called on to | hold the highest office in the gift of the peo- | ple. It would bean unfortunate principle to adopt either in the nomination of candi- | dates for the Presidency or the selection of officials for the Cabinet. j Nothing could be further from the genius | of our institutions than that only those | should be chosen to serve the people who are able to spend more than their salaries in | entertainment. In England and in France | it is different, especially in England. In the | first place, the English pay much larger sala- | ries than we do to the really competent men | who control the government. The English system of allowing large pensions to those | who hold the high offices of the State is a } salutary one, More than all, the governing class in England is composed of some of the | richest families in the world. Lord Derby, | the Marquis of Hartington and others in | both parties belong to the richest houses in | the Kingdom. They have been trained for | the public service. Their wealth comes down to them from ancestors whose estates represent the beneficence of princes | who rewarded loyal service by royal | gifts. But with us this cannot be, | and it is well that it should not be. What we need in our public life is merit and not money. In order that we may havea high class has high social and other responsibilities and found that the salary of the office would not permit him to live with the “dignity” of a Secretary. That may be a false pride, but it is human after all, and something is due to the self-respect of the people who do not like to see their officers in poverty and want. The way to ‘prevent this is to pay our public servants not only enough to enable them to live like gentlemen, but to put something away forthe rainy day. Public life inter- rupts a professional and business career. When a man has been in office for some years he has either lost the opportunity or the taste for a profession ora trade. And in asking capable citizens to take these places we have no right to ask them to sacrifice what is due to themselves and _ their families—namely, the means of living well and saving something for the future. Therefore we are far from approving the sweeping character of the bill now before the Legislature in reference to reducing the sal- aries of our city officers, Instead of cutting down all salaries indiscriminately let there be a reduction in some of the unnecessary offices with which this city abounds. The Mayor should not be reduced nor should the judges be touched. We cannot pay a good judge a small salary without opening the way to temptations which should never be allowed to approach the Bench. There isno judge in New York who receives too large a salary. Our judges leave the practice of the Bar for years, practically for life, under the new amendments to the constitution, and they should receive some compensation for this sacrifice. As to the minor offices, it would be much better to reduce them one- half, consolidate the unnecessary ones, and keep those who are in office at their present rate of compensation. If there is to be economy let it be at the ex- pense of the richly paid offices like the Sheriff, the County Clerk and the Register. Here are three offices whose incumbents re- ceive all told, we think, in the neighborhood of two hundred thousand dollars. a year. Why should not these vast sums that are paid as ‘‘fees” be turned in to the city? Why should not the office of Sheriff, which has become with us, as with others, a great abuse, be curtailed of a part of its revenue, even as the government has curtailed the fees of the great offices at the Custom House ? Then let there be a cutting down in the num- ber of “assistants” and ‘‘clerks” and ‘bu- reaus” which swarm around the Law De- partment of the city government. © This is the true way to insure economy; not to pinch and scrimp the really necessary servants, but abolish all that are not necessary and pay the rest ample value for their services. Our Letter. Queen Victoria has evidently laid aside her veil of sorrow and is determined to show her face to her subjects at least as often as she was wont to appear in public during the life of the Prince Consort. Her progress to the east end of London to open the new wing of a hospital furnished striking evi- dence of the loyalty of the poorer millions of her subjects. They shouted themselves hoarse and crushed each other until bones broke in her honor, thus giving loyal in- mates to the new hospital wing she had opened. A royal pageant in London seems as necessarily fatal to the teeming millions of onlookers as the progress of the car of Juggernaut. The entry of Princess Alexan- dra into London and the illuminations in honor of her marriage with the Prince of Wales were marked by the loss of a great many loyal _ lives and the frac- ture of thousands: of loyal bones. As explosive American patriotism has a number of young lives annually sacrificed on its altar we should not, perhaps, blame the English mob for making the most of a chance to be royally crushed to death that only recurs every five or ten years. When the Queen is proclaimed Empress, as she soon will be, this desire to meet a luxurious death may assume larger proportions. Our correspondent has information that an amnesty will be extended to the Fenian prisoners when the imperial proclama- tion is made, and thus even the Irish irreconcilables will have cause to re- joice. Defections to Rome among the- however inauspiciously, with a scandal relating to an unnamed lady of title; but remembering that costly dessert in the Garden of Eden we may be saddened but not astounded that one don Ca | of Eve's daughters has gone a step further in the transgressor’s road than the “grand old Pedestrianism in high life and a grand polo match at Berlin are among the sporting foreshadowings of our corre- spondence, “Rue Brrrannra” has been sung to some purpose by the commander of the British ship-of-war Barracouta in the affair of the forcible seizure of the armed schooner Peer- less at Upolu, one of the Samoan group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, It appears that Colonel Steinberger, bearing a commis- sion from the United States government, had purchased the vessel for the Samoan govern- ment and converted her into a transport- of-war. This action was deemed irregular by the British captain, and after consulta- tion with the American and British consuls he, with their concurrence, seized the Peer- less, and after being dismantled she was sold by the American Consul. Steinberger has, evidently, been trying to found a govern- ment of his own in the Samoan Islands, a political movement which will not be tole- rated by Her Majesty's representatives. The legitimate authority of the foreign consuls has been set aside by the progressive natives ; but the British navy is equal to the terrible emergency, and has nipped in the buda revolution that might have upset creation. We would like to hear the opinion of Mr. Fish on the subject. Tue Avxaxysis of the matter supposed to be flesh, and which was showered on the soil of Kentucky, would go to prove that it is the gelatinous substance of the spawn of batrachian reptiles, or, in other words, of frogs. The disappointed Kentuckians will doubtless be disgusted at this destruction of their champion mystery. From buffalo humps and venison cutlets to frog spawn! “Oh, what a fall was there, my country- of merit we must pay our good men good | men!" But until further details we are in- salaries. If there could be an extenuation clined to stand by our published opinion for the infamy of a Belknap it would be | regarding the nature of the substance, which found in the fact that he took a place which may be summed up in one word—*‘worms,” Savings Banks Robberies. Few crimes known to our laws are equal in their consequences—in the extent of mis- ery they cause—to those offences of savings banks officers by which all the little econo- mies of thousands of poor people are taken from them at a stroke. No forgery that draws a few thousand dollars from a plethoric safe ; no burglary that impoyerishes a jeweller ; no gigantic robbery of an express company ; no ordinary crime is morally comparable to the villany that filches the pittances on which poor men and poorer women hope to face a rainy day or to found endeavors to better their condition. Despair is spread broadcast by such acts ; epdeavor is discour- aged, children are sent out to beggary, star- vation, vice, drunkenness, theft, murder come in the train of the consequences of this yillany. But for forgery, burglary, robbery— for any one of these it is easy to put men in prison for half a lifetime, and for the crimes of bank presidents and bank cashiers our law, it seems, has no penalties. William A. Darling and Spencer K. Green, two men presumably responsible for the administra- tion of a savings bank when one of these monstrous villanies was perpetrated, have just been discharged from custody be- deal cause there is no means to with their offence, which certainly im- plies either a great defect in ‘our law or greater defects in the authorities charged with the prosecution of offenders. There are evident difficulties in any case when a violated trust is the first fact, and because of these difficulties the persons who prosecuted for the depositors seem to have taken hold, noton the most important aspect of the case, but wherever they could find gn act that wasa crime. They thought they had found this in an evidently false report, which, by statute, seemed to expose the offi- cers to punishment for perjury. But the statute in virtue of which false swearing to a report wag perjury has been repealed, and if this kind of false swearing is perjury at common law there seems to be some diffi- culty, so the robbers go free; for the time that was lost in this false pursuit has brought into effect in their favor the statute of limitations. Such a miscarriage of jus- tice is to be regretted for at least two impor- tant reasons—it discourages people from de« positing in the savings banks, and thus tends to lessen greatly the amount of availa- ble capital, and it leads to acts of violence, forsome outraged depositor who finds the law ineffective and is acquainted with the persons of these delinquents may take justice into his own hands. Religious Press Topics. Three leading topics command the atten- tion of the religious press this week. These are the Plymouth Advisory Council, the smash-up in the Cabinet at Washington and the Purim festival. The Jewish press treat the latter in its benevolent and in its humor- ous aspects, at the same time declaring, as the Hebrew Leader does, that the Haman spirit still exjsts and has lost none of its vigor. It crops out in everyday life, despite the progressive spirit of the age. The popu- larity of the festival is accounted for by the Messenger by the custom of mirth-making and giving presents to the poor, which is very largely done on this occasion; and with- out the last named feature the Times thinks there would not be much merriment. In- ‘| deed, there could not be, it says, so long as thousands of their brethren were suffering for lack of the common necessaries of life. The Advisory Council’s secret history has a little light thrown on it by the Christian Union, which tells us that the Council was not chosen by Mr. Beecher nor by Plymouth church, but by two clergymen of this vicin- ity, who undertook the work at the request of Mr. Beecher. Of the two hundred and thirty-seven delegates seventy-five came with strong prejudices against Plymouth church and its pastor. The final report was twice discussed, amended and recommitted tothe committee of nine, and then to a fresh committee of nine; and its present features are the result of at least fifty minds. Its work was thorough and the body was thoroughly harmonious, though differing widely in thought and in interpretation, and its spirit was emphatically one of prayer. The Evangelist thinks the Council only further entangled the whole of this ex- traordinary case, which involves such mo- mentous consequences to the peace, the purity and the prosperity of so many Christian churches. The Evangelist presses the hope that the commission ap- pointed by the Council or Plymouth church may yet unravel the dread secret, if there be one, and fully acquit Mr. Beecher. The Observer is surprised and sorry that Plymouth church should have declined Mr. Bowen's offer to reveal the bottom facts in this mysterious case. But if the church and Mr. Beecher now desire to get at those facts they have only to indict Mr. Bowen for slander, says the Observer, and the whole thing will be revealed. The Northwestern Christian Advocate regrets the character of the Council, whose results ave, on the whole, favorable to Mr. Beecher; but it thinks the end is not yet. The smash-up in the Cabinet, or the Wash- ington shame, as the Independent calls it, is also discussed by that and other journals in very condemnatory language. The Indepen- dent doubts if the fathers of our nation would ever have given to its capital the pure name of Washington if they could have foreseen the disgrace which now eclipses its: honor. But it is glad of the exposure, and says it will be a blessing if the downfall of one leader of fashion leads to some little return to repub- lican simplicity. The lesson to be learned is the oft-repeated one that the way of the transgressor, whether in public or private life, ex- is hard. And we are glad of it. The Baptist | Weekly draws it mildly for Mr. Belknap, The whole sad story, the Weekly thinks, is only a new echo to the warning, ‘Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall,” and another illustration of the Scrip- ture, “Be sure your sin will find you out.” The Freeman's Journal, with a logic peculiarly its own, charges ‘the breakdown in Grant's Cabinet to the influence of Protestantism and the public | schools. It fails to point out the relation of cause and effect or the connection between religion and education and dishonesty. It should have completed its arraignment and made it clear, The Christian Intelligencer la~ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAKUH 12, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ments the apparent decline of conseientious- ness among all classes of the people, but | especially in the higher circles of society. Belknap stifled conscience and fell, and the wreck is fatal. But happy will it be for the people, says the Intelligencer, if they will but | heed this warning and give a good conscience room and sway. If such things had taken place in France or Spain, where the moral | sentiment is weak and corruption reigns in court and camp, the Christian at Work would not be surprised; but, occurring here, where better things were expected and hoped for, good men have to grieve over the sad revela- tions. The editor thinks the wonder is not so great that one man has fallen from the | giddy height which he attained at one jump, but that more have not fallen. He thinks promotion should advance from the lower to the higher positions, and that it should be | based on the integrity and fitness which the person may show in the lower positions, Our Paris Cable Letter. Aside from politics the French capital ap- pears to be making the best of the Lenten season. New plays, of no great consequence to dramatic art, itis true, have been pro- duced. The little uncomfortable Palais Royal Theatre rolls out its lawless fun all the year round, and with such a clever actor as Ravel once more on its boards it must do him the honor of a new piece for his rentrée. In matters musical we have for some weeks past noticed the name of that lively little prima donna Pauline Lucca appears in connection with lawsuits and flights and furtive nights of opera here and there. The persistent Gye, of Covent Garden, has succeeded in serving notice of a suit upon her at Vienna; but we shall be much surprised if that fact weighs heavily on the mind of the cantatrice. She has had legal difficulties about husbands whom she led through the divorce courts like children playing “tag ;’ she has “jumped” her engage- ments with a saucy nonchalance that made everybody but the managers laugh, and has treated with the latter from beyond the frontiers of their nations as regally as one of the high contracting parties in a high joint treaty. Her troubles seem as endless as her genius or her wilfulness, for now she threatens to become an international question, unless the French gallantry gets the better of French Prussophobia, Lucca is announced to appear in Meyerbeer's “L/Africaine,” at the Grand Opera, and it is feared that because she once was or is now the wife of a Prussian officer the Parisian public cannot listen to notes that may haye been as a trumpet blast to Bismarck and his helmeted legions. Lucca is undoubtedly a German, but she is also a genius, and the latter fact may plead in her favor, for the French are likely to think that the divine inspiration cannot burn in the veins of a German pur sang. A return to the classic in the domains of Dame Fashion may be only a sur- vival of the mad passion for the antique that came in with the Directory and went out with the First Empire; but, without seanting the covering material as ancient dames did on occasion, there is much of beauty that our pinned-back Venuses might copy from the oid, old times with advantage. The Bunium Bulbocastanum. The defenders of peanut eating in the horse cars outnumber, as our correspondents show, the opponents of the custom. We rejoice in this, as it shows that the public supports our theory that the street cars are not run for the convenience of ladies and gentlemen, but for the accommodation of peanut eaters and tobacco chewers. We now assert, from information which has come into our possession, and we challenge a refutation, that the principal directors of nearly every car company in the city hold stock in the peanut stands, and are interested in the maunfacture of tobacco, such as “Solace,” ‘‘Plug,” “Sunnyside,” “‘Nigger- head.” It is, therefore, their interest to en- courage peanut eating and tobacco spitting in the cars, and that is the reason they refuse to prevent these practices. The street car companies are so popular that every one wishes to see them prosper- ous. But there is another reason why pea- nut eating should be encouraged. Peanuts contain large quantities of phosphorus, and phosphorus, as everybody knows, is an ex- cellent brain food. Itstimulates the intellect. Now, a man whose brain is strong enough by nature does not need to eat peanuts. It follows that those people who eat peanuts in the street cars are aware that their brains are hungry for phosphorescent food, and are really eating peanuts in the hope of strength- ening their minds. When we see an idiot anxious to improve his mind it is cer- tainly not humane to attempt to bafile such a noble endeavor. Thus, when ati intelligent person sees a fellow being eat- ing peanuts ina car, although he may be annoyed by the. shells, he should think, “This man is plainly weak-minded. His reasoning powers are impaired. He is now eating peanuts by the advice of his physi- cian, Let us not interfere with the cure.” The peanut suffers from its vulgar name. But it would be more respected if it were called the Arachnis hypogeea, a leguminous plant. It is alsoan impressive fact, not gen- erally known, that it is the root of Bunium | bulbocastanum, an . umbelliferous plant, which is farinaceous, phosphoric, sweet and considered nourishing. A pint of peanuts may be a vulgar refreshment, but a pint of roasted Arachnis hypogoea deserves to be looked upon with respect. Pulpit Talks To-Day. “Where hast thou gleaned to-day?” was the query that Naomi put to her daughter- in-law Ruth when they both were plotting to secure a husband. The young widow had gleaned in the harvest fields of Boaz, whose wife she afterward became, and thither to- day, in imagination, Dr. Talmage will lead his people ; but whether to glean the harvest fields or to look for matrimonial companions he does not state. The national scandal is a faithful theme for press and pulpit, and if Mr. Steele can enforce as well as draw therefrom lessons on honesty in high places he will deserve the applause of the community. He is usually decided and outspoken in his utterances, and there- fore we may expect bold and blunt things to be said about the fallen Secretary and others SS ED, like him. If any one is anxious to know why Mr. Pullman is a Universalist he can be gratified this evening. If you want to know why men do not goto church Mr. Morgan will give you seventeen reasons why. Among them are extravagance, corruption, church duplicity and pulpit inefficiency. Christians who do not know their duty can inform them- selves from Mr. Herr, and those who want to know the value and influence of little things, and how Elijah fared at Horeb, will do well to attend on Mr. McCarthy's ministry. You who ex pect some day or other availing yourselves of the sin offering made forall to join the blood-washed throng and sing the song of the Lamb, but have not yet learned the first note of that song, can do so to-day from the lips of Dr. Armitage. And if you would know how much personal effort is required to obtain eternal life for yourselves or for others Mr. Rowell will enlighten you. Ex- periences in this life are bitter and sweet, and they often pass from one to the other, Just how they do change differs with the ex- periences of every individual, and Mr, Nicholas may indicate how some of ‘those changes from sweet to bitter, or vice versa, are effected. What are the evidences of the new birth? They are of two kinds—posi- tive and negative, objective and subjec- tive. Mr. Leavell will explain what they are and how a man may know tliat he is born again and is a new creature in Christ Jesus. The question of importance above all others will be put by Mr. Gifford, whe will receive the entries of those who desire to run the Christian race and be, with Mr. Hepworth, saved from lions and experience the joys of the new creation. The wonder- ful prophecy of Zechariah, which the doctors of divinity cannot explain, will be made as clear as a sunbeam by Mr. Snow, and the curse that was pronounced against Adam will be explained or explained away by Mr. Giles, and the inquiry will be started by Mr, Mulford, ‘‘When did old-fashioned honesty exist—if it ever did?” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Taft is a six footer. Secretary Taft is a Yale fellow well met, Shelley’s father allowed him $5,000 a year, The Japanese ministers have reached the Eart. Boston art sales flourish in spite of hard times, ‘Wages are lower in New England than in tho West. Boston ‘“‘personal:’’—There are 508,000 beans in ¢ barrel. ‘The Jast Asiatic steamer brought 531 Chinese into thi. country. A Hunt county (Texas) baby’s mother is thirteet years old, Blanchard Jerrold is not dangerously ill, but is rest ing from work. Mr. Bagehot compares a financial panic with an at tack of neuralgia. Jere Black has accepted the invitation to become ont of Belknap's counsel. A scheme is on foot to remove the Omaha army headquarters to Salt Lake City. Metternich always regarded Canning with aversion avd Palmerston with disdain. The Englist tenant farmers are beginning to rebel against the nomineeg of great landowners. Georgia papers defend “‘young men who loaf around town’? by saying that there is no work to do, The Detroit Free Press says that fat street car con- ductors in Brooklyn take up $50 worth of room, Disappomted emigrants returning from California ‘stop at Cheyenne and are beguiled into the Black Hills, ‘The Japanese, in order to give a natural effect te drawing room gardening, strew tallen leaves under the trees. Lonaon Punch :—({At a party)—He, “Shall we sit down?” She, “I should like to, but my dressmaker says I must not.”” In New Hampsbiro there is a musket which has Been heavily loaded with buckshot for 200 years. GetS. S, Cox to firerit off The Boston Journal thinks that mon ought to talk more about money to their wives. Wrong again, It's the other way. Rochester Democrat:—‘Dr. Mary Walker was never heard to swear but once, and that was when she got her pants on wrong side before.”” Genoral Sherman said wisely that each section ofthe country must have something to hate, and that the North hates Davis, while the South hates Butler. Picric acid, used in dyeing striped stockings, is s¢ poisonous as sometimes to produce death ; and it is now considered highly dangerous to walk on Union squara It takes a servant twice as long to bang the shove and scuttle, while putting coal on the grate, if you are trying to talk to somebody than if you are not, He does it for revenge. Paris, having decided that horseflesh is good to eat, consumed over 6,000 horses last year. It consumed also over 800 jackasses, Mr, Mcdill hastily decided ta postpone his European trip. A London physician defends vivisection on the score ot good to mankind, and even thinks some man might contribute his live body to be cut up. Ben Hill is usea to it, and there’s a chance for him, Mr. Price, an English economist, says that the ex- cess of gocds made above goods consumed 18 what may, without disaster, be applied to new undertakings’ This excess he defines as ‘*savings,”? In studying the Jaws of light, the Italian Dr. Ponza’ idea is that blue rays produce lunacy. About the time of this discovery an American physician noticed that Senator Ferry was jolly after seeing a blue-eyed girk President Cox of the London Psychological Society says that something in the odor of the parcel contain ing remains of Harriet Lane (murdered by Wainwright unconsciously affected the mind of the witness Stokes giving an undefinable impression which made hin imagine the words ‘open it.” ‘M, Taine writes:—‘‘A fixed idea is like the iron ror which the sculptors pat in their statues, It impae and sustains, A great man is absorbing because he tt absoroed.”” True; Belknap was used to absorbing eight or ten tumes a day, and now he’s absorbed. There ts pothing more beuutifal than one of these philosophical antitheses, if that is what you call them Murat Halstead says:—‘We congratulate the coun ‘ry that the element in the Cabinet ot which Bristow has been representative has been reinforced, Judge Taft will be placed at some disadvantage, owing to hit unfamiliarity with the details of the duties of his office but he has great zeal and capacity in work, and wil rapidly master the situation. ’” A Cincinnati writer for the Chicago Times says the in 1866 Hendricks, of Indiana, pledged his delegatior for both ’endieton and Hancock and at the last mo ment proved treacherous to each. This story aie to come from Colonel Woolley, who figured asa wit ness that would not peach in the Johnson impeachmen case. : Is it possible that the ‘shower of flesh” in Kentacky was from a flock of spirits who got fooling so mued with materializing that they couldn’t get all of them. selves back {nto the spirit state before their toes and fingers fell of? Or might there have been a prize fight in the moon and some fellow got knocked cloan over the side of the luminary and come down lke sausage meat? A French money lender complained to Baron Roths child that a nobleman to whom he had loaned 10,00¢ francs had gone off and left no acknowledgment of the debt, “Write him and ask him to send you immedtately the 70,000 francs he owes you,” said the wily banker, “But he only owes me 10,000 francs," said the money lender. “Precisely,”’ rejoined the Baron; “and he wil * write and tell you so, and you will thus get bis acknowl edgment,”” dJofferson Davis’ speech on the Mexican war to thr veterans at New Orleans was welcomed with great ap plause. The speech was almost wholly historical. The only sentiment indulged in was as follows:—“There was atime when to bea veteran of Mexico was t0 pos sess a passport throughout the land. It isnot for me to abuse the course of the government, butasth: © friend and comrade of these veterans to proclaim the Injustice of which they have been the yietima,”’