The New York Herald Newspaper, April 23, 1876, Page 10

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Tne News rnom Sourn Amenica is pacific, although a revolution is announced in Uru- guay, which has made some progress. In Bolivia, Peru and Chili the Presidential elections monopolize public attention. Quezs Vierorta has arrived in England after her Continental visit, and the conserva- tive party have just gained another vote in Parliament by the election of the tory candidate for Norfolk. The Queen goes to Windsor and Mr. Duff to Westminster, and the world continues to revolve as if nothing had happened. Tae Sznovs Disrursances rx Barnapos have assumed the aspect of a revolt and show evidenges of organization. In five parishes plundering and incendiarism are reported. It is probable that the outbreak \s similar to that which took place in Jamaica a few years ago, but which was suppressed with bloody vigor by Governor Eyre. Tue Drsastnovs Exrrosion or GuxpowDER in the railway tunnel in Glamorgan county, Wales, has resulted in terrible loss of life. Itis, we fear, almost useless to hope that this frightful example of evident careless- ness in storing and handling powder will exercise a restraining influence on those habitually guilty of want of cantion in the use of explosives in this Sona: Tse Revowvtion 1x Mexico continues to progress, but in what direction it is next to impossible to determine. It would seem, however, to be divided in its action as well as its leaders, and unless the national army is very weak or otherwise unreliable there is a probability of a Lerdist success in the end. The government has a status and a treasury, and, above all, an organization, while its op- carrying on the struggle. Tae Aarration IN Sraty was not termi- nated by the defeat and flight of Don Carlos. We learn that the people of the Basque Provinces are again exhibiting a desire to renew the struggle with the object of definitely separating from the mother country and throwing themselves on the protection of some foreign Power, probably France. It is hard for these war-wasted provinces to be compelled to bear the burden of taxation necessitated. by Treasury deficits at Madrid. The exam- ple of France asa flourishing Republic and separated from them only by a mountain chain must make them desirous of sharing her good fortune. *Patsce Bismanck’s Rarmoap Scuemn, by ee Pe ee eee NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1876—QUINTUPLE SHEET. What Shall Be Done with in Europe? In their dealings with the problems pre- sented by the condition of Turkey the great Powers in Europe make haste slowly. Oo- eupation of all the provinces north of the Balkan by the troops of Russia and Austria Turkey | is the objective point of the diplomatic game now on hand in the various capitals ; but the parties to the game, for reasons doubtless satisfactory to themselves, choose to contemplate the case as if such a conse- quence were to be deprecated or regarded with dismay. Russia, however, is rather | franker in this respect than her neighbors | and allies. She does not pretend to respect | the Ottoman Power, nor to believe that it can maintain itself or should be assisted and encouraged by Christian governments in its oppression of a Christian people. It is true Russia has two aspects in the case. She runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds. Rightly typified for once by her imperial eagle, she has one eye on the round of secular sovereignty and another on the emblem of Christian faith. In the con- fabulations of the diplomats she seems to recognize the Sultan’s rights as she might those of any other potentate, and to deal with them strictly on political grounds; but when she turns to the down-trodden. Slavs on the Danube she speaks like a crusader. Constantinople is the capital city of the Russian religion. Just as the Christian pecple of all countries in the ages before Luther turned their eyes to Rome, just as the Catholic people of every country still turn their eyes thither, so the Russian | people turn their eyes toward Constantino- | ple as a sacred city—the Rome of the Eastern Church—and they regard the presence of the Moslem there precisely as the crusaders regarded his presence in Jerusalem. Al- though the crusading spirit has been dead in Western Europe ever since poli- tical economy has been studied, and though religion in our part of the world is in a great degrée free from all the deep attachments of locality—since Catholics re- gard the head of their Church and not so much the city in which he dwells—it must be remembered that the primitive condition with respect to ideas of this class persists in Russia, and that the people there are emo- tionally and intellectually very near what | the people of France and England were in the Middle Ages. Every Russian govern- ment, therefore, that would not entirely cut free from o sympathetic relation with the people must keep this fact in view, and must respect the prejudices and the passions in the light of which the nation regards the intruding infidel with his foot on the necks of men whom the Rus- sians contemplate as brothers because they are both Christians and Slavs. It is not strange, therefore, that the Russian govern- ment speaks encouragingly to the revolting peopie and lets the Russian nation hear only menaces of its wrath at Moslem mis- tule, while in Berlin and Vienna, where it must remember that a balance of power is still believed in, itadopts a different tone and demeanor. That the St. Petersburg government plays this réle of necessary and perhaps unwilling hypocrisy on a grand scale is one of the evident facts of European politics. Doubtless every government as- sumes in the presence of other governments a very different attitude from that it holds before its own people; but this is only flagrant in the case of Russia. Austria is no fonder of the Sultan than Russia is ; but her assumption of faith in his fature possibilities, her superserviceable readiness to construct protocols and pro- grammes of reform, to put him in the moral straitjacket of Western political ideas, is her admission that she is not alto- gether ready to meet the case of his final fall in any other way. Itis hercue to stand as the Sultan's next friend. Every Power sit- uated as Austria is must have peace on her frontiers if possible; and with this neces- sity guaranteed it is her interest to have for a neighbor just such a State as Turkey. At least this is the interest of a nation as viewed in the light of the policy that governs mon- archical States in Europe, where the pros- perity of the people is less regarded than the contingency of foreign war. At the time that Louis Napoleon assented to those projects of Cavour which resulted in the unity of Italy M. Thiers pointed out that the sovereign of France was constructing on his frontiers a power that might prove dangerous. In the progress of the warlike and diplomatic dramas that ended in putting the armed force of Germany at the command of Berlin the old politician continued admonitions on this key, but was answered with rubbish | conceived in a spirit of sentimental politigs, | until the Empire and France fell in a cdm- | mon ruin. So long as States must have more | reason to fear the growth of their neighbors ponents depend on plunder for the means of | than to desire the advancement of their own people this policy will be a good one; it is therefore the natural policy of every monar- chical State that has not gone so far | in the development of restraints, . limita- the | tions and other constitutional contrivances as to approach the republican system. Aus- tria, therefore, acts naturally in her assump- | tion that all that the Sultan’s government needs is a little patching up—a few paper programmes—a little reform in the collec- tion of the taxes. tude toward the Sultan she can securo his assent that she shall have the right at all times to tranqnillize the frontier by march- | ing her troops into revolted districts on the which he proposes to control all the lines in | Germany by direct governmental purchase and operation, fails to meet with favor among the directors of the \arious railroads not owned by the government. These gentle« men strenuously oppose the measure as un- necessary and impracticable. They do not look at the question from a Bismarckian standpoint, and cannot be expected to enter into it with a view to possible future strategic movements of armies and munitions of war. Bismarck only acts in accordance with the of bis own policy, and sees far enough the future to recognize the close relae onship that modern warfare has established between the soldiors’ blood and the railroad border, and if by the pretence toward Europe that the Sultan's government still has all needful vitality she can keep the Moslem for a neighbor rather than have the Tartar too near her, she will have escaped very handsomely from a great crisis, Int it appears very unlikely that she can secure this result, for the facts of the case are | against her in the country in revolt, and a point of perhaps still greater consequence is that in the complication of general European politics this difficulty may become an im- portant makeweight. Austria cannot smug- gle out of sight in her own interest a fact that may incline a doubtful balance in which | is the interest of several other nations, As to the condition of the revolted provinces, it is impossible to conceive it worse than we know it to be. In Bulgaria the Turkish authorities take away the children of their | If by this friendly atti-, for advanced payment of taxes. Cruelty more heartless and horrible than this was never practised on any people in the name of government. The poor Moslems are scarcely less oppressed and wretched than the Chris- tians, and if the threat to arm the Moslemsis acted upon it will not be so much the launching their ferocity against their fellow sufferers as the giving up of the whole coun- try to brigandage, murder and barbarism. With all the absolute bankruptcy of the gov- ernment will be evident at an early day. The Sultan will die this summer, his phy- sicians say, and his nephew and heir-at-law is regarded as even less fit fora throne than the present ruler. It is a political cataclysm, therefore—a case that the Vienna diploma- tists cannot cover up with reams of parch- ment. In the scheme of Continental politics the consequence of these facts is that Prussia has the opportunity to give away this coveted territory on the Danube. Though she will hardly offend Russia she seems ta coquet with Austria. The Berlin government has aspirations for colonial development. It has its agents in Abyssinia, and it will scarcely permit Egypt, if the Ottoman Empire is to fall altogether, to pass into the hands of England. If England is to be made an enemy by such a dispute it would not do to put Austria in such a position that England, France and Austria would be tempted to act together against Germany and Russia, for that would not be a one-sided conflict. Per- haps a great independent Bulgarian State may prove the only solution of the difficulty. Our London Cable Letter. The production on the stage of a play which in its literary form was received with so much general applause, accompanied by so many side winds of critical qualification, is necessarily an important event; but when Alfred Tennyson is the dramatist the importance of the occa- sion is naturally enhanced. The way ® manager would stare stonily at a young unknown author who would dare to bring him a play that would take four hours and more to act, with forty or fifty speaking characters, was not the way Mr. Tennyson's work was received. It had first been pro- nounced good, but long ; dramatic, but inco- herent ; and hence to play it was to cut it. Wecan figure to ourselves the wry faco the author of the ‘Idylls” made when Mr. Irving delicately hinted that at least half: of it should fall before the scissors. But, as eels get used to being skinned, we suppose Mr. ‘Tennyson soon began to regard the work of slashing complacently. Writers, however, never get to like this treatment. Hence Mr. Tennyson's frequent appear- ances at the stage door of the Lyceum were probably so many efforts to procure a commutation of the sentence of death upon so many of his characters and their “lines.” The manager, Mrs. Bate- man, left nothing undone in the way of scenery and costumes to mollify the Laure- ate and attract the great world of London. The success attending these combined efforts is impartially judged in our London cable letter, and if it has not been overwhelming itis only because Mr. Tennyson did not write the play over again. additions have been, we think, judiciously done, and though some fine bits of writing are sacrificed we have no doubt that the present shape of the play will be its permanent one. The long religious business, which, in spite of its literary merit, reads like a dramatization of Mr. Gladstone's pamphlets on Vaticanism, can be well spared, | and the rhapsody of Queen Mary, begin- ning, ‘‘He hath awaked,” would be obvi- ously difficult to present with appropriate gesture on the stage. The loss of the Wyatt scenes is regrettable, as much on account of their elucidation of the plot, so far as there is any, as for their pure, vigor- ous English; but Sir Thomas will prob- ably be hereafter as much a stranger to the stage as Fortinbras in ‘Hamlet.” We are heartly glad that the experiment has been made and with fair success, Tho draniatist who has written the intensely tragic scene at the close of ‘Queen Mary” having now gone through the managerial scissors, will be all the better fitted for future work of the same kind. The manner in which he assisted the Lyceum managers to get out the -play shows that the Laureate is incapable of prefacing any drama with a piece of affectation like Byron's, when he said that he had written “Manfred” with such effects that it was impossible of stage pro- duction, The Laureate is a sensible man, _, Our Paris Cable Letter. It is probably a good sign of the perma- nence of the Republic in France to seo the question of raising the President's salary mooted, for it may be taken ; to mean that one day or another on true republigan may take advan- tage of the increased remunera- | tion. This is much more pleasant business than the task undertaken by our democrats here of cutting down what may be a democratic President's, salary. Happily for the good of the party President Grant is too sensible to throw any discredit on his signing the bill for tho increase dur- ing this term. Things are looking brighter for France generally, and that Queen Vie- | toria waited in her railroad carriage for MacMahon to pay his respects is a sign of in- creased standing, such as is recognized in society when the ladies of different families begin to exchange visits. We may not think that Franco was particularly honored in this little affair; but when we recollect how piqued she was because the same Queen went through the country on her way | to do a little family business in Germany without dropping her card at the Tuileries or sending her man with her compliments to | Madame la Presidente, we may view the transaction more clearly. Verdi's venture | at the Italions in the production of “Avda” has proved itsolf worthy of great success, and with new rinks, new plays and new books, we may conclude that Paris is happy fast now. ‘Ine Mcnperens or Mr. Mancanay are to be executed on the bth of May at Bhano, in Burmah, Seventeen persons are to suffer the death penalty as a peace offering to the British. The number is clearly too small or ew grent, for the act itself was that of a gov. | Christian subjects and hold —_ as hostages | ernment or an individual. The cuttings and + How Rapid Transit Is to Be Accom- plished. All who are interested in rapid transit— and who is not?—will find profit and pleasure in reading onr illustrated article on the Gilbert Elevated Railroad this morning. This double track road will be laid on West Broadway, South Fifth avenue and Sixth avenue, and it is thought that it will be finished by the Istof August. The great difficulty to be overcome was not of con- struction merely, for to that work our mod- ern engineering skill is adequate, but one of management of details and accommodation. It is estimated that one hundred thousand persons must be carried every day, and that sixty thousand of these will want trans- portation during four morning and four even- ing hours. The problem was how to accom- modate this enormous throng, and to assure the public speedy, comfortable and safo travel. The arrangements of the company seem to be admirably adapted to meet this triple want. For speed there will be pro- vided the double track and an engine of | great power. ‘There will be two hundred | and forty trains, each with a passenger-car- rying capacity of two hundred and fifty, and it is expected that in eight hours sixty thou- sand persons can thus be transported with- out delay. The stations will be half a mile apart, and the methods of ingress and egress will prevent delay. Tho ticket system re- lieves the conductors of the trains from any responsibility in the collecting of fares, tickets being bought and delivered at the stations only. For comfort the arrangements are equally excellent, The | seats will be divided by arms, and will give each passenger ample room. The ventilation will be carefully attended to, and the cars will be cool in summer and warm in winter. The plan and sectional | views of the cars and stations which our diagrams give will enable the reader to easily understand the @escriptions. For safety thorough care has been taken. The road | itself, its columns and girders, will, of course, be strong as the best terial and engineering skill can make it.’ The new Gilbert engine is of peculiar construc- tion, and is so weighted as to make the jumping of the track impossible. The weight is under the boiler and close to the track, and the engine will turn the curves without difficulty. The people are likely to get in the Gilbert Elevated road all the guarantees of speedy and safe travel which they desire, and the more the advan- tages of the new plan are displayed the less likelihood is there that the opposition of the horse car companies will long delay its com- pletion. Palpit Topics To-Day. Anticipating tho festival of Pentecost, on which occasion, originally, the Holy Ghost was poured upon the apostles and others gathered at Jerusalem, some of our city pastors will to-day discourse about the origin, the nature and office of the Holy Ghost. Notably among them is Mr. Giles, who will tell us what and whence the Holy Ghost is, what His office and how He performs His work. The Swedenborgians are in this particular Unitarians. They believe that what others denominate the Trinity is simply a triple office performed by the Lord Jesus Christ, and this view will, of course, be the basis of Mr. Giles’ exposition of the origin and office of the Holy Ghost to-day. But Mr, Hepworth will take a more practical view of the subject, and will tell us how the Holy Ghost may appear in our lives, influ- encing our actions and showing us the way to glory and to God. And he means to follow up this thought with daily efforts to win men from a life of sin to one of holiness. An event which preceded this outpouring of the Holy Ghost on theapostles—namely, the ascension of Christ—will receive the atten- tion of Dr. Burchard, and: the universal presence of Christ, though locally absent be- | cause of His resurrection and ascension, will be considered by Mr. Lloyd, while the es- sential importance of immortality and the locality of the Day of Judgment will be dem- onstrated by Mr. McCarthy. The closing of Messrs. Moody and Sankey’s meetings at the Hippodrome has given some of our city pastors a topic on which to dilate. And hence Mr. Andrews will to-day inquire what there is lacking in the revivals of this century. Why are not three thousand a day converted under the ministry of any one of the numérous evangelists who traverse the country, as was the case on the day of Pente- cost? This is an important inquiry, and is as worthy of consideration as that in relation to the cessation or continuance of the evan- gelists’ work, which Mr. Phelps and Mr. Kennard will discuss to-day. ‘There is no | valid reason why this work should | cease, but there are many sound and strong reasons why it should go on. God's love will be proved from the Bible and from per- sonal experience by Mr. Leavell, and the simplicity of a wonderful cure will serve Mr. Herr to illustrate the simplicity of the | Gospel plan of salvation, by accepting which | Mr. Rowell's trembler may enter Dr. Armi- | tage’s beautiful gate into the heavenly city | and there recognize and be with the friends | who have passed on before, as Dr. Talmage believes we all shall. A lost soul will com- | mand the attention of Mr, Pullman to-day, albeit he has no faith in the subjecton which | he will expend his time and thonght. His | creed assures him that all souls will be | saved, so thatthe majn question is one of time and not of fact, and yet every week he | sots up some orthodox doctrine for the pur- pose and pleasure of knocking it down | again. If there are any lessons in the life or death of A. T. Stewart that are valuable to young men they doubtless have been | seen by this time. Nevertheless Mr. Harris | will give a new coloring to them to-day. Mr. | Snow, who has a strange love for little horns and scarlet-robed women and other peculiar | things, will display his prophetic knowledge by analyzing Daniel's little horn, and the Christadelphians of Jersey City have under. | taken to prove that mansions in the skies are amyth. + DxspatcnEs rnroM Panama announce that | peace continues undisturbed, only a few local émeuies of no political consequence being reported. ‘This may be regarded os a genuine piece of news, the change from the turbulent to the quiescent state being rare | tered Honduras to adjust the politics of that | out a epeing bint, aad be took the affirmative; bet when and the daration of the latter condition of ® compensation, however, we learn that dis- turbances have broken out in the island of San Andres, and that the lives of foreigners were threatencd. A British war ship is likely to visit the scene and protect any English subjects who are in danger. We hope some United States cruiser will also give the bloodthirsty San Andreans a lesson on hospitality and cause a modification of their views on throat cutting generally. Re- ligions riots afford occupation to the idle cit- izens of the State of Cauca, and the differ- ences between Venezuela and Colombia are likely to be amicably settled. Religious Press Toptes. Now that the evangelists have closed their revival services at the Hippodrome our re- ligious exchanges very freely discuss their methods and the results of their labors and appeal to city churches and pastors to carry on the work which they began. The nu- merical results are comparatively few, but the spiritual results are said to be widespread and encouraging. The Intelligencer is de- lighted that Mr. Moody is not ‘an deep preacher,” in the ordinary sense of those words, but ho isa man of warm piety and practical earnestness, and preaches to the hearts of m and not merely to their heads, Itis not deep preaching that the world needs or craves so much as it does the message of salvation from God’s own holy Word. And this Mr. Moody gave simply and earnestly. The deep preaching that Mr. Moody lacked has been the main cause of that caste in the churches which is so displeasing to Christ, and which the Church Union deprecates. The Saviour’s prayer for the unity of His people cannot be realized so long as this caste exists, and the preaching that will help to remove it from the churches is the best and purest if not the deepest kind. Mr. Moody’s preaching, if it did nothing more than reach the large class of nominal Christians, which it did reach, as the Baptist Weekly declafes, would not have been barren or unfruitful. But it did more. A large number of sinners were con- verted, churches were quickened and good has resulted in many other ways. And these results flow from working with God, as the Methodist very clearly intimates, Sinners need warning, entreaty, help; and a mere professional service cannot do this work. Hence it is the duty of every Christian man and woman to invite sinners to the Saviour and to encourage and help them onthe way and when they come to the meeting place where sins are pardoned and souls saved. This is what the Christian at Work calls active Christianity, or Christians at work, God means that this world shall be converted to Him through the efforts of Christians, and the present remark- able revival, this journal estimates, has added to the Church not less than three- quarters of a million of new converts, all warm-hearted, impulsive and glowing with the intense ardor of a new-found love. This isa result to be deeply grateful for, and it and the Pentecostal revival suggest to the Christian Leader some elements of ministerial power, among which it names the union of interest and accord among the ministry, the simplicity of style and manner of preaching as well as simplicity of matter, Jesus of -Nazareth; and the result of this co-opera- tive divine and human preaching led in the Pentecostal revival to the conversion of three thousand souls in one day. In the absence of such unity and co-operation there is little or no power. The preacher becomes a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. The Observer thinks Mr. Moody's preaching has been in the main addressed to the under- standing and conscience, with a view to pro- ducing conviction of sin rather than to the feelings to cause excitement, His preaching has, therefore, received the assent of nearly all Christian ministers who have visited the Hippodrome. The numbers converted, the Observer says, are counted by thousands, and the influence of the meetings outside of the city has been as great as within it Tho secular press has been a powerful instrument for spreading abroad the Word and thus helping forward the work of re- vival. The Evangelist thinks the results will warrant all that has been done by way of preparation and all the cost and outlay of time and money. The meetings have dem- onstrated, as never before, that the ‘‘masses” are susceptible of religious impressions, that they are eager to hear and many of them to embrace the salvation offered in the Gospel. The Catholic papers have very little faith in the conversions made. They count the num- ber who have been sent from the Hippodrome tothe insane asylum. According to one au- | thority ten have gone thither as the resuit of the revival meetings here. The Jewish papers have a rival henceforth in the Independent Hebrew, which comes out at a price much below its rivals. Tux Srrvation 1x Turkey continues one of gloomy uncertainty, and there is scarcely any prospect of a peaceful solution of the political problem presented by the revolt against the Sultan, Already it has been sug- gested and favorably received by the Powers that Austrian troops should cross the frontier and adjust the difficulty by force. Monte- negro has been warned that unless she main- tains a strict neutrality Turkish troops will occupy her territory, and it is reported that a Turkish camp of observation has already been ordered to be formed at Scutari, in | Albania, in view of the crisis. But, not- withstanding all the efforts of Turkish diplo- | to the dignity of a battle—a fact that reflects some credit on the contending factions; but the confusion that has resulted is apparently imextricable. Altogether the politically vol- canic region of Central America is ex- periencing a general shaking up, and it would be hazardous to predict the outcome of the convulsion. We fear that some ‘man on horseback” will appear and give these warlike States a stable government at the expense of their liberties. Tue Werarnzs To-Dax promises to be cloudy and warmer, but a change is prob- able toward midnight or early on Monday morning. A barometric depression is ad- vancing from the West, which may be ac- companied by rain; but there are no indi- cations at present of any serious disturb- ance, The following observations were taken at the Central Park Meteorological Observatory as marking the weather changes during the past week:—Barometer, mean, 99.907 inches; maximum, 30.236 inches; minimum, 29.485 inches, on the 16th. Ther- mometer, mean, 47.1 degrees; maximum, 65 degrees; minimum, 34 degrees. The rain- fall of the week was 0.14 inches, Vegetation is showing the beneficial influence of the warm April showers, and spring, with her green leaves and beautiful flowers, has come at last. Kerser’s Answer to the complaint of Charles Devlin admits and denies many things that areevery familiar to the people of New York since the disruption of the Tweed Ring. In it he arraigns the members of that delectable organization by name as public thieves, who plundered the public treasury of millions of dollars, We suppose that, in strict justice, the receivers of a part of this plunder are amenable to the law, so far as it can make them disgorge their share of the stolen money; and this being the ultimate object of the Devlin suit we trust that more success will attend it than has resulted from the many efforts hitherto made for a similar purpose. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Lettuce have peas, Pedro is a quondam acquaintance of ours. Queen Victoria will visit Germany a second time this year. St. Louls Globe-Democrat:—‘In China, a very——' come to think of it we nearly republish one of our own personals, The jinglo of the new silver currency is as pleasant as a dime novel. Queen Elizabeth had three ostrich feathers over the head of her bed, White fish, whilo frying, will communicate electric- ity through a steel fork. ‘The Duchess of Edinburgh has bought an elegant villa near the mouth of the Neva. The St, Joseph Herald says that “the democratic party is ina tight place.” Y—o—s? Empress Victoria throws a stone round handed and sharpens a lead pencil with a pair of scissors, Mr. Bristow’s trionds think ho is like atin pan, The more you rub against him the brighter he appears. You can get a spring chicken in Kentucky for twenty- five cents, but it costs $1 to hear Susan B. Anthony lecture. Gibbon’s house is much as it was when he wrote to Lord Sheffield that “No. 7 in Bentinck street is the best house in the worid.”” Bengal has sunflowers with countenances five feet in circumference and resembling in beauty the editor of the Chicago Tribune. Captain John 8. Tucker, the new editor of the vin ginian, has been invited to announce himself asa cam didate {or Mayor of Norfolk. The man who originally said that “Virginia is the mother of Presidents’? might pow discover that Vir- ginia is a widow without any orphans. Five hundred and eighty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-three dimes ina barrel. We tried to get on the ninety-fourth, but it slipped off. ‘The season will soon arrive when the old maids will walk up toa fly ona window pane, scrooch it into corner and then pounce on it in three notes, All the poople for ten pews around you are not listening to your singing and aro rot watching you. ‘They think everybody else is watching and ee tothem. » On the Southern California coast seekors for ‘abalone sheils are frequently caught by the fingers in the jaws of the shell fish and held down until the tide comes up and drowns them. Whenever the archwologists discover an ancient mound or fort they a:ways find broken bottles, which prove that even before the time of Columbus the democratic party was in power, Joan of Arc, with her chain armor on, may have ap- peared heroic, but it takes just the same courage In our day for a woman to go around with her calico gowa tucked between her knees washing “‘paint.”’ Poor Dolan tried to steal a few feathers from a store, and, being attacked, killed a man, and was hanged, ‘rhe Washington Chronicie editor steals a few feathers of the bird of paradise from this column, and lives, wey, Murat Halstead put it when after going up to Washing- tou hke a rocket he went back to Cincinnati like a mateb, The Southern papers do not want politicians, but men who will reassert constitutional principles, That fs, pat the South back where Fort Sumter took hor from, and do not let the South suffer politically from the late war. Democratic sympathies have no doubt, as Proiessor F. Newman insists, done something to check imperia; violence, yet the Greek republics were ruthless in their treatment of slaves and of captives whenever fear prompted them, | ‘Throughout the country men stand on corners and in groceries and talk about vigilance committees in local politics. Onco when Bill Tweed was threatened with lynching on a lamppost he said, ‘1 didn’t make a lamp- post strong enough to hold me!” A scientife exchange says that the haman foot woighs two and a half pounds. There are people, like the editor of the Rochester Democrat, who remember feeling that the human toot weighs about two tons, But nobody was in front of them at the timo, Captain Paul Boyton sailed for Europe yesterday by the steamship Celtic, of the White Star line. He will proceed to Russia to complete arrangements with the government of that country for the organization of a torpedo corps, He was escorted down the bay by a | large party on the tugboat Belle. One hundred and AiMy thousand Chinamen oa the Pacific coast, including 30,000 in San Francisco, send | home to China every year $30 each in com, ot matists and armies, the days of the “Sick | Man” are numbered in Europe, and he had better prepare to move while he has any- thing worth taking with him. Kishme—“It is fate.” “Wars axp Remons or Wars” form the | subject of the latest advices from Central America, A general interstate free fight ap- ears to be just commencing or about wind- | P d sg | woman Spiritualist medium of New York, who will ge ing up throughout the entire isthmus. In the case of Costa Rica versus Nicaragua a suspension of active hostilities has taken | | where thore isa ten million bonanza she may bave half place to admit of a renewal of negotiations ; spell” instead of an end to the war. San Salvador and Guaterhala are face to face in the field, with armies numbering nine thou- sand and eight thousand men respectively. | An additional force of Guatemalans had en- State, which have been disturbed by a revo- | but this may be regarded as a ‘breathing | $1,500,000 of money. The editor of the Territorial (Nev.) Enterprise has this year seut home only $18, owing we the discount on silver and the scarcity of stocking legs, Its said that the oldest church edifice in America, ex. cept a Roimish eburch in St. Augustine, is Si Lake's, Isle of Wight county, Virginia, about five miles tron Smithietd. Itwas built as carly as 1635, and, aiter being rootless fora century, the present tool was put on somewhere between 1830 and 1835, [t 18 now used for worship, and the grounds around it are used tor burial Its thick wall and high tower are stil] strong, ‘A Pendlo (Cal) agency hus secured the services of a into trances, and for $6 will tell anybody what the spirit of Stophen Girard thinks are the places where gold and silver bonanzas are situated, If this lady wili tell us the profits, What is ihe use of her working for $5 a bonanza? Norwich Bulletin: —'An uptown man, who boliever m self-improvement, suggested to his wife recently that they should argae some question fraukly and freely every evening and try to learn more of cach other, . The question for the lirst night happened to be whether a womaa could be expected to get along with bo was last seen he had climbed up into the hav loft affairs for any length of time much rarer, As lation. The fighting in Honduras has risen | ané was pulling the ladder up alter nim”