The New York Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1876, Page 8

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MABILLE MYTH, ats PAP ISL VARIETY, 2t 8 P. hy TIVOLE THEATRE. VARIETY, at 8 P.M. LE THEATRE, FA VARIETY, ats P.M 8 O MINSTR™ LS, aap. M. EUS THEATRE. u FARIETY, at PM coLe TARIETY. ara. ‘ BIA OPERA HOUSE. PHILADELPHIA THEATRES. CAL OF VARs, , east of the Philadelphia TUSEUM. WE Daily, from 8 Main Exposi A MUSPUM, ) ORPH NDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1876, vir Ninth and Arch stre ZOOLOGT QUADRUPLE § “KEW YORK, § Tyom our reports this morning the probabil= ities are that the wewher to-day will be slightly warmer and cloudy, with probably rain, Warr Streret Yrsrenpay, —Stocks were ir- regular in price and business was dull, the tales aggregating only 95,000 shares. Gold opened and closed at 109 3-4. Money on tall was supplied at3, 4,2 percent. Govern- ment bonds were strong and railway mort- gages comparatively stead Toor Hinpenstanxn’s Surcrpe has not, we fear, had all the light thrown upon it which it could bear. It appears as if the sad story of accumulated wrong under which the wretched being writhed through life for twenty years was not to be told in all its horrors. What has already been published seems to leave an ugly load for one man to bear. Jourect the six hun- dred and forty odd thousand dollars for which judgment was entered at Albany yes- terday against Thomas C. Fields we shall all rejoice. If they can get any part ot it we shall be glad. ‘‘Tom,” who is said to be making cigars in Montreal, possibly views the bad ontlook for his sureties with an equanimity Mr. Tweed cannot hope % rival as he sails, as ho snils up the Bay. Arter Six Montus in a receiving vault the body of the late Baron Palm will be taken to Washington, Pa., for cremation by Colonel Olcott, the head of the Theosophists or peculiar people who gave him an extraordinary funeral at Masonic Hall. He is to be con- sumed without any disagreeable smell in five hours, and will thereafter be carried round in a mortuary snuffbox by the gallant Colonel. Imperial Cmsar! A Boarprxe Missvs is usually understood to personify hardness of heart, combined with acynicism of the most cold-blooded order. This cannot bea just estimate, for we repeatedly print stories of swindlers who walk with empty pockets into the good graces of their landladies by the powers of per- Buasiveness. _ Mrs. Castlemaine was said to make her way by affecting n desire for every luxury without regard to expense, but in another case 9 young man who departed on the wings of a bogus check, out of which he got some change, had secured four weeks’ credit by pleasantly telling the boarding marm that she resembled his mother. Comprrotien Grern’s term of office ex- pires to-morrow, yet no one scems to know who his successor is to be or whether Mr. Green is to succeed himself. Many names are mentioned by political gossips as that of the coming man, but as it seems that Mayor Wickham keeps his counsel everybody will have to wait until to-morrow before the momen- tous question can be decided. Mr. Green has, itis said, added the milkmen and hot corn ladies to the deputations to convince His Honor that nobody else can keep the courts busy with suits brought by the city's cred- itors. E OF THE y ¥ K | They Cannot Afford It. The country begins to see daylight in this | disputed election matter. The course of the South Carolina and Louisiana returning boards, in at last admitting responsible wit- nesses to their proceedings, shows that the | reckless politicians down there, who at first apparently thought it safe to proceed in contempt and defionce of public opinion, begun to feel the force of the general | demand for fair play. | ‘The Hexanp, as an independent journal, | committed to neither party, and represent- | ing fairly the honest sentiments of the mass of Americans, has from the first demanded the utmost, the most conspicuous fair play in the count of the vote. While it required | that the democratic leaders should await the | action of the returning boards in absolute patience, and sharply told them of the fatal j error they would make if, in ad- | vance of any proof that wrong was intended or ‘done, they stirred up suspi- | cion and strife, and irritated and misled the | ignorant. and thought: of their constitu- t, at the same time, plainly and con- 4 tinnally warned the republican leaders that their means and instruments in the disputed | States were jnstly objects of suspicion ; that they could not afford to count in their candidate except in a manner which would satisfy all reasonable men of his election, and that they could mue tot w 1, better afford to lose the election than eany even epparently unfair advantage, i should leave a doubt in the public mind, We ce to see that these repre- sentations begin to bear fruit., As they come faee to face with the situation the re- publican leaders begin to see that, as the Hernatp told them, they dare not insult the people by high-handed and indecent secret proceedings in the returning boards, They begin to see that inthis matter they must conform them- selves to the proper requirements of the public. The people care little who is to be President, but they are peremptory in their demand that nothing sball be omitted which is needfal to satisfy men of all par- ties that there has been oa fair, honest count. ‘Lhe republican returning boards in the disputed are already, as is inevitable from their constitution, justly objects of public suspicion, In the opinion of the most candid and unbiased judges these returning boards are more likely to commit frauds than to make an honest return. Many republicans believe that Louisiana has cast amajority for Mr. Hayes ; but it is safe to ay that if the Returning Board, sitting in secret, or acting in any manner which could be called unfair, should declaro this result, such is the notorious character of its mem- bers as unscrupulous and reckless parti- sans that not one intelligent republican in the country would feel any greater assurance of the result than before. And the same is true of South Carolina, Under these circumstances we repeat that the republican leaders cannot afford to count in Governor Hayes without such pre- cautions about the count as shall absolutely set at rest all doubts upon the subject. They cannot afford it, because to do so would outrage the sense of fair play and honest dealing which lies at the bottom of the American character; because the un- certainty and doubt resulting from a well founded suspicion of wrong would make themselves felt in the most deplorable depression of business ; in a shock to national and private credit; in the depreciation of our bonds ; in the sending home of Amer- ican securities ; in a general feeling of inse- curity, which would send gold into the fifties or higher; would paralyze industry and trade; would cause thousands of busi- ness failures, and would, in fact, bankrupt the country. We will grant everything to the republi- can leaders ; grant that they observe every particle of the bad laws they have enacted down there ; grant that they not only count in Mr, Hayes, but carry the count through Congress ; grant that they actually install Mr. Hayes in the White House on the 4th of March; and, after all, if they have not completely satisfied the intelligent public opinion of the country that the count is just and honest, nothing they can do will give either content or security or perma- nence to the general interests of the country. All industries and commerce will be struck with paralysis. No capitalist will venture on enterprises; no merchant will dare to lay in a stock of goods, because no prudent consumer will buy more than he needs from week to week ; no sensible man will buy our bonds or hold them; no man- ufacturer will venture to produce beyond his actual cash orders; credit between man and man will be gone; the number of the unemployed will increase tenfold; poverty and want will overwhelm the country. Now, an administration producing such effects upon the country, ahd producing them by the mere fact of its holding power, could not hope to exist beyond the next election. All the causes which affect public opinion and turn votes would co-operate to sweep the republican leaders into disgrace- ful retirement. Their President would find himself, from the day he entered the White House, an object of suspicion and dislike to the great majority of his fellow citi- zens and an object of contemptuous pity to his personal friends and _politi- cal allies, At the close of two years he would be faced by a Congress in which both houses would be his political oppo- nents, sent there byan indignant and suffer- ing people. What is the use of such a vic- tory? To such adventurers as Spencer, Chamberlain, Packard, Kellogg, Elliot, Moses, Whipper and their allies in the South anything which will keep them in power and plunder for even another year will be satisfactory. But there aro honorablo men among the republican leaders of the*North. Can they afford to sacrifice the ideas for which they have acted—can they afford to sacrifice themselves in such a way? Wo he- lieve not. It is avery great misfortune for the re- publican party that the men whom the ad- ministration has encouraged and supported in the South are adventurers; persons, in many cases, of infamous character; desper- ate and unscrupulous politicians, in all, who hesitate at no fraud to maintain themselves jin power. Hitherto the North has paid NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1876.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. little attention to the misdeeds of the Kel- ! loggs, Packards, Sppneers, Chamberlains and | Whippers. So long as only predominance in | Southern States was the object of these men | the Northern republicans seemed willing for | the administration to take what course it | pleased in the South ; but the last two elec- tions show that this carelessness was more apparent than real, and the Northern people at the recent election expressed in strong terms their disapproval of | the republican mismanagement of the South. In the recent election the republican majorities in the Northern States alone were Fae less than in 1868, and 521,000 less Tan in 1872. But now wecome toa peint whero these disreputable allies of the party are to give it, by doubtful means, its President. What will the country— already awake, as these figures show-——what will it think, what will it do at the next election, if th® republican leaders dare to allow their candidate to be counted in by doubtful means and in a manner which shall not satisfy both parties as honest or fair? England and R The report that Turkey has uncondition- nary; but the consent may come too late. It has been evident to all the world that the irritation of the English government over Turkey's obstinacy in declining a confer- ence has been extreme. The Moslems for their part see that Russian means yar as the alternative of Turkey refusing conditions which they look on as impossible. ord Benconsfield’s speech they took it committed England to their side in the inevitable struggle, and hence a conference presented itself to them as a needless piece of humiliation to a nation willing to meet its avowed enemy at the scimetar'’s edge and sure of a powerful ally. By dint of persistent threatening, after sweet words had failed, England has, it ap- pears, brought the Porte to its senses and its knees. We cannot be very hopeful about the Conference nowinsight. England wants it for various reasons. She would, of course, be glad to secure peace thereby, but if she cannot she may endeavor to put Russia wrong in the eyes of Europe. She may angle for the moral support of France ; she may be able to place Italy definitely ; she may sound Austria, and if she cannot get much comfort from her or from Germany she may test the strength of the triple im- perial alliance. She gains time. Beyond these temporizing advantages it would be vain to forecast. The temper of the main disputants—England and Russia— is not encouraging to lovers of peace. Either Russia must abate the demands in favor of the Christian Slavs in Turkey which she has announced herself willing to enforce with the sword, or else England must recede, with a long backward bound, from her definition of the ‘independence and integrity” of the Ottoman Empire to admit them. Ifthe Conference meets there will evidently be Jittle use in pleading that the Russian demands aro impossible. Russia has announced that the reforms she asks are just and necessary, and that calling them impossible is simply compelling her to enforce them. It is difficult to foresee a peaceful issue from this. Will England fight, then? She has already well advanced her preparations for war. The announcement is made and not denied that if Russia invades Bulgaria or brings her Cossacks to the Danube England will at once occupy Constantinople and “defend it from all attack.” This, it is argued, will not involve her in war unless in a certain well-defined contingency. It would leave her free to supply the Turks who would have to do the fighting with arms, money and officers. It is a clever plan to follow Russia’s lead in the Servian insurrection and make war upon the “lim- ited liability” plap. But will it work? It failed of a great part of its object in Russia’s hand—namely, of winning the Servian campaign. It succeeded in another—namely, making Russia a fierce unit for war on its own account, What the Servian is to the Turkish soldier the Turk isto the Russian. In the same de- gree the ‘‘limited liability” plan would be likely to fail England. On the other hand, the English government can command the support of the nation’s resources at one time as wellas another. Her statesmen, there- fore, we may infer, would, if they had a pretext for war, declare it as soon as Russia struck a blow. In the Conference, if all else fails her, she may seek this pretext. The Weather. The depression to which we have called attention as being central in the Missouri Valley for some days past has now moved toward the lower lake region, and is accom- panied by cloudiness and light rains, The extent of the rain aren is very great, as it reaches from tho Missouri Liver to the Atlantic const and southward into Tennessee. In no case, however, does the record show a rainfall of more than one-tenth of an inch during eight hours; so we may regard the precipitation as unimpor- tant. But the probable course of the de- pression will bring it in this instance over Southern New York, because an area of very high pressure bars its advance northeast- ward through the St. Lawrence Valley and another area of high barometer follows it closely from the northwestward. With tho advance of this last area the temperature has fallen very low along the Missouri Valley, causing a snowfall at Omaha. But the phe- nomenon of small isolated areas of high temperature to which we recently called attention has again presented itself at North Platte and Cheyenne, where the thermom- eter indicates 44.and 54 dogreos reapeotively, while all the surrounding territory has ao temperature ranging from 20 to 4 deprees above zero. The cause of this heat is well worth ; investigation, as it certainly bears some relationship,to tho barometric changes that always occut in that portion of the Plains when areas of high or low barometer become central there. ‘The weather in Now York to-day will be warmer and cloudy, probably with rain. Twsxp Dip Nor Come Ur the Bay yester- day, although a frigate was reported off Bar- negat. We fearthe man who saw the two smokestacks had been using some powerful Jersey—magnifying glass, ally agreed to a conference is not extraordi- | The Political Situation. From Florida comes a report that Gover- nor Stearns intends to constitute himself in person a returning board to canvass the Presidential vote, founding his right to do soon an error in the State laws which pre- | scribe the duties of the’ Board. This error seems to have come about in the course of one of those disputes | peculiar to the Sonthern republican States, when, to avoid the mandate of a court toa returniky board, the republi- can Legislature hastily abolished it and created anewone. There is also a report | that the Returning Board refuses to begin the canvass until thirty-five days after the election, which would throw out Florida's electoral vote. These devices and delays by the Florida republicans create a general impression in the North that the State has given a democratic major- ity. So far the democrats have caused and asked for no delay; but they are very fussy. can like General Barlow is at Tallahassee no wrong can be done which he will not publicly denounce. In South Carolina there is a new hitch, but as the Supreme Court is sitting as arbi- ter between the parties it is well to be pa- tient. We geta hint from republican sources that a compromise is possible, giving the State to Hayes and Hampton, and threaten- ing endless investigations if this is resisted. From New Orleans comes the text of the resolution inviting five gentlemen of each party to be present at the work of the Re- turning Board, and also the reply of the Northern republicans to the demoerats. The Great Cardinal. Antonelli has at Inst gone to his rest. Hlis life, stretching across two generations, | was restless, eloquent, successful. He was a brave and uncompromising champion of the cause he represented; a stern but wise counsellor in peace and war, and a chivalrig and loyal friend of the Pope, not only in his triumphs, but also in his defeat. Be- tween the years 1847 and 1850 he exhibited the qualities of character which belong only to a race of giants, and by his courage, per- sistency and devotion achicved results which will not be forgotten as long as men remain grateful. During that turbulent period when Rome was shaken as by an earthquake, when the treachery of Mamiani was discovered and Rossi was assassinated, when the revolution was at its height and the Hely Father was compelled to leave the Vatican and fly to Gaeta, Antonelli made himself master of the situation and gained to his cause every con- cession that could be wrung froma deter- mined and powerfulfoe. Living amid some of the greatest changes which have occurred in the history of Italy, looking on while State after State was wrested from the do- main of the Holy See, he was always calm, far-sighted and sagacious. His obsequies were such as only a grateful Church can render to her illustrious dead. Their splendor and their imposing and im- pressive ceremonies were but the type of her regard for and admiration of a faithful servant and ao self-sacrificing patriot. Sho could do no less and she could do no more for a man who had risen step by step dur- ing half a century and had occupied suc- cessively nearly every position from that of an humble prelate to that of President of the Consulta and Secretary of State, The religious papers of the whole country have expressed a marked appreciation o! the great Cardinal's character. Though dif- fering from him on many essential points they have paid the respect due to extraor- dinary genius. Even political enmities are silent, and now that he is beyond the reach of all opposition we respectfully gather about his bier and with bowed heads con- fess that, whether asa friend ora foe, he was always firm, faithful and mighty. His successor, Allessandro Franchi, is not unknown to European politics. He is a man of large administrative ability and has already occupied positions of the highest trust. The next great event in the history of the Church will probably be the death of Pius IX. In the course of nature this must occur ere many months. The death of his faithful friend is the last shadow on his illustrious career. Feeble through old ago he still maintains the dignity of his office, but will not be sorry to give the sceptre into younger hands, So goes the world, and so history is made. Generation after generation dies, but the good and true in men's lives last forever. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Our city pastors to-day seem uncon- sciously to have agreed upon historical and doctrinal topics, and have correspond- ingly omitted the practical issues of life. The remarkable death and burial of Moses, the life and labors of St. Paul, the restora- tion to life and heaith of the Jewish maiden by Christ and the like belong to the first class, The to-morrow of death and there- after, and the query, after death, what then? the gravitation of character, the order and processes of man’s regeneration.as in- dicated by the allegory of creation in the first chapter of Genesis, the relations (if any) that exists between paradise and hell, the attractiveness of omniscience and the conference ubout heaven may be as- signed to the next class, There is at least a tinge of the sensational in such topics as “a wedding in high life,” ‘‘divine anatomy,” “q fly in the perfume" and ‘the vestments of our high priest.” To be sure, thero may be nothing sensational in their treatment, but it seems to us that practical themes do not need the doubtful assistance of even remotely sensational titles. In their general bearings, however, those topics may be just as practical as that of “tho wise choice,” “the supreme hour,” “Christ at the door” or “our advocate.” They may, and doubtless will be, more practical than discussions of the fall of man or eternal punishment, or an- swering popular objections to the Catholic Church, or stating the conditions of life and the relations of light to those conditions, or pitting revelation against speculative thought. Indeed, this class of subjects has of late years fearfully crowded the more pertinent and practical moral questions out of the pulpit. The minister's commission is to “preach the word,” not the word of speculative science Let them be easy; while a republi- | with horror and must be regarded as the or philosophy, but the word of God, the Gospel of repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. There are no moral qualities in sensational or speculative preaching by which men_can be purified and redeemed from sin. ‘Such topics may serve a good purpose in the lecture room, but when people have only two or three hours’ education for heaven each week that education cannot be too pointed or practi- eal. It is well to vare for the things of others as well as for our own, and when reconciliation between God and man is effected public profession is far better than secret discipleship, and sanctified strength will keep men from drifting and establish them in the truth as it is in Jesus. The East Indian Cyclone. The awful visitation of nature's power, which has, according to the reports from Calcutta, swept out of existence one hun- dred and twenty thousand human beings in Eastern Bengal, fills the civilized world most appalling calamity of modern times. The region affected by this singularly terri- ble occurrence is located at the northern ex- tremity of the Bay of Bengal, and is inter- sected by the many outlets of the Ganges | and the Brahmapootra rivers, which drain the great southern slopes of the Himalaya Mountains, The land itself is therefore low and flat, being mainly of alluvial formation, and corsequeutly much exposed to the overflow of the sea during violent storms. These frequently visit this region and cause immense damage and even extraordinary loss of life, but in the latter respect the recent cyclone has pro- duced unparalleled destruction. The causes that combine to develop cyclones have been frequently explained in the Henaxp, and it is only necessary to state that these great revolving storms owe their origin to the contact of vast volumes of the atmosphere “of unequal temperatures and humidities. Once the cyclone is developed the sur- rounding air revolves about a movable centre with an inward and upward spiral motion, which tends to:Jift from the earth's surface everything that can be affected by the tremendons force of the wind, Thus buildings, trees, animals and even immense masses of detached rock are raised as if they were feathers in the vortex of the ascending column of air, which can only be compared to an inverted atmospheric maelstrom. ‘Tho effect on water surfaces is to raise the ele- ment into the form of a great truncated cone, which is carried along in the direction of the track of the centre of the cyclone and over the low lands of the sea coast, and even far inland, where the topog- raphy presents no barriers. The violence of the storm increases toward the centre of the cyclone, the lifting power being of course greatest at that part where the winds attain their highest velocity. The paths of these meteors are invariably parabolic curves, with the apex or turning point gon- erally in or about the twontieth degree of latitude ; but the conformation of the lagd frequently modifies the curvature according as the cyclone is more or less violent. Now, the region devastated by the East Indian cyclone is in the angle of ninety degrees formed by the coast of Bengal with that of British Burmah, Tho course of the storm led it in a north- westerly and northerly direction until it reached latitude twenty Cegrees north, where it began to curve to the north- eastward, forcing the immense mountain of water which it had raised into the sharp angle referred to, whence there was no chance for the waters to escapo laterally when brought in contact with the land. The consequence was that the water volume was swept up the inclined plane represented by the gradually shoaling bottom of the sea in front of the low alluvial lands, and poured with overwhelming violence over the country, destroying everything in its sud- den and terrible onset. A Comptroller's Mare’s Nest. Some industrious ramor-mongers are cir- culating the story that the present city charter fails to give the Mayor the power to appoint a Comptroller, and that the present Comptroller will take advantage of the omission and insist on his right to hold on to the office until the law shall have been so amended as to admit of the legal appoint- ment of his successor. Wo have no idea that Mr. Green would make any such ridic- ulous opposition to the surrender of his office at the expiration of his term. The pretended defect in the charter is found in the first part of section 25, which reads as fellows:— The Mayor shall nominate, and by and with the con- sent of the Board of Aldermen, xppormt the heads of departments and ali commissioners, save Commission- ersof Public Instruction, and also save and except the following named commissioners and officers who held office as such on the first of January m_ the rear 1873, that 18 to say:—The Comptralier, th sioner of Public W , the Counsel to the a jon, the President of the Department Public Parks and the President of the Department of Police, which said Comptroiler, Commissioner and Counsel to the Corporation aforesaid shail hold until the expira- tion of their respective terms of office for whieh they bs, arg unless removed for causoas herein pro- vide The exception, of course, relates only to the term for which the then incumbents of the offices named were originally appointed, and after that the appointment of their sue- | cessors reverts to the Mayor the same as the appointment of all other heads of depart- ments and commissioners. When the Presi- dent of the Department of Police died his successor was appointed by the Mayor. When the Commissioner of Public Works resigned General Porter was appointed to the vacancy, and at the legal expiration of the term Mr. Campbell was appointed, When the Corporation Counsel was removed his successor was in like manner appointed. Butdo relieve the matter of all doubt the samo section of the charter goes on to pro- vide that “any such nomination or nomina- tions (by the Mayor) to fill any vacancy which shall hereafter occur by reason of the expiration of the term of any officer * * * shall be made to the Board of Aldermen within ten days from the day of the date of any such vacancy.” The best chance for Mr. Green is through the coming vacancy in the State Comptrollership. The numerous delegations that waited on Mr. Green in connection with the Mayoralty—blind men and all—had better look after Governor Robinson's, present office than search for quibbles in the charter. Give Us a Rest. Much as man is given to war, it is an abnormal condition, and hence the reac- tionary longing for peace is sure to come with the irresistible sweep of the long blue- black mid-Atlantic wave. We have had @ fortnight of Presidential agony after a long campaign excitement, and people want 3 rest—a day of it, anyhow. Let them take it to-day. We are far from advising de- liberate murder, but it would not be objec tionable to gag anybody who attempted te open an argument to-day with, ‘Well, what do you thiuk of South Carolina?” We desire to see the three doubtful States re- main loyal to the Union and to humanity and their electoral votes given to the men | really elected; but if our citizens catch either Louisiana or Florida or South Care olina on the tip of anybody's tongue to-day we do not think it would be either treason or mayhem to cut it off There are men who would hold one corner of a hymn book and, whisper nonsense into the ear of a young lady holding the other corner, There are others who would talk business at the funerals of their mothers-in-law, not being content to contemplate in rapturous silence the good the gods can do. In times of political excitement these people are not to be trusted. No moment sublimely given over to rest is safe from them. Many such will burst in upon tranquil citizens to- day with the tempting overture, ‘Well, old boy, we've got you now.” That all such should be légitimate subjects for the Coroner in five minutes after the fatal avowal we are not prepared to admit with our narrow Eastern ideas of homicidal etiquette, but the offenders should be promptly handed over to the police as inciters to a breach of the peace. To all, therefore, irrespective of race or previous condition of servitude who want to talk politics to-day, we say, “Give us o rest—a whole day of it.” Many sensitive persons already show signs of impatience at the bare possibility of people talking politics within earshot of them even on week days. These will form a determined nucleus for the rigid avoidance of all topics south of Mason and Dixon's line on Sunday. They can dong greater service tomankind than leading con versation toward the starving monkeys in Central Park, tho new Opera House, the “Shaughraun” revival, Mme. Essipoff's digi. tal dexterity, the ballet at Booth’s, the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Croton water, the Harlem River Improvement or any other light and airy subject that will act asa tablecloth to the returning boards for twenty-four hours. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Viscount Parker, of England, is at the Brevoort House, White and sky blue may bo worn charmingly af dinner. Brown-Sequard will hereaftor practice medicine is London. The wandering minstrel exists only in Servia and Dalmatia, Mr. David A. Wells, of Connecticut, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. a An East Indian villager has killed a tiger which wag eloven feet long. Tho Farl of Leven killed a forty-eight pound salmoa in the Cargill waters. Grocnish gray is fashionable, and blue volvet may be worn with it sparingly. Wherever there is a shipwreck rats and mice become domesticated on the near land. Mr. O'Connor Power, M. P., of Ireland, yestorday are rived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. For promenade you may wear gray-blue poplin trimmed with blue silk, with frills. San Franeisco, with its intense social and business Ue, is the champion city for suicides, Does the Commercial Advertiser mean thal “humerus” follows are shoulder hitters? Senator Edmunds declines to address the Legisla ture on national politics, as he is too busy. The Journal of Chemistry says that girls onght to bé prohibited trom study! ot school hours. Saturday Review. no burning zeal for in tellectual cultivation im the English middie elasses,”” A Nepauli (India) pony, alive and porfect in evory feature, 1s only eight inches high. So says a Lahore paper, e Tho Saturday Review, in a number which dogmatl cally assails everything American, speaks of General Custer as a living man, Figaro says that when the Peris Bourso is busy and mon are oxcited the tobacco scavongers pick up many cigar stumps on tho steps. Rey. Walter Briscombe, ot the Wesleyan Charen, Englund, bas accepted an offer of $500, to prove that man has a never-dying soul. In Scotland the landed proprietors are shutting out the common people from footpaths over the bills, along the rivers and across the moors. Darwin says that areas of coral reefs are gradually sinking, and that the Polynesian islands are only the higher par:s of a submerged continent, A California man gave bis betrothed an engagemens ring which had been used before, with instructions t hide i when any of the family wero around, A Dayton (Ohio) man claims that be years ago mar. ried a lady who is now living quietly with hor (seo ond?) busband in that city, She denies his claim, Ata colloge examination during the last opera bout season a student being asked what he knew about the siege of Troy, rephed:—‘Aiméo 16 charming as the Belle Hetene.’? Among somo of the Pucblo Indians, whon a git] wishes to marry, she tells ber father what young man sho wants, and the father of the young man, ifhe accepts, must pay for the loss of the bride, M. Colombies, a merchant of Paris, recently dee ceased, has left $6,000 to a lady of Rowon for having, twenty years ago, refused to marry him, “through whieb,”” says the will, “Ll was enabled to livo inde pendently avd hap; bacheior."” Since 1782 41 wrecks of Japanese vossels have stranded on the Atnerican coast; 28 since 1850, only 12 deseried, and all swept across the Pacific by the great carrent atthe rate of 12 miles an hour, In the great past, it is sa, America was thus settled, the more recent Indian coming by way of Bebring Strait, Court Journal: —“The high prices realized at tho ree spective sales of the Brighton, Tunbridgo Wells, St Alvan’s and other wel!-appomted ‘drags’ that ran through the summer months will probably induce many lovers of the road to start more coachos, By all accounts the majority that ran from tho metropolis paid well and the prices realized were prodigious, 18 was the fashion during the London scoson for & fashionable party to secure the outside scuts of one of these coaches, drive down the road, lunch and return for dinner, and a more agreeable way of passinga day cannot well be fmagined. The box seat was always greatly in demand, and, as modern theatrical ane nouncements state, It was necessary to secure it some days before, ”’ The Evening Telegram ménu for magicians:— ee ene sour. Hy Hoax-tail, produced like magic. visit. Globe fish, from the globe ack ENTREES. | Cold cuts of cards, served on a shufllo-board, 3 3 Roast, 3Hartz—Wheel, @ la Psycho, with Worcester 3 sancery. 3 VRGRTANLES. H Potatoes with deceived cyos, z z ; 3 GAME, Anything in the traps, ISH, “Pass”-over bread and chocse, REL 4 Cabinet whiskey from little brown jugglers, CT atadaddhadedamsdadadadidedhndadsdedediiedid DESSERT. Candy from a borrowed hat, DRINKS, ‘ » > ‘ f