The New York Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1876, Page 8

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A Mrtancnory Case is that of the acciden- tal shooting ofa young girl by her father while the family were examining a loaded pistohin the hands of the unfortunate man. ‘This careless handling of loaded firearms isa frequent cause of death. While we deeply sympathize with the afflicted family we hope that this latest accident will serve as a warning against the incautious handling of dangerous weapon A Noricranie Facr in connection with the police returns of New York is the regularity with which from seventeen to eighteen hun- dred arrests are week. The number of captures rarely exceeds and very seldom falls below the numbers given. It would be interesting to know whether there is much repeating done, and if we have the | tatisfaction in this instance of getting ‘a fair count.” We Waxt a Corporation Covnsrr, for Mr. Whitney's term of office has expired. | The usnal flurry istaking place among the | political aspirants for anything that pays cash. Mayor Wickham has the naming of | Mr. Whitney's sucecssor to the Board of Al- dermen, but it is rumored that Mr. John Kelly has the naming ot him to Mayor Wick- ham. Thus we can trace the stream of po- litical patronage back to its fountain-head ; but then Common Councils are proverbially stubborn, and there isan old saying that “one man can lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink.” made every Our Gatisnt Mizrti1amen not unfreqnently appear in the civil courts for redress against the arbitrary rulings of courts martial. | It sometimes happens that officers set- tle their personal quarrels with the men through the medium of a military court, and when this occurs injustice is otten done to accused members. While each battalion of the National Guard should have the settle- | ment of its own offairs, under the general militia laws, great care should be exercised by the commandants in selecting the officers that preside at the tribunals organized to investigate and punish petty offences against discipline. | Anornze Mystrniovs Drsarpranancr is | pdded to the long list of those already on | record. A merchant from Auburn, N. Y., leaves the house of a friend in this city with the intention of paying a short visit to | Brooklyn. From the moment he leaves the house all trace of him is_ lost, hotwithstanding the diligent search of bis friends. It is supposed he had money on his person and was well known to the thieves, having been at one lime the master of Auburn Prison. What | sre our police doing about it? Even in flensely populated London or in Paris a | the preliminary celebrations ; missing man or woman is soon found, dead pr alive, The condition of New York is telly « disgrace to our boasted police force, The Meeting of Congress. The session which will begin to-morrow will be one of the most important and at the same time one of the most exciting that has eversat. The attitude of the two parties is one of suspicion and exaspera- tion ; each side is watching the other with distrust; men of opposing politics are be- coming alienated from each other; and in such times the rash, the unscrupulous, the adventurers who have nothing to lose and | hope to gain something from tumult, to- gether with the illogical, the ignorant and the fanatical, make up a formidable force, all, whether with good or bad intentions, likely to contribute to the general confusion and to increase it to a pitch which may easily become dangerous to the public peace, We hope, therefore, that the wisest and most prudent and conservative men will | take command in both houses and in both parties, and that they will silence and keep in the background the noisy and injudi- cious. 'T is not a good time for blather- skite pol ns to come forward. The dis- cussions which gill inevitably arise on the circunstances of the disputed election will in any event be more than sufficiently ex- ‘The country wants peace, and it cares very little which of the two candidates becomes President; it sees now all its inter- ests injured, all its industries prostrate, through a dispute of the politicians in the result of which it has no interest, except that this result shall be fairly come to and shall not be liable to suspicions of fraud or wrong of any kind. Whatever is said or done in Congress, if it is said and done by both sides in a wise, kind and conciliatory spirit, will powerfully help to re-establish public confidence and to start business vain which has been so generally sus- pended. Whatever is said or done ina merely partisan, vindictive and uncompro- mising spirit will with equal power increase he public uneasiness and lead to a con- tinued and more oppressive stoppage of business. We beg Congressmen to bear this in mind. A few rash words uttered in the Capitol can inflict » loss of many millions of dollars on the people. What is wanted and demanded by the peeple from Congress is statesmanship. Any demagogue or silly blunderhead can bring matters toa deadlock. No one need expect to get credit or praise for that. The men who will be remembered with gratitude by the people when this difficulty is past are they who shall now display wisdom enough to bring about a good understand- ing; and who, uniting their efforts and counsels from both sides, shall make a speedy and satisfactory settlement of the dispute, That this can be done by a mutual understanding, by frank and unreserved deliberations between leading men of both parties, by a determination on each side to seek no selfish advantage but to look only to the public welfare, is absolutely certain. The people are equally ready to accept either Mr. Tilden or Mr. Hayes as President. They will approve whatever verdioé is given, provided only it is not tainted with fraud or wrong. The country will go on as well, as happily and prosperously under Mr. Tiiden as under Mr. Hayes; no sensible man any longer disputes this. The interests which prevent a satisfactory settlement are all personal ; not one is national. The dispute is one which involves not the industry, the commerce, the honor or prosperity of the country, but the personal ambition of a hun- dred or two leading politicians on each side who wish to retain power or to get into power; who look for Senatorships, Cabinet places, Ambassadorships, &c., and who are to-day sacrificing all the real interests of the nation by their quarrels. All that the conh- try demands is a fair and honest settlement which shall satisfy all reasonable men of both sides, Under these circumstances we warn the excitement mongers aguinst making their voices heard in the halls of Congress. The country has not yet either forgotten or for- given Mr. Blaine and Mr. Hill for the strife they deliberately stirred up in the last session. When Congress met last December we seemed to have arrived at an era of good fecling. The Centennial was near ; the peo- ple of the North and South were uniting in the public temper cf the nation was kindly; the wounds of the war were healed over ; the “Southern question,” so long prominent, had so entirely disappeared from politics that the good men of both sections thought and hoped its revival impossible. But Mr. | Blaine, the ablest deboter, tae shrewdest politician of the’ republican side, suddenly flung a firebrand into Congrgss which kindled anew all the slumbering fires of sectional suspicion and hatred. That Mr. Blaine did this deliberately and with the purpose to bring himself conspicuously before the public as a Presidentia! candidate every- body believed at the time and believes now. That he counted on the help he would receive from such rash and quick-tempered Southern men as Mr. Ben Hill is also prob- able. It was the trick of a demagogue play- ing adroitly upon the passions of the people for his own selfish advantage, and while it | failed of its main purpose—for Mr. Blaine did not receive the nomination he sought— it entailed upon the nation the present calamities and the threats of evils yet to come, and dragged his party into a false position, from which, even if it elects its President, it cannot recover. We revive the circumstances and conse- quences of this act to warn Mr, Blaine and | others like him against a repetition of it. The men who drag this country into the calamities of a disputed and doubtful sue- | cession to the Presidency will not have an enviable fame in history. They will right- fully be dishonored as selfish traitors to their trusts, The country is disposed to hold | influential party leaders to their responsi- bility now. If Mr. Blaine has wisdom enough to extinguish this fire the country may yet forgive him for having kindled it; bat it will watch his course with care and suspi- cion, and it will bitterly resent and punish any further incendiary acts by him or men like him, It is woll for the leaders of both parties in Congress to remember that the men who have an honorable fame in our history, and who live im thy affections of the people, were not men who stirred up strife, but who healed, pacified, set at rest the great dis- putes of their time. Whatever happens, the mere partisans of this day will gain nothing. Nor can the republican leaders in Con- gress afford to forget that the chief re- sponsibility of this emergency lies upon them, They allowed and ‘ encouraged Mr. Blaine to revive a dangerous and corrupt issue; they strove during the whole canvass to inflame sectional suspicion and hatred; they possess the machinery of the elections in the disputed States ; they sent there troops to encourage and, as they said, to protect their partisans ; they man- aged and controlled all the preliminaries to voting in those States ; their partisans are on the returning boards and were the local election officers. In all these stages of the canvass, the election and the subsequent proceedings, the democrats have been neces- sarily without power. Nor is this all. The republican leaders chose, in defiance of pub- lie opinion, to countenance and aid in those States men and political organizations no- torionsly corrupt, and they continue to ac- cept these as their allies. All this places a grave responsibility on the republican leaders. We trust they will not try to con- ceal this from themselves, for they cannot hope to conceal it from the people. They are ina position where by their own acts they are objects of just suspicion, ond where they are bound to be even more than fair; and are bound, morally and pruden- tially, to concede all properly disputed points to their opponents. For, we repeat, once more, the people demand a result which shall not be tainted with the suspicion of fraud. Our London Cable Letter, This morning we present our readers with a cable letter touching on the prominent topics of social and _ political inter- est in that great focus of thought and action, the British capital. After the long autumn vacation during which fashion deserts the Thames and sceks the Seine, the Rhine, the Po and the Tiber, that season intervenes when county seats and less pretentious country houses offer their attractions to keep society still longer away from Belgravia. It is a great season for positive talk, however, as those who simply chat are not present to keep conver- sationin that unending maze which begins anywhere and leads nowhere in particular. Hence people talk war and _ peace, and then for a remove consider with deep moral intent the sad career of that young aristocratic scapegrace, Viscount Maidstone. Asarule young noblemen get into pecuniary difficulties after going into the army, but this earl expectant went into ankruptey and then enlisted as a private in the artillery, After a double failure to be a gunner he made for the cav- alry, and now flourishes a sabre at a shilling a day. The benefit for the society which relieves distressed Americans will please all our readers, but will astonish some who can scarcely realize, if they have not held a consulship, that such a thing can exist as a distressed American abroad. We assure these good people that the society has much more scope for its good work than that celebrated society once flourishing in the British capital ‘for the relict of aged apprentices.” It is gratifying to learn that English opera has been s0 success- ful in London as our letter informs us, and we are certain that the same success could be repeated here if the same care were taken with its presentation. We need not mention every topic in the gossipy budget, but leave the remainder, with our blessing, to the reader. Our Paris Cable Letter. Paris, the exquisite home of causerie, sends usa jolly round of subjects fresh from its laughing lips. They think war in the East inevitable, but o Frenchman when he has not his war paint on can regard the possible sufferings and reverses of other nations than his own with a sang froid truly philosophic. He can be deliciously unmoved at other nations’ funerals. Hence he pays as much attention to the notices of M. Halanzier respecting the magnificence with which he will produce ‘Robert le Diable” at the Grand Opera as _ though there were no fierce Russians hovering on the Pruth and no almost hopeless con- ference about to convene at Constanti- nople. We may notice that he is paying attention now to a detail in his opera-going experience which proves he is learning the economic lessons of the times. He wants to pay less for his operatic whistle, and, as Vienna has led the way in reducing the prices, he will probably have more money to spare for deli- cate sips of black coffee and brandy than heretofore. He will find to-morrow n at the Théitre Frangais that the piece which he bothered his head about some weeks ago “L’Ami Fritz” is neither an attack on the French army nor a stage dagger stuck in a stuffed figure of Germany. The official censor has probably pruned the work out of regard to the Parisian’s emotions, which should not be expended on such small deer. We hear, too, of American music and American art attracting critical atten- tion, and we receive a series of hints on the fashions for ladies’ apparel which we cannot hope to make cleager by explana- tions and which are too sacred for comment. Hancovrt-Ives.—The wedding at West- minster Abbey, which is described in our special despatch from London, will interest a large section of the American public. Mrs. | Ives, who was yesterday marricd to ex- Solicitor General Sir Vernon Harcourt, of England, is the daughter of our American liis- torian and diplomat, John Lothrop Motley, | and relict of Thomas Poynton Ives, the last male of the great Rhode Island family which formed part of the almost historic house of Brown & Ives. Sir Vernon Harcourt has long been a member of the journg ic eraft, his letters inthe London Times under the well known signature of ‘Historicus,” and his leaders in the Saturday Review de- fining his place in literature, while as a hard-working member of Parliament j and high legal officer he has proved his mettle in another field. The ceremony in | the abbey was impressive, and we have only to hope that the union of two such families by marriage may prove auspicious, | have Prince Bismarek’s Hint to Austria, From the words spoken by Prince Bis- marck at the Parliamentary dinner in Berlin it might be believed that the great states- man had just heard of the likelihood of war, and fresh from his rural retirement was shocked to believe that it might now be too late to preserve the peace. This style of observation may probably suggest to the world that the Prince ‘‘sphinxes” on this im- portant subject. It can scarcely be believed that he expresses either the purposes or convictions of his government in bis in- timation that Germany will abandon her neutrality in the interest of Austria or that she will do her utmost to prevent the war out of regard to the old-time friendly relations between England and Germany. There is in this a vein of historic sentiment worthy the centennial oratory; but the present neutrality of Germany is the sub- stantial fact that the Prince thus declares to the loyal supporters of Kaiser William in his Parliament—a fact likely to be ex- ceedingly agreeable to them for a multitude of reasons. All the rest is the fringe. They like to hear German magnates deal with the polities of Europe in that style, which con- stantly recalls the flattering fact that there would be no war if the Kaiser chose to lift his little finger. Some of them, perhaps, like to believe that Germany would move to rescue Austria from the divisions incident to her duality, and others like to believe that she would act a benevolent or patroniz- ing part toward England. But the immi- nent war has already assumed the shape that the Prince would endeavor to give it. It is not prevented, but it is localized and it will concern Eng- land but little. ‘There is not room to doubt that Russia will occupy Bulgaria and that Germany has assented to it. If Turkey fights against’it she will fight alone and will be easily whipped, despite the vision- ary reasonings of the Berlin correspondent of the London Times. If Austria's vital interests are threatened it will be by the Hungarians, who may go to some éxtremes to prevent the Vienna government from co- operating with Russia. Should they take any foolish step in that direction the ap- pearance of a German army near the fron- tier will restore them to reason. — Resignation of the French Ministry, The threatened crisis in the French Min- istry has at last come. ‘The entire Ministry has resigned ond a new one will have to be formed at once. The endeavor of the republican majority in the French Chamber of Deputies to sepa. rate one Minister from his associates and hold him alone responsible for ob noxious points of policy is hardly in the spirit of parliamentary government. There are several important topics as to which the republicans are dissatisfied with the attitude of the government. On two of these topics— the burial of members of the Legion of Honor and the estimates for public worship— they hold that the government is subject to clerical influence, and, sustained by that intiuence, is disposed to resist the opinion and the will of the nation as these are manifested in Parliament. An issue thus made can be determined only in one way. The House can vote down the propositions of the government until they are embodied in bills satisfactory to the House, and the Ministry, whose bills are thus thrown out, though it may retain its place fora time under the good-natured solicitations of the President, will yield at length anda Min- istry will be chosen that will accept the views of the House. Football and Base Ball. What a jolly time the Yale and Princeton boys had last Thursday on the St. George's Cricket Ground, at Hoboken! There the bounding football received a leather drub- bing from academic boots that would have done good to the heart of the sturdiest old boy that ever looked back to Eton, Harrow or Rugby. Just enough frost in the air to give a healthy glow to the cheeks and a zest to the game. Princeton was splendid, and deserved a better fate than losing two successive goals, but Yale was magnifi- cent. The large and interested throng of ladies and gentlemen that gathered in their furs and overcoats to witness this exciting game had ample enjoyment to repay their trouble. Now that Yale hus a fine vic- tory to her credit and Columbia another we look forward to their mecting on the 9th inst. with the liveliest expectation of a rat- tling game. Football, like base ball, has all the elements of the widest popularity, and we shall not be surprised to see all our young men employed in the great city banking houses and business exchanges form clubs for this game, as they already done for that which has been called ‘the national.” They are too much given over, as soon as the fall comes, to the sociable, the hop and the Ger- man, and, although these are not to be ignored by the wise man, who knows what young humanity is, they should not have six months to themselves. Football means cheap and bracing exercise in the open air ata time when, as our modern civilization makes it, “a young man’s fancy lightly turns to love. In the Arcadian days spring time was the dangerous period, but we have changed all that. “Now, too, when the winter is upon us, we hope the leading base ba’l clubs will take up the idea of form- ing a new and improved national associ- ation which will give that fine game a fresh impetus. Mr. Waite's letter in a recent Henavp on this subject was a moye in the right direction. What is now wanted is an association that will do for base ball what the Jockey Club has done for horse racing in America—rehnbilitate it, set up a code of honor, as well as a code of rules, and fear- lessly and without favor enforce both. We wish prosperity to all our national games and those that deserve to become national, Ovr Bonps —By cable we learn that the decline in American seen- rities is im consequence of large sales on German and Dutch account, As the result of the sales is not unnatural the sales themselves are only what might be looked for in the circumstances that imperil the peace of Europe, German meychants and contractors are no donbt engaged to supply the greater part of the demands that YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1876--QUADKUPLE SHEET. and supply of a mytion and a half men that she is organizing for actual service. German and Dutch bankers mnst furnish the capital with which these contrac- tors will operate, and they find themselves suddenly in want of the large sums they had snugly invested in our securities. They sell, of course, and a forced sale in large amounts necessarily hurts the price. This is only a first effect, and we shall have the same expe- rience a little later in an aggravated form. It will not do us any great harm eventually, for if the trouble continues there will be a prosperity on our side that will largely in- crease the cash that people here will have to invest. Lying to the Po! Professor Racoborski, a Prussian Pole, h discovered an art, which, if his concep- tion, as we find it in the Court Journal, 1s correct, will have a great influence upon mankind. He says that there are certain electrical currents which run from Pole to Pole, and that if a man would have that nature restorer, sleep, come to him with healthfulness, he must lie with his head, not to the east or to the west, but to the North Pole.” This ideais not a new one, but we are glad that the Polish professor would have it so. There has already been much lying about the Pole, but to enjoy its in- fluences in the temperate or tropical regions seems to be a great boon. The theory must be true or the Polish professor would not have discovered it. The ‘‘conditions,” as Dr. Slade would say, would be all against him. He verifies his theory by saying that the Prince of Wales would never have recov- ered health if his bed had not been changed in position so that its headboard was toward the Pole. Thereare other facts which tend to justify this new art of lying. It has been noticed that democratic politicians who sleep in cars going South are happier than those who restlessly ride toward the West; and there is evidence of a republican who, in the easiest ‘‘sleeper,” could not sleep while going through Indiana. The cross current was the cause of an unrest which the republican madly ascribed to the small occupants of his berth. Philosophers have observed that where a man’s mind has all the year been clear from sleeping in a bed whose head turned toward the North Pole he be- came peeyish and discontented when in house-cleaning time his bed was turned east and west, and he got out in the morning crosswise into a tub of whitewash. There are, however, some early inconveniences connected with this art of lying which will in time become blessings. If a room has none of its sides running exactly toward any of the four points the bed would naturally have to be slewed round ; so that if a man went home himself slewed in the morning the bed might not reach him at the moment when he made a jump for it. No doubt, however, this would be cured in time by the mathe- maticians who are able to predict impossible planets and impossible election returns, But nothing is impossible to a man with Xas the unknown quantity, as was proved in that algebraical conundrum, S. T. 1860. X. Tho Polish professor has arrived at his con- clusion by the mere force of imagination. This Pole does not mean to lie to us, though he instructs us how to lie tathe Pole. He is to be thanked. Here is a new incentive for not sleeping crosswise in a north-and- south bed. The American people, at least, will learn to be straight. A careful wife will "put her boozy husband to bed with his head toward the north, and in the morning the electrical current will have made him as bright asalark. Prize fighters, too, will see that they are knocked down in | ascientific position, so that after the usual thirty seconds of rest they may rise re- freshed. The Indians have strange theories about sleeping toward certain points of the compass, and there are nations that plant their dead with their soles and faces toward the risingsun. Let all cradlesand all beds for the living -be turned toward the Pole, Then, as the electrical current soothes us into healthful slumber, one may no longer have ugly dreams and balky nightmares, but truly rest under that linchpin of the world— the Pole of the North—from which shall wave the stars of the coldest blue with the .stripes of the aurora borealis. The Political Situation, The Louisiana Returning Board yesterday finished the taking of testimony and hearing argument in reference to the disputed parishes and adjourned, sub- ject to the call of the Chair, after the returns shall have been fully tabu- ulated. ‘heir further discussions on the result of the State vote will be secret. Florida’s Board spent the day hearing conflicting evidence and made no appreciable progress. It is charged that the republicans are purposely causing delay, in order at the last moment to shut out rebutting proof. South Carolina had an exciting day in her Siamese-twin House of Kepresentatives, m which both parties scored advantages. Two influential colored members left the republicans and took the oath in the rival body; but their places were more than filled by the admis- sion of four fresh ficld hands, An injune- tion from the Supreme Court against the counting by Mackey of the vote for Governor, and a quo warran‘o restraining the Hayes electors conditionally from cast- ing the Presidential vote, with the two negro accessions in their House, are the points gained by the democrats. A Suggestion to the Rowing Associa- tien of American Colleges. The students of the New England colleges have formed o rowing association, and have chosen New Londcn as the course on which to hold the future annual regattas. This means that the New England element will be conspicuous by its absence in the next regatta of the Rowing Association of American Colleges ; but it will not put an end to the existence of that organization if the colleges outside of New England decide to hold together. With Cornell, the winner of '75 and '76, and Columbia, the winner of ‘74, and with Princeton, Hamilton and Union as members the old organization can be maintained suecessfully. The associa- tion will meet next month, and there is no reason to expect otherwise than that Harvard, Brown will withdraw. Ofcourse they have a perfect right to do so, and also to form a local organization of their own “down East.” This proceeding, however, need not necessarily break up the Rowing Associa- tion of American Colleges. Let those that remain extend an invitation to every college throughout the country to join the associa- tion. To this invitation we think there would bea hearty response. Some of the Western and Southern colleges might like to “takea hand in” the next annual ro- gatta, and the places made vacant by the New Englanders might be more than filled by Western and Southern bone and muscle. Then let the rowing be done in fours ia- stead of sixes, and we may expect to seea regatta next season on Saratoga Lake such as will equal, if notsurpass, the finest ef- forts of American students over that or any other course in the country. The Wexther. Very cold weather continues to prevail all over the United States east of the Rocky Taking the morning temperatures as the Mountains, but there are indications that an area of lower barometer and higher tempera- ture is rapidly developing in the northwest. basis of comparison the area of great- est cold now embraces St. Louis, Mo.; Keokuk, Iowa; Chicago, Ill.; La Crosse, Wis.; St. Paul, Breckinridge and Duluth, Minn.; Yankton, Bismarck and Fort Sully, Dakota, and Fort Garry, Manitoba, The lowest temperatura was recorded yesterday at Breckenridge, where it was nine degrees, below zero. It was very cold along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, New Orleans again suffering much greater cold than was experienced in North- ern Nova Scotia. Boston froze at four degrees and Albany at five degrees above zero, and Key West, almost within the tropics, shivered at forty-four degrees, The comparative warmth in the extreme northeast is due to the low barometer which still continues on the coast. The highest pressure now extends within the sphero of observation irom Fort Garry to New Orleans, or through the Misbissippi and Lower Missouri valleys. Last night snow was falling at Albany, New York, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Rochester and Boston ; butin the morning rain antl snow fell all over the lake region, the Middle and Easters States. Clear weather prevails west of Chicago and Cincinnati and south of Wash- ington, D. ©. We may look forward to clearing skies here when the influence of the low pressure in the northeast passes away, probably by to-morrow. The weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or cloudy and very cold, with, possibly, light snow. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Orogon has a skating rink. ‘The Spaniards want Gibraltar. In Paris horses are sometimes dyed red, Senator Morton has shaved off bis mustache, Tho Bonaparte family aro worth $20,000,000 ft property. It is said that Secretary Fish condemns Grant’s Southern policy. The Baroncss Willoughby d’Eresly lets her salmon streams for over $2,000 a year. Ouachita is pronounced We—cheat—ab. you do,” responds Lonisiana Kellogg. Hay ward, the wealthy Californian, is to bo remarried to the wife from whom he was divorced, Governor Bigler, of Pennsylvania, a strong Tilden man, says he does not want him elected by murder, It is satd that 10,000 persons in the United States have been driven mad by over-excitement in Spiritual ism, Military members of the London clubs sally forth and make war with the policemen, whom they usually defeat or evade. Senators Ambrose E, Burnside, of Rhodo Island, and Henry L. Dawes, of Massachusotts, are at the Fiftn Avenuo Hotel. Apropos of the recent visit:— Siralfe so little ditf'rence there should bo ‘Twixt Tweed-ledum and T. 'Weed-ledee. General W. P. Roberts, the eldest genoral of tht ‘Army of Northern Virginia is the only ex-Confedera general in the North Carolina Legislature. French barristers have worn mustaches sinco tht Franco-German war, and the batonnier of the Ordet has invited them to discontinue the practice Doré never goes to a ca'é; lives with his mother; is industrious; plays the violin; was a triend ot Rossini, and he rests from his painting to play on tho piano. M.-Feil, the glass worker of Paris, nas just finished the casting of the crown-glass lens for the great Vienna refractor. The diameter 13 28 inches and tho weight 112 pounds. Norristown Herald:—‘‘The Nrw York Heraup says, ‘the best way to wash lamp chimneys is witha dry cloth.’ That Is the way Henry Clay Dean washes himself.” The editor of the New Orleans R-publican, comment ing onthe presence of the democratic committee im that city, says:—‘‘The cask it is here, but the bine grass ts gone.” Spriggins was smart as Spriggins was original when he looked at the sausage and said to the landlady, “Some moro of that dog-gone good——” “Whelp yourself,”” said sho. A seven-year-old Jersey boy was playing on the floor, when he suddenly said, ‘Ma, what is French tor king and queen?”” “Why, rot and reine, my child,’ “Well, ma, what is French for the Jack?”” It is not known that Cardinal Antonelli gave rise in his own person to the exprossion of “beautifully ugly.” The appellation was given to him by an Enge lish author, whose opinion was asked of the Cardinal's appearance. Viscount Stratford do Reacliffe, the great dilpomatist of England, who, before the Crimean war, #0 long kept the Czar Nicholas at bay, has finished his nineweth year; but, though he has the gout, bo takes great in- terest in European politics, The Knglish do not understand their own Mr, Glade stone, becwuse he belovgs to a peculiar class of sen mentalists who, with literary ways of thinking, try to be practical, To this class belong Matthew Arnold, Bagehot, Freeman and Grog, ant!-Poilistines all, To an American nothing Is more staprd than English wit. The writers for the many comic journals of Enge land Jook iato the daily papers and usually pan, in a gawky way, with some word. Is anything more stupid than thts from Punch:—"Tho Russian Fleet.—When ho cuts and runs’? ‘At the wedding of the daughter of the Duke of Sutherland the bridesmaids wore cream-colored Sicilian polonaises, trimmed with skunk tur, over skirts of brown velvet; cream plush hats of tho Charles (1. period, lined with brown voivet and trimined with far. Each wore a pearl and turquoise locket (the gift of the bridegroom), with monogram of the brido and bridegroom in pearls and turquoises on crystal centres, Evening Telegram vill of fare for General Grant:— vcorocccecereverereBerererere rere rice reeneo reer te sour, nything souperfluous, (lavored with Florida water, 3 Fisit, “Of course Perpotual piace, cv ght with a bayonet. ROA Beef trom a bulldox Shepherd's VRGORTARLRS, “Let as have poas’’—Sprigs of royalty, GAME Imperial eagles. DESSERT. Impeachos—Cannon ball dumplings, with New Orloins molasses, ‘ton from “Boss” DRINK. Stoughton bitters—Anything that Injures the constitution, H wstnens, Political broils—Deviiled soldier crabs, 3 3 3 3 3 3 CORIO LOE DALE DL ELDERS TE LEDEDL IEG POCO OE IDLO LORE LE EDIOIPLODE DO HOOO HODES, Russian must mako for the equipment | Dartmouth, Trinity, Wesleyan, Amberstand | This bili should be acrved ona roturning beard, - ”