The New York Herald Newspaper, December 29, 1876, Page 4

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FRIDAY, DECE NOTICE 10 COUNTRY ~ DEALERS, ‘The regular edition of the HxRaxp will be sont here- after as far West as Harrisburg and as tar South as Washington by special newspaper train, run by Adams Express Company, at the usual rater, From our reports this morning | the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be colder and cloudy, with snow. Watt Srneet Yzsterpay.—The stock mar- ket was dull, with the advance and decline ! about evenly divided.« Gold closed 19? after a few transactions at 1 on call loaned at 7 and, nally cont, & =< vi andrew J. Garvey's nouses turns ,out to have been the great American plasterer himself. Tue Mopesty oF Ixpivrpvars who might be benevolent is still of great intensity, and, as a natural result, so is suffering among the poor. dunce Lawrence yesterday decided that the employés of the City Auditor's office might be compelled by law to earn their salaries, and a host of the city’s creditors are joy’ fully preparing to put this principle Wnueruer Srreet Cans shall continue to be refrigerators is being considered by a committee of the Board of Aldermen, and the directors of street railways are patheti- cally asking what property rights amount to in this unhappy country. PRerenvens To THE PEensonauity or Cuntst have existed heretofore, but the one alluded to in another column is above the usual grade of such persons. He has plenty of money, which makes him absolutely unique among pretenders of all kinds, and that he has shrewd sense is proved by his convic- tion that Chicago and San Francisco are in special need of missionary efforts. Tar Waatnen.--Another great snow area, which extends from Shreveport, La., to the * lakes and westward to Dakota, is now moving eastward. This area is central at about St. Louis, its eastern margin being marked by the Alleghany range. As it progresses during to-day we shall have threatening weather, with snow, at New York. During to-morrow a great deal of snow will fall over New England, and navigation will become dangerous along the Atlantic coast and as far eastward as Newfoundland. We therefore watn navigators to prepare for unfavorable weather during the next few days. In the Gulf ® decided depression has moved northeastward, and is now cen- tral in Florida and Georgia. High winds may be expected in the Western Gulf, fol- lowing the storm, and colder weather will prevail in the Southern States, The storm will probably follow the Atlantic coast line to Cape Hatteras, affecting our local weather considerably, and then move eastward to- ward the European coast, striking the latter on the Spanish and French seaboards about the 4th of January next. Much rain accompanies this storm along the Gulf coast. The highest pressure is now in Dakota, and the temperature is generally low over the United States. The weatherin New York to-day will be colder and cloudy, probably with snow, NEW YURKK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1876. | only opposition comes from a few property Wno Is to Count the Electoral Vote? The two committees upon the question of counting the electoral vote will no doubt look at all the precedents. These are scat- tered through many volumes of aunals, de- bates, &c. We have looked through most of these documents and present below a few facts bearing upon the question, which seem to show that the two houses have never sur- rendered their right to ‘‘examine” the elec- toral vote, and that the President of the Senate has never exercised or claimed the power to determine the validity of a State's vote. We may add that in no case has the vote of a State been counted where either house objected. I. In 1789 the Senate had no regular President, and chose a President pro tem. “for the sole purpose of opening the cer- tificates and counting the votes.” Wash- ington was known to have been chosen unanimously, and the count was a mere formality. In 1793, when Washington was again unanimously chosen, the House ordered a committee to join a similar one from the Senate, ‘to ascertain and re- port a method of examining the votes for President and Vice President ;” thus plainly asserting the right of the two houses to ‘‘ex- amine” the electoral vote ;,and precisely this same phraseology was used, at every quadrennial period thereafter, up to and including the year 1865, when a joint com- mittee, also charged to ‘‘ascertain and re- port a method of examining the votes for President and Vice President,” framed the famous twenty-second joint rule, which was adopted in both houses without objec- tion or debate, IL. In 1793, the record states that the Vice President ‘opened, read and delivered to the tellers appointed for the purpose the certificates of the electors,” and the tellers “having examined and _ ascertained the votes, presented a list of them to the Vice President, which list he read to the two houses ;” so that the Vice President did not assume to declare or determine the voto himself, ILL. In 1797, the report says, ‘‘the certifi- cates were by the Vice President opened and delivered to the tellers appointed for the purpose, who, having examined and ascer- tained the number of votes, presented a list thereof to the Vice President, which was read,” &c. Again no evidence that the Vice President thought he had any duty to per- form except to open the certificates and hand them to the tellers to ‘‘examine” on the part of the two houses. IV. In 1801 the joint committee ‘‘to re- port a method of examining the votes,” &c., Jailed to agree, and thereupon it might have been supposed that the Senate would order the Vice President to open, determine and deciare the vote; but it did nothing of the kind. It resolved that it would ask the presence of the House at a day and hour; would ask it to appoint tellers to act with a Senate teller, and so on, and the journal reads:—‘‘The two houses of Congress ac- cordingly assembled in the Senate chamber, and the certificates were by the Vice Presi- dent opened and delivered to the tellers, who, having examined and ascertained the number of votes, presented a list thereof to the Vice President, which was read,” &c, V. In 1805, on the assembling of the * houses, the Vice President. >> language of the io ant to % t at i e & ‘Ks, omy Ua : 2 sent by wa ‘been received” by pe sane, ‘You will now proceed, ‘omen,’ said he, ‘to count the’ votes ‘@ constitution and laws direct.’ L.s Vice President then proceeded to break the seals of the respective returns, handing each return and its accompanying duplicate, as the seals of each were broken, to the tellers, through the Secretary, Mr. 8. Smith reading aloud the returns and the attestations of the appointmeng of the elec- tors, and Mr. J. Clay and Mr. RB. Griswold comparing them with the duplicate return lying before them.” The journal then pro- ceeds:—‘‘After the returns had been all ex- amined, without any objection having been made to receiving any of the votes, Mr. 8. Smith, on behalf of the tellers, communi- | cated to the Vice President the foregoing re- sult, which was read from the chair.” VI. Before this, in January, 1800, Mr. Ross, in the Senate, moved “that a commit- tee be appointed to consider whether any, and what, provisions ought to be made by law for deciding disputed elections of Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States and for determining the legality or illegality of the votes given for those officers in the different States.” The resolution of Mr. Ross was sent to a com- mittee, which reported a bill which was debated at great length during the session in both houses, variously amended, and finally failed because the House would not agree to some of the Senate amendments, But in all the debates, so far as they have been preserved, no one except Mr. Pinckney and one or two others expressed a doubt that Congress, under the constitution, had full control over the matter, to legislate as it might choose. VIL. In 1809, in the House, on the quesjion whether the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House should preside in joint convention, Mr. Randolph urged that the Vice President must preside, ‘‘becanse it had been the custom, and also because, by the constitution, the Vice President is to open the votes.” No one objected to these views; and the journal reports that on February 10, the two houses being in joint meeting, ‘the President of the Senate then proceeded to open and hand to the tellers the sealed returns from each State, which were severally read aloud by one of the tellers, and noted down and announced by the sec- retaries of each house.” VIII. In 1817 the vote of Indiana was objected to. The two houses separated, and there was considerable discussion ; but noone except Mr. Randolph, so far as we have been able to discover, pretended that the houses had not constitutional power to examine the vote and to exclude any State for cause, or that the Vice President had any power except to “open” the packages. 1X. In 1821 the case of Missouri arose, and in the Senate, Mr. King, of New York, wished to provide beforehand for any ques- tion which might arise in joint meeting. Several gentlemen agreed with him ; others holding that the question could only be de- cided after the votes trom Missouri were legally known to the joint meeting. But no Senator objected on the ground that the houses had no power to exclude or to ‘‘exam- ine” the vote, or that the Vice President had this power. In the House the same question came up and Mr, Randolph, as on a previ- ous occasion, asserted that Congress had no power to consider the vote of a State. Mr. Clay said the constitution required of the two houses to assemble and perform the highest duty that could devolve on a public body—to ascertain who had been elected by the pegple to administer their national con- cerns. In a case of votes coming forward which could not be counted the constitu- tion was silent; but, fortunately, the end in that case carried with it the means. The two houses were called on to enumerate the votes for President and Vice President. Of course they were called on to decide what are votes. Mr. Clay said, the committee, being morally certain that the question would arise on the votes, in joint meeting,’ thought it best, ‘‘to give it the go-by in this way. Suppose this resolution not adopted, the Presi- dent of the Senate will proceed to open and count the votes; and would the House allow that officer singly and alone thus vir- tually to decide the question of the legality of the votes? If not, how, then, were they to proceed? Was it to be settled by the decision of the two houses conjointly, or of the two houses separately? One house would say the votes ought to be counted, the other that they ought not; and then tho votes wonld be lost altogether.” The resolu- tion was adopted. a Here we must rest for to-day, but we shall pursue the subject further on gnother occasion. We do not doubt that Senator Morton has all these authorities by heart, and that upon them and others like them he founded his bill of the last session, Russia and Turkey. The impression seems to gain ground in England that the conference will end in a compromise of the main points of the dif- ficulty—that the Sultan will not so abso- lutely reject the programme of reforms as to compel the plenipotentiaries to withdraw, yet will not concede those real satisfactions that justice demands—will, in short, once more eyade diplomatic endeavors to compel him to govern his subjects on the principles recognized in civilized countries. It ap- pears that the reasons they have for this opinion relate to the condition of Russia as to her military prepa- rations. This condition, it is said, is such that Russia will necessarily abate her de- mands, as it would bé a calamity to her to be forced to fight. From the hints thrown out as to the condition of the Russian arsenals it would appear that the country is very much in the condition in which France was at the beginning of the war with Ger where the money has beer “nt » army is not eqni) inven’) (yom a ig i ith } ‘ anol , ui iaws there is a tical .auity for such offences as that .uuitted by Mr. Swan, it is not easy to see why the gentleman has given himself the trouble to leave for parts unknown, unless it be that, giving to selfish villany the last conceivable indulgence, he desired to save himself the pain of seeing in familiar faces the knowledge of his shame. Here is a man who can rob his brother and his sister of the fortune left them by his father; who can betray the trust reposed in him by that father—-the most sacred, perhaps, that ever issues from human relations—and who yet seems to fancy that he has a sense of shame, who would like to associate him- self by at least some filmy fancy with men who are justly sensitive as to the opinions of others. Fortunately for them the sev- eral societies of which this person was an officer had their operations so systematized that they had very little occasion to trust any one. Had it been otherwise they would certainly have become victims to their confidence; for there was no limit to the opinion entertained of Mr. Swan’s honesty, and he seems not to have overlooked a single dollar that it was possi- ble for him to appropriate. He was able to injure in a very great degree only those im- mediate relatives whose affection and confi- dence prevented their taking any guarantee against dishonesty. This case exhibits again very forcibly, as did the case of Bar- rett and Nicoll, how utterly helpless are per- sons whose property is in the hands of trus- tees. Their case is certainly very hard, since the law affords them no _ protection and prevents them from protecting themselves. It might be no immediate sat- isfaction to Mr. Swan's brother and sister to have a statute in existence providing for a rigorous punishment of his*crime, since it would not restore their property and might add a poignant pang to what they already feel; yet tho presence of two or three dis- honest trustees in the State Prison would perhaps not be without effect on the conduct of other trustees, Some Amateur Frer Travers came to grief on the Havana steamer which artived yes- terday, The revenue officials relieved them of some thousands of cigars, and now any one who wishes to hear a despotic govern- ment denounced in fitting terms can be ac- commodated on board the Columbia. Nor Aut or tig Savace Aximats in Mr, Barnum's late collection walked upon four fect and used natural weapons; one of them dresses like a human being snd assaults women witha hammer. The State has a fine assortment of cages at Sing Sing for such brutes, and it is to be hoped that Roberts will speedily be cared for in one of them. ‘Tur New Gas Brps indicate sundry spasms of sense on the part of the companies, but it is only by the light of the kerosene lamp that the gas venders can sco themselves as they are seen, womes | t ‘Governor Hayes and His Wicked Partners, The remarkable letter from Cincinnati which we printed last Tuesday gives the “true inwardness” of the intrigue te secure Southern support for Governor Hayes. It means a plot to count him in whether he is honestly elected or not. How far he is com- mitted to this wild project we do not pro- fess to know; but it is time for him to speak out. We take Governor Hayes to be a good but not strong man, with excellent impulses and patriotic intentions: His course since he was nominated shows one or two danger- ously weak points of character of a kind which many truly good men have had before him. It was a weakness that having de- clared his policy in his letter of acceptance, a policy which received the approval of good citizens of both parties, he thereafter gave no attention to the principles on which the leaders of his party conducted the can- vaés. These made haste to raise a purely sectional issue, not mentioned in the letter of acceptance and repugnant to that, and on this alone they continued to “fire the Northern heart,” never mentioning either their candidate or his policy, or the plat- form, which was in harmony with his letter of acceptance. Now, if Mr. Hayes hud been astrong man, with the just pride of a states- man, he must have protested against the course of the party leaders. But he re- mained silent, showed weakness of character and justly lost the confidence of a great number of thoughtful citizens. Next, when he did begin to speak, after the clection, he showed himself weak. Be- lieving himself defeated he remarked that he grieved for it, because the election of Mr. Tilden meant bitter and bloody perse- cution of the colored people in the South. It argued a curious ignorance, alike of pub- lic sentiment and public questions, to be- lieve that unless he was installed the Southern States would become a field of wrong and murder. A fanatic might so think and speak, but he would be an ignorant fanatic. Finally we come to this intrigue with cer- tain Southern men. At first it seemed, in its spirit, at least, not discreditable to him. It was supposed that, believing himself un- doubtedly elected, he was merely giving to the South, through some of its principal statemen, assurances that they would find him a very different President from General Grant, So far there was no harm; but as it seemed to take by its secrecy the character of an intrigue we warned Mr. Hayes re- peatedly, and in o friendly spirit, that he ought to speak out; we told him that the country is prepared to welcome such a policy, and that while secrecy would em- barrass both him and those to whom he was understood to be making friendly overtures, a frank and public announcement would only raise him in public esteem. But Mr. Hayes remained silent, om 4 ur Cincinnati correspon dans nov lows a Atengreeable ron this whe ohient of . to b a wint i will 4 axn 5 3 saary t a) , H s 4 [0 “different i Lo. upi-eo gain over thirty birtytive Southern votes in the | Honse of Representatives to the sup- port of a scheme which has for its object to secure his being counted in by the Presi- dent of the Senate, in defiance of law and all precedent—that is a different and so serious a matter that, while we no longer wonder at the continued secrecy, we must now say that it is necessary to the good rep- utation of Mr. Hayes that-he shall promptly and publicly disavow all connection with or knowledge of this int Of course such a plot cannot succeed. It would bring failure and disgrace upon Mr. Hayes and his administration if it did sne- ceed. We have 6étill the hope that Mr. Hayes knows ‘nothing of this conspiracy; that it is the work of persons whom we may call his ‘wicked partners;” and that his is another of the not infrequent cases where a weak but in the main good man fanatically believes that his own success is necessary tothe public. We advise Governor Hayes to get rid of his ‘‘wicked partners.” They are dragging him into deep and very muddy waters. If he was really elected he will be inaugurated and will live in the White House. No plot or intrigueis required to insure an honest result. If he was not elected he should follow the example of Mr. Douglas, who held Mr. Lincoln's hat while the latter was inaugurated. Rapid Transit in the Courts. The friends of rapid transit—and they in- elude ninety-nine one-hundredths of the peo- ple of New York—wilhe well pleased with the decision of the General Term of the Su- preme Court, delivered yesterday by Judge Brady and concurred in by Chief Justice Davis, granting the application of the Rapid ‘transit Company for the appointment of commissioners to carry out the provisions of the law of 1875. Judge Daniels dissented, but the controlling opinion is so convincing that it would seem improbable that an ap- peal would be taken to the court of dast re- sort, were it not for the suspicion that the money of some of the wealthy horse car com- panies is used to make a factions fight against rapid transit to the bitter end. Judge Brady argnes that the Gilbert Ele- vated Railroad Company was created prior to the law of 1875, with all necessary pow- ers, none of which wore warped or de- stroyed when the last act was passed. The provision in the law of 1875 admitting existing corporations to the benefits of that law when the routes covered by their charters should be deter- mined upon by the Rapid Transit Commis- sioners was, as Judge Brady says, designed to prevent any conflict between existing but unexecuted charters and companies to be formed under the new act, “nnd at all e¥ents to secure to the people the advan- tages of an elevated road over the route se- lected.” The people of New York desire rapid transit. The law was intended to secure it to them. It was framed in conformity with the new provisions of the constitution; the construction was legally and justly awarded owners who erroneously suppose that they are to be injured by the improvement, and from the interested horse caf companies, which desire to continue to make enormous dividends out of their inconvenient, unnc- commodating lines, The proposed struc- ture can now be seen on some portion of the route, and the people can judge for themselves of the comfort and advantages it will afford them when completed. There may be individual sufferers from the improvement, but this is always the case in great public works. Private interests must give way to the public good. Judge Brady says:—‘‘Rapid transit is one of the objects of our municipal life which our people regard as of great importance. It involves a public improvement, and public improvements al- ways involve sacrifice. The greatest good of the greatest number is justly the grand pur- pose of good government, and the compara- tively few who are injured are required to submit to the laws of their rulers.” Judge Brady's common sense is as sound as his law. The decision enables the work to be pushed forward, and it is to be hoped that no further technical obstructions will be countenanced by the courts. The Proposed New Opera House, We notice with pleasurethe interest man- ifested by our enterprising contemporary, the World, in the Strakosch opera house project. The suggestion for an uptown site seems a good one. Either the large open space opposite the Grand Central de- pot, or Gilmore's Garden, or the lot at the corner of Forty-fourth street and Fifth ave- nue would be a suitable location for the pro- posed opera house, the desiderata being con- venience of access and a central neighbor- hood, both considered with reference to the growth of the upper portion of the island. With the interest and active aid of such men as Mr. William H. Vanderbilt the project can hardly fail to be successful. We trust, however, that they will not repeat the mistake which has made the Academy of Mu- sicsounpopular. Thestockholders should not monopolize the good seats to the exclusion of the public. If the new house is trammelled in this way it will be as little likely to get public favor as the present one. We do not coincide with the suggestion that the pro- posed building should be of gigantic pro- portions, Experience has proved that there isa limit in building theatres, as in other things, beyond which it is unprofitable to go. We might instance several theatres and opera houses, in this country and abroad, which are like the mammoth steamship Great Eastern—too big to answer the pur- pose, The most successful places of amuse- ment are not of exaggerated proportions, but moderate in dimension. With a suit- able location, far enough up town to be cen- tral when the growth of the upper part of the island is completed; with a well con- structed building, not too large, and con- trived with strict regard for acoustic effect, and with a judicious arrangement per- mitting the public to havea fair choice of seats unrestricted by the reserved rights of directors, the proposed opera house ought to be as grent a success as the most sanguine of its friends could wish. Let Us Have Another Cable, The proposal to lay another Atlantic cablo by popular subscription is regarded with such favor that the amalgamation of the pres- ent cable companies would inevitably result in the formation of a new company and the establishment ofa new cable. The scheme is not only feasible, but attractive. The two millions necessary to the accomplishment of the project, or even four millions for two lines of cable, could be promptly raised without great difficulty, The newspapers and mercantilo establishments most in- terested in the establishment of sharp competition and low rates are generally wealthy and would subscribe liberally for anindependent cable. We would gladly sub- scribe toward this object, and we are pretty well assured ofa similar disposition in other quarters, The shares in an independent co- operative company would find a ready mar- ket. Shares of one hundred dollars each, bearing four or five per cent interest, with the prospect of the accruing dividends, ought to be*popular and profitable investments, Let the friends of this project call a meeting and take measures for securing permanent cheap rates and putting an end to monopoly and a high tariff The Gottysburg's Coral Reef. We print in our cable despatches to-day some further particulars of the attempt ta locate and survey the extensive coral reef recently discovered in the Atlantic and about one hundred and twenty-five miles west of Cape St. Vincent, Portugal, by the United States ship Gettysburg. It isa very remarkable fact that this danger to naviga- tion was not found before, especially asit lies, as it were, right in the courre of vessels bound south from English and French ports to the Mediterranean via the Straits of Gib- raltar, and of ships making the Cape passage or trading between Southern Eu- rope and ports in North and South America, That thousands of sailing vessels and steamers should have passed this reef* with- out observing any breakers favors the theory that it may be of recent origin and due to a submarine up- heaval, the result of volcanic ac- tion. The statement that breakers were observed near the present site of the reef by a Spanish captain half a century ago is not inconsistent with the volcanic hypothesis, Submarine mountains are known to form suddenly, and as suddenly to subside, only to be again upheaved, and these changes have been noted as occuring from time to time in about the same locality. Itis prob- able that within the area of tbe reef a cen- tral depression will be found representing a crater. In any case immediate steps should be taken to obtain the fullest infor- mation regarding this danger to interna- tional commerce, Texxyson ann Turren.—These are now the two great poets of England, and they have both written plays. Neither of them will prove dangerous to the fame of Shake- speare in this direction, though the muse of each chooses the illustration of great his- ardent admirers may well regret that he has ventured in a path where even great excel- lence might be forced to unfortunate com- parisons, and where it is dangerously easy to be turgid and commonplace without know- ing it. He has demonstrated a fellowship with Tupper in the fact now evident that ~ they can both write bad plays; and has proved that the quality of good dramatic poetry cannot be supplied by the lyric spirit with its polish end form—is as widely dife ferent from it, in fact, as is the maundering and twaddle of the. ‘‘Proverbial Philosophy.” Milk and Justice. It is a pity that an attempt to enforce laws made to prevent the adulteration of articles of food should end in the infliction of a punishment that wnust appear unjust to any rational observer ; for such a result defeats the operation of the law by discouraging prosecutions, and thus directly furthers the villany of the people who thrive by the adulteration of food. was satisfied that the milk examined was adulterated with water. They did not find that it was adulterated by the defendant. They did not even tind that he knew it was adulterated ; and, in view of the testimony , impeaching the tests made by the authori- ties, it is evident that a man might fairly have doubts on this point. The culprit sold the milk as he bought it—unaware that it was not good and pure milk—and he is sen- tenced to incarceration and to pay a fine that is heavy for one engaged in a small milk traffic. This is certainly unjust, as it imposes upon one man the penalty for the offences of another, without even the pre- tence of complicity; and much as the people desire to have pure milk we believe they would rather not have it if. it cannot be ob- tained without incidents like this, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Morrissey is still engaged 1n politics, Hissing is becoming popular in London theatres, St. George is the patron saint of the Russian army. The Russian is a regular old rooster for dying game. When Talmage gesticulates thero 1s a great tidal waive, Captain R. Aufrye, of the French Legation at Wash- ington, is at the Hotel Brunswick. Of George Dawson it is sald that ho hated theology and botany, but loved roligion anu flowers, A little boy was looking ata picture of Punch, when he said, ‘‘Ma, he wears his nose on his back.” Leslie Stephen:—‘*Paley’s theology escapes, if, in- deea, it escapes from decay, only because it is frozen. '? The Springfield Republican is gonerously delighted with our suggestion that Columbia Collego be made into a great university, Raw-chester Democrat:—‘'lt is not inspiring to hear the man against the lamppoat remark ‘Peaco ’nearth— g’will to men—whoop.’”” Mr. Waltor, of the London Times, and Mrs. Walter were welcomed home to Bearwood with a fine recep- tion and a procession of children. Burlington Hawkeye:—‘In distinction from ‘Old Probabilities,’ the pretty Treasury cirls at Washington are called ‘young possibiiitics,’ (No cards.)’? William Morris:— But let thy soul, I charge thee, o'er all these things prevail, Torunko thy short day glorious and leave ‘goodly tale, Seiior Don Luis de Potestad, of tho Spanish and American Claims Commission, arrived from Europo in the steamship Russia yesterday, and is at the Brovoert House. Two oystors in 4 gallon of lukewarm fluid ata churey fair are no longer called stows, but aquarlams; and some peoplo think thero are too many fish tothe water. In China any criminal possessed ot $15 may pro- cure a substitute who, baving deppsited the money ia the bands of his poor relatives, will chceriully undergo the operation of decapitation. “Index :""—Yes; professional musicians whg are not professing Christians arc employed in cholts of New York churches,-but {t is untrue that the San Francisco minstreis sing in the African churches, The man who was found lying at the base of the re servoir yesterday morning and who was explaining that ho belonged to Her Majosty’s service, said on re covering that he belonged to “the elivinth fat.” Matthew Arnold argues that imagination is fn- creasing in power as a governing human faculty. We have observed this in a young man at a boarding house who was trying to carve a pair of chickens out of two nice arctic rubbers, AGerman professor, who rejects Malthusian doc. trines, computos that, taking the whole world for an average, a woman {8 worth about one-eighth of a man, He thinks that th Fe at least 250,000,000 unmarried women in the wo From Florence we hear that receptions are given by some of the Italian aristocracy to the Prince Imporial, who finds much sympathy among Italians, remem. bering how much they are indebted to Napoleon IIL for their freedom and unity. Some time ago there was in the contral jail of Jub, bulpore a rascally old Thug who would obligo visitors by explaining, with a twisted handkerchief and on the necks of the said visitors, how his comrades did thelr strangling in the good old times. A bald-beaded man named Gregory, who lives in Rochester, went home on the morning atter Christmas with a big pieco of court plaster on his chin, and ex. plained that he had to take some copy up ata late hour and bumped himsel! on tho elevator. Prince Wasa, who would now be King of Sweden if his father, Gustavus IV., had not abdicated in favor of Bernadotte, bas arrivod at Paris, The Prince is now seventy-seven, aad was ten yoars old at the time of the accession of Napoleon I.’s nominee, Burlington Red Eye:—‘Up in Muscatine the musical and literary young men of tho Unitarian church organ. ized the Muscatine Unitarian Musical Philosophical £o- ciety, but when tho abbreviated title came out Im print M. U. M. P.S, it struck in on the association and killed 1.7” Inthe Hippodrome at Constantinople may still be seen the remains of a venerablo trophy of the Persisa war, the bronze serpent which, with tho gold tripod it supported, was dedicated to the Delphian Apollo by the allied Greeks after the victory of Platwa as a tenth of the Persian spoil, In an Edinburgh trial a witness was asked, “What do you consider excessive politeness to a lady not your wife?” ana he answered, “Whon a gentleman attends to a lady as if she were a piece of blown glass and he were afraid she might broak, Husbands are not gon- erally so particuiar,” During Mr. Bradiey’s journey throogh the dense forests of the Malay Peninsula, between Patani and Province Wellesley he came upon a small settlement of exceedingly degraded savages, whom ho seriously took to be apes walking erect, as they descended from huge nests among the trees, and as they wore entirely devoid of clothing. Examiner :—‘‘Mr. Bright seldom makes a speech without enriching our political literatare with some happy phrases, Such in bis speech at Birmingham on Monday was his description of the ‘hearty anwisdom’ of Lord Salisbury’s home policy, and his saying of Lord Benconsfteld that tho may be a great actor, but some how or other ho seems to mo as if he always played rather to the galleries. ’’? Evening Telegram bill of fare for a lunatic;— $e seca sopr. Brotb, mado from ‘‘cracked” whoat, rien. Anything in-seine, ENTRER, Weish rabid, ROAST, Beef from a mad buil, with keeper sauce, ‘The wildcat kind orate thet 0 wildert hyme that ws at Flat-buehes or in the Blovaing-asia = ne GAME March hares, DESSERT. 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