The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1879, Page 6

6 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. fet be THE DAILY HERALD, Pudtished every day in the year. ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday's excluded). Ten dollars per Jour, five dollars for six months, two dollars und ff | for three months, or at a rate of one dollar per n any isd lous then three months, Sunday edition included Hout Sunday edition, eight doliars per year, tree of EKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post: “Novick 70 SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New York or Post Office money orders, and where neither of these @ registered letter, All Tn order to insure utten- aren changed must give packages should a properly sealed. jons will not be returned, . 12 SOUTH SIXTH ad) forwarded on the same tors ae in New York. TO-DAY AND EVEN pee SS Ai PARK THEATRE—E: tinee. LYCEUM THEATRE— avonr. Matinee. BROADWAY THEATER NAFORE. Matinee. FIFTH AV. THEATRE- © Dark. Matinee. v or Paper. Matinee. UNION SQUARE—Tur Banker's Daventer. Matinee. GERMANIA THEATRE—H. INAFORK. 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Money on the lowest rate bei “SIMPLE § Tue Rea, Esrare Marker continues quite active. E ATOR SARc tion of the Chinese Tue Ixpicrep Vincixra JupGes have evi- dently a very rough road before them if the pro- gramme already laid down is strictly followed. Nv believes that the agita- uestion has done great good. Tuere Seems To Be Some Prosvecr of a change in our standard weights and measurés. Let us have good measures and up to the stand- ard. Tue Busrxess FALO protest against false economy in the management of our State canals, which is a wise view to take of the question. neeticut. General Patrick, however, has taken steps to prevent the disease being brought to New York. Tue Morpver or 1 Porter, the actor, has created a deep impression in the com- munity, as was to be expected from so brutal and unprovoked a crime. A Cory of the new Cdvadian tariff, which Went into operation on the 15th inst., has been filed with the Chamber of Commerce, where it may be consulte by those interested. A Ty Stem Rowell will car ry home with him. Yesterday he exchanged his American winnings for three thousand nine hundred pounds sterli We wonder how wany “silent” partners he has to share in tl Ir Is A Mi-rakr to suppose that the streets are being cleaned because Mayor Cooper has brought the Police Commissioners up with a round turn. These gentlemen have been reading “Our Com- plaint Book” more attentively than usual. Seventy-Five Years of married life is a rare yet an old couple in Fairfield Conn., lay claim to this unusual honor. They were man and wife long before the War of 1812, and have lived happily and peacefully together through three wars on this continent. The history of this remarkable pair is given in another column. Maxy Prorie Suepper when they hear that a condemned murderer has suffered on the gal- lows, believing that method of execution to be &® brutal one, yet hear every day of men hanging themselves as a means of snicide. Why should it be brutal for the shrinking murderer ow the other ? disturbance whieh early on Friday morn- ing has moved into the ocean off the New Eng- land coast, attended by rains in the southern barom- ets north is stilla nding wlong V8, Which slope of the connects the disturbance away with a large depression that is advancing over ‘Texas. This depression will probably take a more southerly path than the one that pi val it, as the area of high barometer in the | regions will tend to turn its course more to the eastward, which is the dircetion in resistance to its progress will be The barometer is high over the British pundland, It is also high in the South Atlantic and cast- ern Gulf coasts. Besides in the districts affeeted by the passage of the rain has fallen in the central valleys and snow in the Rocky Mountain regions. The winds have been brisk to high in the West, fresh over the lakes, Middle Atlantic and New England coasts, and generally light elsewhere copting a slight full in the northern Missouri and Mississippi valleys the temperature has risen. Our special ‘weather cable from Europe states that the weather over the British Islands is unsettled. Strong northeast winds are blowing at the month ofthe Channel, and the pressure is very low, Deing 29.20 inches at Scilly. The weather in New York and its vicinity to-day will be cooler and partly cloudy or fuir, followed toward night by increasing cloudiness and rising temperature, ‘To-morrow it promises to be warm and cloudy, possi ly with rain least. Possessions and eastward toward N disturban JEW YORK HERALD] trations! Metcorotogy—rne Prac- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, tical Application of Data’ in the Protection of Commerce, Agriculture and Navigation. Our appreciation of the benefits con- ferred on the many interests of the country by the work of the United States Signal Service has never failed since the organiza- tion of the very efficient body of observers who watch the weather at so many points scattered over the public domain. We have seldom had occasion to question the methods by which the data so collected are applied to the purpose of protecting life and property on land and sea, and then recognized that it was owing to the in- elasticity of the system rather than to a want of ability in utilizing 1t that any failures should be attributed. The same may be said of the meteorological work in France, where the objects sought to be attained are the accurate prevision from day to day of atmospheric disturb- ances and the safety of navigation on the gq coasts. In England, where there is less effort made to adapt the most recent dis- coveries in meteorological science to the practical work of storm warning, the system is almost ‘hide bound” inits rigid adher- ence to form and rule, and these, in turn, seem to be founded on the crudest idcas on the subject of meteorology. The laudable efforts to organize an inter- national meteorological system, in which the chief signal officer of the United States Army is taking a prominent part, demand from us a criticism which is intended more to suggest improvements than to censure detects. With the object of securing simul- taneous observations at many points on the Northern Hemisphere, for the making of synoptic charts of the atmospheric dis- tribution, it was agreed, as the basis of the international system, that the observa- tions should be made to correspond with thirty-five minutes past seven A, M., Washington mean time. The reader will understand that at that physical mo- ment all the observations of the interna- tional system are made over the Northern Hemisphere. Hence these observations are made later in the local day as the points are further to the east of the meridian of Washington, and earlier as the points are westward ofthat meridian, This being the fixed rule it follows that there is little or no variation of the conditions due to direct solar influence at any of the points, except in regard to those that create the seasons—that is to say, the Washington ob- servation is always made in the morning at thirty-five minutes past seven o’clock and the Greenwich observation at torty-three minutes after noon, that at St. Petersburg at thirty-nine minutes after two P. M., and so on. At San Francisco, on the other hand, the observation, to correspond with Wash- ington, must be made at about thirty-nine minutes after four A. M., and earlier in pro- portion at the Sandwich Islands and points further west. This arrangement gives the conditions for one-half the hemisphere dur- ing the dark hours and for the other half during. the daylight hours, without any variution throughout the year. We may know from the observations made in con- nection with a local system what changes have occurred by reason of the gradual increase and decrease of the solar influence during the day, but we cannot apply the knowledge intelligently to international meteorological investigation in the manner contemplated by the framers of the system now in operation. There can be no valuable comparison made between the meteorological condi- tions prevailing on the opposite sides of the hemisphere, except under the conditions of darkness and illumination, which never vary for the respective surfaces, being arbitrarily defined by the times of cb- servation, We know that the solar heat expands the atmosphere, and that on the withdrawal of that heat in a greater or | lesser degree there is a corresponding con- traction of the atmospheric volume. The best we can do, therefore, under the system now in vogue, is to keep on comparing the rela- tions between the conditions over the Central Pacific at midnight and the Eastern Atlan- ticand Western Europe at full noon tide; between the Middle Atlantic States in the early morning and China in the early even- ing. We cannot reverse the hours and con- ditions of temperature at these places unless we have o second observation made also synchronous with one at Washington or Paris. Then instead of having a twenty- four hours’ blank in our international me- teorological system we would have one of only twelve hours. We are satisfied that the initial development of storms is largely involved in the changes that occur in the volume of the atmospheric envelope caused by solar heat, but without waiting to dis- cuss that question here we recommend an amendment to the plin of observations which will divide the day into two periods for the purposes above suggested. Lastly, we ask, What methods aro being applied to insure the immediate employ- ment of the data collected by this interna- tional system? Surely the object of the system is not the mero collection of data for ultimate study, or, in other words, the accumulation of data that will be lost in its own voluminousness. If France or Eng- land are to exchange observations with the United States only every fifteen days what value, except for study, is to be set on observations from India and China, which may reach Washington several months after they are made? ‘The congresses that assemble from time to time to lay the plans for more advanced work in meteorology do not seem to consider the needs which practical men have for prac- tical results from all the parade and cost that attend meteorological undertakings, To the Hrnarp alone belongs the credit of evolving out of the confusion of ideas on this subject clear, practical and beneficial results, of which M. Faye, President of the Bureau of Longitudes, Paris, says in a re- cent letter tothe Heranp :—‘‘Késultats qui constituent & mes yeu un des progres les plus Srappants et les plus utiles de la — svience noderne.” The Henatp uses the cable freely in the daily service of its weather and ship news bureaus, The movements of storms toward Europe are known by our warnings several days on that continent before they arrive, and all the machinery of a practical and useful international meteorological service is put in motion without the friction and clatter that mark the most unimportant operation of systems sustained at public cost. For an international system worthy of great countries we should havea daily exchange of observations through several centres —Washington, San Francisco, Lon- don or Paris, Berlin or Vienna, St. Peters- burg, Rome, Constantinople or Cairo, Cal- cutta, Yokohama. An International Exposition at New York in 1883, We publish this morning an interesting and important communication in advocacy of holding the next American International Exposition in this city in 1883. That there will be such a festival held in America within ten years admits of no doubt; for, in spite of much mismanagement, of inevitable dissatisfaction on the part of many exhibi- tors, and positive losses incurred by some, it is certain that the Centennial Exposition of 1876 has resulted in great benefit to American industry and commerce. That the next occasion of the kind should be carefully and scientifically prearranged in such manner as to secure the greatest possi- ble advantages, both material and moral, is a self-evident proposition, The two im- portant decisions which require to be made without loss of time are the place and the date. In respect tothe former subject a final decision iseasy, While Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and other ambitious cities would offer a hearty welcome to the next inter- national festival, there is no city that can dispute either the pre-eminent claims or the exceptional facilities of the metropolis of America, That question may be re- garded as settled. In respect to the date, it must be remembered that this is a matter upon which the wishes, the convenience and the interests of other nations must be consulted. Te number of such nations, however, is small, and the probabilities of their action can be estimated without much difficulty. Germany and England have not held expositions for several years, and, as our correspondent points out, both are dis- cussing the advisability of such an exposi- tion for 1885. ‘There should never be an interval of less than two years between such festivals, so that it will be safe to concede to London and Berlin a pre-emption right to the years 1885 and 1887. Although little has yet been said on the subject it may be set down as an absolute certainty that France will in 1889 celebrate the centenary of her great revolu- tion with an Exposition surpassing in mag- nificence every previous festival of the kind. It is equally certain that America as a whole will celebrate ina similar manner in 1892 the fourth centenary of the discovery of America, We must, therefore, appoint our next Ex- position in view of the above facts. ‘Lhe date should, if possible, commemorate an important national anniversary; it should be as nearly as possible intermediate be- tween 1876 and 1892; it should not conflict with dates to which other nations havea superior claim ; it should be neither so far offas to paralyze present interest, nor so near as to afford insufficient time for due preparation. All of these conditions are ful- filled by the year 1883, the centenary of our acknowledged independence and of the evacuation of the city of New York by the British troops. Upon the exact locality most suitable for the purpose the facts set forth by our correspondent will be found to have an important bearing. The New Orleans Banks, It seems to be the concurrent opinion of good judges that the monetary crisis in New Orleans will be of short duration. The national banks of that city are, one and all, in a perfectly sound condition, but some of the State banks have made impradent investments in consolidated city bonds which cause them embarrassment in conse- quence of a recent judicial decision declar- ing unconstitutional a special tax levy tor payment of interest. Two or three New Orleans banks have failed because they were badly managed and their capi- tal was exhausted, but all tho na- tional banks are in a good condition and a majority of the State banks are sol- vent. The state of affairs in New Orleans causes Do uneasiness in this city, although it leads to the calling home of large sums deposited here by the New Orleans banks. ‘The temporary suspension of all the banks is merely to gain time until they can re- ceive their New York funds. We direct attention to our interesting Washington de- spatch on this subject, which corroborates the cheerful view taken by the New York bankers. Out of Order. It becomes the duty of the Henap, as the presiding officer of the congress of jour- nalism, to decide that the large majority of its Southern contemporaries are at the pres- ent time “out of orgler.” It is, of course, quite natural that they should be elated at the restoration of their friends to power in both ends of the Capitol, but the style in which they refer to that event is neither statesmanlike, jadicious nor becoming. Head lines such as the “Capitol Cuptured,” “fn at Last” and “Oar Victory” may suit the other side of Mason and Dixon's line, but they seem to betray a spirit which finds no favor among the men of any party in this section of the country. The political literature in a large number of the Southern papers just now irresistibly recalls the war ern, Which no portion of the country has more interest in forgetting than the South. It is to be hoped our ‘‘redhot” contempora- ries do not represent the sensible, conserv- ative classes in the South. In the most friendly spirit wo warn our contemporaries that they are entirely | out of order, One Dollar. Archbishop Purcell adopts the Hersip’s view of the best imcthod of paying the in- debtedness of the diccese. ‘Great as the debt is, a dollar from every one would soon cancel it.” Of course the Archbishop means from every Catholic, and the simple contri- bution would more than wipe out the scan- dal and lift a heavy load of sorrow from the venerable prelute’s heart. But every Catholic is not able to give o MARCH 22, dollar for such a purpose, while many are 80 blessed with the world’s gifts as to be in @ position to contribute much more. Every rich Catholic who gives a thousand dollars, or five hundred, or one hundred, makes up for just so muny poor Catholics, to whom the contribution of a single dollar would be a tax. The Veto Power in Canada. The answer of the Colonial Secretary to Mr. Bright’s questions in the House of Com- mons on Thursday evening relating to the new Canadian tariff will naturally cause a sensation at Ottawa and throughout the Do- minion. On ‘Thursday morning the London Times had a vehement leading article de- nouncing the new tariff, but still conveying the idea that it is necessary for the home government to submit to it and allow it to have the force of law. ‘The Times said:— “Perhaps it is true that the usual instruc- tion was omitted requiring Lord Lorne to reserve for Her Majesty’s approval all bills imposing differential duties.” Mr. Bright ineluded this point in his inquiries, and was told by the Colonial Secretary {hat ‘‘the right of the government in regard to the sanction of the new tariff was not affected by the instructions to Lord Lorne.” Whether the Queen’s sanction will be withheld is as yet an undecided ques- tion, and the fact that this point has ben raised in Parliament will naturally bring uneasiness to Sir John Mucdonald’s government. The home government strongly disapproves of the new turiff. The Colonial Secretary stated, in reply to Mr. Bright, ‘that only a telegraphic sum- mary of the new Canadian tariff had been received, and therefore he was unable to judge of its effect, but he had telegraphed that the government regretted the proposed increase in duties already high.” Inthe act of the Imperial Parliament establishing the government of the Do- minion the authority to disapprove bills passed by the Canadian Parliament is ex- plicity reserved. When a bill has passed both houses the Governor General may pur- sue either of these three courses:—He may declare (1) that he nssents thereto in the Queen’s name; or (2) that he withholds the Queen’s assent; or (3) that he re- serves the bill for the signification of the Queen’s pleasure. If he adopts the last of these courses the operation of the bill is suspended until the Queen’s pleasure is known, and if she should not signify her assent within two years the billis of no force, But even when the Governor Gen- eral assents to a bill it still remains in the power of the Queen to annul it any time within two years after the Governor General gives his assent. This new tariff will lead to a fresh discus- sion in England of the relations of the home government to the colonics—a dis- cussion which may bring the public mind of Great Britain to the conclusion that the same freedom of trade must exist between all parts of the British Empirs that exists between the States of the American Union. Of what value are the colonies to England except as affcrding a free market for the products of her industry? They entail on her considerable expense ; she requires a larger navy to protect them than she would otherwise need; they multiply the points at which she can be attacked in every war. Her only com- pensation for this expense and these disad- vantages consists in the possession of mar- kets which cannot be shut against her by hostile legisiation over which she has no control. Unless she can keep their trade it is for her plain. interest to dissolve the colonial tie and leave them to defend them- selves against foreign aggression. ‘The bur- den of maintaining an army and navy for protection against foreign Powers would consume a much greater rev- enue than the Canadian . government can expect to derive from its increased rates of duty. If the Imperial government should not decide to veto the new turiff the probable consequence of the go-called ‘‘na- tional policy” on which Canada has entered will be a strong demand by a powerful sec- tion of British public opinion for the abandonment of that colony, or else for an act of the Imperial Parliament requiring the free admission of British goods into all the colonial markets, Fine Jlustrations. The Graphic’s admirable illustrations of the Afghan Embassy to Tashkend, in yes- terday’s issue, show to what perfection the work of illustrated.journals caa be brought. The tone, boldness and finish of the por- traits in especial are remarkable. ‘Lhe illustrations comprise the final audience of the Afghan ambassadors with General Kaufmann, the travelling carriage of the Hunatp correspondent, and faithiul like- nesses of the chief of the mission, the sec- ond ambassador, General Kautmann, the Governor General of Turkestan, General Rasgonoff, the Russian Ambassador at Cabul, and Ivan de Wwstyne, the Heritp correspondent, to whom the world is in- debted for the first intelligence of the late Ameer’s sickness and death and other in- teresting information from ‘lurkestan, s Woes, «They hate us youth,” said the nobie Sir John Fulstaff on a memorable occasion ; and that observation touches the mutrow of the difficulties in which that rollicking blade, Simon Cameron, finds himself in these gloomy days. It is a conspiracy, a down- right plot on the part of the people who are without any animal spirits of their own, and hate to see the play of other people's. We are not sure that there is not even some jealousy io it, and we solemnly warn Simon that he ought to keep his eye on General Butler; for although the great counsellor, to keep up an appearance, ealls the Widow Oliver out of her name whon he addresses her in a loud voice, we are not at all sure of what he says in those pleasant little smirking, smiling passages with which he reassures her in an undertone. We say this out of regard ta Simon’s peace of mind in the future, for we sco how all this will come ont. ‘They will make it up, and Simon will love the widow more deeply than eyer when the quarrel is over. Amantium irar amoris in- tegratio est, She maybe Mrs. Simon yet, and a bigger woman than old Cleopatra. 1879.-TRIPLE SHEET. Can it be wondered at that there is trouble between the lovers when the famous demo- cratic doorkeeper irom ‘Texas came between them, and was not only a “biger man than old Grant,” but even a bigger man than old Cupid? Whis- pering tongues can poison truth and con- stancy lives in realms above, and it is already known that that doorkeeper can whisper so as to ba heard over the whole United States. There is one consolation tor the Senator, which is the reflection how much worse he would be off if instead of this gentle widow he had {allen into trouble with some of the really adventurous women at the national capital, One as enterpris- ing in love as Mrs. Jenks was in politics would have married him years ago and be suing him now for divorce and aswingeing alimony. Kaiser Wilhelm’s Birthday. Kaiser Wilhelm celebrates his cighty- second birthday to-day at Berlin, where princes and potentates are now assembled to bring the aged monarch the customary glickwiinsche. The Emperor, we are informed by the cable, has been ordered by his physicians to avoid all unnecessary ex- citement, and consequently the Court festi- vities usual on this day will not be held. Bat this behest will not prevent the patriotic Berlinese from bringing the aged Emperor their mute homage, as they do every year. in respectful. groups they will stand all day long about the statue of the great Frederick, waiting and watching with true German patience till the familiar form is seen at the window of the palace to answer in military fashion the silent greetings of thé people. The Emperor has passed through a troubled yeur, and he is still suffering from the effects of the wounds inflicted by the weapon of the assassin. It is the heartfelt wish of all, we are sure, that the aged monarch will be spared further at- tempts on his life, and that he may yet be left many years to the Fatherland. He will occupy always a grand place in German history. He will in time “become a legendary figure; will, perhaps, take the place of Barbarossa in the mysterious depths of the Kyffhiiuser; to sleep, and to wake up once in every hun- dred years to bid the dwarf hie away and see if disunited Germany noeds him again. Frau Saga it is who takes good care of the heroes of this world and preserves their memory in glorious freshness for posterity. “Los Restos de Colon.” At four o'clock in the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1877, the ‘“‘Most Illus- trious and Reverend Don Fray Roque Coc- chia, of the Order of Capuchins, Bishop of Orope, Delegate Apostolic of the Holy See in the Republics of Santo Domingo, Vene- zuela and Hayti, and Vicar Apostolic of Santo Domingo,” enacted in the cathedral church of St. Domingo City the first act ofa solemn farce which will pass into his- tory as one of the curiosities of modern times. In’ the presence of about forty persons, comprising the principal cfficers of the Dominican government and the whole consular corps, among whom. figured “Mister Paul Jones, Consul of the Re- public of the United States~ of: North Anferica,” the Italian Delegate Apostolic, assisted by several priests, chiefly Italians, he proceeded to test the correctness of a favorite theory which he had previously made known to his distinguished visitors. This was nothing less than the presence ina place designated by tradition “‘anderneath the episcopal throne, on the right side of the presbytery,” of the true remains of the discoverer of America, which the Spaniards falsely claimed to have been removed to Havana December 20, 1795, on the occasion of the surrender of that colony to France by virtue ot the Treaty of Basle. ‘he farce had been well rehearsed and was enacted in a manner reflecting the highest credit upon the histrionic talents of the four or five Italian priests who undertook its management. Upon removing the pave- ment at the specified locality there was found o small leaden chest or box in good preservation, forty-two centimetres in length, within which were sundry human bones, a few handfuls of dust, a leaden bullet and an illegible inscription. After careful cleaning the latter was found to read, ‘“{LL arr. x Esdo. Vanon Don ORISLOBAL COLON.” Above were the cabalistic letters, “D. de la A. Per. Ate.,” and on the side “<. C. A.” The overjoyed Delegate Apostolic proved himself equal to the emergency and: promptly deciphered the whole, making it read, ‘Illustrious and Distinguished Hero Don Cristobal Colon, Discoverer of America, First Admiral,” and the three lateral initials ‘‘Cristobal Colon, Admiral.” The joy of the good Delegate Apostolic and of the faithful Dominicans was ex- treme, and is described in most pictorial prose in a pastoral letter promptly given to the press. Bells pealed and cannon thun- dered, and the happy event was at once announced in a circular letter addressed to the presidents of all the Hispanc-American Ropublics, soliciting national subscriptions jor ‘ monument worthy of the Father of the New World!” Here at last we begin to discover the “true inwardness” of this re- markable scene. No question of interpreta- tion or of historical evidences is permitted to mar the satisfaction of the Dominican patriots. But alas! for the rarity of Chris- tian charity, the no 1ess reverend clergy of Cuba and of Spain promptly pronounce the scene of the 10th of September, 1877, a flugrant instance of “pious fraud,” and the Royal Academy of History at Madrid, onan elaborate and caretul review of the whole history of the three removals ot the remains of Columbus, has just demonstrated ina manner which admits not the slightest doubt that the accepted account of their final sepulture in the Cathedral ot Havana is correct, and the pretended inscription found at St. Domingo a stupid and diapha- nous forgery. So ends the farce of the “Most Illustrious and Reverend Don Fray Roque Cocchia.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. A toothache is a grinderpest, Oliver Twist was an Ohio man, E, J. Baldwin (“Lucky”), the San Francisco mill: | ifonnaire, has marrie! a Miss Dexter,of Virginia City, Nev. { ' Picnics are now called country mtinées, ‘Talmage + pars well, but his guard is too high, It was Washington’s father who buried the hatchet. Ralph Waldo Emerson jots down, every little idea, ‘The winter is o’cr—sausages may now bay the moon. In the island of Cyprus boys of fifteen marry girls of ten or twelve, An exchange shouts “Spring is on hand.” Yes; a regular on hand-spring, General Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. ‘The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that it is a poor mule that will not work both ways, Blue is the color for lovers of the turf. For lovers of dog fights the right color is purp-le. A Missouri man has started a paper called Ambi- tion, Well, Ambition is a glorious sheet, Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the mar riage of the Marquis of. Lorne and Princess. Louise. ‘The Boston Commercial says it belongs to the Boomerang Club, Must be something like Captain Williams’ club, Ole Bull will probably keep on playing farewell engagoments until the angel Gabriel plays his fare well engagement. Next month the comet will be visible through powerful glasses, It will probably keop a good many husbands out late at night looking for it, . ‘The New Orleans Picayune says that old age necds an easy chair and a pair of slippers, Yes, and youth needs a pair of knees and only one slipper, Some of the moonshiners who go into the moun- tains to make domino whiskey call themselves shep- herds, Ah! that’s the cause of the crook-cdness. , Stiliwater Lum erman:—“When a boy walks witha yirlas though he were afraid somo one would see him the girl is his sister. If he walks.so close to her as to nearly crowd her against the fence she is the sister of some one else.’” Ex Governor E, A. Straw, of New Hampshire, who has been in feeble hea:th for some time past, is now said to have lost his voice and his mental powers. He has had the management of large industrial inter- ests in his Stato, and the regret at his melancholy condition must be widespread. Ex-Senator Christiancy, Minister to Peru, has taken with nim his son, a boy of fifteon, who, without gov- ernmental compensation, will be his private secretary, Mrs, Christiancy will follow him from New York on the l0thof June, Minister Christiancy is sixty-seven and receives $10,000 a year, with $409 for office rent, Truth says: ‘he reason why land in England must become less and less valuable for agricultural purposes is that rapid communication is destroying distances, and the cost of the transit of corn from California and other places where it can be produced on plains that pay no rent and that require no ‘high farming’ is every year diminishing, and every year will still further diminish. The reply for long was, ‘Yes, but land will, always be valuable for grazing purposes.’ I doubt this. The importations both eft live stock and of dead meat are assuming enormous proportions. Lruth says:—The mistake of English landowners has been to suppose that because land had for matiy years increased in value this increase is in accordance with @ natural and immutable law of nature, whereas, like every other commodity, land is subject to the ordinary market fluctuations. A tin minein Cotn- wall is worthless now, because tin can be imported from abroad at acheaper rate than it can be ex- tracted from a Cornwall mine. So field in-England that produces corn must necessarily become worth- less 80 soon as corn can be imported from America and sold et less tham it costs to grow i it on the Eng- lish fiel Truth says ‘What has always surprised me is that land in England is bought to return about one and one-half per cent, when the same sum invested in the funds would produce above three per cent, although, according to all rales of common sense, if the public credit is a three percent one, land ought to be bought to produce at least four per cent. The reason for this financial absurdity. is, I suppose, that the pos- session of land in England gives a certain social status, which is regarded as an equivalent for cash, But it strikes me that those who have laid out all their money in acquiring this social status will soon have nothing wherewith to support it.” Truth says:—*This question of the future value of land in England isin every one's mouth, but it ie sel- dom alluded to in the press. One cause is that it ia so serious & matter that thero is a disinciination to take peoplo uncomfortable by calling attention to it; the other is that by « series of fortuitous acci- dents land did rise in value after the adoption of free trade in cereals, and the newspapers, having absurdly enough ascribed this to the results of free trade, do not like to eat their own words.” Truth says:—'*A monopoly may be a good thing or @ bad thing, but it is nonsense to suppose that mo- nopolists can gain by its abolition. ‘Cheap bread,» it was truly stated, would be the consequ:nca of free trade, and cheap bread was undoubtedly a necessity if we were to compete with the entire world as man- ufacturers. But how possibly it could be supposed by any sane human being that a landowner would gain by selling his produce cheap instead of dear hus always been incomprehensible to me.” Truth says:— Will land in England remain uacul- tivated and become absolutely worthkess ? No, For residential purposes and for shooting purposes land will always have a value, provided that the increase of natural wealth continues to produce a class that will be ready to own or to rent it as aluxury. The fields will, too, continue to be tilled, and to produce crops of corn and grass. At present, however, there are three distinct classes that live by the culture of jand:—1. The landlord, whose rent represents the interest of purchase money; 2. The farmer, who de- votes his skill and capital to the production of crops; 3. The agricultural laborers, whose labor actually does produce the crops. This division of the results of farming is essentially artificial, and henceforward there will not bo enough for these three classes, One, therefore, will have to go to the wall,” Truth says:—‘Sooner or later the English agricul- tural laborers will be given the franchise; it may be well, therefore, to civilize them and to wean them from the village pothouse on the one hand and the brutalizing monotony of isolation on the other. Curiously enough this attempt bas been male, and made successfully, in Suffolk, In that county, which I had always supposed was somewhat outside the path of movement, there are more vil- Jage clubs, all thriving and self-supporting, than ja all the rest of i at Y LI! TERARY CHIT-CHAT. The “Life of William Cullen Bryant,” by Professor D. J, Hill, of Lewisburg University, will be pub- lished by Sheldon & Co. in a few days. “Every Man His Own Poet; or, The Inspired Singers Receipt Book," by # Newdegate prizeman, has been reprinted by A. Williams & Co., df Boston, from the third English edition. Rev. C. 8. Henry, D. D., who is @ member in good standing of an orthodox Protestant church, discusses fairly, in @ small volume entitled “The Endless Future of the Human Race,” tho possibilities and probabilities of the life beyond the grave, D, Apple- ton & Co, Colonel Thomas W. Knox has collected, in a vol- ume of Harper's Half Hour Series, a handful of sketches, collectively entitled “John; or, Our Chinese Relations.” The book offers considerable information, but no conclusions affecting our own Chinese question. Dr. McKim's “Vindication of Protestant Princ ples” is a book of kind which controversialists will eagorly read, but which contains little of vital iim- portancs to one church or another, Theologians may quarrel about creeds to the end of time, but men and actions are what make religion a living force, and no creed can claim thom all, lishes Dr. McKim’'s book, “The American Plant Book,” by Harlan H. Ballard and 8, Proctor Thayer, which has just been pub- lished by Daniel Slote & Co., is a volume for the con- venient proservation, analy: and classification of pressed flowers, ferns, loaves and grasses, which will be welcomed by botanical collectors, Directions are given for gathering, pressing, and finally thount ing the specimens in the book, A cut representing poison ivy and sumach is @ warning which faces the title page. The “analysis” and classification pages alternate with those of thick paper, on which the plants are to be gummed. The printing is good aud the binding solid and tasteful, Mr. Whittaker pub-