Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1877, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : JANUARY 22, 1877.—Eight Pages. AILY B THED EE E. ROSEWATER. Epitor AN PROPRIETOR TO CORRESPON DENTS. ‘W DO XOT desire any contributions whatever jof & literary or poetical chara: and we will not undertake to preserve, or to re- serve the same, in any case whatever. Our Btaff is sufficiently large to more than sup- ply our limited space in that direction. POLITICAL. A¥NOUNCEMENTS of candidates for office— whetker made by eelf or friends, and whetheras notices or communications to the Editor, are (until nominations are made simply personal, and will be charged as advertizemenis. Our Covstey Frirxos we will always be pleased to hear from, on all matters con- nected with crop ountry polities. and on any =ubject whatever of general inter- est to the Jeeple of our Sute. Any infor- mation connectet the election, and relating to fioods, accident , ete., will be gladly received, All such commun‘cations bowever, must be bricf as possible; and they must, in all cases be written upon one side of the sheet only. All Communirntions thould be a“dressed to E. ROSEWAT Editor and Publisher. A GOoD eountry for sour grapes— “Pembina.” — THE Herald s still for the under d>z—| Herald. And his firat name 1s Miller Ex-SsNATOR GWVER has, we un- derstand, consented in the interest of harmony and “regulare’ to shage hands with Senator Saunders. THEe Senatorial contest in Tlinois promises to be protracied. The in- dications now pecint to & com promise Republican candidate. MiLLER b on various occa= sions teen forczd to swallow crow, but this time bis digestive organs appesr to revolt against that diet. —— ANDYEW JOHNSON'S suscessors, BSenator Keyes, has been defeated for re election to the United States Benate by the Tennesses Legizla- ture. SE-A108 AMBR SE is d scenso- late. The champion serobat of b aska wants it distinetly un: stood that he never wanted to see bim on any previous oceasion and does noi want to see bim vow. e —_— 0Oip Subsidy Pomeroy is making another desperate efio ‘or ths Kansas Senatorship, but i’ we can judge the temper of Kan=ss Repub licans there is no dispesition to en- dorse the old corrup’ oniat A communiecation favoring the repeal cof the usury laws, which ap- pears elsewers, does not meet our views on that question. Comments on this subject are however deferred for the want of time and space. WEesgI ¥ THE Las now reached = circulation of 3,820, and | still new subscribers are coming in. Tt is the first journal in Nebraska that has attained a subscription list to exceed 2,000 1t will now soon reach four and be advancing to- | ward its fifth thousand. ——— THrrA is balm in Gilexd. The Nebraska City Press seeks (o draw consolation for its political wounds by pointing to the fact that its Lin- coln correspondent predicted the election of Governor BSsunders. That is just what General Van Wyck thought when he cast his first vote for United States Senator THE Herald does grest injustice to the Chairmsn of the Senate com- mittea on buildings, by charging him with deserting th - late lament- ed “‘in abody.” ‘l'om. has many sins to answer for, but this was not one of them. He came over only after he saw the cause was loat, and in the language of the immortal Shakespears, “Poor Tom'z cold.” S BENATOR3 Paddock and Saunders little realized during the territorial existence of Nebraska, that the then Governor and Secretary would ata future period be again brought together by the mssterious changes of time, as the most honored repre- sentatiyes of & populous and grow- ing State. It is worthy of note that during all these long years these gentlemen have been strong ans fastidious friends, both have secured their positions by the unpurchased vote of Nebraska's legislators and both at the time of their elestion were untrammelea by any promises of appoiutments. In speaking of this we wish to cor- rect an error made by our corres- pondent Gabe, wherein he unin- tentionally did injustice to Senator Paddock by an allusion which would imply that no senstor had heretofore been elected without im- proper influences. The p2ople of Nebraska are to be congratulated therefore upon having in the national senate two repre- sentatives who will co-operate for the weliare of tueir constitusacy, and who thoroughly uaderstand the wants the State, having both advanced with its growth from its territorial infancy to it present prosperous and p-ospective condi ‘inu of | THE PROPOSED COMPROMISE. The proposed plan for the settle- mant of the Presidential muddle does uot meet cur approval. It is ! <t best & very unconstitutional ex- nedient to remedy a defect in the federal constituti n. A more satis- faetory and tully asssfe & way out of the difficuity would be to allow Hayes and Ti den to throw dice for the Presidency. It is proposed to coastitute a board for the decision of disputed ques- tions, to be composed as follows : 1 Five memnhers of the Senate. The:e of course wiil be Republi- cans. 2. Five members of the House. These of course will be Dzmo- crats. 3. Five members of the Sujreme Court, 1o be choscn in the following manuer, vii: Four of them select | ed by the committee, and compris- two Democ ats and two Repub- cang, the fifth to be ehosen by the sther four. Up to the choice of the fifth Judge we have a bosrd or boards compos- ed of saven Republicans and seven Demoerats. Now, the question is, how shail the odd Judge be selected and what snall be lns political faith ? The two Rapublican Judges | will probably suggest a Republiean | brother to fill the vasancy. The two Democratic Judges will suggast a Democrat. Nerther will be like- iy to yield rea ily, for on the choice | of this fiith Judgs, ia all probabili- | ty, will deZend the whole question | of the Presidency. And now we reach the knotby problem, bow shall tne choice be made ? Shall it bs made by place- 1ng the names of the remaning Supreme Judges in a hat, shaking them up and drawing for the re- | maining member. If 80, you might | just as well omit the entire batch of | Senators, Representatives and Judges and simply put the names of the nine Bupreme Judges in the | hat, and draw oue name to decide the Presidency ; or Qetter still ke | Tilden and Huyes, decide by tossing | coppers for the piige. To assume | that this political predelictions of :zue Supreme Judges will have no | | | bearing on their verdict is vertuaily {10 contradiet the conclusions | |of the conference committee, that drafted the bili for the proposed | compromise They propose to create | 2 hiigh coart of arbiiration made up of seven Republicans and seven | | Democrats, leaving ths casting vote | | to & person whose selection is to be i determined by chance. No mat-| | ter how much confideuce the Su- preme Court may inspire as = court sitting judimally upon a | gaestion brought before them in | their judicial eapacity, we have no | | more contidence iu them as politi- | | ciuns, sitting in judgment as such, | than we have iu any otlier eminent | i men chosen say from the Cabinet be Benate Chamber. No matter | what formalities are to be observed lin organizing the propesed high | | court of arbitration, the final ver- dict must necessarily depend upon | the ehance of the judge who bas the | casting vote. | It strikes us that it would be more in consonance with the spirit it not | with the letter of the national con- stitution to allow the President of vote, and if the Supreme judges sre | to bave anything to do with ]‘ this great problem let them act as 2 | court and not as a political returning poard, THE BEE extends 1ts thanks for the numerous congratulations which : have besn sent to us in the past few | days upon its final suceess in the | six years’ campaigu. We reeret | that want of time, from neglected | work of the past {wo Weeks, pre- | cludes personal response to ail of them. —— THERE was somse very tall, as well as sone very shorl swearing at Lincolu in the investigation of that horrible case of “forgery.” Wiy not send for Mr. C. E. Perkins, snd let him take a swesr at hisown sizn manual, and several other mat- ters.— Herald. Mr. Perkins will come of his own accord, and bis testimeny will eftec- tually silence the malignant eating house acrobat whose endorsement of forgers and perjuers hike Flana- gan strikingly exhibits his true charac'er. A Vietory of Reform. Chicago Tribune 19. Ex-Gev. Alvin Baunders, the last Governor of t Territory of Ne- | braska, was yesterday chosen by the | Legislature to represeat that State | in the Uaited States Senate for tee ensuing six years from the 4th ot March next. The present Senator, | Mr. Hitebecoek, was a candidate | for re-election, and had an organised suppor, but ke was | weighed down with the salary grab | record, and was al=o regarded with | dwsfavor on account of an overplus | of devotion to the Pacifie Railroad | intereats, and nor sll the power of | patronage ard the poteney of the | machine could force him upon the | ywilling Republicans, whose num bers were sufiicient o control the | srtust | 3 e in Gov. | otlier and a b ; thie reform element of that party. aunders of an- the Benate to comut the electoral | 7 | the bishops. n aud_at the last secure the | SPANK, SPANK, SPAYK. morning till pight, frem early day- " With tears in her eyes, And with pumerous sighs. ther was wiel ing - weap 1 of might— nx gf"m; childon ker knes, ank spank. span P hurte,” bellowed 1t, Spank, spank, spank. ¥ There’s s maiden who is now preparing to wed. Bu* do y wsupposs That th: fair creatu That the ond— That ere loog she’ll be playing & mother’s ad part, 3 eur young darling claspsd lose to h-art, per careering above his bare flank— The Chaplain of the Colorado State Senate is 4 negro, Rev. B F. Watson, of tte Methoaist Episco- pal Cburch. The Baptista have made rapit progress in fi ting up their summer campaign plan on Point Chau- tauqua, Chautaug:1a Lake. The widow Van Cott has been preaching in the Thirtieth str=st Methodist Church, New York, ich has been crowded from en- ce to ehancel-rail with attentive eongregations. Rev. H. A. Buchtel, a refurned | misiionary,mowstaiioned at Knight- | town, [ndiana, writes thatthey are | in the midst of a great revival, hav ing as many as 240 inquiries ata single m~eting The Pope has sent a letter te a German prelate, warning the Cath- clic clergy s-ainst the accsptance of the in‘a'litility dogm= from any other cause sve as & beliof in it as a Divine decree. A wrriter in the Irish Chureh Ad- | vecate siates thut st the recent open- | ingoi a ehapel in Eugland, scven Baptist ministers were precent who had been clergymen of tue Estab- | lished Church | | and Canads to be twenty two Stats | ¢ nventions, represented in one gen- | eral conventiou; 69 sssociations, 880 parishes, wi'h 41,029 families; 658 cburch organisations, with 39,947 members; 641 Sundsy schoels, hav- | ing 59,463 teachers and scholars; £8 church eaifices, worth, above all indebtedness, $7,465,495. At the Broadway Congregational Tabernacle, New York the psws are onlv rsnted, the prices ranging from §35 to $325 & year. There are | 300 paws, which afford mittings for | 1,850 peop'e. The income derived from the rents in & year ameunt to £37 000. Qut of this sum the Rev Dr. Taylor receives $14 000, and $1 250 is paid ror his life insuranee The church is to be out of debt, and there is & surplus every year of { from $4 000 to $8,000. 'I'he Indian Home Mission to the Santhala reports 118 adults baptised Iast vear, and the whole number of 2133 pre ent communicants 13 has been decided to ordain two of the Santhals to be miseionaries among their countrymen, and to have pastoral chaige of some of the | churches; thirty men and two women have bsen selected to act as traveling Elders, and to engage | in homa-to home visitation. Three Santhal reading books have been published, and ocher works aein manusgcript. Rev. Dr. Twiog, inreply toan open letter from Bishop Hunting- ton, say+ that an average of five cents a week from the 180,000 com- muricants, and trom the same num bar ofnon-communiesnts, including children, making s toto] of 560,000 persons, would pive an g regate of $1,456 000, which wmight be distribu- ted as follows: Domestic Mi-sions. 300,000 per anoumn; Foreign Mis- sions, 800,000; Howme Missions io Colored People, 460,000; Indian Mis- sions, 100,000; education of young men for the ministry, 100,0:0; age! and infirm clergy and widows and orphans of deceased clerzymen, &nd 36,000; work among the Jews; 10,- 000; work ameng the Germans and =candinavians, 10,000; work in Mexico, 20,000; Bible and Prayer ook Boeiety, 20,000; Chureh publi- eation, 20 000; an average 10,000 to each of forty-one dioceses, 440,000. Rev. James Presley, D. D., who | was formerly well-known in the | OUnited Presbyterian Chureh, has | declined. it is said, an invitation to | the First Presbyterian church, New- | ark, Ohio, aud returned to his bome | nesr Pittsburg, Penn | The Moody and Bank preacher and simger collah 1dea of | Tis | getting into the regular ¢ ches. | The Clark Street Methodis! Chureh | in Chicago has Rev. M. M Park burat to preacii sand Rev. W. A.| Speazer to sing the Gospai. | The vLexington Methodist Con’er- | ence (colored) will meet at Mays- | ville, Kentucky, March 4th, 1877, | Bishop Bowmau presiding. This | conferance embraces all of Kan- tucky and parts each of Ohio and | Indiana, and is doing & good work | for Methodism among the colored ‘ psople. | The Unitarian ministe:s are ma. | turiug a plan ‘or the holding of min- “ isters’ institutes, to meet bisunially, | but in the years when the National | i‘onlerence does not meet ‘lhey wiil last each on= week, and will be | devoted to lectu es in sp: 1 de- | partment . The first will be held | in Beptomber ncxt. | Rev. B. W Parker. who wsnt | out from Nsw London, Cenneeti. | euat, forty four yesrs ago, to the RBandswict 1slanda, on a whale ship is pow visiting Lis home for the | first time. Sevently thou and per- | sons have been received info he | | ehurch in the Telsnds sincs tue fivst | entrance of the missionaries. Tk 1876 iited Bre ! 3 eburei o mambers : repo for | in tacrease of an jncrea<eo’ | TS, R 110788 of 16. During the yerr, $838,799 were | rased for all purposss; ef $£3: 96 were ior the supj ministers. This ci:urch has an offi cial publishiug euse at Tayion, O | | The revivel meetince under Mesars. Graves and Leland, at Mu catine, Towa, are spoicen of as un- precedented. The entire v and all its surroundings sre under the | influence of this wonderful work. Scores of the young a some of | the most prominent and wealtiy cit- izens are the subjec's of thisremark- | able revival. The ‘‘Associatior Dominicale ’ a new French Rexan Catholic so- | ciety for the promotior of a better | observance of the Sabbath, @ re- | ported to be making great progrees | in F snce ucder the patr nags of The motto of the As- sociation is a saying of the present Pope: ‘‘France will only be saved by a return to the ssnctification of | the Sunday.” | Rev. Dr. Riley, Protestant mis- | sionary, says that the assumption of the prasidency by General Porfirio Diaz will not harm prote-tant - terests in Mexico. General Diaz represents the liberal iuterests of | the republican party, and is not ax | advocate of the Roman Catholic re- | gime The Episcopalizns, 2t lea: receive encouragement frem th: government. The Moravian Year Book for 1877 reports 13 bishops in different parts of the world, and 97,362 memabars. Of this total 67,413 are to be fcund | iu the missions. The territory ec- | cuplied by the *‘brethern” is divided into three prorinces — German, | British and American. The Ger- | mau provines comisins 7,749 mem bers, the British 5673, and the American 13,788, e The Reiormed Church of the Un- ited States, populariy known as the one General Synod, six District Synods, forty-tive elssies, 664 min- isters, 1.333 congregtions and 141 692 members. The contribniions to benevolent objects were $71 985; the coutributions to locul objeots, $33 . The number of students ring for the mivistry is 132 The Re; Universalist ster for tter representative of | 1877 raports the statist.cs of the de- lnominauuu for the United States MISCELLANEOUS. Ten pictures from the Johnston eolletion have been presented to tha Bostor Art Museum The attempt to cultivate the Eu- calyptus tree in the yard of the Un- ited States Court House, at Charles- own, 8. ., has fa’led in conse- quence of the recent frosts. Mr. Coxwell, the eminent Eng- lish aeronzut, endorses the opinion that the North Pole may bereached vy bailoons under favorable circum- stunces and during comparatively | mild weather. The State of Maine says a $5 bounty for every bear killed within its limits Last y~sr was apparent- 1y & good one, or rathe- a bad year for bears, for 549 were Killad, cost- ing the State §2.475. At Marsbal MacMahou's recep tion on December 25, Jules Simon waa a gu and presented his wite. There wasalso z uumber of Senatora Deputies of ths Left who were present at iha Marshal's residence fo- the first time. Gen Ul zy, commanding in Aliers, has interdicted the admis- gion in thst eountry o the Djacura and all other Constantinopis news. papers, which are stimulating Mus- lmans into the so eslied *‘holy war” with Russia. Bwitzeriand, a s poles, covered : have been found They are sup- pused 1o te the most ancient evi- dences yet kuowu of the existence of man, and belonging to the pariod intervening befween the two g'acial epochs. Tnis 18 she way the Ashtabu'a disaster sppeared in Paris: New York, Decembss 80 —Last night he express irain on tne Pacific rail- | voad was stopped by a considerable | eollection of smnow on the wooden | bridge near Ash Sabula, nsar Salt Liake. The train, preceded by suow plow, hscked some hundreds of metres, then started under a full he=d 0° steam to try and force a passage. The bridge broke under the stramn, and the train fell into the river from a height of 75 feet. It is believed ihat 100 passengers were killed, and about 52 wounded. A belief in eolor-poisonmng by means of green dresses and green wali papers has already been forced upon ihe public by some tclerably conclusive evidence; but it seems that the mischevious propeusities of this color are far from being yet ex- posea. A Freuch savant, Mr. Paul Bert, bas just exhibited agsinst it articles of impeachment of the gravest character, supported by re- yorts of a whole series of startling experiments. If bis theory is trae, it is nont only the ar-enic used in producing the color which does the injury, but the ac.ual color itself; and a mere ray of green light is ea- pable of affecting the health of tha person exposed to 1t. apart from all aid afforded to it by the smeil or presence of arsenic To demon- strate this aileged fa t, M. Bert has submitted ssveral specimeus of the aensitive plant to rays ot different ors thrown upon :hem through fned glass, and in every case which were trea‘ed (o the most ti briliisnt green light with- ered and died in the short- est time. In those plaunts which ware exposed (o & red light a pe- culiar phenomenon was observed ; the tips or spikes of the leaves pro longed tnem-sives and grew for- ward iu s iean and hungry fashion horiz mtally w the brapeb from which th y spraug; while in a blue light tee contrary eftect was pro dueced, the spikes standing cut sb- rupily aud perpendicuiariy from their stem O: e of their plan being elosed ju « sort of having red glass on one side aud ou 1ie otuer, instead ing away from the poi; their rigint to ihe roseate ar on thei- latt, the leaves, us if by i PUNGENTISTIC. The early worm gets caught. Gold is not yet se low that pseple 1 refuse to take it The dentist who was in a tight place managed to pull out. If a prisoner eannot be bailed out, let some interviewer pump him out. Texas hotel keepers wish every | wind would bring them a North- eruer Do mot take it to heart if a patent medicine man asks you how your hveris Ols Bull is not partial to the mus- ie of Wagner. It is too much for one flidle. There ars so maiy eourts that the tailors do uot know where to bring their suits. When whisky is down to sixty ceuts corner store merchants natur- ally get low spirited. An Ihnows girl olayed Logan’s photograph for the jagk of spades, 2nd said, “He’s a trump "’ Tne korse that has spe~d and bot- tom is the animsl on which & man should bet his bettom dollar. They do not know exsac.ly how te dispose of the Vanderbilt property ; but where there's a will there'sa way. * Tha arrival of a short man in & Western town 18 mentioned in the | papers under the head of ‘‘personai brevities. A child sat down on a hot stove hearth im Pittsburgh, and was per- msauenily branded with the words, ‘‘Base Burner "’ Vanderbilt’s great moito was, “Mind your own business” If | sverybedy would do that they might become millionaires. The world goes on weil enough without Commodore Vanderbilt. There is no man living whose place can not be readily filled. Eaxtes 2ays the cremation chaps have been muking inecinerating re- marks on his friend, Baren vom Palm, and they must be stopped. A little boy in Btockton, Cal., stuck a red hot poker into the bung- | hole of a keg thatcontzineda pound | of gunpowder The resunlt was all | that he could have expected. A Broad way india-rubber firm re- cently telegraphed to St. L uis, ¢Arctic shoes, 8t. Louis sizs, are net | built in . But we can send | you a modal of the Great Eastern.” | Tae Boston Transeript all true musc is in the middle | notes. We had remarked this fact | when a member of the Philhar- monic Bociety found ten centsin s | peper of tobaeco. Millicns of swailows weut south | frem <ali ornia” as usual last fall, | and have just returned in mid-win- | ter. whieh is very unusual. Did the | political atmosphere down there disagree with them ? 1t is said that weorge Washington ‘ shaved himself, and 1t is sublime to | think of the father of hisconatry in his shirt slesves, with a towel en his arm, tearing about the house for a piece of paper. Bescher ard on rods together in a palace car eu the Naw York | Centra! raitroad No other passen- gers were in the car, yet they did pot avail themselves of this first- | class opportunity to fight a duel | The Farmer’s Vindicator explairs | something by =aying: “We ask our | read~rs to exuse all shortcomings | 1n this 1ssue, as our foraman has | been quite sick and none of the other hands understand it as well.” | A little boy was very much exer- | cised for fear he would not know | his father when he got to Heaveu, | bat his mother eaged his mind by | saying, *All you will have to do is | to look for an angel with & red | nose.” A 8au Francisco lawyer received a wooden jackass as a Christmast gift from his feliow practitioners in | the Polies Court, aud he says: “I know. how hard itis to pick out! suiiable presents, but 1 simost think an inexlt was intended Au eager young man rang the | bell uat a Washington street house Sunday evening, and the eldest daughter cams in with smiles to let him in, and just as she openred the door, a small boy, all out of breath, reached the front gate and yelled: ¢Ho, Jim! Bill suys as how you must comeright home. He saysas how ’taint your turn to wear that store shir: this week, no how, cause you wore it last Sunday, and he says as how he’s gota 'pintment to go and see a girl over in Ez=t Rome, and zia’t he just hop- in’ mad.” The young man on the door-stsp looked as though there was a pain in him somewhere.— [Rome Sentinel. ————— CU#RENT TCPICS. A monument to the great Swedish uaturalist, Linnseuas, was unvailed in Stockholm yesierday, the 10'th anniversary of his death. Williaza R Martin, of Pitisourg, asked 1 oompanion o sing the revi val bymn, “The Sweet By end 8y,"” and at tlie close of the first verse kilied himself with a pis:ol shot. It 18 understood that the decision of the Virginis-Marylaud boundary line Commissicners is against the rormer State, the-cilizens of which will thus lose the greater part of the valuable oyster beds in Pokomoke Nounde. The temperance promoters have Just been couvicted ofa great blan- der in London. They had opened a people’s ooffee rooms at low prices; but a ecurcespondent who sallied on a !ate terrible night to test r utility found all the g/ places erywded and abiaze with comfort, =4 to keep them open after working hours. Reeently sampies of mud coufaio- i silver were sent to San Fran- fatal tascination, turned with one consent the other way and literally | looked death in the face. s At first there was a prelence of secrecy as to where the stuff came rom, but later a company of capi- talists were told that Mud Springs, O 2gon, was the place that yeloled such richness. These men were cautious and would not invest any mouey before an investication They sent seme of the mud to Pro- fezsor Siliiman of Yale College, who informed them that the silver had been adaed oy human agency, and evidently pawsed through a quariz mill. The authoers of the fraud are to be prosecuted. T1he people of Los Angeles took = very unique method of preventing a threatented influx of Chinese la- bors. A party of six hundred ar- rived there a few days ago and eamped near the new depot. 'The citizens immediately started & re- port that the peculiarity of the clim- ate causes the nose to grow tos {ormidable leng h, and that the In- dians invariably scige Chinamen by their elongated appendages and wring their heads off. A few min- | utes before the time for the depart ure of the train for [ndian Wells the | Chinese sezed their baggage, dash- ed it from the cars. and stampeded over hilis and out of sight, The census of Puris 13 looked for- ward to much intefest In 1700 the population numberzd 720 00) inha bitanis Toward the end of the e'ghteenth century it had dimin- ished to 620,000, and continued to decrease until 1801, when it num- bered 546.000 From that time it has steadily risen. [n 1831 it was | 774 338, In 1836 970156 Twenty years later it reashed 1,538 613. In 1860 the annexation of all the dis- tricts comprised between the old Octro1 boundarv and the fortifica- tions had the effect of swelling the numbers to 1,700 000 and to 1,825 000 in 1866 These additions nearly | doubled the area ot the capital. In | 1872 the population showed a slight falling off compared with 1870, be- | ing 1,851,702, against 1,900,000 in | tie later year. There are six universities in Rus- sia, two in St Petersburg, and one | each in Moscow, K ssan, Odesea, | and Kharkoff. 1In 1866 there were in all of them 3,591 students. In | 1871 the number had increased to | 5,801, but in 1876 it had diminished | again to 4,492 As a rule Rusaian | students have to resources of their | own, and aie obliged to Z1ve leasons | tosupport themselves, At Moscow, many of them especiatly the medi- cal students, are said to be ina| wiserabls condition. From 1870 | to 1873 while 3.224 students finished | their course of studies. 2,911 were compelied to desist without taking their degrees Seversl seholarships, of the amount of from $100 to $280 yearly, bave been founded b Ye Government aud by privat ify, but there number i« etill far be- low the number o sludents who bwve no means of subsistence but miserable paid lessons. When a msanin Mew York bas once taken a fine house he doesn’t like to leave it even if his in begins to fall. It makes peopie talk. and his position may be effected. ! There died not long ago a gentle- | man, who up to his death, had been paying $10,00 " a year for his house and eould leave nothing for his fa mily. He took it when times were fluash and didn’t give 1t up. In London, where rente are hizher thsu anywhe e exsept New York, no one has paid such a rent as this wce Lord Palmarston, when Prime | ister, par{ the some sum for | se in Piceadilly. He | ighty, had an income | M Cambrige H. was childless, of £20 000 & years in real estals wnd | salary. and hie wife hed upward of | London men | £20,000 a year more. with £(00,000 & year in the most | sol.d securities are con‘rnt with | houses rented 2t £1.000 .« vea". The | London rents of t'e two rizhest | men ix: Encland did not amount to $7,000. Their property was worth | 80,000,000, i A believe in color-poisoning by | mesns of green dresses and green | wall papers has alre: been forced | upon the public by wome Lolaribly conelutve evidenso; but it seema | that the mischievous propsnsitiss of | thia color are far fom being yet | fully exnosed. A French savaut ! M. Paul Bert. has ju-t exhibited azainst 1ts articles of impsachment | of the gravest charecter, supportsd | by reports of a whole serias of | startling experiments. his theory | | is true, it is not on'y the arsenic | } used in producing tue color which 1 | does the injury, but the =otual eolor | | ; and & mere ray of grean light | | 18 ezpable of affectiug the health of | | the person exposea to it apari from | all sid afforded to it by the smsll or | presence of arsenic. To demonstrate | this alleged fsot, Mr. Bert bas sub- mitted several spae: a of the | sensitive plaut to s of diffsrent | colors thrown upou them through | stained glass, and in every ca=e | thoze which wers treated to the | most briliiant gresn fight withered | | and died in the shortest time. In | | those plants whicli were exposed to | ared light & peculiar phenomenon | was observed ; the tips or spikes of | the leaves prolonged themselves |and grew forwari in a lean and hupgry fasbiou, horizontslly with | the branen from which they sprang; | while In a blue light the contrary eftect was produced, the spikes | standing out abruptly and perpen- aienlarly from their stera. On one | of the plants being inelosad in a sort | of lantern, having, red-glass on one | | side and green ou the other, instead | | of shrinking away from the poison | | on the right to the roseate antidote on their loft, the leaves, as if by & | | fata! fascination, turned with one | consent the other way and iiterally | looked death in the face. er—— Ostrich farming is carried on ! with the beat succeas at the Cape of Good Hops Choice birds are worth | | $35t eaeh. They feed on grass like | vattie, and require verv little cara, | ¢ Usually they are tolerably decile, but at the breeding season they b= bul the “People’s (s closed eome irritable, aud will often attack 8:50 p. m. Theexcuse made b 8 person W ventures too near | 19aDARgers Was th t did not “pay” | thern Eaeh 1 yields from $150 | to $200 worth of feathers per -year | Those from ‘he female are gray, | | and those from the male black, ex- | | eept a single white plume which | grows under each wing, and whiel: | is the most vaiusble of all. | aud I partial! HONEY FOR THE LADIES. The neble red man is the pull- baek on the outskirts of eivilisatien. Mr. Hill Keith, of Lake Forest, N. C . having loat his wife Iast year, was married fo her mother on Christmas day. Hvery onece in a while some scientist rises and says that the moon is dead. This scientitie fact 18 what makes young 1o frosty nigh* linger at the gate and look up at the corpse. A Louisaua paper wants to know what a New York citizen would think if ne saw in New Orleans the moat beautiful girls in the world? Prebably he would think of—in New Orleans—more lasses. It reealls wbat Dundreary said about 1t: ‘Yaas, she was a nice girl. T was g =oing to mary her m-myself, but I d-dids’t get up that m-morniong, or someting of th-that sort; Td-don’'t w-weeollect now ju- | juth what it wath.” A man Jn Cincinna'i owned a pet panther. Hs wentoffrecently with his wife and family for a visit of a couple of days, leaving the pet pan- ther and his mother in law to keep house. On bis return his griet can be imagined on discovery that It was the panther that was dead, not the mothar-in-law. The old lady had talked the poor animal te | death. PIOTS SMILES. A fashionable London recently sazid preacher t. Paul remarks, gres with him—— " An sged Pailadel~hian is =o de- vou! that he often drops on his knees on the strests aud loudly prays for those whose sinfulness he witnesses There ars 43,000 clergymen 1n the United Sta but even th s num- ber have not succeeded in working the morals of the community up te that point where ail will pay ona crowded horse car. On a panel in a church wall in Valparaiso, Chili, is a psinting rep- resenting the emperor of Germany and Prince Biemarek squirming in the lsmes of hell, while the aevil is poking the imperial chancellor in the back with a red-hot fork. Leonard Harper Johnson, of V! ginia, has devised a new rehgion. Its leading ideas sre that Johnson is tohava one-tenth of the money of his follswers aid 88 many wives as h2 can get. Thus far he has ob- tained more wives than money. There is many a true believing Clristizn man who hides a mesn P his ccropauions, but who very litule respect for the invis- angels (hat see him. And yet e is the very man to brag on an- | gels. New York Graphic: It is easier | for & camel to go through the knee o an idol than for & young man to go through = chureh fair without bemng compelled to buy tickets in the rafle ot seven pincushions =tuffed with brau A traveler visiting a cathedral was shown by the sacristan, among other marvels, a dirty epaque glass phial. Aftar eyeing it for some time, the traveler said: “ Do you esil this arelic? Why it isempty.” “Empty,” retorted the sacistan, in- dignantly. “Bir, it coutains some of the darkpess that Moses spread over the lard of Egypt "’ a man jumps out of bed as stle Llows for quarter to 7, e fire, carries ia the coals, ligiits dres-es the childre 1, drews the wa- ter, blacks his boots, shaves him- seif. eats his breakfsat, bas family worship —when a man does all this and then goes down on the cight o’elock train realizes the fact that some things csn be done as weil as otbers, and that there is pvothing like living in the country in the winter. Presbyterian misister (portent- ously): ¢“James, there is a very dresdfu’ thing! You have heard there is one pound mi the pox!” James (the bes is s‘rongly suspected): ¢ Deed, sir, 8o they were tclim’ me.” Minister (solemnly): “James, yon and I aione had access to the box 7 James: “1t’s just as ya say. sr; it muat lie tween us twa! An’ the best way'll be, you ‘o pay the one-half, an’ U'll pay the tither, an say na mair abous —[Punch. POLITICAL NOTES. Watterson would not have Cro- nin’s nose for $3,000. Aucustus Schell is the new boss of Tammany, vice Kelly. He hopes he Heheli be ac big a man as Tweed. Rev. E. E. Hale has & new story called “The Adventures ef a Pull- man Car.” 1t does not let Tilton iu. Kentucky can raise a bigger neu- tral army than any other State. watterson’s fi st draft is for 10,000 nman. The debt ot New York city in- ereased $3,000.000 during the last yoar. The city is for Tilden and reform. Ita whols debt is now $i19,811,310.39 An exchange says, ‘Crocket, Texas, has a reading club and is se- riously talking of iocal option.” Wheun Croekett is right it should go ahead. It is sid that before Senator Nor- wood beeame a politician, he was s orthinologist—in fact had & perfect pascion for birds But he never could deseripe 2 briek bat, even after he became a politician. — Too Cold for Kissing. The 8t Josepi: Chronicle, of the 16th, forcibiy iilustrates the severity of yesterd: cold snap in the fol- lowiny interesting neldent : Last night was no time for kiesing in the open air. This is what a ys who tried it at a gate on et. and had to thaw the | lips of himsel? and sweetheart 2part with a burning matca before being able to sart home Besides this, he ot both of hie big toes frozen, his left ear fros and will proba. bly have to =ubstitute another nose for the smeller that he was carrying around this mornine. The truth of the matter is, he’ain a fesrful pligh*, and credi‘s it all to kissing.