Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1882, Page 4

P e 4 il UMAHA DALY BhE: SATURDAY MARCH 4 1882 [ —— The Omaha Bee —_— T ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES The national bureau of education Published svery morning, except Sunday. | has issued a compilation from the cen- e only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL — One Yoar.. Bix Months 5,00 | One sus returns which is especially valua- ble as showing the extent to which illiteracy prevails in the United States, £10.00 | Three Months 83,00 | From this it appears that there are 4,023,463 persons who are unable to read and write and are accordingly PHE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev- | classed as illiterates, and of this num- TERMS POST PAID:—~ One Yoor.. Bix Monthe . 1,00 | One . ating to sations r Tre Bee. Remittances shoul , OMANA, o orier of the Comvany, OMAHAPUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs E: ROSEWATER, Editor. —————————————————— In asking for living wages labor is only carrying out the old saying, “Live and let live.” —— Groror WinniaM Qurtis' comment on Mr. Sacgent’s nomination is brief but meaty. “‘It is protty hard on Ger- many.'” M=z, Tw;vnou has publinh—t;nr_n poem entitled ‘“The Charge of the Heayy Brigade.” The poem is heavier than the brigade. GoverNor NANCE is waiting for the wink from railrond headquarters be- fore deciding upon the question of an extra session. A wink is as good as a nod to a dead duck. — Towa will vote on the prohibition amendment at a special election to be called probably in June. The amend- ment has passed the senate and a live- 1y campaign may be expected. “Erricy” SARGENT since his ¢on- firmation doesn’t care a f-i-g for news- paper criticism, He has raked the Berlin persimmons, and will hold the fort for three years to come, Mz BraiNe may have disappeared from public view as some of his ene- mies would have us believe, but the plumed knight of Maine always bobs up serenely when time and the occa- sion demands, Tae men who howl loudest against any movements on the part of labor 1o better its condition, are generally men who couldn’t earn $1.25 a day if thrown on the resources of their own muscle. S——— ! OmaHA may take one consolation “from the prevailing high rents in the city. They stimulate building,* and ‘before long unless our present re- tinues, the city must be providéd with comfortable and cheap homes. Tue raral roosters who crow in eoncert whenever the railroad man- agers raise their hands are preparing to join the monopoly organs in their arguments against an extra session. Meantime candidates keep up their buttonholing just as if nothing was about to drop. Tae Napoleonic Dorsey is getting hit in the neck on account of his ex- penditures in the Indiana campaign at the late election. It is stated that $250,000 were sent to carry the atate, 8200 | ThrooMonths.. 50 ptatas, F—All Communi. ews and Editorial mat- o shonld be addressed to the Eprron or S LETTERS—AIl Business d be ad- o THE OMAHA Y’lv.r)\‘uo;(mwnd ;m: )rafts, Checl Post- > b " A, ade paysble o the | one-half that raised by the nine mil- ber 8,775,731 reside in the southern The population of these states is estimated at sixteen millions and the entire amount raisod for educational purposes is little more than eight millions annu. !ally, or about 81.60 a year for every child between the ages of eight and twenty years, This sum is less than lions of people residing in Now York and New England. In the state of Georgia alone, with a million and a half of people, a smaller sum of money is expended for educational purposes than that appropriated by Rhode Island, with its population of less than two hundred thou- sand. The same comparisons hold good throughout the entire southern states. With far less than a third of the population of the United States they contain over two-thirds of the illiterates of the nation. Of course this condition is to some extent due to the large negro population but the proportion of ignorance among the whites is also greater than in any oth- er portion of the country. In his in- augural address the late President Garfield earnestly called attention to this startling condition of affairs and announced his intention of urging upon congress some measures to remedy the evih Ignorance and vice go hand in hand. Ex- perience has demonstrated very clear- ly tLat that nation is most prosperous where intelligence is most widely dis- seminated. No country more than our own is 8o greatly dependent upon the elevating snd refining influence of popular education. In a republic where every citizen holds in his hands some portion of the governing power illiteracy becomes more than an evil— it is is & political crime, FrankuiN, Frangun Co., Neb,, February 28th, 1882. } Ed itor Bee: Will you please give descriptior and history of the Ganges river in Asia in your most excellent paper and oblige, F.L W, The Ganges is the principal river of Hindostan, It rises in the Himalayas and empties into the Bay of Bengal. Its entire length is 1,600 miles and its general direction is first southeast and then east. According to the old San- sorit epics, the Ganges descended from heaven and at a height of nearly 14,- 000 feet in the Himalaya's became en- Alakanada, receives the name of Gan- ges. During the first 160 miles the river descends 12,000 teet, when it enters the plain of Hindostan and be- gins its middle course. From Allaha- bad it forms a magnificent water way for traffic and communtcation through one of the most fertile and thickly sottled regions of the globe, passing by the great cities of Benares, Patna, Bahan and Moorshedabad en its way to Celcutta, At a distance of 200 miles from the sea its delta begins forming a wildernéss of creeks and rivers, 'The Ganges, like the Nile, is worshipped by the nations as the goddess ‘‘Ganga.” Pilgrimages are OTHER LANDS THAN OURS The the throne. John Francis, chapel. The court ment. at the queen while she was riding in Irish bricklayer, Hamilton was placed on trial, pleaded guilty and was sen- tenced to seven years penal servitude. The fifth assault by Robert Pate, was made in 1850 with a cane as the queen was returning from a visit to the duke of Cambridge: Pate was tried, con- vicled and received the same sentence a8 Hamilton. Technically the point- ing of a pistol at Queen Victoria by Arthur O'Connor, a crazy young man in 1872, constituted an assault and the last until the attempt of Thurs- day. It will not be at oll ~urprising if General Skobeleffs fiery speech proves to be the one spark necessa; to light the magazine over whi:{ three European governments are sit- ting. There are ominous signs of impending war, and a dark clond of danger seems to be settling over ecast- ern Europe. Dispatches from Vienna state that correspondents in that city are not permitted to telegraph the movements of troops, but from pri- vate information 1t is ovident that Windsor by . William Hamilton, an lish dominion. Besides, they have attempt made on Thurs- | external resources on their side which day to assassinate Queen Victoria |no previous generation had. details of which have appeared in |Irish in America and in the colonies our telegraphic columns was the sev- |are growing in wealth and numbers enth of the kind since her accesston to The ficst assault took place on June 10th, 1840, when Ed- ward Oxford fired two shots at the queen as she was driving in an open [side of the nationalist principle. Tt oarriage with Prince Albert, Oxford was acquitted on the ground of insan- ity and sent to an insane asylum for | their minds to separation, iife, Two years later on the 30th of May, 1842, a second attempt to take the | they late to be beaten. life of the queen was made by one The without Josing their interest in the country from which they were forced t» omigrate. The public opinion of Europe is crystallizing steadily on the will not sanction the bayonet govern- ment of s people who have made up English- men feel all this in their bones; but No wonder they are angry with Mr. Gladsone for "I'he pistol shot missed | saying that any degree of separation its mark and the assailaut was tried and sentenced to transportation, In | the the same year John Bean made the | Will third assault upon her majesty by |titude. 1f the snapping a revolver at her person | beaten at the next election, we predict while she was riding to the royal that they will come back to power, in sontenced the | the one which will follow it, on the prisoner to cighteen months imprison- | basis of a pledge to concedo to Ireland In May, 1849, a shot was fired | at least the revival of her national is a matter to be reasoned about. But time is coming when they have to abandon this at- liberals are parliament. Still there seems to be no disposi- tion in parliament te hamper the gov- ernment in its method of dealing with the Irish question. On Monday night the house of commons adopted a mo- tion by Mr. Gladstone to postpone the pending order of business and consider a resolution introduced by him, de- claring that the proposed investigation into the working of theland act would be injurious to the interests of good government in Ireland. The vote to postpone the special order stood 300 197, a decided majority for the gov- ernment, which made the motion a cabinet question. In thedebate which follow.d Mr. Forster declared that the government needed the whole support of the parliament to uphold the law in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone called attention to the fact that the lords’ committee is composed almost exclusively of landlords, and was thus incapacitated to decide fairly between their own class and the tenants in cases of conflicting interests, It is generally believed that the conserative party has made a great bodies of Austrian troops are belng | blunder in forcing a resolution for a hastened by boats down the Danube |committee of lords to investigate the or by rail to southern Hungary, hav- | workings of the land act, and then ing some unknown end and object of | making the commiitee consist entire- the expedition in the distance. They |1y of conservative lords. The' Lon- are apparently being concentrated in | don Times declares that the commit- dis Austria, The avowed purpose of the mountains of Bosnia and the new | tee is already hopelossly discredited.” ots which have been won by R The custom authorities of Germany these important military movementais | seem to be acting under a it of spleen to put down an insurrection of the in- | With reference to American importa- habitants of these mountains. But | tions into their country. They have 10 outbreak has as yet been reported suddenly discovered that they can among any of these populations of | raise the duty on American products sufficient importance to explain these |by classifying them as something large and expensive preparations. It [which they are not. Thus canned is true that the native population is|meats and soups have become iron excessively discontented with Aus-|ware under German interpretation, trian rule, and the Slavs further |while canvased hams are classified as north ave filled with bitterness at the | eotton goods. Formerly canned beef, sudded increase given to the power of | tongues, soups, their great onemy, the Austro-Hun-|were classified under the head ‘“‘slaughtered and prepared meats.” taineers of Herzegovena are also dis- | As such they were subject to a duty satisfied at the reduction of their ter- | of 12 marks per 100 kilos, or $2.86 nitory made by the final settlement of | Per 220 pounds, equal the war, But as the whole population | fifteen per cent. of the value. of this pugnacious province is only quite recently some brilliant official 100,000, and as no general outbreak discovered that the meats were packed in tin cans or boxes, to which the la- there does not appear on the surface | bels were affixed, and so he classed sufficient cause for the mobilization of [8ll such products under tho head of garian empire. The warlike moun- has yet appeared among tho Slavs, and minced meats the Austrian armies. But no one dares to hope that the “ironware” and doubled the duty. The matter was brought to the atten- trouble will be confined to} Austria tion of the custom house director, and and her Blavic subjects. sentiment in Russia is said to be daily growing, and both Austria and Ger- many are strengthening their eastern and thero is no record that more than [made to its shores, and the dead $66,000 was expended under Dorsey’s | thrown in. The entire Hindoo myth- management. This beats the ‘‘star [0logy is woven with symbols and pic- youte” business hand over fist, S—— tures referring to its erigin, and the beneflcial influences which it exercises fortresses in preparation for any con- France is looked upon as tingeucy, The warlike | i08lly to that of the minister of finance at Berlin, but both sustained the action of the official first making the classification. Since then the Ger- man government has decided to class- ify American hams in canvas bags certain to ally herself ‘with Russia under the head of cotton goods, and against the Gierman interest. past ten years Bismarck’s diplomatic For the levy a duty of eighty marks per one hundred kilos, against twelve marks, the former duty. Such self-evident MaoVeagh on Railroads. N. Y. Times. The principal opponent of congres- sional legislation er the regulation of inter-state commerce as carried on by railroads who have thus far appeared before the commerce committee of the national house of representatives is ex-Attornoy General Wayne Mac. Veagh, who acted as counsel for the Pennsylvania railroad. Mr. MacVeagh goes bick to the old pretension that railroads are private property, and as such not subject to control by anthor- ity of the state. It is rather late in the day to urge this doctrine before a body ot intel- ligent men. [t can hardly be denied that railroads are the property of the vorporations which construct and operato them, but privileges have been granted thew and they hold re lations to the public which give thein a ditferent character from that of ordi nary private verty. It has been repeatedly decided by the highest tri- bunals of this and other countries that the character and uses of their prop- orty are invested with such a public quality and give them such a relation to the community that the govern- ment has authority to subject them to such supervision and regulation as may be necessary to protect the interests of the public. This point may as well be accepted as settled, for neither con- gress nor state legislatures are at all likely to treat it as open to further controversy. Those who desire to contribute to the proper settlement of tho railroad question will do well to devote their attention to the scope and character of the regulation to be exercised by public authority, and not waste their energies in maintain- ing that there is no public authorit; to deal with the question. Suei authority exists and is sure to be ex- ercised in some way. As if conscious that the private eruperty plea will not avail, Mr. Mac- ‘eagh proceeds to question whether the power of congress to regulate in- ter-state commerce applies to trans- portation by railroad. He thinks the constitutional provision was not de- signed to authorize such legislation as that proposed, but to prevent states from making unjust discrimination in favor of commerce confined within their own borders. The framers of the constitution certainly did not have railroad transportation in mind unless they were gifted with even greater provision than is generally credited to them, but they must have had in mind transportation from state to state, tor without that there could be no inter-state commerco. In this regard, too, some things have been judiciously settled and piaced beyond controversy. The constitutional provision has been dis- tinctly held to apply to interstate transportation by canal and by river, and it is difficult to see what different principle is to apply whon:it scarried on by railroad. The objection to re- enacting the common law is equally futile. A large part of our legisla- tion affecting public -and private rights consists in newly applying the principles of the common law and af- fording specific remedies for enforcing their observance. When he comes to deal with the real merits of the proposed legislation, the counsel of the Ponnsylvania road is hardly more happy in his argument, He says it is no more the province of eongress to regulate the element of cost in commodities which is involved in the expense of their transportation than to determine that part of the cost which depends on other consid- erations. Nobody pretends that the purpose of legislation should be to de- termine in any way or to any degree the cost of commodities. As well might it be argued that the prohibi- tion of adulteration or the laying of taxes has for its purpose the regu- lation of cost in the commodities affected by it. To secure the right tc have commodities carried at reason- able rates and to protect the public against the evils of discriminating and fluctuating charges has nothing to do with the question of final cost, how- ever the latter may be indirectly af- focted. When Mr, McVeagh talks about the virtual confiscation of the property of railroads by giving to shippers the right to decide who shall be paid for the use of their lines, he indulges in arrant nonsense. Neither the Reagan bill nor any other bill in pr Tu adulteration of butter and the | °'®" the sountry aud its people. manufacture of oleomargarine is in- eoreasing with startling rapidity. Last|and ears wide open to what other oities Omana will do well to keep her eyes year 116,000,000 pounds of the bogus | are doing in the matter of paving. St. butter was manufactured in New York | Louis, thoroughly disgusted with the city alone—a quantity of 5,000,000 |slop and dust of her 810 miles of ma- pounds in excess of the entire dairy|cadam, is discussing the merits of produce of the strte. The interests | wood pavements impregnated with of our dairymen demand that rigid |creosote. At a recent meeting of the laws shall be passed to regulate its| Board of Public Improvements in that sale. S—— city, a gentleman who spoke from personal observation, stated that the Resioents of Dakota declare that | xperience of London shows the value | by 1890 the territory may reasoncbly | of oreosoted pavement. He said it bo expected to have a population of | Was used in the city where the traflic 3 nine hundred thousand, Tmmigra- | is heaviest, and that it has more power tion is enormous and is rushiog into|©f resistance than granite. In this | every seotion from all quarters. If|connection we note that the Sanitary Balf the inducements had been offered | Engineer says of macamadized streots to immigrants to settle in Nebraska | that it ‘‘would be difficult to find & 7 which have been held out to settlers | material better caloulated to irritate in Dakota our state would to-day con- | the eyes, the throat, the lungs, not to taix & larger population than Kansas, | #peak of the foelings of the unfortu- nates who have to encouuter it, than Bince Postmaster General James' the fine dust which is ground from a retiremont, the meanest of slanders | Macamadized city stroet. have been circulated by the ‘‘star roaters” about his connection with the Vanderbilt iuterest and the Lin- eoln bank, Broadly the allegation was made that he gave an undue al- lowance to the Vanderbilt roads extra mail service for the purpose of | condition of old Samumy securing the presidercy of the Lin-|the old scala coln National bank in'which Mr, Van- [ YArd, if he takes a bath, or blows his ——— AND this is the cruel way in which the Kansas Oity Journal refers to the Nebraska signal bureau ofjGrammercy Park; f 'ne_editor of the Omaha Herald OF | gote daily bulletins in regard to the ilden. If wag goes out in the back derbilt is int d. The New York | 20 all is duly set down, and the simply a bold untruth,” and “‘further- Horald publishes the stuff as news. Sm———— A conrereNck of laborers to de- ' more the Vanderbilts do not control | mand higher wages is called by the the Lincoln bank, and Mr, James |monopoly organs a “riot.” A confab was invited into its management (and |of railread managers to increase their L Times shows by figures that “‘this is . that fact was published) before he was | own salarios is termed ‘‘a harmonious | Protestanize the island, are rending it postmaster general.” i meeting. " policy has been direoted agaiost any such a union, At the present time France is understood to hold an in. timate understanding with Russia, that all the materials are present for a general European conflict, involving at least seven millions of put in the field the following forces: absurdities in the tariff laws of Ger- Ria T Yo have Hailas many need no comment. Yo sepm ¥e:faled, ang an untriendly disposition toward this country, and’ our statée department Ttaly and Denmark, It will be seen onght boilose. 0o g in Aling. 8 pro; test. The Nihilists trials have ended with armed | the imposition of the death sentence soldiery. Within six weeks after a|on ten of the prisoners and Siberia for declaration of war the four powers can | the remaining eleven, Austria, 1,220,000; Germany, 1,500, 000; Russia, 3,262,126; France, 1,- 230,000, To these must be added the reserves of Denmark and Italy. Twenty, years ago the mere admis. A Madrid dispatch announces the rumor of an alliance between Spain and Portugal, The raw iron production of the Ger- man empire, including Luxenburg, in sion of the possibility of Irish home|November of last year amounted to rulo would have been the death bloy | 262,369 tons, against 192,504 tons in to any English statesman, Now we the same month in 1880, while from vead in the leading journal of England January 1 to Nevember 30 2,600,399 the suggestive remark that “Mr, tons of raw iron, exclusive of one or Gladstone by aduwitting home rule to | t¥ inferior sorts, were produced. be a fit subject for discussion has abandoned the strongest part of the caso against_it.” The populd;n of Rome and her suburbs, according to the census taken A strong writor has| on December Slst last, numbered recently pointed out that home rule, and even the final separation of Ire- | otal of 300,209 souls. The increase |8 land from the English empire will, bl il s 107,327 males and 132,965 females—a of the population since 1871 has been sooner or later, become a practical 62,416, questign in British politics. It is true that Ireland has been kept under Eng- The silver wedding of the king and liski rule for three ocenturies, and|queen of Bweden will be celebrated there might seem to superficial obser- [ with great pomp at Stockholm on the vation no reason why it should not re- | 6th of June. Two other similar an- main under the rule for three millen- | niversaries in royal and serene cireles iums. But there are reasons, One|occur this year, one being that of is the greater diffusion of intelligence | Princess Ida of Lichtensfein and Prince and of & mutual understanding among | snd Adolf of Schwartzenberg on the the people. The national schools, jof railroad regard to which he was invited to give his opinion proposes any such ab- surdity. The Reagan bill is in some respects a measure of doubtful practicability. Tt is certainly not the bast that conld be devised, but Mr. McVeagh does not furnish any very valuable sugges- tion as to what should take its place, He is willing, as the representative of a great railroad, that a commission should be established, with no power but to investigate and report. ehas great faith in the virtue of mer e pub- licity to rectify evils when they are shown to exist. It is his opinion that if a properly constituted commission should report that any real grievance existed, no railroad in the country would dare or desire to continue it for twenty-four hours, Thereisnodoubt much potency in Euhlicity, but it needs to be backed by a power to en- force remedies for any evils that may be shown to exist. Experience toaches us that the respect corporatious for pub- lic opinion depends very much on whether there is at hand an available means of enforcing 1ts demands, Should a commission discover and re- port abuses, the exposure would be far more likely to have effect if, 1t had in reserve the power to apply a reme. dy. There should be a commission, but it should have well defined duties and powers, and these should not be confined to mere investigating and reporting. It shou'd act under laws sufficiently broad and eneral, and should have much dis- cretion in applying them, and expe- rience voulg show wherein they need- ed strangthening and modifying. There ought to be a concurrence of the best minds in devising a system of national regulation and supervision of rail- roads, lest crude legislation should re« sult in increasing the difficulty of dealing with the subject. ———————— Ex-Assistant Postmaster. OiNarnNaTy, O., Sept. 2, 188, H., H. Warner, & Co. 4th of June, and the other that of which Dr. Whately hoped would |Grand Duke Michael of Russia and slowly but steadily out of the Eng- the Priucess Olga on the 28th of August, have used your Liver Cure for chronic dysentery, contracted while in the army, with the most bappy results. fab 28-dlw Joseru H, THORNTON, HONEY FOR THE LADIES. Buff tints are revived, New beiges are striped. Ombre fabrics are out of style. Chene silks are coming into favor, Plush s'ippers for dancers are new. Scarf rings aro now woin by ladies. Velvet ribbon is seen on new honnets. Silk-muslin bows are worn at the throst Silver hair-pins are used by gray-haired ndies, Polnaises rival pointed bodices on new dresses, Bracelets are the favorite article of jew- elry this season, Filagree silver buttons in bullet shaps are used on dark costumes. Plain goods are used for basques with stripes or borders for the skirts. Box plaiting are supersedig flat plait- ings and kilting as a dress trimming. A young girl has just died at George: town, Col., from the «ffects of tight lacing. Strawberryred and copper-rad pollca {ots are seen upon new black satin fabrics, yellow, eglantine pink, and n me three wthetic colors in Bigh voge. White batiste and white eatine will be ‘much more fashionable for summer toilets than white Victoria lawn, Plumb girls are said to be goine o't of fashion. If this is true, the plamper the girl the slimmer her chances, Striped flannel costumes will in a great degree t ke the plac of the suits made of a mono-chromo color which have been worn for 8 many azasons past. Black, blue and lemon-colored pocket handkerchiefs of sheer linen, embroidered with contrasting colors, are among the eccentric novelties lately imported. Birs—1 Safe hidney and In the awards of the Women's Silk ex- hibition, held at Philadelphin, the mother of the Inte Bayard Taylor received the first prize—$200, She is eighty years of age. Girls should he careful how they are vaccinated with virus taken from a lover's arm. _One at St. Paul has taken to swear- ing, sitting_cross-legged and smoking & brier root pipe. Wax candles instead of gas are used at many Fifth avenue houses on occasios of entertainments, much to the disgust of the gay companies and to the pleasure of tne wsthetic crowd. A London paper says that Queen Caro- line of Saxony is suffering from faticue caused by overexsrtion in her kitchen. Tt is evident that Queen Caroline never at- tended Vassar college. Chemisettes of striped or dotted percale are very fashionable for morning wear, They haye a double-breasted front fastened with gold buttons and Evglish turnover collar, with cuffs and buttons to match. New handkerchieff are imported in silk and fine Fronch uruslin, with serge polka dots embroidered on cream whits grounds, showiny wide borders plainly hemstitched. Others have woven plka dois of pale blue, cardinal, or gray, with solid bordegs of & color ¢ correspond. Miss Frelinghuyeen, the daughter of the secretaiy of state, runs over to the White House and directs the steward how to arrange the table when _the president gives a dinner party. She is » young lady witho it pretensions to be.uty, but intel- lectual and gifted with exquisite taste. A stylish model for s spring hat, in_ 1 “‘Queep Mab” shape, is ma (e of amber. colored straw, with cascades of gold vei'ing a wreath of mignonettes and c: ni le moss rose buds, of a_deep crimson. Tusid , the hat is faced with crimson shicred satin, with a narrow band at the [* extreme edge of amber beads. It was half-past ten oclock Sunday night, Mr. and Mrs. Marrowfat had gone to bed, but Julia and her Theodore still lingered in the parlor. A profound silence brooded over the house until the moment came for the lovers to part, and then the old folks distiuctly heard ‘such half-sup- prossed exclamations as “Oh!” ‘‘Quoht!” ‘Wow!” Mr. Marrowfat turned toward his wife, and quietly kneading her in the back with his elbow toarouse her intellect. said; “Ivs all right, Manthy, Julia's vaccination is going tu take,” PHPPERMENT DXOPS. An exchange says “a steamboat blew up. The captain swam ashore, and so did the chamber maid. She was insured for £10,000, and loaded with railroad iron.” “Let's 'lustrate it,” hiccoughed a politi- cal orator. *‘It's beautiful. You see, an old farmer comes to tuwn loaded with new: wheat, an’ he goes home loaded with old Tven y The Little Rock papers mitigate ths crime of a man who committed suicide there last week, by saying it was his firat offense, Very likely he had not been long in the state or he would have made the attempt sooner. A book canvasséx broke through the ice at Bay City, Mich , while his hands were in his trousers’ pockets, and was unable to extricate them, But he hooked his chin over the edge of the ice, and so held his head above water until rescaed. “Why,” said the wmsthetic editor as he came into The Argo sanctum, “‘is my cigar intense? “Give it up,” said Ei raim, ¢ Because it's too all butt,” remarked A. E., plaintively. His place is now vacant. —{ASthencum, The London Times says that “when. ever an eighth son is born into a Belgian family it fu the custom for the king to stand godfather.” Whenever an eighth son is born into an American family it is customary for the father and o_fow of the older boys to get full, America is pro. gressive. They telegraph all the way from Mos- cow that *‘an atrocious crime was com- mitted on the stage of the imperial thea- tre” the other evening. Théy must ayer- age pretty good shows at Moscow to kick up such & fuss, In this country we've got 80 used to that rort of thing that we merely slide out at the end of the firsta t and think no more about it—{Boston Post. The other night a mesmerizer found great d fficulty in persuading any one to come on the stage. Finally one youug man concluded to risk it, and the first ex- perimeut was with a glass of water, the youth being made to beiieve that it was alternately brandy, whisky, champagne, ete., and drivking it with gusto. TIa five minutes thirty-ssven men were on the platform asking to be mesmerized. Things one would rather have left un- said— Nervous person (speaking at last to his neighbor): “Do you ‘kn‘mvt who g‘t.m vemarkably uly perion is just opposite— talking to the black-haired lady, you kuow—um—eb?” Neighbor: ‘‘That, is my b other Nervous pe son: 3 T—I° I beg your pardon—T-~I —stupid of me not to have se'n the fauily like ess—a —a—a-——"(Collspsen and disanpears,) Noah Webster was & celenrated authc., He was a quick and ready writer, ind in one of his inspired moments he dashed otf adio nary. He took it to sevseal p he lishers, but t ey shio' of it, ~aying th style was dul, wrgid, dey, hard, sod on- interesting, snd besides that he used too many big words. Bt at last Noah -uc- ceeded, and the immortal w rk is in_daily use lug up baties at the dinner ol {BEaen Rapu o n. CONNUBIALILTES, Mies Annie Lonise Cary contradicts the reports that she intends to leave the stage and to marry. ‘When D. Davis marries that Baltimore widow, will he get down off the fence, or will the bride have to climb up und sit on it side saddle? This is really a national topic. A Minnesota preacher fainted away af- ter marrying & couple and hal to be worked over two hours before he was res- to consciousness, If it acts that way on the preacher just think of the poor bridegroom. ot SRR RS2 S L LW AL LTI | O A marrisge ceremony in Notre Dame Oathedral, Ottawa, Canada, (n the 21st inst. was interrupted at the aliar 1y the entrance of the mun's wife bearing her marriage certificate, and prepared to furnish proof that he is the father of her two children, The custom of leading marriage notices with the names of the high cont:acting parties separated by a dash gives tome- times a curious combination, Among the notices in & Phil delphin paper on_Satur. day were three headed “‘Birch—Twigg.” K Reed” and ‘‘Price~Givin." “0Oh, by the way, dear, have you con- gratulated Lily (n her o gogement?” asked Miss Flouncer of her friend. “Oh, yes; of course, I went round to ee her yesterday afternoon. I told her she Jouldn't have done. better—and I don't think she could, the horrid, homely thing. Frederick May, who fought a duel with James Gordon Dinnett, was married in San Francisco on Wednesday night to Miss Cecelin Coleman, & niece of the late millionaire O'Briea. ‘1 he b is worth several millions, wl, by her brother. One of the pretty gitls of Washington, Miss Ray, had a brilliant wedding last week and’ became Mrs, Harriscn, wife of a lieutenant in the navy, utterly regard- less of the fact that with the craze for Arctic ex; loration, her husband might sometime o in search of the North pole. Miss Jennie White, daughter of S, V. ‘White, a Wall street millionaire, w.s mar- ried in l‘l{mr-uth church, by Beecher, last week, to ¥, W. Hopkins, a_member of the stock exchange. Mr. White, takes bis son-in-law into partvership, : nd gives the couple n_fine residence on the Hudeon, newly furnished. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. ‘“The World” has not made a hit in Frisco. Manager Jack Haverly employs over five hundred people. The flour-song in [Musical Herald, Emelie Melville was warmly in Brooklyn, Mies Ada Gray is playing through the Michigan circuit to large audiences, Capoul thinka of returt ingto the United States to muke np his los.es on the Puri bourse, New Orleans has the credit of havin the worst orchestra of any city in the country. Mr. W. C. Coup will not have sny patt- ners this season, but will be the sole owner of his mammoth show. William Mitchell has_sold out his inter- est for mext sessin in Our Goblins to Frank Wilson, of the troupe. “Faust” is wheat, — received very Ellic Wilton took Sara Jewett’s place for a short time in the Ligh's of London at Union Square in New York most ac- ceptably. Frank Mnyn is playing Davy Crockett and “‘Badger” in The Streets of New York through the South, and has had a plenti- ful sufficiency of the “legit.” A Boston dispat h to the New York Herald states that the Rey. Geo. Leem- ing, a former Catholic vriest, late of Aus- tralis, made his debut in Boston as an ac- tor Monday evening at the Globe Theater, as “Othello, * Forty years ago, when Mrs. Mowatt was play ing Juliet to a crowded house, and she lay dead in the tomb, the con- trived to _ask Romeo how the scene was going, ‘“‘Beautiful,” he auvswered, “the people down stairs have to put up uml rel- lus to prevent being drowned by the tears of those in the gallery.” EDUCATIONAL NOTES. There are 134,488 colored persons in Maryland who can neither read nor write. The school populati n of Ontario is 489,- 924, and the tutal expense of inetruction is $2,822,152. Illinois last year expended upon her schools the sum of §7,581,041, the teachers of the state receiving $4,487,015.10 The school population of the state is 1,(10,951. In St. Petersburg this year 980 women are pursuing the higher courses of educa- tion; 610 of these student are of noble origin. Physics and mathematics are stu- died by 521, and 417 take literature. There is & movement in the Kentucky legislature for the equalization of the dis tribution of the school fund een the white and colored people of t| ate. A discrimination iy now made nst the co'ored people on the ground that they pay taxes on only 83,500,000 worth of property. The demand for the teaching of morals and manners in the public schools is now heard from one end of the country to the other. When Burnside saw his bill advo cating such mwhini{ received with deri- sion it would have been hard for him to believe that 8o short a tiwe afterward the common-sense of the country would assert the wisdom of his proposal, @Miss Helen Magill, Ph, D., who has spent the past four years in study at Cam- bridge, England, says that in the higher education of women England leads the world; that a womun can do a higher gr-de of work in England than in America, Miss Magill adds: “The same kind of work which has been done at Cambridge by Newnham 8 begiuning. at Oxford 1 Lady Margaret and Somerville halls, London University has admitted women toall i privileges without limitation, Six women there took the B. A. degree last July, You will see by all this how Eogland stands in comparison with America, Her only college of the first rank gives women the degree or even_the degres sxaminationr, while Harvard, Yale and Johns Hopkina exclude us. In Eng- land London gives degrees, Cambridge de- gree examinations, and the reform is be- ginning at, Oxford. The position of women, on‘the whole is better in this country than in any other; but it is a ser- fous question whother English women do not have the suffrage before we do.” The Canadian mimstergof finance reports to parliamentthat at no former period have the finances been in such good shape and the credit of-the coun- try 80 high as now. The revenue for the year ending June, 1881, amounts to $29,635,000. The expenditures were $25,5600,000, muking the surplus $4,135,000. Formerly the dominion budget showed a deficit, but sinee the Canadians have provided themselves with a tariff high enough to afford protection they have gone on swim- mingly. Manufacturcrs are rapidly springing up ameng them, the price of labor has advanced, population is coming in, the revenues haye been i creased, and the dominion rejoices in a surplus instead of mourning over a deficit. The Canadians find their pre- tactive policy a blessing, and yet free taaders are forever decrying such a policy. The wine crop of France of 1881 amounted to 762,000,000 gallons, In 1880 it was only 663,000, gallons, This increase is due to the crops of the east and the center, the south being still ravaged by the phlloxera. In the deglrtmanu where this pest prevails che destruotion of vines has increased from 15,000 acres in 1880 to 40,5600 acres in 1881, The cider product of last year was 259,000,00( g&m, against 2,300,000 gallons 1880. —_— A Short Road to Health. To all who are suffering from boils, ul- cers, scrofula, carbuncles, or other obsti- uate diseases of the blord and ekin, a course of BUrnock Broon Birress will be found to be *'a rure road to health™ Price $1.00, trial size 10 cents, feb28deodlw ¢ \h