Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1888, Page 4

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B TZSCHUCK worn 1o before me and subseribed in iy Dpresence this 1th day of smber, 1943 11, Notary Public. SING we look for the lion and lamb to lie down together, with the lamb inside of the lion of course, SI0UX CITY proposes to be repre sented at the inauguration of President Huavrison with a company of her citi- sns bearing corn-stalks. No provisions have been made, however, for citizens bearing corn-jui POLICEMEN are forbidden to frequent saloons on their beat. But this i N order constantly violated, which threat- ens the discipline of the police fo Ofticial attention should be immediately directed to the matter. GOvVERNOR Cuuvrcelr, of Dakota, has gpoken out like a man. He is a demo- orat, but he is emphatically for state- hood, and he has said that if his resig- nation would hasten the solution of the problem he will tender it. Tue Valparaiso bank failure turns out to be one of the most flagrant defal- cations and swindles ever perpetrated in Nebraska. The two rascals who caused this ruin should be run to earth and made to pay the penalty of their crimes. TuE astromical world is amused at the rivalry oxisting between the umiversity of Southern California and the Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton. Ever since the remarkable discoveries were made at the Lick obscrvatory the uni- versity of Southern California has been jealous of its fame. The latter has just ordered a powerful lens, said to be the largestin the world, and the two ob- servatorics will soon vie with each other in the business of stargazing. THE present year has not been a suc- cessful one for expositions, judging by the recent financial failure of the Cin- cinnati exposition and the unprofitable season of the Kansas City exposition. Both cities made heroic efforts to es- tablish great exhibits, and it must be admitted that their endeavors were most creditable. Kansas City especially feels chagrined over her financial fail- ure, and it is doubtful whether there will be another exposition in that ¢ for some time to come. PAT FORD is up for a third term in the council. He expects the working men of the Third ward to help him, ‘We don’t believe, however, that Mr. Pat Ford can pull the wool over their oyes aguin as e has doue for years, Pat ha agers' tool. He was put on the Union Pacific pay roll u aftor he got into the council. To be sure, he introduced that famous resolution against the Pinkertons, but he took good care to have it pigeonholed. AND now Culifornia has a favorite son fora cabinet position, in the person of Mr, Estoe, who presided over the na- tion must concede that California’s favorite gon has prior claim over John M. Thurston, Nebraska’s oil-room candi- date. Thurston only presided oyer the convention a couple of hours, while Estee held down the chairman’s cushion and swung tho silver gavel for four mortal days. We imagine, however, that President Harrison can satisfy Estoo’s ambition with a bureau, and Thurston ought to be content with a amarble-top washstand. — TACOMA, the future metropolis of itory, is ecortainly a reumstances compel it to put on metropolitan airs, for it has r list, and is there- fore forced to make provision for a floating population out of all proportion 10 its own numbors., The crews and offi- cers of the many foreign steamers aud pailing vessels require places of amuse- ment, and if recreation of a superior kind is not provided for them experi- ous resorts W *i39 to establish a zoological garden, which has all manner of birds and beusts and am- Washington Ter go-uhoad place. ¢ a very large shipp ence has shown that vic would spring up like mushroom coma has actually had the entery phiblous monstors. There is a music pav: Gardens in San Fruncisco. 00 | orge I8, Tzschnck, baing duly sworn, de. )t tho Bre Judge Dundy’s decision in the Douglas street railway injunction suit s boen playing workingman's friond while he has been railway man- s nspecial inspector of tracks and switches within a few weeks 1 convention at Chicago. We ion and there is a rotunda for danciog and all the oconvenisuces of a soedern pleasure resort. The ideaseems to have been taken from Woodward's TEE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SU OVEMBER 25, 1888 —-SIXTEEN PAGES/ PROVIDING FOR EX-PRESIDENTS. Not for the first time the question, What shall we do for our ex-presidents? is receiving attention. Itisan inter- esting question, because it involves con= sideration of the gencrosity and dig- nity of the nation. Having elevated a fice in the worl citizen tothe highest c and by an unwritten Ia that after his retirement from that lofty position he cannot, without a sacrifice of dignity, resume the battle for exist- ence in competition with his fellow men, i3 it not a duty to make such provision for his future as will enghle him to live out his life without the necessity of worrying himself respecting the means of living, and without being required to make any rifice of the dignity which all Ame itizens ave proud to accord to th ate of the nation? prescribed \ office of chief ms None of our presidents have heen rich men. Some of them possessed u modest competence, but noone of them helonged to the millionaire class, The salary of fifty thousand dollars n year, while it all in- may seem large to persons o f st com compared with the incomes of the rul- ers of oth ability to be generous is immeas- bly below our The presideut may save s part of this salary, ns Mr Hayes and Mr. Cleveland are under- stood to have done, but to save much of it he must do s0 the cost of the liber- ality that is expected of him, and therefore to some extentat the sucrif of the dignity of the off Heise pected to entertain liberally, and in- deed that has grown to be one of the conditions and requirements of the oftice. The white house is a sociul conter whe tality is looked for. Foreign ambussa- dors, cabinet ministers, supreme judges, wtors and representatives are ento tained there, and not these alone, but otherdistinguished citizens and foreign- ers. The occasions of such entertain- ment must not be marked by any parsi mony or meanness, There have been numerous instauces where asingle state dinner cost more thun o week’s salary of the president, and undoubtedly mor than half the annual salary of the ex- ccutive is expended in entertainment. After he has provided from what re- mains for his personal expenses and those of his family, it is certain that his saving cannot be large. A very carelui man may in four years pu ay fifty to seventy-flve thousand dollars, but it is doubtful if more than two of the presi- dents who have received the present dary saved so much, while 1t is a matter of record that tho presidents who received the former salary of twenty-five thousand dollarsa year, could not save any of it, some of them even being compelled, in conse- quence of their genevous hospitality, to draw on their private means, thus re- tiving from the presidency poorer in purse thau when they entered it. Itis a curious fact that most of our presidents have,at the end of their terms, retired to rural lives. Washing- ton found contentment at Mount Ver non. Jefferson, Madison, and Mouroe retived to their Virginia plantations. Jackson found peace in the quiot and slusion of his Hermitage farm. Van Buren withdrew to Kinder- hook. Buchanan became almost a her- mit at Wheatland and Hayes finding u full measuve of huppiness on a farm, Had Grant gone into rural retire- ment his life would very likely have been prolonged, and tho experiences of his closing days would certainly have been less trouble- some and harassing. John Quincy Adams remained in politics and repre- sented his district in the House of Rep- resentatives, dying at the post of duty, while Andrew Johnson went back to the Senate and died while a member of that body. Arthur resumed his con- nection with the Jaw firm of which he had been a member, but he simply gave the prestige of hi name, not participating actively in the business. The most common suggestion is to provide a liberal pension for ex-prosi- dents, and another is to make them lifo senators, The objection to the last is that it would violate the principle on which the senate is based. The pension plan is doubtless the least objectionablo of any that could be devised, the only question being one of national genor- osity. ALLISON IN THE CABINET. If the great and growing west is to have recognition in the cabinet coun- cils of the administration of President- elect Harrison, no man can present a higher claim to such honor than William B. Allison, of Towa., Mr. Allison has been in pub- lic life,as & member of the national legislature, nearly o quarter of a cen- tury. Duving fifteen years of continu- ous service in the United States senate he has acquired a familiarity with na- tional affairs possessed by fow men of our time, No man in congress, mot even excepting John Sherman, who is conceded to be an eminent financier, is as familiar with financial legislation and the prob- lems of our fiseal system, Mr. Allison’s experience as chairman of the appropriation committee of tho enate would be invaluablo to the coun- try if he were placed at the head of the treansury department, His sound, conservative views wonld inspire and assure confidence in the management of the national finances without arousing the suspicion that the treasury is being managed sololy in the interest of Wall street. To the republicans of this section, who complimentad Mr. Allison with an en- dorsement for the presidency, his selec- tion to the secrotaryship of the tr us when s not remarkably gener nations, even of those whose the most generous hospi- ury would not only be extremely grati- fying, but accepted s a recognition of the clmims of the banner states of the party, Kansas, lows sud Nobraska, that gave Bonjamin Ilarvison one hundred and twonty thousand wajority over all competing candidates. — e AMATEUR ART EXHiBITIONS, Nothing can more conduce to the de- volopmeunt of refined homes than the particular culture of the intellect, the foelings and the fingovs, to which we owe works of art of every kind, From the rude log cabin to tho stately pul- on his way there will be ten thousand to make ovation 1o Ta two infuguration oceur in next Matrch'and April will bo instyuctive, will possess an inte ace of a morchant prince, every step of the long ladder has been the result of a suggests another, and one but the foundation stone for Muchi of this progress in however, borrowed, and not indigenous, appertaining to the architect and ever rather than to the ual to whom belong the house beautiful, and the objects of beauty ement this inevitable condition, inseparable from all new communities, nothing can be suggested more admiras suggestive ost even more City has ordercd an examination of the scholars in the public schools in order to ascertain how many of them have de- Upon the result tion will depend what action will be taken fective eyes. professional good authority that many the eyes among and the amateur, and every mind receives impressions of 1he beau- These impressions are art productions, and tiful in nature. S It would not be amiss if the board of education in Omaha stitute an inquiry into the condition of the eyes of the pupils of our never touch £ you or brush. Ho who delights in the the Missouri, vders of vegetation, whether of the sprin the fall; he VOICE OF Schuyler Herald: Cents to dollars Thurs. ton steps into Mar Columbus Journal in the lush green the many-hued who marks skies, the etherceal gr sunset, the deep blue of noon, and various geays of the in the broad expanse of a braska plain no dull monotony of brown, mingling of lerson’s shoes, Church Howe was out He now seeks to be president of splendid storm clouds policemen to look after the wine rdoms secm able to take care of themselvos, house and admit that they lost everything in the last election. “All i3 loat but honor, and that is athing a demo- crat has no use for, Auburn Post: loss succession and depression, und never ending lines of deticate contour seapo artist, though ho line in his life. But to go s suchaman isaland- ofice-holders competent republicans can be them, and there's plenty of them run- owly is the true law of Americans are apt to Johnson County Journal: @ were two things the One was who a woman would warry, and the other was how a jury would To these may be added, New York vote. asssociation is fo ing desire for action, for the formation Aid not know. to our trading to take stock of our ud find out what we can do. [t1s certain that such exhibitions would be better if delayed for some ye The comming] artistic objects. nature, we desive The submission of a_pro- hibitory amendment will be the onc thing that will worry the legislators, and in all probability put a largo number of the mom- s in their politi Plattsmouth Herald: has just been appointed minister to Mr. Blaiue, as socretary of state, great pleasuro in bringing the young man Lome to his bereaved parcnts Bloomington the members of the associution tn the friendly inter- course of conversaziones does at the Mr. Perry Belmont should be attempted. the medium of these ing knowledge has been gained of the aim and limitations of tion, an exhibition will be of s the community at la solutely neeessury that the public must nislod. The members of the asso- ciation have talen upon themselves tho vesponsibility of educating munity in art matt, sel that responsibility to the backbone. Thero must be no attompt to make as good u display as possible at the ex- pense of honesty. rigid exclusion of ¢ ‘When, through reunions, a work- If McShane chased the influcnce of the two afternoon dailics in Lincoln, he made a poor invest- ment and did not place his money where it would do the most good. stor specu'ntion, 1t scems as though the tele- graphic_columns of the dailics were more euriched with accounts pf horrible murders Perhaps if there were more good, fresh hangings and less maudlin senti- ment, there would be fewer murders to re- It was even worso York Times: their com- and they must than of yore, There must be 1 work that If the committeo to whom is entrusted the onerous duty of examin- ing contributions to the exhibition ac- cept work that is copied, they stultify themselves and act aguinst for which such an ass There is no point more material than To the uninitiated a good copy seems a good thing, but art asso- ciations are for the purpose of tenching the uninitiated better things. absurdly unjust than to hang side by side an oil painting that is a copy of an engraving, or of a pic- Ulysses Dispatchz . C. McBride is a candidate for speaker of the Neb lative house, cntleman in overy way qualified, and a man of the people and not a creature of tho railroads. would be pleased to see speaker of the house. Fremont Tribune ; Mon’s Christian association good footing in Nebraska City, it is expected that the monstrosity and freak stories scnt out from that place will bo toned down and possibly abandoued. Ewing Democrat: present may ‘*Mac” the next the object Now thet the Young is gaining a The seronity of tho be due to Harri- son's eloction, but wo wager there will be a terrific blizzard in the republican camps arter when nine-tonths of the cscckers will be snowed can be more thedth of Marc great army of ofti one who is acquainted with art matters can conceive the difficulties with which a young student has to contend in orig- Place half a dozen oran- hogany table and endeavor to paint them, and it will be found that the complexities of light and shade and ons and of color shadows make the work one of very great difficulty. There is a: the two things as there i arithmetical problem. onesolved in the book as an example, Therefore noassociation worthy ofbelng considered artistic ever admits a copy, or a painting over a photographic noga- If the rejection of these meretri- ans objects should leave the galiery walls too bare, it is that the exhibition was held too soon. Ulyssos Herald: places under tho federal government, a sug- Don't be ina hurry were botter to submit to the process of being fired. You will get out about as soon and as smoothly, and it will be as well to give the country a [ront view of republican civil ser- Weo will need the examplo in inal studie ges on a ma vice reform. our business 1n 1592, Schuyler Quill: Just mark 1t down that the railroads are in politics and are there to They watch every nomince for the luture, every state officer, and m fact overything politically that can affect their All you have to do whethor the ofticer affects corporation inter- ests, and you can decide if the corporation influence is in the fight, Nobraska City Press to say that in the postofiice department the people havo never had so thoroughly shift- less, incompetent and worthless a set of pub- lic servants as they have had for the past st of true eivil democrats and republi- cans pray that when the Harrison adminis- tration comes into power the rascals will bo and copying the conclusive proof It is entirely safo ANOTHER CENTE The one hundredth the inauguration of George Washing- ton as president of the United States York City, the first president of the repub- s inaugurated, on April first congress under the constitution of »mbled at New on the 4th of March, 1789, were present delegates from all the anniversary of In the inte year or two. service reform, both Grand Island Tadependent: If all important public positions under this government wero filled by a dircet votes of the people, it would be more in accord with our boast of a gov- ernment for the people and by tho and much annoyanco i the line of clamor for appointment would be done away with, and corruption diminished at the samo time. There is no reason wh; tors, postmaster, ministers to foreign coun- tries, cabinet officers, etc., ctc., should ot bo clected by the direct voice of the people, and eventually that change will come. Blair Pilot: The only reason so far in support of ex-Senator Suunders for the senatorial succession is th CGieneral Harrison’s son time, married. July orator who could stories about Benedict Arnold because his grandmother was & ‘member of the same church that Benedict Arnold’s aunt belonged If the claim is honored, 1, and later Ben's son daughter should disagreo, would that dis- hise Nebraska in tho senate Seward Roporter: North Carolina. of the electors statos, it was ascertained that George Washington was unanimously electod prosident, and John Adams, having the next highest number of vote 230 of April the dont-slect arvived where he was received by tho governor conducted with mili- tary hionors through an immense con- e of people to the apartments pro- he received the sulutations of foreign ministers, public bodies and private citizens of distific- )th of April the presi- inaugurated, of office having heen the celebrated C. On opening the votes by the soveral United States sena- t his daughterand of the state and This equals tho tell some wonderful vided for him. and Alvin's administored by ueellor Livingsion, who, when the ceremony was completed, Loug live Goorge Wash- ington, president of the United States,” the throng that survounded the senate chamber on Wall strect. The oceurrence of these two inaugu- ration events so near together will pos- sess a peculiar interest in the contrast- ing conditions suggested hetween the ro- public at its birth and altor a growth of Geueral Washington ney from his home at Mount Vel New York was necessarily slow, ) entered that city from o barge which Llizabethtown, of the impor- exclaimed, the -passage kind of an election providing for regis- tration in cities of the first clags this matter is unders consideration, it would be well to make a general election law for A law that would prove an effectual safe guard 'against fraudulent or ulur ballots, and 'would secure a voter frow being harrassed’ by the importunities for the different tickets, In some states tho whole state. of the workel would be a good thing. law prohibits anybody but regular challeng ers from approaching within fifty or one hun d yards of the voting place. sion, we think, would be a good one to incor- porate in the Nebraska registration large cities, and it 1 its operation to I New Jerse aw. A system of Iped to delay h around the ballot, Washington from Indianapolis in one- tenth of the time ocoupied by the first ng from Mount Vernon to New York, while for every one hun- dred people who cheored Washington & the lufant, president in g Let us add the hope that they will not be named North and South Dakota. Dakots is good for oune; the his- tory and legends of the reglon will supply an equally appropriate name for the other—one having a flavor of the locality. e In a Bad Fix Siowr City Journal, The democratic party is a parly Se-0ay without an issuo in any sufficient senso. A party without an issue is in a bad fix. aerecettlfs s Powerloss Prohibitionists. Globe-Demoerat. The prohibitionists will ve powerless in future political contests to do harm to any thing except to the temperance cause. - st Discovered It, Atianta Constitution No one man is_absolutely indispensable to this great republic. We can get along with out Grover Cleveland or any other demo cratic president . — The New Rogues' March, Phitadetphia Press Now is the time for somo enterprising musi cian to compose a grand March and dedicate it to tho democratic postmasters, - A Duty to Perform, Boston Advertiser. The first duty of the republican party will beto frame and pass a proper revenue me: ure, and we believe there is not the shightest danger that that duty will be neglected, Notsy. ", Tribune, The intercsting information comes from Washington that President Cleveland re- mains “‘calm.” Of course. The gentleman on whom the coroner is holding the inquest invariably is *catm.” Taking a Broad View of It. Chicago Herald, Everybody is asking where is Mr. Cleve- land to go, as if he were the only ono that must go. This is taking a very incomplete and narrow view of the situation. Where are the 120,000 other democratic office-holders togot St She Takes Two Seats. New York Press. Mr. Harrison —~Who's that knocking? Dakota--1, sir. Mr. Harrison (busy)—Come in and take a soat. Dakota (proudly)—BBut 1 am Dakota, sir. Mr. Harrison—Ob, ab, indeed. Then take two seats. And she will, — Stop the Extravagance. Chicago News, The public display made in Washington at the inauguration of Garfield cost $39,066.6 The show made at the inauguration of Cley laud representcd an outlay of $60,540.56. Har- rison’s inauguration is expected to cost §15,000. Where is this thing going to stop! Atthis rate of increase a few more presi- dential inaugurations will bring about an ex- pendituro as lavgeas the national debt merely to supply fireworks for every now exccutive 10 goto bed by on his first night in the whits house, e Statesmanlike Reticonce. Tribune. Reporter—Well, senator, I have come ac- cording to your request. What feature of tho late campaign do you wish to discuss? Distinguished, Senator (with ponderous gravity)—I have sent for you, sir, to say that I positively refuse to be interviewed. Put that down—positively refuse. These public men that aro always rushing into print in ordor to keep themselves bofore the public— got that down!—might take a lesson from the statesmanliko reticeuce of mon who roally know the causcs that contributed to our late defeat, but who maintain a dignified reserve when approached by the thoughtless interviewer. Add somothing about my evi- dent unwillingness to thrust my personality ou the public, and let me see the article be- fore you print it. Good day. —-— On the Heart's Stage. Ella Wheeler Wilcor, In the rosy light of my day’s fair morning, Ere cver a storm cloud darkenod the west, Ere ever a shadow of night gave warning, When life scemed only a pleasant gues Why, then, all humor and comedy scorn{n Iliken high tragedy best. Tliked tho challenge, the fierc fought duel, With a death or a parting in every act; I liked the villain to be more cruel Than the basest viilain could be, in fact, For it fed the fires of my mind with fuel Of the things that my life lacked. But as time passed on and I met real sorrow, And sho played at night on the stage of my heart, 1 found that 1 could not forget on the morrow, The pain I bad felt in the tragic part; And, alas! no longer I wished to borrow My grief from the actor’s part. And as life grows older,and therefore sadder, (Yet sweeter, maybe, in its autumn haze) | I find more pleasure in watching tho gladder And lighter order of humorous plays, Where the mirth is as mad, or maybe madder, Than the mirth of my lost day: I like to be forced to laugh and be merry, Though the carth with sorrow is ripe ‘and rife; I like for an evening at least to bury All thought of trouble, or pain or strife, In sooth, 1 like to be moved to the very Emotions I miss in life. sl SR H. Wins the Bet. GRAND Tstaxn, Nob., Nov. 24.—To the Ed- itor of Tuk Ber: We wish to submit for your decision through the columns of Tue Beka betmade in the following words, to- wit: W. bets H. that Thayer will not get 15,000 majority over MeShane. Who wins the bet—W. or H.1 Yours respoctfully, W. and H. ——— Confession by Telephone. Electrical World: From time to time ono may notice events that bring out, with unusual force and clearness, th fact that great inventions are chief among the conditions that shape mod- ern life. This is recognized in regard to the civilizing elements with which poople have been familiar, such as the railroad and the telegraph, but is not s0 commonly accepted with vespect to an innovation like the telophone. Yet that little instrument is most ¥emark- able for the new relations into which it brings men and their affairs, and it in- cessantly ealls for novel adjustments of our ideas and actions. The legality of contracts by telephone hasbeen an issue for the courts, and but recently we men- tioned a case in which a defendant sub- mitted himself for judgment by tele- phone and received sentence in the same way. More lately again the point has arison whether gambling carried on by telephone can be lawfully and effectually stopped. In medicine, numerous instances have occurred wherein it is unnecessary for the doctor to see his patient, the prescription or advice being such as tho telephone shows to be desirable. And now the Catholic church is troubled to decide as to the ofticacy of a confession by tele- phone. The question has been referred to Rome by the rench hishops, and among the Italian priest also the sub- ject is also and unsettled one. Some authorities hold that the telephone can be used for censure but not for absolu- tion, while others consider that as the telephone annihilates distance, the con- fessor and the penitent are actually to- gether. vidently the question goes far decper than all that serves to sur- round & solemn act with sentiments of awe. And how solemn itscif, after all, is the thought that the telephone is thus among the instrumentalities that release us from the clogs and bonds of physical sense and lift us to a realm where mind and soul, as if clarified and disembodied, can have freest cowinun- ion, Robert Louts Stavenson has not yet reapad an adequate pecunia for his liter: ch is the balief among those who are likely to bo well informed on 80 delicato a matter, greater influence ovor conte other story tellors combined. not claiming 100 much the Hydo and Jelkyll yet, ho wields a him to say that linoss {8 going to in imaginative tellers of tho magazines aro cudgelling their brains for scientific hor- dotugod with d magical formulas, All the bright stor; necromantic forms an point s a stor the most fashionablo “Doctor Unionus, upon an old mediwval suporstition “Handof Glory. necromancers believed that hidden trensures by using asa n executed murderer cut middle ages the stick the hand of e had been from the new moon to the used in these researches was worthy of the of tho fatof a black swinging on the bear, a wild boar, and an the wick being formed from the shroud of a | taken from the coftin anytime be- tween a full moon and the next new moon, If any of those eastern explorers who are Nhunting on Staten Island and along the banks n for Captain IKidd's treasury using the Ha succeed in finding them by of Glory, a percentage i8 claimed by Tie B which has given tho teuo recipe for the It is omitted necessarily in via by the peculiar tarn ugh the influence of Stovenson's hoky pokey seience i the Hyde and Je It is singular that no critic has rem nd beautiful view taken of Stevenson in one of his most When this has been commented upon sufti- ciently it will ereate a greater revolution in men's minds than Ingersotl has effected by denials of Satan’s existence, given to the Those who are intercsted in the sub, adeep water harbor on the coast of Texas ble enlightenment by the complotion of the work at Montreal in Forty-four years ago the St. Law- rence river at Montreal had only a depth of eleven feot, but by ste, and dredging there is now a denth of twenty- will receive conside iy, persistent digging the 600 miles from the river to the city without is a great achieve- ment, and the Canadians are justly proud of mouth of the steadily, making no rushes, but also making Tnone place eight million be removed, been caleulated was equivalent to the work involved in building S00 miles of the Cana though muct at the Sabine I which is one dian Pacific. worl, is being the mouth of the Sat bound-marks makes appropriations neering purposes that have little. save commend them has alway recognized plans of real merit. tions were made for deepening the mouth of the Sabine river s temporarily suspended 1 clone, a thoroughly abnormal occu the fullness of time—perhaps even within ten years, there will bo twenty-seven feet of water on the bar, and inside there is now a depth of from twenty-eight to forty feet, the only difficulty being caused by deposits at In spito of this well fact, there was a deep water convention this summer at Denver, and Galveston sent hun- dteds of delegates, more or less, to form clique for the grand plan of decpening an It was nothing but a real cal reasons to open roadstead. estate advertisement. almost every one regarded it. injure Texas far more than they serve the The work that 15 b of the Sabine ns the deep watc seem to be hankering, Such devices g done at the harbor for which they The question has often been asked whether ahere was any foundation for the railroads caused an inc: persons have proved it by tion, and others have d between the observed facts and the rainfall, engineer puts the matter in a more practical shape than any scientist He says that there are 30,000 loco- states and British o puff into the atmos rards of steam rase of rain. ied any connection But a locomoti America, and that the phere billious of cubic densed into vapor, and this turus again in the form of rain. niable that more formerly, for during I ches descended 1 1o days in the vicinity of San Francisco, at a the great terminus of the Central Pacific to locomotives. ain falls in California than past weel fiv point_ suflicient! ould receive the downfall. is connected with guage at the water works, that this particular spot has ain than any other part of re1s notoriously an probability of rain in that state, and the wheat crop is no longer the to be when by no calculation open to it possible to foretell whether there would be raiu cnough to yicld there is a rain 1 this shows received four times more r human intellect was Pessimists are in the habit of conjuring up ious by pure biliary force, then of endeavoring to moke the world ac How many a man has paralyzed manufacturcrs and engincers the inevitable exhaustion Nota few thinkers logic proceeded more from a congested hver tual brain, have deseribod tho world of the future without coal, trees, without coal o1, without iron, To those readers of Tur Bek who have accidently huunted circle of iswm, the theory of Prof. Mendeley concern- on of petroleum will be more as solid truths, our coal fields! than an intelle fallen within th ing the produc than usually potroloum is produc penetrating the ar ot with glowing cially those of iron. posed into its constituent gase uniting with th takes up the region whoro oral oil, and This theory seems to and as the professor leum with the greatest readiness and ease it oughtto be accepted us a prospect of a supply of petroleum thut is practically mexhausti be made to fill the place taken by coal, whenever tne supply of the is exhausted. s on this plavet drawing to a close. rd by water which, after carbides of metals, espe- arbon, and ascends to & higher art of it is condensod as min art remains as natural substantial oue, artificial petro bie, and that can How little does the sportive paragrapher refloct upou the consequences of perfunctory joke about tno young wife's loaf, whici was s0 heavy that the young husband had to prop up the table Now, light bread, with the lightness poculiar to bakeries, is neither pal nor wholesowme. that spouginess, whicu some consider @ vir- tue, 1s obtaiaed by adullrations ruinous to with umbrellas the coats of the stomach and the digostive apparatus, Broad onght to be heavy to & certain extent, 1f it is to bo nourishing, Graham bread, for example, 18 very much heavier than tho ordinary loaf of tho baker's shop, and the old-fashioned wheaton loaf was vory much more nutritious than that idol of sanitary reformors, That it should have held its own of all the dic devices propounded by quence of the abominable charactor of light bread. Bakers probably find it to their ine torest to cater to the delusion of Americans, but the time s coming when thoy will have to change thelr tactics, for tha world is becoming thoroughly sick of theie light bread. In all the cheap restaurants of the entire country, even in tho dives fr quented by New York nowsboys, whore foc is sold at abnormally cheap prices, the pros prietors have been compellod by the foree of public opinion to keep several kinds of broad, besides the ordinary household broad, Whenever a humorist strikes a home-mada loaf that cooms to him to bo as hoavy as lead, lot hum cat it with joy, for ho has found tho real, truo, unadulterated articlo upon which the civilization of the whito man has been built up, the conso. Of all tho fads and isms which transcond- entalists beget for the pestering of plain people, not_one is 30 obnoxious as psychical rosearch, Tho idiots who devote thomselves to this balderdash affect a manner that fs mysterious and adopt o Jargon that 1s income prehensible. There is a journal published in the east for the purpose of solving the ur solvable, and of knowing the unknowablo, Occasioually it finds fts unaccustomod way into tho den of a western editor, and von- frouts him with propositions that make his hair stand on end. “I7," says this delightful periodical, 80 vdapted for the homo circle sensitivo finda himself in company with a vampire, if he will only go in for sympathiz- ing with him ho will find instead of the drain he had expected, a new living force straming through him from a source that is inexhanst ible, Hecould yield power toa thousand men and bo stronger for the yielding." Now, we cannot yield an unqualified assent to this Proposition, because evidently tho writer's vampire has not the samo points as the ordi- nary American vampire, and it is possible that he has confounded two very difforent creatures—tho 3real vampire and Emers son’s red slayer. The Amorican vampiro 18 volitely called tho B flat, or bed bug, and seusitives usually when they make his ace quaintance burst into vigorous Saxon, strike a mateh, light the gas, turn over the pillows, and commence a strouuous pursuit, which usually ends in a gory but odoriforous massae cre. The Slavonic vampire, being unable to leavo Slavonic soil, has not come to Amorica, and therefore nothing is kuown of him. It is possiblo thut the writer referred to it, and not to our own 13 flat vampire, The philospher who asserted that every man, at least onge fu his life time, wore a velvet coat, did uot moan to be taken litore ally, but desired to propouud tle great moral truth that away in the depths of man's heart is a hiking for finery, Perhaps this is so, but if this axiom were to become gencrally kuown it would give the fair sex a torribla woapon, When paterfamilias would; upe braid materfamilias for the costlinass of hor new church-going bound, his spouse would be able to retort upon upon him his sneaking desira to bo clothed in velvet, Thero is dreadful rumor abroad that after Christmas the men of society will appear in embroidored vests and pants, or, to be more Websterlan, trousers. The vests are to be embroidered on the collar, and along the edges of the but- tons, and below the pocket. The trousers are to Lo adorned with a stripe of cumbroidery similar to the stripo of gold lace on the pants of a cavalry offie cer, If this movement is carried out the great problem of distinguishing guests from the waiters will have been triumphant} solved. But will it stop ab embroldero trousers and vests, or will tho secret passion for frippery in the male breast gather strongth by indulgence, and lead to embroidored coats of velvet, and silk, and satini Ave we really moving in a cycle, and are we going back to the days of George the Sccond! If this should be the case, wigs will once more be the fashionto the great comfort of bald- headed men who will no longer be exposed to the rude remarks of the small boy, and to the whispered comments of theater-goers if they happen to be in the front rows at a burlesque opera performance, A paragraphlet is going the rounds of tho press to the offect that the oldest known manuscript is a partof the lliad, found in Upper Egypt. Nothing can be moro errono- ous than this statement, which is_obviously the condensation of a well knowu fact. The oldest manuscripts are Egyptian papyri both iu hicroglyphic and demotic characters. Oue of these known as the Book of Thoth or the “Romance of Setna,” was found undor the foct of u royul scribe, and was translated by Brugsch Bey, the famous German Egyptologist, and formerly curator of tho Muscum at Boulak, near Cairo. Egyptian chironoiogy is not in @ state even approaching to cortitude, and though desperately brava Distorians have classed the dynastics s suc- cessive, nobody would be astonished if it should prove that three-fourths of them wora synchironous, ‘The very fact upon which onthusiastic chronologists base their systoms is cupable of another interpretation. 13ut the fragmont of tac thirteonth book of tho tiiad, which was found in Upper Egypt, uotoriously belongs o the Ptolomean dyuasty, and may be o thousand years youuger than the amusing Book of Thoth, And so also with regard to demotic and hicroglyphic manuscripts there may be one ormnous intervals of time betwoen them. - Tho ev's Soliloquy. L. I8, Lamprey in Plymouth Fres Press, “What a difference it maies, in “Just what lizht view a thing Said o meditative turkey, As he softly stroked his win, “Now the simple word Thunks, To a wurkey or a hen, Has & meaning quite distinctive, “To that understood by men, ng s to them o time of feasting ull of plonsures and delights; But ’tis kept within the barnyara, By observing fun'ral rites, It suggests to sowme @ season, Whon the town is paiutoa red; But to us it means the scason When we mourn our martyr doad, y dinner means to man a stronomical event; While to us it seems moro like & Siaughter of the innocent. During all the fat'ning pro How degrading 'Lis to fee hat the destiny assigned us Is to furnish man a meal. o8 Do men think the finer feelings To a turkey are unkuownt That the height of his ambition Is w covor up his bone! We should be the nation’s emblem, We New England's proudest bird; And with patriotic feclings, Should vur houored names be heard, Should the honor due to turkey rom Amevicans b paid, We could knock that scréeching eagle, Most complotely in the shade, Why should e: stride the flagstafa) Why be called the birds of stata, While the turkeys' fond ambitions, Meet with such a bitter fate! —-— A Plum Creck bourbon has taken a solerun onthnot to touch a drop of intoxicants usti tho democrats elect anotuer president. ey N N