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TO THE PUBLIC.
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any arrt, ardor. aaxwlaUoa. pari y. clique,
fact'os or dlvUloa of th popuiatloa of
this (rand Kxputillc, and repudtate and
brand! aa flM all claim or rharcri thai
U to uch. let auch claim or chart b
gad by any prrana or prona wliotu
ovvar. THE AMERICAN to a wpnpr of
(noral circulation, oln to and twin
read by pimple of all rallgloua belief
and political afiHIattons; by tba whlu
and lk black, lb naUte-bora and to
naturalised, tha Jew and Uie Uentlle, the
Proteetant and the Roman Catholic.
Tbtoclalm can b auhatanUated la any
court of Justice at any time.
AMIRICAN "USJLISHINO 00..
I, JOHD C. TK0mHOH. frmUfl.
NOVEMBER 13. 1896.
WE will furnish all our subscribers
with The Omaha American hereafter.
It take a pretty poor man
treasurer of the United State,
law li compiled with.
to be
If the
We don't care who Major McKlnley
appoints to office, lust so they are not
of the Pat Egan brand.
The grand ratification at the Audi
torlum in Chicago last evening wai I
grand suooets. , Senator Thurston wai
one of the sneakers and sustained his
reputation admirably.
That was a great aermon which Rev.
Mr. Hlllli delivered In Chicago lut
Sunday. We (hall republish a great
portion of it in our neit Issue.
The latest returnt from Nebraska
how that the McKlnley elector and
Hon. A. S. Churchill, supported by
this paper, ran more than 5,000 rotes
ahead of the balanoe of the ticket.
The butcheries in Cuba continue. Is
It because Roman Cathollo Spain is the
aggressor? Would our government as
sume a different attitude were Cuba a
dependency of a Protestant country?
It is our opinion that to be consist
nt President Cleveland will have to
dismiss Wash Hesslng, Chloago's Ro
man postmaster, because of pernicious
political activity. The free silver man
at Sprlngfle'd had to go.
REPORT says, count Gen. Harrison
out when making up McKinley's oabt
net. As we had our cabinet built when
hat report got loose it stands, but in
ease Harrison refuses then we say put
in Mark Han on. He did the work and
he's entitled to the spoils.
It IS roported that 144,455 men, w ho
have been idle for a long time, have
been put to work since McKinley's eleo
tion. If they each earn $1 50 per day
wljloh is a low eulmate for mill hands
it would place in circulation (213,692.50
every day of the week, and more then
$5,600,000.00 every month. And that is
only a starter.
RUMOR has it that John Ireland Is to
ba summoned to Horn 4 to answer for
his late political utterances If John
values his American citizenship one
half as much as he pretends to he had
better stay In this country, otherwise
the pope may exerotso his prerogative
absolve him from his oath of allegi
anceand then send him to (we were
going to say prison, but they call it) a
retreat.
How the mighty have fallen! One
of the descendants of a hundred Irish
kings John H. Sullivan has been de
feated for an office in Massachusetts.
You may think that is nothing but it is,
because the man who won the office
was a common, ordinary oiftee-colored
negro of the regulation ward politician
order. Had It bean one of the byes it
could have been endured, but by a
aegro Sill
Were we to suggest a cabinet for
Wm. McKlnley It would read some
thing like this: Secretary of State,
Benjamin Harrison; Secretary of the
Treasury, Thos. J. Morgan; Secretary
of War, Robt T. Lincoln; Secretary of
the Navy, Col. Richard Thompson;
Secretary of Interior, W. S. Linton;
Secretary of Agriculture, Chaunoey L
Filley; Postmaster General, H. F.
Bowers; Attorney General, John L.
Webster.
AS Mr. Bryan is to ba the next Dem
ocratio nominee we suggest that Chair
man Jones issue a call for the repre
sentatives of the party to meet in con
ventlon in our old home, Little Rock,
Ark., on New Year's day and get the
job off his hands, and at the same time
tret hie candidate in the field. A four
year race course i not any to 3 long for
our Nebraska, man. He is a record
breaker, and a good deal better than
a majority of the leaders in his party,
OUR COURSE.
Thit paper has no doalre to do any
thing that wlil place It In the attitude
of attempting to dictate to President
elect McKlnley. It helped elect him
In th firm belief that hewasaa Am- rl-
en at heart, that he loved our institu
tion, and would bo enough of a diplo
mat and a slateeman to rofUt the Im
portunities of the Roman hierarchy
which has, for so many years, been
fastened, like a leech, on the body poll
tj at Washington. Nor will it do
aught which Mr. McKlnley can con
strue or it enemies torture into a de
sire to pose as an adviser of the chief
executive. It has the utmost confidence
In President McKinley's ability and
udgment. It does not think he will
make a mistake; but, while this la so,
The American will give voloe to a
note of warning to his suppoaed friends
bo a-e busy building his cabinet
through the columns of the dally press.
There must be no manufactured senti
ment in favor of Romanists for cablaet
positions, for fat consular berths or de
sirable ministerial portfolios. The
American people supported Major Mo-
Ktnley because they were honest in the
conviction that the whole Roman in
fluence was being wielded in favor of
the candidate of the opposition. They
expected that he would realize that
fact and that ha would respect their
wishes by ohooslng Protestants for his
chief advisers and ministers to foreign
countries. They do not want these
pretended friends of the president to
embarrass him In tha Initial step of
his administration, by forcing him to
refuse to appoint Romanists to post'
tlons which Protestants can fill with
consummate ability and acceptability
If the Democrats are to be rewarded
with a cabinet position, let it be suoh a
Democrat as Carlisle of Kentucky.Mor-
ton of Nebraska or Lee of Virginia,
Let It be some man whom Protestant
Aoierloans respeot; let it not be Dourke
Cockrane or Dick Kerens, or any other
Romanist whom the American poople
distrust.
The doUcv of The American will
not be to urge President-elect MoKln-
ley to turn down every Roman Cathollo
who applies for a position. It will be
its policy to urge him to give Protca
tants, equally capable, the preference,
because this Is, essentially, a Protes
tant oountry. The Protestants are nine
to one in voting strength. They pay
nearly all the tax which supports the
government. They do tha fighting in
time of war and teaoh patriotism, love
of oountry and devotion to it flag and
its free institutions in time of peace.
Romanists on the other hand send the
money they should pay aa taxes to dy
namiters and assassins in the old world,
who wage continual war against the
heads of governments at peace with
the United States; their priests teaoh
treason to this oountry, contempt for
our flag and hatred for the public
schools; and they, themselves, In the
nation's darkest hour, when she needed
friends, were the first to break ranks
and sneak off into the dark and gloom
and leave such patrlotio young heroes
aa Wm. McKlnley to vindicate the
course of the immortal Lincoln in free
ing four million slaves and to uphold
him in his determination to maintain
this Union, it God willed, one and in
divisible. For these reasons wa say to the over-
zealous and probably Insincere friends
of Mr. McKlnley, don't force hint into
a false position; don't bring a useless
and unnecessary fight upon him; but
on the contrary hold up his hands
when he tries to do what Is right.
He is an American. Give him
show.
DEMOCRACY'S LEADER IN I90C.
Thedaily papers contained a dispatch
last week from a large department
store doing business in Chicago and
New York city offering W. J. Bryan
$25,000 a year to go to the latter city
and assume charge of their legal de
partment, and one conveying to them
his thanks for and bis refusal of their
offer. When we read their dispatch
we asked a gentleman, who claims to
know the politics of the firm, if they
were not Democrats and he assured us
that they were. We then concluded
that it would be Mr. Bryan's duty to
his party to accept the position and for
this reason: By removing to New
York, by mingling with the business
men and by preaching to them his pe
culiar political creed, he would be bet
ter equipped for the fight he i des
tined to lead again in 1900. No one
who meets Mr. Bryan leaves him with
the impression that he Is a demagogue
or with the thought that he is Insin
cere in his advocacy of the doctrines
embodied in the late. Democratic plat
form, and it is our opinion that the
New Yorker would be no exception to
the general rule. It is our opinion that
had he accepted that offer, had he
gone to New York and had the people
of that city and of that state become
personally and intimately acquainted
with him, they, like thousands of
others who listened to his eloquence,
who witnessed his magnificent fight for
what he believed would ameliorate
the condition of the wage-earners and
of the producers, who stood in the
radiance of his magnetic presence and
shouted yet kne not why, they too
would follow in his train and make
New York a doubtful if not a pivotal
sUte In the next great national cam
paign.
Thing may change before tbe lde
of November in 1SKW. Mr. Bryan may
be but a memory, but a remetubranoe;
but if they do not, he I as certain to
be the leader of the Democracy a was
G rover Cleveland after hi defeat by
General Harnaon in All sign
point to that to day, for he has demon
strated not only hi ability to lead, not
only bl courage to fight unequal odd,
but the graclou trait of a defeated but
u neon que red leader of a mot formida
ble boot.
REFUSES TO REFORM.
A 17-year-old girl traveling under the
alia of Minnie Burke came here sev
eral week ago from Sioux City and en
tered a disorderly bouse. 1 here sne
was arrested Thursday and charged
Ith InoorriaMbillty. Police Matron
Thurston of Sioux City, who Is here at
the instance of the girl's parents, en
deavored to persuade the plrl to enter
the House of the uooa snepnera, out
she refuses to do so. World-Herald.
We don't blame her. From the repu
tatlon acquired by suoh houses in other
cities, and from what we have been
told of the one in this city she would
find little improvement over the place
from which she was removed. Probably
she believes with the young lady who
escaped from the Columbus convent
and went to Sioux City, and who aald
if she was to furnish entertainment for
men she would go to a place where she
could ohoose her companions and not
have to submit to the carresses of fat,
flabby priests.
The Danish Tribune of Omaha, is
evidently closely related if not abso
lutely under the control of the Roman
ohurch. For years the paper has lauded
every Romanist nominated for office,
This was particularly true in last year's
election and in the campaign just
closed. It is time for our Danish
friends to commence looking about
them. They have always been noted
for their honesty, their frugality, their
loyalty and their Protestantism, and
we doubt much If they will continue to
let tha Danish Tribune mislead them
into supporting the candidates of the
Roman corporation, and Into making a
fight upon the A. P. A. ft distinctly
Protestant order.
Well! Well! I We're getting back
to old times. Another American has
uncovered himself. His name T. Q
Selfridge, Jr., Admiral of the United
States warship Minneapolis. He re
cently steamed into the bay of Smyrn
and saw the British steamship, "Bay ne"
flylag a signal of distress. An invest!
gatlon showed he had several Armenian
refugees whom the Turks had de
m'ne'ed. Our Admiral told the captain
of the Boyne to steam out and he would
give him all the assistance necessary if
he had to bombard the town. Hooray!
MICROGRAPHS.
When Chiniquy is dead how the
papal press will He.
Rev. Dr. David Gregg, the successor
to Dr. Cuyler, in Brooklyn, is strong
in his patrlotio utterances.
The United States needs more men
like Chiniquy, to fearlessly tell what
the Roman Catholic church really Is
Ministers of the gospel are not doing
their dutv in keeping their mouths
shut about a religion that is semi
pagan.
In the words of an eminent professor,
"We cannot consider the Roman Cath
olio church any other than a pagan
church."
In all countries the Roman Catholics
are fighting Protestantism. They fight
the Bible Society, ana consider it a
great enemy. t
Cardinal Gibbons Is In a sanitarium
for his health. The late disturbance at
Washington must have been somewhat
too violent for the gentleman.
How much longer will the convents
stand here In the United States? Until
they are closed by law, or until the
priests are permitted to marry.
The rows are multiplying In the Ro
man Catholic church a church which
claims unity and we may expect many
more rows before the season is over.
Rev. Dr. Fulton thinks Ireland Is be
ginning to show that he dares to thin it
for himself, while others laugh at Ful
ton for his estimate of Ireland's posi
tion. Ministers are not consistent when
they plead and beg for money to send
the gospel to the pagans and do not say
a word against the semi-pagans at our
own doors.
Over thirty persons have recently
left the Roman Catholic church and
joined the Church of Ireland (Protes
tant). Ex-Priest Connellan's work is
doing good.
Rev. Thomas Connellan proves the
confessional does not do what the
priests claim it does for the morality of
the people, and the ex-priest proves
his statement by facts.
While Rev. Chiniquy is in England,
the Republic, a Roman Cathollo paper,
is printing lies about him. Why do
thev not do it when he is here? There
are few men they fear more than he
The Datrlotio press of the United
States is having an influence not only
unon Protestants, but It is reaching the
'followers of the antichrist, and while
tbey are quiet, they are doing much
hard thinking.
A Roman Ca'holic paper of St. Louis
stated that Protestant missionaries in
heathen land bad "dee trowed the work
of St Xavler.root and branch. " If that
paper do net keep within the bounds
of propriety they will destroy its work,
"root and branch,'' and establish some
thing better.
Regarding the Bible Society, the
Catholic New of Trinidad, ay: "if
the Venezuelan are ignorant of any
thing, it 1 tbe usa of tar and feather,
a judicious application of which would
be sufficient to keep the brawling ran
ters of the Bible Society at a safe dis
tance from their shores.
Ministers are poor managers when
they raise money to send missionaries
to convert the Roman Catholics in
Mexico and let the Roman Catholics
take the Bible out of our public schools,
and by their silence on the subject,
cause people to believe the Roman
Cathollo church is as good as a church
which has the Bible aa Its only rule of
faith and practice.
The paper still continue to slap the
pope in the mouth because of his state
ment that other churches have no suc
cession rock to stand on. Why should
anyone be shocked at that now? The
Roman Cathollo church has claimed
that for hundreds of years, and Peccl
could say nothing else. All of Mr,
Peoci's succession will not pray him
out of purgatory.
When we see how the pope fights the
Bible Society in South America, we
have another indication that he recog
nizes the Bible as his enemy his most
deadly enemy. Therefore let us have
committee of three In each school
dlstrlot to see that the teachers and
scholars have Bibles, and each morn
ing let each ohlld be permitted to read
a verse of a selection made by the
teacher.
Before I close, let me say in the
words of a true Roman Catholic, "The
A. P. A. is dead.' And I may add,
yet in opposition to almost all Roman
Catholics, It elect the choice of the
majority of the order. ALE PH.
ALL SORTS.
Major McKlnley said to a correspond
ent of the United Associated press: "I
do not care to be interviewed, but I
ill say that I think the patriotic ef
forts of the men of both parties have
brought the result." He gave credit
to other cause, but he speaks of the
patrlotio effort first. Now, our hard
working Mr. Bryan should bear in
mind the statement of a successful man.
We do not, at this time, wish to judge
Mr. Bryan, but it seems to us, he was
mistaken in bis estimation of the com
parative power of the forces in the
field. He should not have made the
mistake in the the first place, and if he
will succeed in the future he will profit
by the lessons of the past
In the departments in 'Washington
the Roman Cathollo clerks are dis
pleased with the plan of the nuns sell
ing tickets to fair twice a week-. And
when we know that they are compelled
to buy and give, as the nuns suggest,
or lose their positions, let something
be done to stop it for bjth Protestants
and Roman Catholics. If the Roman
Catholics were to leave their church
on account of this action, they would
surely lose their jobs. We do not want
to proscribe anyone only when it takes
from them the liberty which they
should be permitted to enjoy In this
land.
Miss Mary Caldwell was to leave her
money to the Roman Catholic Univer
sity in case she died, leaving no heirs.
But now she is married, and the pope's
people may pity themselves because of
the present position.
It is claimed that one of the eastern
archbishops of the United States has
two agents at Home to act lor mm
against the public schools in America,
Miss Eads, neice of Protestant Episco
pal Bishop Walnwrlgat, and Colonel
George Bliss, both converts to the
papal party. One of the aims of this
faction of the Roman Cathollo church
is to support the Cahensley plan. Take
for Instance New Mexloo. Here Is a
pope's domain in our oountry, and they
voted some office aspirants voting
with them to keep the English lan
guage out, and thereby establish, as
strongly as possible, a centre for opera
tion. If this is to be a united country,
let every state fall into line or fall out
of the United States. According to
the Cahensley plan, New Mexico Is a
success, and they want to have other
points managed in the same way. In
stead of the foreign missionaries going
to Spain to preach Spanish, they can
send them to our own land and have
the privilege of doing that work with'
out going so iar. It might be oppor
tune for the Home Missionary Society
to go to the Protestant office-seekers
for a donation to pay the expenses of
the Spanish missionary to convert the
Spanish people who cannot be taught
English, unless they have private in
struction.
Mr. Martinelli, according to the New
York Sun, says the pope regards the
United States as the greatest field in
the world for the spreading of the Ro
man Cathollo religion. The Protes
tants should cause it to be the place
where his people will be lead to think
for thefla! ve, and not depend upon a
e'ergy wbict) ha bt-ea and is a stum
bling block in tbe way of success to a
ration, spiritual y, morally and finao
daily. Tbtt Protestant hve a big
contract rt band to educa'e them, but
It mutt be done, so do not stop until it
i done. X.
MiouU be Changed.
We fully endorse the follow! n;, from
the New O.-lean Sute-t: Tne sug-
gection that our lmmlgrat on laws be
so changed as t.) exclude all Immigrants
bo cannot read aad writs the Englinh
language U certainly an excellent one.
Trie day is past when we could afford
to admit the offscourings of all the na
tionalities to an equal enjoyment with
the na'ive-oaru citizens of the advan
tage afforded them. As a rule, It Is the
most ignorant, poverty stricken and
undesirable people of foreign countries
who abandon their old homes and seek
new ones in tbe Unitea tsta.es, am it
Is time that this ceases to be made a
dumping ground (or such garbage.
There are already settlements in the
west where the people know no more
of our language, habits, customs and
form of government than a parcel of
Hottentots. This condition of thing
should be put an end to, and the sooner
the better."
"How Are the Mighty Fallen!"
These words of tbe prophet are ap
plicable to our sister on the north of
us, Manitoba, in her recent appeal to
the papal see, accepting of the pope as
the arbitrator In her school troubles.
And if the Influence of that act and the
terrible loss to the liberties of that peo
ple could thereby be averted, we would
say it in a whisper: " Publish It not
In Ashkelon; tell it not in Gath!" But
this cannot be, for the Influence of that
act will be far reaching, and as to the
final result, It will be a most terrible
loss to that people, for, as In all the
history of the Rjmaa Catholic jchurch
it will turn to the aggrandizement of
the papacy. But what else may we ex
pect when even so-called Liberals and
Catholics are at the helm? Tbe ulti
mate decision of Pope Lso XIII. may
even now be recorded, without the
slightest claim to prophetio lore.
It is a well-known fact that some
months ago the New York Independent
sent a letter to various dignitaries of
that church, asking: "Will you be
kind enough to Inform me whether it
is the p3licy of your church to obtain
such division?" referring to the dlvi
slon of the public school fund, a Many of
the answers were rather Indefinite upon
the real question, but evidently framed
with the purpose In view of throwing a
mist before Protestant readers. Cover
ing the two extremes may benotlced
the recites of Bishop Hennessy and
Bishop Durier. The former declared
"The Catholio church has no policy
whatever as to obtaining or claiming a
division of the public school funds,
The Question ha nevjr come before
the church."
Now mark the replyof Mr. Durier,
which Is just a) positive upon the other
side of the question. He says: "It is
positively the aim say policy if you
will of our church to obtain a division
of the publlo school fund, aa she is sat
isfied that she has a right to it and she
can prove her right."
Now notice the answer of a few
others. BUhop Phelan says: "What
ever concessions we may at any time
obtain must come from tin consent of
our fellow citizens, and by convincing
them of the iu9lice of what we ask."
And has not Manitoba, by that appeal
consented to their "policy" and ac
knowledged the "justice" of what they
ask?
Bishop Macs says: "We shall con
tinue to pay for our own schools until
we have convinced all lovers of fai
play and all believers in religious truth
that our portion is correct, until the
public endorses our views on education
And docs not that act of Manitoba go
to show that she "endorses their views
on education?"
Bishop Vertin says: "I am entirely
against any policy of obtaining a share
of publlo school money, if the state will
not give it of herself on the principle of
the true American spirit. J And in
this act of appeal to the pope, is it not
true that the state has given "it of it
self?"
Bishop Heslin says: "Policy has
dictated to them (Catholics) to submit
to this injustice in the hope that time
would dispel prejudioe, disarm bigotry.
enlighten ignorance and bring Amerl
can fair-mindedness to the surface to
acknowledge and allow the justice of
their claim." And has not this conces
sion on the part of Manitoba been, at
the least, an apparent acknowledgment
of "the justice of their claim?" Will it
not be thus Interpreted at the Vatican?
Bishop Ryan says: "We have often
said, and we repeat, that the fair
mindedness of the American people and
the religious convictions of so large
number of well-meaning American citi
zens, will sooner or later coincide with
our views in this regard." WillJRome
fail to accept this advantage in giving
the Question this interpretation? If
she falls this time, it will be the first in
all her history.
The Rt. Rev. Leo Haid says: "I do
not entertain the least d )ubt that If tbe
people were left to judge the case on its
merits, they would in this, as in other
matters of public honesty, be just to
their Catt oMc fellow citizen and gladly
Ire them what 1 theirs a pro rata
barw of money Col'iCten" fr educa
tional puriMSM to be dtvot-d to tbe
du a i"u of Cat hoi .c children." This
last U equally ktrore an to tbe uoticv of
tbt church, a 4 wan tbe tt .lenient of
Dr. Diner, b. fore quoU d. And there
can be no question a to tbe outcome of
the appeal.
Of ooure this conceseton N not ex
actly an act of the people of Manitoba
and they caa reverse it if tbey will-
yet as an act of the servants of the peo
ple it will doubtless be accented that
they gladly give them what is theirs."
Tnl thing should be watched closely
by tbe oeople of the United States, and
if tbe result is as herein predicted,. Ik
should be published from Dan to Beer-
sheba, a a warning to the Americas
people, lest they too fall into the
masbes of Rome on this question.
There is very great danger that the
liberties of the people shall come to
naught under the combined actions of
so-called liberal Cathol'cs and sleepy
Protestants. H. F. PHELPS.
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.
At the present time there is more
steel used In the manufacture of pena
than in all tbe sword and gun factories
In the world.
Leading electricians claim that the
new vacuum tube light win ne tnree
times aa brilliant as the present light
and its cost only one-third as much.
Carthaginians are said to have been
tbe first who paved their towna with
stones. London was first paved about
the year 1533. Wood pavement com
menced in 1839.
A famous old tavern, the Green
Dragon, in Blackfriars, London, la being
torn down. It stands cloee to tha site
of the house owned by Shakespeare and
left by his will to his daughter, Susan
nah Hall.
The German empress possesses a
unique tea service. The tea tray has
been beaten out of an old Prussian half
penny, the tea-pot Is made out of a
German farthing and the tiny cups
are made from coins of different Ger
man principalities.
Scientists say that tbe banana is a
perfect food and will support life for
an indefinite time. The people of the
United States appear to have found its
merits. An enormous Increase is re
ported in the Importations, reaching
t year an aggregate of 17,427,84
bunches.
Ernest Faber, director of the Johann
Faber pencil works In Germany, has
stated that there are twenty-six pen
cil factories In Bavaria, employing
about 10,000 workers, and turning out
4,300,000 pencils per week. The firm
of Faber alone makes nearly 1,250,000
pencils per week.
No mention of the cat occurs in the
Bible or in any Assyrian record.
Even in India, Prof. Max Muller is
quoted as saying, It was but recently
known as a domestic animal. Ita
Sanskrit name Is marjara, from a root
meaning to clean, from the creature's
habit of licking itself at Its toilet The
cat's mousing habits were well known
to the Romans, and even to the Etrus
cans.
The smallest lock and key ever
manufactured was that made by a Lon
don blacksmith, Mark Seal lot, in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. The lock
contained eleven pieces, made of Iron,
steel and brass, and, together with a
pipe key, only weighed one grain. Sca
llot also made a chain of gold of forty
three links, weighing half a grain. The
chain, to which was fastened the lock
and key, was put about the neck of a
flea, and was drawn by it with ease.
PERSONALS.
William Stolber, the newest Colora
do millionaire, has his wife for a busi
nese partner.
Gen. Jo. Shelby of Missouri has ac
cepted an invitation to make a speech
for Palmer and Buckner.
Cardinal Gibbons has conferred or
ders on a number of students at St.
Mary's college, Emmitsburg.
Gov. Bradley of Kentucky will take
the stump for McKlnley. He will make
something like a dozen speeches In the
state.
Rudyard Kipling is related by mar
riage to William McKlnley. Mrs. Wil
liam Glidden, Mrs. Kipling's aunt, is
MaJ. McKinley's first cousin.
Henceforth the Ameer of Afghanis
tan is to be known as the "Light of the
World." His majesty Is having a gold
coin struck to commemorate his new
dignity.
John Most, the veteran anarchist, is
much dissatisfied with the state of af
fairs in the east, and thinks that an
archy is In a bad way there. He talks
of going west.
The new infirmary at Amherst col
lege, the gift of George D. Pratt, of
Brooklyn, will be erected by a Boston
firm, and is to be completed on March
1 next. It will cost $17,000.
Dr. Louis Schlessinger, a wealthy
philanthropist of San Francisco, has
taken George Thomae, a 10-year-old
waif, from the Denver police matron's
charge, and will adopt him.
Fulton Canada, of Florida, has Just
returned from a three weeks' alligator
hunt He killed 298 alligators, aver
aging six feet long, during the time,
for which he received J145.34.
There is not a peer in the house of
lords who was there at the beginning
of Victoria's reign. The earl of Mans
field has been there for fifty-six years
and the earl of Kimberly for fifty.
The late Sir John Millals' income
ranged as high as $100,000 in the best
years, and from an early date in his
career his terms for portraits exceeded
those charged by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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