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i'JtUii OMAHA DAijLi JBfcE : SATURDAY MARCH 4 The Omaha Bee * ' i Published every morning , oicopt Sunda Cfco only Monday rnornin ; dally , TKKM8BYMAIL- On Vflftr $10.00 I Thre Months$3.1 Biz Months , 5.001 Ono . . l. < I1IE WEEKLY BRB , published o BERMS POST PAIDf- Ono Yew $2,00 I ThrooMontlrt. . I Pis Month * . . . . 1.00 | Ono . . ' COIUUWI'WNDKNOK All Commun Atlnns rclAtIni ( to News and Editorial ma ere should bo addressed to the EniTOn C Tits Urc. BUSINESS LETTERS All Buslnci Ldttm and Itcmittancoa should be ai Irwed to T UK OMAHA POHLIHIIIHO COS TAfT , OMAHA. Drafts , Checks and Poj office Ordei * to bo made payable to tr oH r of the Comnany. OHAHAPDBLISHINGOOProp'r , E. ROSEWATEB , Editor. IN asking for living wages labor i only carrying out the old saying "Live and lot livo. " GKOIUJE WILLIAM Cuima" common on Mr , SarRont's nomination ia brio but meaty. "It is pretty hard on Qor many. " " Mn. TENNVBOK has published i poem entitled "Tho Ohargo of th < Heavy Brigade. " The poem ii heavier than the brigade. GovEUNon NANCE is waiting for th ( wink from railroad headquarters bo lore deciding upon , the question of nr extra session. A wink is as good as i nod to a dead duck. IOWA , will veto on the prohibition amendment at a special election to be called probably in Juno. The amend ment has passed the sonata and n live ly campaign may bo expected. "Emay" HAIICIENT since his 6on- firmation doesn't care n f-i-g for news paper criticism. Ho has raked the Berlin persimmons , and will hold the fort for three y ars to come * . Mu BLJIIKH may have disappeared from public view as some of his ene mies would have us believe , but t'u ' plumed knight of Maine always bobi up serenely when titno and the occa sion demands. TUB men whohowl loudest againsl any uiovements on the part of laboi to bettor its condition , are generally men who couldn't earn $1.25 a day il thrown on the resources of their owr mUBolo. ' OMAHA may take ono cunsolatiot from the prevailing high rents in th ( city. They stimulate building , am ' before long unless our present re & markablo increase of population cent t tinues , the oity must bo provided witl comfortable and cheap homos. TUB raral roosters who crow it concert whenever the railroad man agcrs raise their hands are proparmi to join the monopoly organs in thoi : Arguments against an extra session II Meantime- candidates keep up i thoi I buttonholing just as if nothing wa about to drop. THK Napoleonic Doraoy is gottin ) hit in the neck on account of his expenditures pondituros in the Indiana campaigi at the late election. It ia stated tha $250,000 wore sent to carry the ntato and there is no record that more tha $55,000 was expended under Dorse ; ' management. This beats the "sta route" business hantl over fist. TUB adulteration of butter and th , manufacture of oleomargarine is it , creasing with startling rapidity. Lai year 110,000,000 pounds of the bogi butter was manufactured inNow Yet cityalono a quantity of 5,000OC pounds in OXCOSN of the entire daii l > produce of the ntrto. The intoros of our dairymen demand that rig ! laws shall bo passed to regulate i wlo. RESIDENTS of Dakota declare tin by 1800 the territory may roasor.Jb bo oxpootod to have a population i nine hundred thousand. Immigr tion ia enormous and is rushing in1 every section from all quarters , half the inducements had boon ofl'en to immigrants to settle in Kobnul which have boon hold out to aottle in Dakota our atato would to-day co taiti a larger population than Kansu SINCE Pontmaater General Jauu retirement , the meanest of slande have boon circulated by the "st rostur " ubout his connection wil the Vanderbilt interest and the Li : coin bank. Broadly the allegatic , was made that ho gave an undue c low&nce to the Vanderbilt roads f extra mail service for the purpose securing the presidoi'cy of the Li coin National bank in'which Mr.Va derbilt ia interested. The 'Now Yoi Times ahowa by figurua that "this imply a bold untruth , " and "furtho rnoro the Vanrlorbilts do not contr the Lincoln bank , and Mr , Jam waa invited into its management ( ai that fact was published ) before ho w postmaster general. " -fl * * * % * ILJUTERAOY IN THE UNITE STATES. The national bureau of oducntio has issued n compilation from the coi sus returns which ia especially valu bio as showing the extent ( o whic illiteracy prevails in the United State From this it appears that there ai 4,023,453 persons who nro unable I rend nnd write nnd nro according ! classed ns illiterates , nnd of this nun bor 3,775,731 reside in the souther states. The population of thoi states is < ! Btimntod at nixtcc millions nnd the entire amour raised for educational purposes little more than eight millions nnni nlly , or about § 1,50 a year for over child between the ages of eight an twenty years , This num is less tlm ono-half that raised by the nine mi lions of people residing in Now Yor and Now England. In the slnto c jlcorgin alone , with a million nnd inlf of people , a smaller sum c money is expended for education ! ) urpoacs tlinn that appropriated b Ihodo Island , with its population c ess than two hundred thot and , The sixmo comparisons hoi ; oed throughout the entire souther ; tatoa. With far loss than a thir of the population of the United State hey contain ever two-thirds of th [ literates of the nation. Of cours his condition is to nome extent du o the largo negro population but th iroportion of ignorance among th whites is also greater than in any oth r portion of the country. In his in ugural address the Into Prestdcn ] nrfiold earnestly called attention i liis startling condition of affairs am nnouncod his intention of urgin ; upon congress some measures t omody the oviK Ignorance am ice * go hand in hand. Ex ) orionce has demonstrated very clear y that that nation h most prosporou whore intelligence is most widely dis ominatod. No country more thai ur own is so greatly dependent upoi 10 elevating nnd refining influonc f popular education. In a republi whore every citizen holds in his ) iand omo portion of the governing powo literacy becomes more than an ovil- ; is is a political criniu. i'lUNKLIN , PllANKMN Co. , Nob. , \ February 28th , 1882. / Editor BEE : Will you please give description am listory of the Ganges river in Asia ii our most excellent paper and oblige F. L.Y. . The Ganges is the principal river lindostan. It rises in the Himalaya nd empties into the Bay of Bengal ts entire length is 1,500 miles and ii onoral direction is first southeast an ; hon oast. According to the old San crit epics , the Ganges descended f roi leaven and at a height of nearly 14 , 00 feet in the Himalaya's became or ; angled in the hair of the goddesi 3iva. Here it issues from under a mmonso Mod of snow and joining th Alakanada , receives the name of Gar gos. During the first 160 miles th ivor descends 12,000 toot , when i outers the plain of Hindostan and b ( gins its middle course. Prom Allaho mil it forms a magnificent water wa or traffic and communication throug ono of the most fertile and thiekl ottlod regions of the glebe , passin > y the great cities of Benares , Patnt 3ahan and Hoorahedabad an its wa to Calcutta. At a distance of 20 miles from the sea its delta begin brining a wildorno'ss of creaks an rivers , The Ganges , like the Nile , i worshipped by the nations as th goddess "Ganga. " Pilgrimages ni made to its shores , and the de thrown in. The entire Hindoo mytl elegy is woven with symbols and pii turoa referring to its origin , and th beneficial influences which it oxorcisi oycr the country and its people. OMA.BA. will do well to keep her oyi and oars wide open to what other citii are doing in the matter of paving. S Louis , thoroughly disgusted with tl slop and dust ol her 310 miles of m cadam , is discussing the merits < wood pavements impregnated wil creosote. At a recant mooting of tl Board of Public Improvements in th city , a gentleman who spoke fro personal observation , stated tluij tl experience of London shows the vali of creosoted pavement. Ho said was used in the city where the traf ; is heaviest , and that it has more pow of resistance than granite. In tl connection wo uoto that the SaniU Engineer says of maoamadizud strec that it "would bo difficult to find material bettor calculated to irritu the eyes , the throat , the lungs , not apeak of thu foolingi of the unfort natoa who have to encounter it , thi the line dust which is ground from macamadizod city street , AMD this ia the cruel way in whi the Kansas Oity Journal refers to tl Nebraska signal bureau ofjGrammor Park : Tno editor of the Omaha Hera gets daily bulletins in regard to t ! condition of old Sammy Tildon. the old scalawag gees out in the ba > yard , if ho takes a bath , or blows 1 nose , all is duly sot down , and tl Herald publishes the stuff as nowa. A coNmiKNOE of laborers to d mand higher wages is called by tl monopoly organs a "riot. " A confi of railread managers to increase the own salaries ii termed "a harmonic mooting. " OTHER LANDS THAN OCRS The attempt mudo on Thun day to nsaasamato Queen Victor ! details of which hnvo appeared i our telegraphic columns was the seventh onth of the kind since her accession t the throne. The first assault too place on Juno 10th , 1840 , when Ed ward Oxford fired two shots at th queen ns she was driving in on ope carriage with Prince Albert. Oxfor wan acquitted on the ground of iimn ity and Hont to an insuno nnylum fu lifo , Two years later on I ho 30lh o May , 1842 , n second attempt to take tl ! lifo of the queen was iniulo by on John Francis , The pistol shot misac its mark and the assailant wns trio and sentenced to transportation. I the same year John Bean made th third assault upon her majesty b snapping a revolver at her porsoi while she VMS riding to the royn ohapol. The court sontuncod th prisoner to eighteen months imprison mont. In May , 1849 , a nhot was firoi at the queen while she was riding ii Windsor by. William Hamilton , ni Irish bricklayer. Hamilton was placet on trial , plcadod guilty and was sentenced toncod to seven years penal servitude The fifth assault by Robert Pate , wai made in 1850 with a cane ns the quoot was returning from a visit to the duki of Cambridge : Pnto was tried , convicted victod nnd received the same sontonci as Hamilton. Technically the point ing of a pistol at Queen Victoria bj Arthur O'Connor , a crazy young mar in 1872 , constituted on assault anc the last until the attempt of Thurs day. day.It It will not bo at rll purprising ii General Skoboleffs iory spccoJ proves to bo the ono spark nocossan : o light the magazine ever whicr ; hreo European governments are sit ling. There are ominous signs oi impending war , and a dark cloud ol danger seems to bo settling over eastern orn Europe. Dispatches from Vionnt state that correspondents in that citj nro not permitted to telegraph tin movements of troops , but from private vato information it is evident thai bodies of Austrian troops are bolnj hastened by boats down the Danubi or by rail to southern Hungary , hav ing some unknown end and object o the expedition in the distance. The ; are apparently being concentrated ii the mountains of Bosnia and the nov districts which have been won b ; Austria. The avowed purpose o these important military movemontsi to put down an insurrection of the in habitants of these mountains. Bu no outbreak has as yet boon reportei among any of these populations o sufficient importance to explain thos largo and expensive preparations. I is true that the native population i excessively discontented with Aue trian rule , and the Slavs furtho north are filled with bitterness at th sudded increase given to the power c their great enemy , the' Austro-Hun garian empire. The warlike mountaineers taineors of Herzegovena are also die satisfied at the reduction of 'their tei rltory made by the final settlement c the war. But as the whole populatio : of this pugnacious province ia enl 100,000 , and as no general outbroo ma yet appeared among the Slave hero does not appear on the surfac sufficient cause for the mobilization c the Austrian armies. But no ono dares to hope that th trouble will be confined toAustri and her Slavic subjects. The warlik sentiment in Russia is said to bo dail growing , and both Austria and Get many are strengthening their castor fortresses in preparation for any , cot tingenoy. France is looked upon a certain to ally herself 'with RUBS ! against the Gorman interest. Forth past ton years Bismarck's diplomat ! policy has been directed agaiast an such a union. At the present tmi his plans seem to have failed , an Franco is understood to hold an ir timato understanding with Russii Italy and Denmark. It will bo aoo that all the materials are present for general European conflict , involvin at least seven millions of armo soldiery. Within six- weeks after declaration of war the four powers ca put in the field the following forcci Austria , 1,220,000 ; Germany , 1,500 000 ; Ruwia , 3,252,120 ; Franco1,1 230,000. To these must be added tl : reserves of Denmark and Italy. Twenty , years ago the moro admii sion oi the possibility of Irish hon rule would have boon the death bio to any English statesman. Now read in the leading journal of Englan thu suggestive remark that "M Gladstone by admitting homo rule I bo a fit subject for discussion hi abandoned the strongest part of tl case againstit , " A strong writar hi recently pointed out that homo rul and oven the final separation of Ir land from the English empire wil sooner or later , become a practic question in British politics. It is tri that Ireland has boou kept under En , lisH rule for throe centuries , at there might seem to superficial obso vution no reason why it should not r main under the rule for three millei iums. But' there are reasons. Oi is the greater diffusion of intolligoni and of a mutual understanding amoi the people. The national school which Dr. "Whatoly hoped wou Protostanizo the island , are rending slowly but steadily out of the En ; lish dominion. Besides , they hav external resources on their side whic no previous generation had. Th Irish in America and in the colonic ere growing in wealth and numboi without losing their interest in th country from which they wore force to emigrate. The public opinion c Europe is crystallizing steadily on th side of the nationalist principle. 1 will not sanction the bayonet government mont of \ pco'plo who have made u their minds to separation , Enqlisl men feel all this in their bones ; bu they linto to bo bcaton. No wondo they nro angry with Mr. Gladsono fo saying that any degree of soparntio ; is rt matter to bo reasoned about , Bu the time is coming when the will have to abandon this nl titudc. If the liberals ai beaten at the next election , wo prodic that they will como back to power , 5 the ono which will follow it , on th basis of n pledge to concede to Irolnn nt least the revival of her nationn parliament. Still there seems to bo no disposi tion in parliament to hamper the government ornmont in its method of dealing witl tha Irish question. On Monday nigh the house of commons adopted n mo tion by Mr. Gladstone to postpone th pending order of business and consido a resolution introduced by him , declaring claring that the proposed investigatioi Into the working of the land act wouli bo injurious to the interests of gooi government in Ireland. The vote ti postpone the special order stood 301 197 , a decided majority for the gov eminent , which made the motion i cabinet question. In the debate \vhicl follow , d Mr. Forstor declared tha the government needed the wholi support of the parliament to upholc the law in Ireland. Mr. Gladstom called attention to the fact that thi lords' committee is composed nl 11103 exclusively of landlords , and was thu incapacitated to decide fairly botwcui their own class and the tcnanti in cases of conflicting interests It ia generally believed that thi conserativo party has made a great blunder in forcing a resolution for t committee of lords ( o investigate tin workings of the land act , and thoi making the committee consist entire ly of conservative lords. The' Lon don Times declares that the commit tee is already hopelessly discredited. " The custom authorities of Gorman ; seem to be acting under a fit of spleei with reference to American importa tions into their country. They hav suddenly discovered that they cm roiso the duty on American product by classifying them as somothin which they are not. Thus canno meats and soups have become ire : ware under German interpretation while canvased hams are classified a otton goods. Formerly canned beel tongues , soups , , and minced meal were classified under the head e "slaughtered and prepared meats. As such they were subject to a dut ; of 12 marks per 100 kilos , or $2.8 per 220 pounds , equal to nbou fifteen per cent , of the value. Bu quite recently some brilliant ofiicit discovered that the meats were packo in tin cans or boxes , to which the labels bols were affixed , and so he clasao all such products under the head c "ironware" and doubled the dutj The matter was brought to the alter tion of the custom house director , on finally to that of the minister o finance at Berlin , but both .austaine the action of the official first raakin : the classification. Since then the Get man government has decided to class ify American ham * in canvas bag under the head of cotton goods , an levy a duty of eighty marks per on hundred kilos , against twelve marke the former duty. Such self-evidon absurdities in the tariff laws'of Goi many need no comment. They show an uniriondly disposition toward thi country , and' our state dopartmon ought to lose no time in filing a prc tost. The Nihilists trials have ended wit the imposition of the death sontenc on ton of the prisoners and Siberia fo the remaining eleven. A Madrid dispatch announces th rumor of an alliance between Spai and Portugal. _ The raw iron production of the Get man empire , iiu luding Luxemburg , i November of last year amounted t 202,300 tons , against 102,554 tons i the same month in 1880 , while froi Janu-xry 1 to November 30 2,600,3 ? ) tons of raw iron , exclusive of ono < two inferior sorts , were produced , The population of Rome and he suburbs , according to the census take on December 31st last , numbero 107,827 males and 132,005 fuumlcs- total ot 300,203 souls. The increai of the population since 1871 has boo 62,410. The silver wedding of the king an queen of Sweden will be celebrate with greatspom { > nt Stockholm on tl Oth of Juno. Two other similar ni nivorsarlos in royal and serene ciroli occur this year , one being that i Princess Ida of Liohtenstbln and Prim and Adolf of Schwartzonborg on tt 4th of Juno , and tho. other that i Grand Duke Michael ot Russia nr the Princess Olgft on the 28th < August. on Railroad ! > N. Y. Time * . The principal opponent of congroi atonal legislation for the regulation o inttir-stato commerce ns carried on b railroads who have thus far nppcnro before the commerce committee of th national house of representatives i ex-Attorney General Wayne Mnc Voagh , who acted M counsel for th Pennsylvania railroad , Mr. MaoVong goes biok to the old pretension tha railroads nro private property , nnd n such not subject to control by a"thor ity of the stiit e. It is rathe late in the day to urge thi doctrine before u body ot iutt'l ligont men. It , can hardly bo dunic that rnilro.ids nru the property i the corporations which construct nil operate them , but privileges hav bcou granted tlu-m and they hold re lations to the public which give thut n different character from that of ordi nary privnto property. It has bee _ repeatedly decided bv the highest tri buimls of this and other countries tha the character and' uses of their prop urty are invested with such a publi quality and give them such a rolatioi to the community thn.t the government mont has authority to subject them t mch supervision andregul&tion usnm ; bo necessary to protect the interests o the public. This point may as well b accepted as Bottled , for neither congress gross nor atato legislatures nro nt a ) ikuly to treat it as open to furthe controversy. Those * who desire ti contribute to the proper settlement o the railroad question will do well t < devote their attention to the scop and character of the regulation to bi exorcised by public authority , nn < lot woato their energies in maintain ng that there is no public author/it ; to deal with the question. Sue ! authority exists and is sure to bo ex orcised in some way. As if conscious that the privati > roporty plea will not avail , Mr. Mac Veagh proceeds to question whothe , ho power of congress to regulate in , or-stato commerce applies to trans jortalion by railroad. Ho thinks tin ipnstitutional provision was not designed signed to authorize such legislation a .hut proposed , but to prevent state rom making unjust discrimination ii 'avor of commerce confined withii .heir own borders. The framers o ho constitution certainly did no lave railroad transportation in mini unless they were qiftcd with ovei jroator provision than is gonornll ; sredited to them , but they mus mvo had in mind transportatioi rom state to Btnto , ior withou hat there could bo no inter-stat iommorco. In this regard , too , soim ; hings have been judiciously settle * nnd piaced beyond controversy. Th constitutional provision has been dia ; inctly held to apply to in tor-ft tat .ransportation by canal and by river and it is difficult to see what difforcu jrinciplo is to apply whon.'it scarriei on by railroad. The objection to re mactiiig the common law is cquall ; utilc. A largo part of our legisla tion affecting public -and privati rights consists in newly applying thi jrinciples of the common law and af 'ording specific remedies for onforcin their observance. When he comes to deal with th real merits of the proposed legislation the counsel of the Pennsylvania roai is hardly more happy in his argument He says it is no moro the province o oncqresa to regulate the element c cost in commodities which is involyei in the expense of their transportatioi than to determine that part of th cost which depends on other consid orations. Nobody pretends that th purpose of legislation should be to de t ermine in any way or to any degre the cost of commodities. As wcl might it bo argued that the prohibi tion of adulteration or the layin of taxes has for its purpose the rogu latiou of cost in the commoditie affected by it. To secure the right t have commodities carried at reason able rates and to protect the publi against the evils of discriminating an fluctuating charges has nothing to d with the question of final cost , however over the latter may be indirectly al footed. When Mr. McVeagh talk about the virtual confiscation of th property of railroads by giving t ihippors the right to decide who sha : be paid for the use of their lines , h indulges in arrant nonsense. Neithc the Reagan bill nor any other bill i : regard to which ho was invited t jive his opinion proposes any such at mrdity. The Reagan bill is in some respect a measure of doubtful practicability [ t is certainly not the best that coul be devised , but Mr. McVeagh doe not furnish any very valuable auggei tion as to what should take its place Ho is willing , as the representative c a great railroad , that a commissjo should bo established , with nopowc but to investigate and report. Ho ha ? roat faith in the virtue of mor o pul licity to rectify evils when they at shown to exist. It is his opinion the if a properly constituted commissio should report that any real gricvnnc existed , no railroad in the countr would dare or dcsiro to continue it fc twenty-four hours. Thorp is no doul much potency in publicity , but i needs to bo backed by a power to cr force remedies ior any evils that ma bo shown to exist. Exporienc hwclies us tint the respoc of railroad corporations for put lie opinion depends very much o whether there is at hand an nvailabl moans of enforcing it" demand ; Should a commission discover and re port abuses , the exposure would b fur more likely to have effect ifit , ha in reserve the power to apply a ronu dy. There should be a commissioi but it should have well define duties and powers , and thes should not bo confined to mor investigating and reporting. It shoul act under laws sufficiently broad an general , and should have much dii cretion in applying them , and expi rionoo would show whorom they nooc ed strengthening and modifying. Thoi ought to bo a concurrence nf the boi minds in devising a system of nationi regulation and supervision of rai roads , lest crude legislation should n suit in increasing the difficulty i dealing with the subject. Ex-Anilitant Pastmantor , CINCINNATI , 0. , Sept. U , 188. II. H. WAIINKU , & Co. : Bms- have used your Safe Kidney ar Liver Cure for chronic dysontor ; contracted while in the army , wil the most happy results. HONEY FOR THE LADIES UufT tint * Are revived , New beiges are striped. Ombre fabrici are out of style. Chcno silks nro coming Into favor. Plush slippers for dancers are now. Scnrf rings nro now woin by ladles. Velvet ribbon In seen on now bonnets. Silk-muslin bows are worn at the throjt Silver rmlr-ptnn are used by gray.halrei ladles. I'ol inahios rival pointed bodices on ne\ dresses. Bracelets nro the favorite article of Jew c'ry ' this Rea on. rilnpf co silver buttons In bullet shop are ii ! < cd cm dark costumes. I'lMn ROrtilg are mod for barques witl stripe * or borders for the skirts. Uox plaltlnu nro supersedl" ? Hat plait ings and kilting M n clrem trimming. A young K'irl has ju t died at George town , Col. , from the tfTects of tight lacing Strawberry-rod and copper-red iiolki lotfl nro seen upon new black satin fabricu Sunflower yellow , eglantine pink , am > ale soarecn aio three icthetio colors ii ilgh vogue. Whltu batiste nnd white natlco will bi nuch more faahioatihlo for summer toilet .ban white Victoria lawn. Plumb girls are said to bo Rolnc oU elf f Dillon. If this h true , the plumper the clrl the Rlimmor her chances. Striped flannel costumes will in n pretv degree t ko the plur. 1 of the Milts made oi a mono-cliromo color which have beet worn for BJ many seasons past. BlacV , blue and lomon-colorod pockel landkerchlefs of sheer linen , embroidered with contras'ing colors , are among the eccentric novelties lately imported. In the award ) of the Women's Silk ox. ilbitlon , held .it Philadelphia , the inothei of the lute IJayard Taylor received the first prize $200. She is eighty years ol ago. ago.Girls should ho careful how they arc vaccinated with virtu taken from a lover's inn. One at St. Paul has taken to swear ng , sitting cross-legged and smoking i > rierroot pipe. Wax candles instead of gas arc used al many Fifth avenue houses on occasions ol entertainments , much to the disgust o : .he . gat companies and to the pleasure ol .no . ( esthetic crowd. A London piper saya that Queen Caro- ine of Saxony is suffering from faticaii caused by overexsrtion in her kitchen. T | s evident that Queen Caroline never at .ended Vassar college. Chemisettes of striped or dotted percali are very fashionable for morning wear Dhoy have a double-breasted front tastenec vith gold buttons and English turnovei collar , with cuffs and button * to match. New handkerchiefs are imported in sill and fine French uiuslin , with serge polk ; dots embroidered on cream whitd grounds ihowinc xvldo borders [ ilainly hemstitched Dthors have woven plka docs of pale blue cardinal , or gray , with bo'.icl bordcip of i color 11 correspou'd. Miss Freliughuyjen , the daughter o , he seototaiy of state , runs over to thi White House and directs the steward how to arrange the table when the presidenl rives a dinner party. She is n young ladj , vitho it pretensions to be.mty , but Intel- ectual and gifted with exquisite taste. A BtylUh model for a spiing hat , in U. "Queen Alab" shape' , is roa le of amber colored straw , with cascades of gold I > ( veiling a wreath of mignonettes and mu li le moss rose buds , of a deep crimson [ nsid . the hat is faced with crimson shirred satin , with a narrow band at the extreme edge of amber bead * . It was half-post ten o'clock Sunday night , Mr. and Mrs. Marrowfat had gen < to bed , but Julia and her Theodore stil lingered in the parlor. A profound silence brooded over the house until the moment came for the loverj to part , and then the old folks distiuctly heard such half-sup "Oh " "Ouchtl * pressed exclamations as ! "Wowl" Mr. Marrowfat turned towarc ais wife , and quietly kneading her in thi lack with his elbow to arouse her intellect said : "Ii's all right , Manthy , Julia'c vaccination is goin } tu take. " PEPPERM.ENT An exchange says "a steamboat blsw up , The captain swam ashore , and BO die ; he chamber maid. She was insured fo § 10,000 , and loaded with railroad iron. " "Let's 'lustrnto it , " hiccoughs J a politi cal orator. ' 'It's beautiful. You Bee , ai old farmer cornea to town loaded with nev wheat , an' he goes home loaded with ol < lye. " The Little Rock papers mitigate th crime of a man who committed auicidi there last week , by saying it was his hrs jflense. Very likely ho had not been lon | in the stata or he would have made thi attempt sooner. A book canvaieCr broke through the ic at Bay City , Mich , while his hands wen in hla trousers' pockets , and was unable ti extricate them. But he hooked his chii over the edge of the ice , and so held hi head above water until resoaed , "Why , " said the teathetic editor as h came into The Argo sanctum , "is my ciga intense ? " "Give it up , " said EpViraim ' Because it'a too all butt , " remarked A . . plaintively. His place is now vacant [ /Kthcnu-'utn. The London Times says that "when ever an eighth son is born into a Belgim family it IB the custom for the king ti stand godfather. " Whenever an elghti son ia born into an American family it i customary for the father and a few of thi older boys to get full. America is pro gressive. They telegraph all the way from Mos cow that "an atrocious crime was com mltted on the stage of the imperial thea tre" the other evening. They must aver age pretty good shows at Moscow to kid up such a fuss. In this country we've go' ' BO used to that tort of thing that wi merely slide out at the end of the first a and think no more about it [ Boston Post The other night a mesmeruer fount jreat difficulty in persuading any one t' come ou the stage. Finally one youu ) man concluded to rUlc it , and the first t > x pertinent was with a glass of water , thi youth being made to believe that it wai alternately brandy , whisky , champagne etc. , and etriuking it with gusto , la fivi minutes Ihirty-suvon men were on the platform asking to be mesmerized. Thing * one would rather have left un Bald Nervous person ( speaking nt last t bin neighbor ) : "Do you know who tha rematkably u < ly person ia just opposite- talking to tha black-haired lady , yoi know-urn eh " Neighbor : "That , ir in my b othei ? " Nervoun pe BOH : "Ye- I I I beg your , nr.l 'ii I -stupid o in 9 not to have iw'm the fau.Ily like ess i Noah Webster wua a uelenr ted autlu- . He WdS a ( pick and ready writer , i-nd ii one of his iiupi ej momenta hailaeheel ut adicti imry. He took it to ftev.tr.il p 'i ' lUher * , but t ey shlo' ' of it , .uyi n td Btylo wilt dull , turgid , ilrv , hurd , aua uu interebting , und beetles that he used toi many big vorde. But at last Noub uc ceo Jed , and the immortal w > rk ia iu dail ; use , pronpiuK up baHes at tha dlnne table. [ Steuben R ppu > lloin. CON NUBI ALI PIES. Mils Annie Louisa Ciry contradicts the reports that she intends to le-ave the stag and to marry. When D. Davis marries that Baltimor widow , will he get down off the fence , o will the bride have to climb up and tit oi it aide saddle ? This ia really a nations topic. A Minnesota preacher fainted away al ter marrving a couple and bail to b worked over two hours before he was rea tored to consciousness. If it acts tha way on the preacher just think of the pee bridegroom. AmfirrUpo ceremony In Notre Dnmu C thedral , Ottawa , Cnnftdn , i n ( ho 2Ut Inst. was Intenuptedat the nlinr ly the entrance of the mnn'B wife bearing her marriage oertificfite , and t.rcparcd . to furnish proof that ho is the father of her two childten , The cnttn'n of leading rnarrlnge notices with the names nf the high conducting parties separated by n ilnnh plvcn tome- times a curious combination. Among tlio notice * In a 1'hil delphla nnper on Satur day were three licnHcd "Birch TwlBg. " "Jj-ort Heed" and "Prico-GIv.n. " "Oh , by the way , dear , have jou con gratulated Lily i n her 01 gfigunenU" asked Mlsa Ploimcer of her friend. "Oh , yes ; of course. I went round to fee her yesterday afternoon. I told her ehe couldn't have dona better and I don't think she could , the horrid , homely thing. Vrederick May , who fought n duel with James Gordon Binnett , was married in San Fr.incli.co on Wednesday night to Mies Cecelia Coleman , n niece of the Into millionaire ! O'Brion. 'J ho bride's mother ii worth several milliona , which were left by her brother. One of the pretty girls of Wanhington , Miss Hay , had a brilliant wedding lost week nnd became Mrs. Harrisc n , wife of a lieutenant in the navy , utterly icgarel- less of the fact that with the craze for Arctic ex | lorntlon , her husbnnd might sometime va in search of the North pole. Miss Jrnnle White , daughter of S. V. White , o Wall street millionaire , w.is mar ried in Plymouth church , by Beechor , last week , to F. W. Hopkins , a member of tha stock exchange. Mr. While , takes hli son-in-law into partnership , i nd gives the couple a fine rcsldi nee on tno Hudson , newly furnished. MCTSIOAL AND DRAMATIC. "The World" has not made a hit in _ . .j. Fnsco. * ? Manager Jack Haverly employs over five hundred people. The flour-song In "Faust" is wheat. [ Musical Herald. Emalte Melville was received very warmly In Brooklyn. Mits Ada Gray is playing through the. Michigan circuit to large audiences. C , poul thinks of retun ing to the United Stttes to miike np his losses on the P rl bourHo. New Orleans hn the credit of havln the worst orchestra of any city in the country. Mr. W. C. Uoup will not have nnypatt- ncrH tills season , but will be the sole owner of his mammoth show. William Mitchell has sold out his interest - est for next season in Our Goblins to t Frank Wilson , of the troupe. Ellio Wilton took Sara Jewell's place for a short time in the Ligh's of London at Union Square in New York most ac ceptably. Frank Mayo i playing Daw Crockett and "Badger1" in The Streets of New York through the Smith , nnd has had a plenti ful sufficiency of the "legit. " A Boston dispat h to the New York Herald states that the Key. Geo. Leem- ing , a former Catholic oriest , late of AUB- ttali i , made his debut in Boston as an ac tor Monday evening ut the Globe Theater , as ' Othello. ' Forty years ego , vhen Mrs. Mowatt was piny ing Juliet to a crowded house , and she 1 ay dead in the tomb , the con trived to ask Kmneo how the icene was going. "Beautiful , " he answered , "the people down stairs have to put up uml rel- lu ) to prevent being' drowned by the tears of those in the gallery. " EDUCATIONAL -NOTES. JThere are 134,488 colored person * in Maryland who can neither read nor write. The school populati n of Ontario is 489- 024 , and the total expense of instruction ia 2,822i 62. Illinois last year expended upon her school , , the sum of $7,631,041 , the teachers of the state receiving $4,487,015.10 The school population of the state is 1,110,051. In St. Petersburg this year 080 women nre purtming the higher courues of educa tion ; G10 of these ntudent are of noble origin. Physics and mathematics aie stu died by 521 , and 417 take literature. There is a movement in the Kentucky legislature for the equalization of the dis tnbution of the school fund between the white and colored people of thttktate. A discrimination in now made dfhinet 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 HI hook is now heard from ono end of thu country to the other. When Burnside saw his bill advo eating such touching received with deri sion ft would have been hard for him to believe that so short a time afterward the common-Dense of the country would assert the wisdom of his proposal. BMiBB Helen" Magill , Ph. I ) . , who has spent the past four years in study at Cam bridge , England , Bars that in the higher education of women England leads the world ; that a woman can do n higher grde of work in England than in America. ' Miss Magill adds : "The same kind of work-which has been done at Cambridge- by Newnham is beginning at Oxford in Lady Margaret and Somervllle halls. London University has admitted women to all iis privileges without limitation. Six women there took the B. A. degree , last July. You will see by all this how / England stands in comparison with America. Her only college of the first rank gives women the degree or even the degree examination ? , while Harvard , Yale and Johns Hopkins exclude us. In Eng land London gives degrees , Cambridge de gree examinations , and the reform ia 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 ious question whether English women do not have the suffrage before we do. " The Canadian imnisterjjof finance reports to parliament that at no former period have the finances been in such good shape nnd .tho credit of-the coun try BO high as now. The revenue for the your ending June , 1881 , amounts to ? 29G35,000. The expenditures wore $25,500,000 , making the surplus 84,135,000. Formerly the dominion budget showed n deficit , but since the , Canadians have provided themselves with a tariff high enough to afford protection they have gone on swim mingly. Manufacturers are rapidly springing up amung them , the price of labor has advanced , population ia coming in , the revenues hayo been in creased , and the dominion rejoices in a surplus instead of mourning over a. deficit. The Canadians find their pro tective policy a blessing , and yet free tinder * ore forever decrying such a policy. The wine crop of Franco of 188L amounted to 752,000,000 gallons. In 1880 it was only 053,000,000 gallons. This increase is duo to the crops of the east and the center , the south being still ravaged by the phlloxera. In the departments where this pest prevails the destruction of vines has V increased from 15,000 acres in 1880 to 40,500 acres in 1881. The cider product of last yea * was 259,000OOC gallons , against 2,300,000 gallons 1880. A Short Road to Health. To all who are Buffering from boils , ul. ccra , scrofula , carbuncles , or other obsti nate diseases of the blood and skin , a course of BunnocK BLOOD BITTERS will be found to be "a lure road to health. " Price 81.00. trial size 10 cents , feb28deodlw