i'JtUii OMAHA DAijLi JBfcE : SATURDAY MARCH 4
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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. "
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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. "
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