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f THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ; WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17. ISStt THE DAILY BEE PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. I OF SJI1 Dnllr ( Morni.u Kaillon ) Including Humlftr HKK , Ono Vonr § 10 For 81 * Month * r , i I'lirThrc-n Mon.lii B i The flmnhft Hutiilny Ilr.B , mnile.il to any nJJio. , Ono Year. . . " * NRW rnitic orrirK/UnoM r. ' . . TUIIII-N'K IIIMMIIN r ornct. " All comiiuinlejvUioni relntlnir to nntrs ntirt W lorlnl mutter Miould bo ntlilressi'il to tlio III Ton Or Tilt ; UKK. All hi lne s IrttcM nml remittances should 1 niMrcwael to TUB Him Vt'in.isillxo COWAN llMUU. Drafts , nlioclt nml po lifllro orile to bo mmloimjnblo tothooiiiJrof tlioconipan THE BEE PUBllSHIKlfiiOT , PBOPBIETOns , i : . UO.SrcWATKH. Km-ron. THIS iJAIIjY ni3K. Htvnrn Ktatonicnt of Clrculntlon. Slntc of Nebraska , I ( 'utility of Dotitflns. ) " * ( loo. It. 'Pwschuck , secretary of Tlio Hi I'uhlMiliitf company , "Iocs " Milcmnlv swoi that tliuat'tuil : I'irr-iilatluii of the Dally 15i lor tlio wcuk ending Nov. 12th , IbiO , wits i ' ' Hntuntnv. Nov. 0 . in.m ftuiKlnr , Nov. 7 . io Alomlny. Nov. n. . . ! " , Tuesday. ti . VJ.H Wednesday. 10 . 13,0 Thursday , 11 . 1'V- ' Friday , W . l' > A vcrnco . lil.o : ( lEo. U. T/.gcnuru. Subscribed 'Hid sworn to In my present this 15th day of November , A. 1) . . 13(1. N. 1' . Pirn. . [ hKAL ] Notnry I'nbllc. Oeo. 11. Tzsclmck , bolus fust duly awor deposes nml says that ho Is bceirutary of tl Bee Piitillolilnccomuniiy , that the neiual a erairo daily nliciilatlon of the Dailv Ilco f tlio month of January. WO , was ID.lttb coplr lor Kobrtiiiry , 1W > , 111,6115 copies ; lor Man- 1SW , 11.K1T copies ; for April , 1S , , 1'J.l copies : lor Mar. is > rt. I'-UKI conies ; lor Jim mst , l-i.e-.W coile | : lor .1 uly , lv-0 , I'.VU I eople lorAiiiHist. ! , t2-ifleopip3for.Si'i ; > toiubr 1S-A ioo : ; ; copies ; for October. ivr , ! . ' , copies. OF.O. 15. TZHCIIUCIC. Subscribed and swoin to before mo this 8 day of November , A.I ) . , IbsO. N. ] ' . Kmi , , ISKALI Notary Public. I'AXS will now bo laid aside for sno shovels. WIN'TT.U not hero yesterday with a vc gcanee mid both feet , as it wore. AMO.NO nil the rising industries of tl Hotitli , tlio. industry ol polling republic : voted hhows tlio tno.st marvellous incruns OMAHA still keeps up her gait in tl elejarlng-houso race. Last week her DC tiontago of ilicrcaso in clearances was pur cent. NKW YOKIC proposes to have a nc constitution. It needs one. The prose condition of its tmtnieipal iicakh is b yond the readot oven the fr.itli cure. Tun total production of chestnuts Italy is ! W1 , : ! ! ) ! ) tons annually. Alnio thu entire Htipply is consumed by the s called funny papers and paragraphcrs the United States. "Puori'ssoi : " I'ORTKK of Iowa a iiouiiccs a "big storm. " The professor twenty-four hours behind the signal so vice. Tlio storm reached this section b fore the prediction. TUB railroads between St. Paul ai Chicago make the run in less than foil teen hours. The run between Omal and Chicago ought to bo made in le than fifteen hours. That would bo at tl rate of only thirty-lire miles an hou The present speed is only twenty-fr miles an hour , and the trip rerjuir twenty hours. That's altogether t < slow for the rapid west. What wo wa is a fast Chicago train. THE action of the republicans of tl Second congressional district ot Wisco sin in nominating a candidate not a rci dent of the district , was a elcpartu Which has attracted a good deal of alto lion , and baring elected him thu < li triot having hitherto been largo democratic the plan in also warm commended. The practice has alwa < prevailed in England of constitnuncu selecting candidates for thu house < commons without refcronoo to their plai of residence , and there Is nothing to pr vent the plan adopted in Wisconsin fro becoming general in this country. 1 this case a popular and capable man w : chosen , Mr. Giienthor , who hnd ropr Bcuted thu Sixth district in congress Urn iorins , and for the iirst time tlio Secoi district will bo represented in the no ; congress by a republican. It is moi than likely had a resident of thu distri been nominated , the democrats won luivo boon again Kuccossful , but In tl crtso of Mr. Guonther , who is a Oorinai American , the candidate had no personi or local objections to combat , and tli imrty had the forcible argument in h belief that liu had had long experience i congress anil proved himself a valuabl member. It was a successful expuriinoi that will very likely be tried in oth < ptatcs , and may in timu become genen : uul popular. Tin : contest among architects , local ai foreign , for the acceptance of plans f < tlio now county hospital is developing tfroat deal of warmth. There are tiio u ual criminations and recriminations , I which charges of jobbery , bribery an nnduo Inlliienco are being freely Imndlci It is intimated thai the conimiHsionci have been Hxed by a half a dozen con poling architects and that ono of thegoi ilemen with plans from abroad is boas ing of bis success with the bean There bliouhl bo no "divy" or dirle with anyone. There ought to be no rooi for such underhand work. Tlio neleutiu of a board of competent physicians i recommend plans for adoption shoul in itself inako all nogotiatloi of thu kind entirely tisek-s The bust plan should bo adopted froi whatever quarter it may como. The no liospitul is to bu an Important structui built for all time anil capable of onlargi itient with the growth of the city. Ui people dumund tlio best , the moat moi crn , tlio moat complete. Prlco is a so ondary consideration. Our sick anil in fortunate anil their euro and comfort ai of paramount interest. The duty of tl board of county commissioners Is I adopt the plans which meet these r quircmt'tits , and to let tlio contract to responsible ! lirin who will do the wor exactly in accordance with the plans an Bpooiltcations without regard to privai interest. Duo of the foreign architcc1 elands convicted of a job in the statue Illinois. 'J hero should bo no chance fc a job in the statoof Nebraska. Coqucttlnjr'WIth Democrats , The railroad republican orgina urg ns the principal objection to Senator Va Wyck's rn-cJcctlon that ho is coqticttln with democrats and expects support fret democrats in the legislature. In som stales where the republican party mair tains its high moral standard ot politic ; ' cithics such an objection would hav ? < ome force. In Massachusetts , Connoc' ' ioiit and oven In Ohio the party lines liar always been closely drawn and republ cans hare placed their trusted leaders i tlio United States scnatu purely on part grounds and without reference to tli wis-hes of giant corporations or comb iiations"of jobbers and politioal plundoi prs. It was thus with Charles Suninci ( Jcncral llawlcy , Hen Wade , John Shei man. The higli standing of oachof thes eminent anil stalwart republicans wr within itself a passport to undivided part honors. It would bo ko in Nebraska tc day had not the corrupting mid bllghlin hands of tlio railroad corporation grasped the party machine and made n publicaiiisin a more cloak to cover il greedy designs. If republicans of N braska worn left nntrammeled in In choice of senator to-day , the republlca caucus would return Charles II. Va Wyck as tlio best representative of repul lleanism in its cardinal features. A mr jority of the republicans elected to tli Icgi.slaluro are pledged to votu for Va Wyck , anil by tlio party eodo of hone which prevails in other slates , Sei ator Van Wyck would receiv the caucus nomination and po ninety four republican voles on tli first ballot. Tlioro would bu no need c coqiiotting with democrats if the railroa IHHHCS would keep tlioir hands oil * . Hi tlio.'o who itcmisf Van Wyck of coqiie ling with democrats are to-day plot tin with democrats for combinations to d < foal Van Wyck by fair moans or foul. I this they will only repeat what they hav done during every senatorial oluctio since Nebraska became a state. Joh M. Tliaycr only had four years in the PCI ate when his term expired. Ho had mail an excellent record as a republican an was the choice of his party in tliu alati \ \ ho was then coquetting with democrat and who was it that broke up the rcpul lican caucus and by fooling wit the democrats defeated Thayer ? I wo remember rightly such stalwari as.JudgoDundy , Sid Paddock , the lal Colonel H. It. Taylortlicn proprietor of tli Omaha Ilcpublicitn , Casper K. Yo > st an other leaders assisted Jlr. Hitchcock t his election by a combination of ropul lican bolters and democratic allies. Foi years later in 1875 the republican cauci was again made impossible. Then , as i 1871 , Thayer would have boon the cauci nominee , but ! Mr. Paddock carried oil'tli senatorial plume by the almost soli vote * of the democrats in thu legislature Neil her Hilchcoelc nor Paddock coul have been elected without democrat ! votes. When Mr. Hitchcock's term wi : out in 1877 , ho was the most stalwart i stalwarts , but that did not prevent hit from coquetting with democrat : It is an historic fact tin all tlio pressure which could be brougl by' Dr. Miller on the democrats in tiio lej islaturo to support Hitchcock for ro-elci lion was exerted to its utmost. This : not all. Mr. Tilden's nephew , Poltoi wrote a letter lo democratic mombei urging on behalf of Mr. Tilden that the ; votes be cast for Hitchcock. It WE given out to these members conlidci t's'.lly that Mr. Hitchcock was pledged t support Mr. Tilden's claims to the pros deucv as against Hayes in ease the dec sion .should come before conurcss. Thi was coquetting with democrats with vengeance. With their eyes open to tlii plot neither the Lincoln Journal nor tli Omaha Jlcpublicuii ceased for a momoi their frantic appeals to republicans t stand and fall with Mr. Hitchcool General Van Wyck was then in the stat senate casting his vole for a straight n publican. For tills he received the mo ; unstinted abuse from the very men wh to-day are loudest in their demands fc straight goods and no coquetting wit democrats. There is quite a contrast between 18 and 1880. In 1870 , democrats woroolccte in republican districts because they wcr pronounced in opposition to the railroa candidate for the senate. In 1880 , denn crats were elected from republican dii tricts because they were pronounced i fayor of Van Wyck , while in most ii stances the dofeatcd republican cai dlitatcs were known to be trail ing with the corporate monopc lies. These democrats were not electe to votu for Van Wyck at a democrat or lliddlebcrger republican , but because n publicans in their districts trusted iliut upon honor to vote their wishes with r < gart ! to the sonatorship. In the last fici atorial contest , four years ago , all the r < publican candidates , including Mr. Mai dorson , wore coquetting with democrat ! and nonu of them would have refused a election by their votes. As a matter c fact , oven after the caucus had non : inated General Mandcrson ho and Judg Weaver became so alarmed over threatened boll of the caucus by the fo lowers of Laird and Co win that they a ) pualed to the anti-monopolists to till th gap in case a boll should occur , With all those historic facts before us i will bo readily seen that coquetting wit democrats is no bar to stalwart pretat sions in Nebraska. It is all right to ec liabit with railroad democrats as agalm Van Wyck , but party treason for Va Wyolc to maintain friendly relations wit democrats elected by republicans for tli solo purpose of aiding in his ro-oleotloi Internal Itevunuo Figures. Tlio annual report of the commissiono of internal revenue is interesting as SIKHV ing that in whatever other direction bus ! ni'iis depression has affected outurpns and industrial affairs , it has not been dis astrotis to the chief sources from wluel the government derives internal revenue Tlio report shows that during the lisun year ended Juno 'M , 1880 , the receipt Irom internal revenue were over $ -1,000,0(1 , greater than these of the preceding yoat the total buing $110,002,8151) ) . This was i excess of thu estimates of the departmoo by nearly two million dollars. Th sources of the principal part of the fou million incroasu were tobacco and fei mented liquors , spirits distilled froi fruits having also contributed. Ther was a very considerable increase in th amount of mauufactur d tobacco durin thu year , and the. collections from tin source agijrogfttud ? 37'J07,003. Tli smoking capacity ot the American ppopl is mi'roly SiiiJgostod. iu the fact that tb Increase in tlio number of clgurs an cigurcttc.s made .during' the year wa 433,507,2-17 , while the number 6f cigai imported was -73,189,078. , The countr contained at the cloo of the Inst flsc > year C.-123 registered distilleries over six thousand of which were 1 operation. Most of thorn wore frtr distilleries , Nearly twenty millie : bushels of grain were used during llv year in the production of spirits , a sligli increase over the amount for the precrd lug year , but Jess than the average for th last nine years. The product of spirit was over 83,030,000 gallons , which wa flvo million In 0x0033 of the product o the preceding year , but a little below th average of thn past nine years. Of th product of the last fiscal year eve 70,000,00i ) gallons went into the market showing a considerably enlarged bom consumption , since the export movomen was loss than that of the preceding yea by nearly lifty per cent. Another ovl di'iico of increase of consumption ani source of added revenue is in the fnc that in most of the slates the number u retail liquor dealers was increased among them being the prohibition stale of Kansas and Iowa. In the former n thc o there were last Juno'J3J more retailers tailors of liquor than in the same inont of 1885 , and in the latter the Increase to the year had been 2:20. : In Maine ( her was a decrease of C.T in tiio number o re tail hquordoalors , while Michigan show a low for the year of 18. A good deal o illicit dUUlling is still carried on in th south , the stills sei/ed during the yea numbering fiO I and the persons arrestui therein 1,21-1. The properly .seized duriii ] the year for violations of the law wa valued at ? 03 ( > , l)3i. ) The bureau was rui at a little less cost last year than the pre ceding year , and a further small redtic lion is madu in tlio expenses for the nux fiscal year. The service appears to b thorough and oflioicnt. A Uoporteil PililmHtorfiii ; Project. A report was current some two week ; ago that Editor Cutting was engaged il organizing an expedition to invade Mox lean territory. The plan of this recun victim of Mexican "outrage" was said ti bo to orgamzo a force of several thoti sand and take possession of two or thrc of tlio states of Mexico , out of which h would create anew republic to bo placet under the protection of the United State with a view to ultimate annexation. 1 few newspapers dignified the report will serious editorial comment , but it wa quid ) generally regarded as a wholl ; groundless sensation. A few days late Cutting was reported to bo hangiiif around El Paso trying to get work a tvpo setting , which lie was unable lo di because no other typo totter there has si liltlo self respect as to work with h'ra That put an oiiu to the story of a tire posed movement a < f.isi : Mexico undo thu le.'i'Jcrship of Cutting. A man re pudiatcd by his own craft could not com maud the confidence of other people n so important a matter as making war 01 a nation m tolerably good condition ti defend itself. The project of a filibustering cxpedi lion into Mc.xieo has not , however , boot abandoned , if any credence can be givei to a special report .sent Irom Dallas , Tex. to a Ciiicago paper of Monday. Tin author of this report goes oxtensivel' into thu details of the project and prof ussc to have authority for his statement from two of tliu emissaries of the move ment who are old acquaintances of his These parties lort Dallas last Saturday 01 a secret mission , St. Louis being ther first objective point , leaving behind then a confidential iisrcnt to look after matter in Texas. While at Dallas they onlistci a number of young men of an adven turous disposition in the cause , and the ; have now enrolled there twenty or thirf trusted followers ready for a raid at an ; moment , and the number can bo roadilj increased to a hundred. Indeed , tin correspondent savs , this denotes tin strong antipathy that exists in that qnar tor toward Mexico , as well as the war like spirit of the average Texan , tha lire hundred could bo secured , but groa care and caution are being exorcised ii the selection of men , so that none no thoroughly trustworthy will got into tin movement. Every precaution is bein < taken against betrayal except that o giving tiie whole business away to i newspaper correspondent. It is a comprehensive scheme whicl this real or imagined movement is said ti involve. The object is to establish : republic to bo known as the "llio Grandi Socialistic Confederation , " composed o the stales of Chihuahua , Durango am Sonora. The projectors propose conlin ing their woric to tlio most desirable lioli at first , making gradual advances tinti they have brought the whole of Moxici under their control if necessary or as much of it as tlio ; shall deem desirable. The solmnii appears lo bn a liltlo lame at thl point , siiieo in permitting llio Moxicat government lo mainlain an existence ii any part of tliu territory of Mexico tin "confederation" would have at hand at enemy which would bo a continual men ace to ilH peace. Il is expected , however that when the now republic is firmly os tablishud there will bo an eager rush o the states not Included to gain admission and thus in a short time the Moxicai government would bo luft standing oul in the cold. In fact faith in the projcc rests largely upon the belief that preltj much the entire Mexican imputation wil Hook to tlio support of the "confcdora tion. " As to the United States interior ing the organizers of the movement have no fear of that , since no avert act wil take place on American territory. Then is a far-reaching calculation , however Ihattnis country might bo drawn into tin conflict in order to ropul foreign inlurfor once. It is not improbable that thuru an people in Texas who liavo coneuivoi some Biifh project as this corrusponden intimates. It is not impossible that sonic day In lliu future such a project will b < undertaken. Hut such a movement a this time is not probable , am ! if under taken could only end in disastrous do feat. Aineiiilln ; ; tlio Charter , The lh > t stops have been taken toward ; a rational amendment of the Ouiuh : charter. At Monday's meeting arrange ments wuro madu for thu organization o ! a committee lo discuss suggetiled im provomenls and draft a plan for chariot amendment. Five members of the com mittee arn to bo appointed from the cit\ council , live by the board of trade , anil the ten thus selected will choose five ad ditional members , makiiiir in all fiftour citizen * composing the charter comtnlt > tcu. Hy tlds method Omaha can hopu io secure a plan fo/r clwrtei extension or a uoW charter whlcL will bo suited to her present needs an clastic enough to ailapt itself to futur requirements. Under our constituiio wo can have no special legislation. An law drafted must bo of general applica lion. This precludes Omaha from mafc ing a charter for herself as an Indivhlnn city. The charter under which she I now operating applies to all cities of ! ! 0 000 inhabitants which are termed "cltio of the Iirst cla < s , " and which slnco Lin coin's last census includes the capital cltj It is doubtful whether Lincoln , wit scarcely more than a third of Omaha1 population , will bo willing t maintain a city government a expensive as that which i now demanded by the necessities of on corporate life. It is equally doubtfu whether Lincoln would bo willing to uc cept a revision of municipal classilicatlni reducing her to a city of the second clas with added corporate powets. Loon pride would probably look upon such ; change as a rullection on ils Importune as a municipality. U seems to us that under the circum stances another class of cities could bi added called "metropolitan cities , " in eluding all cities over 00,000 inhabitants , as determined by a federal or state censu with a charter of their own. . This wouli leave Omaha free to make her owi charter without placing a heavy and per haps needless tax unon other and smallu cities. It would afford Lincoln the op portunlty of changing the present laws regulating cities of the first class , lo Mil its own needs. There would bo no con llict and a clashing of thu two delegation , would thus bo avoided. Uproot the KyHt in. The great furor over the death o Moll'at , which is called murder , allhougl the coroner's jury itself only claims tha the fatal effects of typhoid fever ma : have been aggravated by the conveyanei of Mollat lo llio policu fetation , is givin ; way to sober second thought. Admit , i you please , that the u. tion of the polici was a blunder ; that Moil'at was handlui too severely , and that the police staliot is allllhy dun , the fact still remains tint thn marshal personally is in no way re sponslblu. Ho know nothing about tin case , gave no orders in connection will it , has never appointed a single police man , and nobody pretends that ho is responsible sponsiblo for the wretched quarter : which the city occupies for a stalioi house. The whole matter sifts itsulf to this Cummings may bo incompetent but In is certainly no more incompetent now than lie was twelve n'cnlhs ago. Tin police fo'-ee may" bu without discipline 01 anility , but that is thu fault of tlio systen which within eighteen months has en ablcd the mayor to displace all but oighl of llio old police foruoand ( ill the ranks with a lot of raw recruits who have littli or no idea of their duties. The mayor his refused to snspcm Cummings , because he has no charge ! against him which would hold water. Ill would like to got rid of him , but so fai nobody has been proposed who coulti improve the police under the presen system. Thu council can only deal with specific chanres. A general howl is no trround for removal. Thu remedy for the shortcomings of tin * police must bo souglil in a rauical change of the system. We musi have a police commission with aulhoritj to employ a chief of police who lias beet raised in llio police service of one of UK largo cilies anil can bring with him elis ciplino and methoi's of metropolitan ser vice. Such a man is not at present in Omaha , and probably will not bo when wo want him. Tlio imperative necessity of engaging an experienced chief ol police will justify his employment at r high salary , no matter where ho maj come from. In the hands of such a man , with slnct regulations and the grading ol the police according to experience and merit , Omaha will have a police servieis equal to that of any city. The removal of Cummings could in nc way change thu system or ail'ect its olll ciency. The only thingtho council should elo , as soon as possible , is to get. buttci quarters for a police station and employ a police surgeon. That can bo donowith < out amending llio charier. TUB oxlraordinary fooling manifested throughout England , but more par ticularly in London , over the death ol Archer , the successful horse jockey pre- scuts a phase of English character whicli cannot Lo regarded as admirable. Archer was an exceptional rielcr , but ho seems tc hr.vo been in all other respects a rather mean anel unworthy fellow. His money greed was insatiable , and ho would dc the meanest and unmanly things to make or sayo a shilling. Except his "horst talent" ho had no commendable quali ties. But had ho been otherwise and simply a successful jockey there would bo no excuse for such a show of interest nnd feeling at his death as the Knglish people liavo mado. Hocholort , hinisull passionately devoted to horse racing , showed a just appreciation of this unseemly manifestation when ho said in his journal : "England is in fears , The same men who look on with indilVcrnnci ! \\ldlo Irish farmers , unable to pay rents , sire driven from their homos , and patriots who defended themi are han od , cook- noys who applaud llio bombardment ol Alexandria , llio massacre of Now Heal- anders , llio oxlorniinalion of the Indian races , sob into their glasses of gin in company with their spouses , Icgitimalo nr otherwise , who dishevel their back hair in liioir despair. Great bereavement has fallen on the * country of Gladstone , I'yron and Shakopcaro , Archer is dead , In whose arms will Uichosscs , enamored of his top boots , breeches , nnd red , green , or yellow jaokejtj now fall ? Ho was uglier than an ape , with teeth like hoofs of thu horses ho rpilo ; but lie seemed to them adorable whijn ho stuck his spurs into the belly of a mare on whinh ho rode from Iirst post to winning post. " U rm half of the republican papers threatening to throw into the pcnitun- llary any voter who dared to vote for Senator Van Wyck , and with the whole lomocratio machine opposing any expres sion whatever on tlio senatorial question , : ho vote on llio senatorship is remarkably large , Nearly 45,000 citizens of Nebraska succeeded in spite of all these dillietilties n registering their preference for Charles II. Van Wyck. OMAHA is looming up as a hog market. I'hu sales yesterday were -1,000 lioad , all if which were taken by tno packing louses in Soulli Omaha and Nebraska Jity , Not a .hog was shipped lo Chicago. L'hu prices ranged from $ ii3 ( to $1.8.i CUUKUST TOPICS. A Now York bnse ball player hns been pi sonted with a SiV ) uftld watch for knockli a ball over over the fence. After nil lutclle pays. Twelve thousand copies of Andrew Cnrn Flo's book , 'Triumphant Heinoerncy , " 1m' been sold among the werhlnguion of Ore Britain. General , i. u. Van Alcn , who commttte sulcletc by jumping from the steamer Aim nln , In urd-ucenti in AuniHt lust , left a fn tune whiclj 1ms just been valued at S ] , ! ' : > ; 000. According to the controller of the current the volume ot the nutionnl bank notei on standing amounts to jair.OCO.roo. Son of the banks will inciiit of the business I view of the call for 8 ncr cents. In a new dictionary of biturRpliy , savstl New York Hi-rald , containing 40,000 name all the Rothschilds nnd Asters put touclhi receive only ns many lines as nro accordc to llairlet llceclicr Stone. Cornelius Vai di-ibilt receives less attention than I'npiuiln and A. T. Slewnit no more tlinn Danii Lnmbcrt , the fat mnii. Kvcn the three rlc benefactors tilrard , ( 'eorue Pcabody , an Sir Moses Mnutcilorc united , tnUe lei room than John Wesley or Nathaniel llu ; tliorne. _ _ Liberty nnd Itd'orm. ( Vi ragn 'Ml > u r. In her present lurlorn and nelecled coi dltlons Mls-i Liberty of New Yoik Hnrhe euu sympathize to some extent with Co Ik-nil Watterfcon'rt Mue-KiCil Goddess e Itel'orm. _ _ o llnvo liocit Ncimtr Imvn. The failure of avld ky house In Halt more Is announced. U catered to the bottl trade entirely , and might have gone o swimmingly if It had only been a littl Iowa. nearer _ _ \cvcr ISnliiH Hut It Pours. . Slimiltnncouilv wllh the announcement r George Alfred Townsend's novel eaimt ill opening new wells of natural pis to tlie mm ber of a dozen or more In different section of the country. A SiiKCPRtlon to C3 rover. Ctitcnga ttamlilcr. Cousin Hen Folsnm , it Is said , write poetry. Tills is probably the reason ho wa nnpnlnteil consul at Shufllelil. Knalaml Now if ( 'rover would only appoint Slste Itevtc Elizabeth , whet writes prose , to som olllce across tliu water , It would bo seen tha ho bad tlio welfare of the American peopl at heart. _ _ A ClilcnRO Description of Oniali.n. Chlcntin * lninl > ' * r. Ail Omaha purer is 'laving ' heaps of fun a' by Itself , po1 * ! , ! ! : fun at Chicago's allege ! . . ' . ui refinement. Omaha is too young an rouirli to have any respect for her better : Why , it is only n few moons ago that u ma wns shot In Oinalm because ho won1 ki gloves and had his boots bl 'CKcned. If "Cli caste is New York without a collar , " Omali is Chicago without a sliirt. Is Ufa Worth UVIIR ! ? IT. . * . / cKilmon. "Is life worth living In these pallid dars , When nil the earth is pulseless , thlrstlii ; gold' ' Wliv art > we shrunken from that height o old , When men would die for glory's ' twinln 1m s'.1'1 So sang a maiden with a trumpet eye And lip that pcalcil n poem with eaeii wor'l "What lil'u la this \vo live and elle unheard 1'enciitli a silent nud too sunny sky' " ' "We're it not better to liavo lived in drcece , And heard Dumostiii'tn.'s strike ; Philip dowi With words that scaled the luster of hi crown , And wrote red war across the brow of peace' ' " \Vcro It not better to have lived in Home , When Csi' ar with insatiable bladi > Carved out a i > nth through every bill am glade Until lie made the frightened world hi homiiV" "Were it not better to have lived and died Before men fell upon MUCI ! idle days , 1'i'foro the > world hail learned such cownniT ways1.1 Is life worth living now'.1'1 she sadly cried. "Truly I cannot tell tliee that , my sweet' " ' T said. "Jut ! hero's an answer meet for tlieo Life then or now weio woith the world ti me. 1C 1 but lived it lying at thy feet , " Small Things About , Great Alcn. Pall Mall ( "azelle : Part of the prici which every eminent man pays for hi Bxalieel or prominent position 'is the los of all privacy. His habits and customs Ills preferences and aversions are all pub licly discussed , and tliu following DIM lie ulars sho\y that ho can not ovun liavo : favorites dish without the knowledge o Llio public. This craving for details aboil Llio lives of great men dates back as fai as the limn of ( ! harloniagno. of whom i is said that his meals consisted novel of more than four courses , and that hi : favorite dishes wore cgjjs and roast meal particularly venison , which was served 01 le > nj ; spits by his foresters. Luther pru ( erred Torgau beer and hock to all hover ujrcs. As a youn ; * man Melaucthon wa. ' very fond of barley soup , and ho wouli [ > f'.on exchange a eliot of meat for a bow of barley soup. Small lisli , vecutablos anel all kinds of farinaceous food lie liked but lartio lisli and meat disliked , anil hi liated all public meals or drinking bouts He used to say that it would be easy foi him to aelopt Pythatrorean eliot. Torejuatc I'asso was very fond ot preserved fruit. ' mil all kinds of fancy sweets. Henry I V was often 111 from uatiii'r too inanj nystcrs or innlona. His favorite Jrink was vin d'Arbois. Potoi llio fjn'at likud nothing bntti-i than Limburp cheese ( ! ) . Charles XII. Ivintcof Sweden , preferred a pieoo ol Lircad-and-buttnrto anything ols'o. Vol laire , like Frederick the ( 'real and Napoleon loon 1. , was very fond of colluo. lib Favorite food was oat cakes , but he pro furred orantres to any either kind of food , I'lio Dutch lady scholar. A. M. Seliur inunn , ate spiders as a delicacy. Lcssr ! < ! preferred lentils , ami Klopstoek.who wiw i real gourmand , feel on salmon , niusli- I'ooms , pastry , and Atnokml meat. Ol rcjretables ho liked punt best and grapes is di's i'rt , toiri'thor with a bottlu if i ooil elarolor hoek. KaiiLnstiiined till tus olel n o a preference for pork , all iinds of pulse , and stowed fruit. He de . oled three hours a dav to Ids dinner. iohillor was in his youthful days very ° end of ham. An old note book belong- n ; ; to a Stutt arl reMaurant contains iomci Hums about "iMo ls for Dr. Sehiliet n 178'J. from which il appears that , bo -ido a bottlu of wine , ham was every day iinonu' Iho dishe.s on .Seliillor's labht. MallhiHson confessed a jirefoivnco foi tens , beans anel pork ; Lord Hyron for 'Jhestur cheese , with ale er porter ; Peipu , va.s "greatly Inteiroited" in viiiiicon , , Jem itlmn Swift in turbor , and Sir Waller Scoll in roast goose. Referring to llio nalural gas well at Cokomo , Inel , , the Indianapolis Journal lays that one compulation ( intimates ( bathe ho well is capable of nupplying as much : as us IH now consumed byIBS cities like ; Cokomo , wlulo another estimates that it vould ruqulru four wells like ihu onu now limited to Mipn'y Kokomoalonu. Jn Spite > f those widely diflbrunt compulntiniiH , hu citi/.em nro seriously conbidnring vbethur tlio town will a bo rival to Pitts- Two flonks of turlcoj'Sinut on a railroad rack near Salisbury , Mo. , and en ugud n n comfil. ! A train oamu ulon < ; ntid ; illed twelve which were linhtinir so iiMily thut they had 110 timu to get out of he , way , FROM THE FRENCH CAPITA Renan's Now Drama A Phllosopliieal Woi Whicli is Much Discussed , INTERESTf-ftC STAGE GOSSK hit crn ry Notes A New \Vor1conVli tor llujjei Soptilc-Ailclalilc , H Jly.itctlous Hook , Nov. fl. fCorrcspondenco of 111 Hr.n. ] The assertion of the delicate an cultivated classes of Purls that they wcr shocked by the perusal of M. Knu-st Hi nan's latest philosophical drama , 'Hi "Abbess .louarre " ttsomcthin ot . , has in delightfully amusing to the Anglo-Sa\o mind. Poor pudibemd Paris , slnklii so easily to the lovcl of the modern ini pure society novel , and yet refusing t rise to the ethereal atmosphere in wliiev M.Henaii has placed his idealized char actcrs , who eliscourso of death and lor in Ihu death hour of the eighteenth ecu turyl This would indeed boa rofreshinj spectacle for gods anil men , and wo wil not believe i.i llio sincerity of il nut , 5-omo later day. Kvery reader of M. Kenan's book knows the naive yet singularly arlisti manner in which ho works out a noble an original idea in the course of a hundrci odd pages of what he is pleased to call drama. All luivo smiled over the ouain conceits of Caliban anel have lamentc the tinwilingnuss of the great scholar t NUC anything good in democracy. Uvoi Ihoso who liavo sternly disagreed wit him have hilly admitted his right to th title of "charmer. " The implacable wa upon modern democracy was con linnet in Iho Priest of Neml. Hut in the Abbes of iJouarro wo for the Iirst time lind M Kenan touching upon Ihu domain not o drama as ho calls it , bin of trageely Tragic are all the emotions called inti the play in tragical and sublime are ) the passage descriptive of the yielding of Ihu abbes to her love ; and in bur assumption of tin role of humility , anel her entrance iute ordinary human existence , and thu high ust and Ihe holiest moments of her lift are over , there is something eif tragu savor. One. cannot help thinking v/ha a wonderful novel George Mcreditl weitild make on such a theme. , or what : divine scoru Muvurbeor might have writ ten for it. In tliu old prison of Plessis , during tin : terror , liu.s Paul-Aiitoinu d'Aroy , whose. head is to fall in a fuw hours under tin fateful stroke of the guillotine , llo is thinking of the woman ho hael loved diiliu-Constanee de Siiint-l'lorent Abbess of .louiirrn. Tneir love had been full ol sacrifice , feir , Julio , obedient to consider ations of country and family had bo- comu abbess while still in her iirst youili : and hu had sweirn to nsspout , nor. Hut , in thcso splendidly lucid momer.ts just preceding death , he resviows her condiict , and wonders if they did right in not ac cording to love Us full fruition. In the midst of Ins revcno hu Is aroused by tin passage through ttiu hall of the prison to a cell beyond of a joung and beauti ful woman , in whom in : Kr.eor.xizi : ? .tui.in , his loved and le > st Abbess. Tim recog nition is mutual , but the Abbess tells him she is dead to tlio world in a itoublu sense ; that em tlio morrow her head in lo fall , D'Arcy , bribing thu jailor , gains ad mission lo her cell , anel there , in a pas- sionatu and thrilling interview , begs tin eonseoralion of Ihu union whioli they have HO long been compelled to lorsweaf , And so it happens that , alter long warrina with her will , Juliu , Abbess of Jnuarro , makes her nuptial night of bur death- morn , ami goes hand in hand with liei lover at _ dawn , lo mount thu chariot foi thu guillotine ) . His name is called , but not hers , and , to bur unspeakable liorroi and anguish , the. lover is berne away tej bo beheaded , wliilo she is informed that she is Dardoiicd. She refuses to live , ami attempts Hiiieielo by strangling herself with tliu band which has bound her vir ( 'in brow in holv orders. III'IC I.II'E IS AOA1N SrAItni ) , and after hho lias learned , from an illus trious ollicur in thu republican ranks , that liu hail secured her pardon bucau.su ol lior matchless beauty and dignity in presence of tliu revolutionary tribunal , and from a priest who confesses her just us ho is to go before thu judges who are lo senlcneu him to death that she bail sinned by too great prielo all her life , anil that her mysterious bridal nignt would bo pardoned her whun she had gone Immbly forth into tlm world , "perhaps anei elay to beg bread for her chilel , " sliu icceipta the lesson , and , wife and widow Ji ono night , steps out from Iho prison. I'liu young soldier who has saved her is li.sini.ssed by her with llio rumark that lior life belongs , henceforth , to TUB MHMOUV OK A MVSTKUV ivhich sbu cannot reveal , but in tlio . . losing scenes M. Kenan shows her won back te > kinder thoughts of bur rescuer. : ifter she has for seven years cherished D'Aroy's memory , and nurse-d and tolled lor D'Aro.v's child. So the abbess of louarro is welcomed homo by dor family igain , iftul becomes the wife of the soldier kvho had saved dor from the guillotine. This ending has not thu grisly flavor of ineiont tragedies , but it is eminently eal , human , and shows profound knowl- Mlge of the hum. in heart. THIS TIIAOIl ! IlItA.MA Is studded with the luminous expressions 'or which M. Hunan is so famous. Hero ire a fuw which give some faint idea of he beauty and Kcopu eif the work : "II is hasty lo alllrm Dial there is a "oil ; but , a proof of loincrity lo de'iiy ' that .hero is onu. The survival of personality IIIH everv appcaraneu agaiiisl it ; it is not miiossli > lu , however , that in infinity it vill bu found. " Tlio lover to the Abbess : "Julio , that vhleli ono does in presence * of death tseapus all ordinary rules. Who shall udge * usV ( Joel , that is lo Hay the reality hii'gs , sous the purity of our lives. Mini- dnii no longer uxists for us ; wo arc alone n thn world , like two Hhipwrockod ones 'linging to a plank , certain to die in a eiw hours. None of the condemned die's liavo ever passed two nights in this estibulo ot elesilli. If ( Joel rosei'veil for overs who din without , knowing the rap- nro of itmbraco a night of graeo lieyond ho tomb , could they bo retproaeheii for injoying Iho hour accorded the in by lonovolunt decrco. Snob is our position , hero Is no morrow for our love. 'J'vorylhlng in niiluri ) says 'Lovo ! ' Vhal says it moro eloquently than death ? f the world were at Iho ovu of its last la ) ' , then lo vi ) , love * without law , without iinit , iii < 'hl to reign , sineo all that limits md roguhttcs love the microd rights of ho oroaturo born of il would no longer iitv'o any meaning. " .Itilie ( yielding lo her lover's kissus ) 'Love , at Ibis moment my eternity be- ; inH. " "Unman vlrtuo , lo stand forth in its iriglitt-sl jrlory , neuds ospiiciinl cirriim- lances wli'fch grossenevil and good. We liould not rugrut having li\i-d at Hiieli oltmn moments , even if , from the hat- U--i through wluuli wei passed , wo bring way cruul hcart-woun b. It is often in uch somber moments that we > sou the kins opening. Such vision * are never orgotton. The hoar ! remains lurovur ouoluul at thought of them. " "Anything that is grand lias the right i > bo ridiculous. Victory in the * only liiiigat which wo may not mock. " ' 'Set aside the notion Unit love is a vnl- ; arjoy. do airay with tho.Miperticlaldis inolion lietwee.n : sou ) and ACIIHO. Whiit s body wit hot soulY anil I ho metises , what ro they , If iiOl an intimate conimtuiiuii with the nnlrcrsoT Wcll-bolng is the aim of this world , and love Is the Intense c.v pr < ; .sion of well-being , " "ic are almost tempted to think that M. Kenan's notions of love are too spir. Il ual ami reiineel , rather than too bol ' , - for llio Parisians , and that , therefore' , they make mock ol him. lint ho has in dicatedas wo have seenthai the great can take ridicule with equanimity. STAtir ( III.4SII' . Mllo. Joanne ( trainer , ono of the lead ing Parisian opera bouu'u singers , has just been condemned te > pay her washer woman lOS.'Jt ) fur services given to a lot of line articles of feminine use. M. Louis Mcnaril lias sued the Comedic- Fraiu'iiiso for $1(1.00 ( ! ) . He chums that In the version of Hamlet now being played at ( ho I'Yuneaisc , ' 'somu one1' has cribbed part of the translation that ho sent to the thculfo n long while ago. Jean Kichepln , the poet who at onetime time ) was thought to bo going to the elog.s because of his mail career upon Iho stage , nnd his odyssuy. with Sarah I'ernlinrdt , | o , now writing much and well , and his new comedy , Monsieur Seapin , jtt t produced at the Theatre I'ruueuis , in Paris , is a hlriking HUCCO.SS. M. Hlchepin's piece is all imitation of Moliero's classical com edy. The action takes place al lioulognc , in the second part eif thu suvonleuntb century , about twenty-live-years after the Iirst representation of the J'ourberles ' dc Scapm. Mollero's valet , married ami crown olel. has in 1ns turn , become a bourgeois ; hence hu called "Monsieur1 Seapin. "iMonsieiir" Seapin plays Iho " . " Arouinl his role of a ( ierontc. d.iugiilur prowls a handsome young suitor , Lciindrc , iiccompaiueil by a rascally servant , and .some followers such as Molio.ro shows in his comedies. "Mon sieur" Seapin is isuddenly liiKcn with a desire to renew the pranks of his youth , and hu teaches Leandre's valut all the tricks by which hu himself becamu famous. The two Comielin aru superb , the ono as "MoiiMPiir Scanin , and the other as the roguish v.tlut. ' 'Tristan. ' " I.ITKKAIEV NOTTS. General Adam I'uduau's Aristocracy of England is making the ox-consul njeii- ural e > f London a lio.-it of uneniies in Great , Britain. The Paris correspondent of ono of the great Knglish italics ox- clainieel the otliur day in lliu line do li- ! voll : "Why , tlicro's been nothing like it Ninco Dickon's "American Note's , " When hu wrote hi.s book , nerhaiis thu general had thu novelist , in mind. In the last days of October was pub lished in "aris a new work on "Victor Hugo , " man anel poet , by Krnesl Dupuy. Tins is onu of Iho most important , crilical works issucel concerning Ihu iioblu jioet since his elcalli. 11 is divided Into four parts , thuh'ratni which is called thu four ages ; that is the. four periods of lingo's career ; Llio second , the lour worships , sketching Ids transition from ro.valism and catholicism - ism to political and re'ligious liberalism , iheiiciuto nhilosophiciil religion and tu ! : political doctrine of cluinency and love ; ho third part , Ihu four inspirations , iiimelv , Iho lyne inspiralion as .shown in .hu Odes and Ballads , tliu Oriontalus , thu \iilunin Leaves , tliu Interior Voices ; the Iramatic inspiration as .shown in Hugo's Iramas ; the satirical inspiration as shown in his political poems , tlio ( 'on- emulations , Iho Sjnij.s of Ihu Streets and iVoods.iuid thu Terrible ) Year ; and linallv hu upio inspiration , as manliest in Iho .icgcml of the Agu.s , and Ihu hist poems 'rom the hands of the master. In the urue or four hundred ) > agu.s of this book horn i.s much sound criticism , which will M interesting to scholars and especially o poets. OIlomlorfT , the Paris publisher , das just ssucel a mysterious book entitled Sophie- Vduhiido , wherein thu author assorts that ibu is , to quote bur own words , "the laughter of onu of thu greatest queens of .liu earth,11 and that "shu who lias my ilaeo is tliu wifu of ono of tliu futuru uastc.rs of liio world. " It appear * , ac- iording to our auldor , that Prince Albert ivas married morgaiiatically bolore ho wedded tlio young queen Victoria and hat thn two wives gave birth to daughters. ) ii the s-imo day and almost at. thu samu lour. Now thu tnorganatiejwifu was an niibitioiis woman , bribed the royal nursii mil had the babies changed , so thai tlio , 'rown Princess of Germany is not really hu daughter of Queen Victoria. Soi > hiiV \iklaide docs not mention names but it s easy to ( ill up her blanks. She furtlior- " nero declares" that Queen Victoria is iwaro of the deception , but for reiasou * saslly undurdtooil keeps mum about it. .lave . wo to do hero with a oranlc or has he queen'ri daiightor simply got bur nother's wuaknuns for rushing Into print ? lowover that may bu , Sophie-Adelaide's ietion is far superior to the twaddle piind in the two royal volumes about ifu in thu Highlands. I'linsiDKNT r.itnvv. Almost any line afternoon you can Ben 'resjdunt ( Srovy , generally accompanied iy bis wife and married eliuiglittir , elrivo ip to tdo line ! largo town house that hu is mililing near the Trocadero , in order to uspoul , ihu progress of tlio work. The xturior has long been done , mid the in- erior will bu iinished long buforo the iwnur's turm expires. The monarchists ay that M. ( Jrovy will not be > alive whun ho housej-warming comes oil' . The ? pres- ilent is indeed aging rapidly , but ho is a Irong lino-looking old man still.OUVIKT. OUVIKT. rnpoi-llon e > C DuutliH l > y Tlio yearly average ) numbmof eloaths rom lightning in Knghinil IK twenty liivu , or four and four-tout hs per KIO.OUO oalliH. Asagetioral rnlo ithowns that inless peii-HiuiH are killed on the spot by ightning tlioy reicover. A person struck iy lighining Is moro or less stunned , and eprived of conscioiiNiies.s for a time , Hen , no doubt , by mere fright , 'i ' _ willed case thu eslleot i.s. ransient ; but sometimes in conseriuuncii . ' v n f a fdioiik given lo Ihu brain , in rhich CUKO there Is a certain amount of aralysis of motion anil sensation. The ppearancus after eleath of bodies which aye been btriiek by lightning vary ox roiniily. Sometimes they retain the osition which they occupied when truck ; while in other eases thi-y mav bo ashed to a ceui'-iderable dixtaiieo. Their lollies are nin 11 imnied or torn , and nil havei a peculiar hingeel smell. Mulul- e ; substancevs about thn body prexeril gns of fiHlon , while Hindi as are cum- o-ii-d eif sled become magnetic. < -Ijilcd Non'-ln-ljaw. Ineliaiiapolis Jiiurnul : On elit that iiwreneo Barrett , hud to settle a dot l | iM ) , ) . ) per annum on his daughter before m married the ( ieimnii liaron , whiun 10 fatlier-in-law nroudlv , not without ll'e'ction ' , allueles to as llio "baron , m\ ili-m-law. " These noble sons m law n ) very particular about the piturn.ii lit to their brides , and are very exnulintr i llio payments. It \vhihpere-l ib.it 'lien Jermiiit wns min Hondni ! ; o\ri- is ! ' ' ' , ( 'hnrcliill. Lord f'v'OJ ( | lo Lmly . hjirithill prompll.y oabdd for it ; but nee the peer i.s ai _ ' ilii on the hiird ro.id > prosperity , with an insured remt roll , lore ( ins been no occasion for tb a rictly btiklniiss proci-i-ding as then- > t lien tin ) mansion was iinoccijiei ! | | .1- . Ill ) llOUsU I llo not nllOW Wllltlli'l Ii * - , iron ever annoys Mr. Uarrutt tliis w..v . " * l 'I'lio ' Heiivi'-ht fJiin. * I Tlio lieavie.st < r > m in exigence ue'"li- ' : K tonti 8H { owl wild thu breach , jf . - ' i 1)0 mounted on one eif the ironcl ; > < ! urts guarding tdo harbor at Spu/m , m aly. Originally il wns intanded to MML ! l > y rail , but lliu SWIH- . railways obj et > d n lU'oount of its rrijit weight , ai Pi v iiirud that it > MJ II "jreal , bomo of tin i ridgea. So it had to bo taken to An : urp , ' 11111 lei warded Hieiico b ) e A cili/.en of Hrantford , Caiiixd.t. A < looting , geit a gnud hag e.if uniu.s . . ' 10 family conKed and nt , , \ _ ' . \ \ \ , , nr. i , . i irels Thfj result vvns ilivt : irih | HOitnm vlrdenlly ill and Wsu daycd . > r ( Illlcully by tliu local ( l