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THE DAILY JOURNAL.' BY MO. C. NEW * SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Pftee. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, ISS3. “In order to bring the Governor to a proper sense of Ids position, the Democratic majority determined to withhold the appropriation bills.”—Daily Sentinel, March 5. Purdue University will take charge of the weather service. House rent in Jerusalem has advanced nearly 40 per cent. A point that will do to think of. Ex-Govkrnor Sprague has received the Democratic nomination for Governor of Rhode Island. He is also the candidate of the Independents. By this action the canvass in the little seven-by-nine State will take on exceptional interest. Secretary Foi/jbr is really a sick man, jnd intends to avail himself of a real vacation from official duties. After the President has attended to the duties necessary to the proper entertainment of ex-Pre9ident Diaz, 2>f Mexico, he .will join Mr. Folger in atrip to Florida. _______________ The great man in Colorado at the present moment is Alfred G. Packer who, in 1874, while snowed up in the mountains, murdered five companions and lived for six weeks oflf their remains. Crowds gather to gaze at him, as under charge of a sheriffs posse he stops at stations on his way to prison. • __________ Frank Hurd, the great apostle of Demofratic free trade, announces as a part of the “tariff for revenue only” programme the restoration of the tax on tea and coffee. How will the poor man like this? The Republican Congress took off $11,000,000 of tax on sugar. What is to become of the free breakfast table? Rev. Anna Oliver has been offered professorships in severaPcolleges, but prefers to remain in the ministry. It is understood that if satisfactory arrangements can be made about the $13,00Q -mortgage upon the Wiilougbby-avenue Church, so that she can be relieved of the ownership of the property, she may consent, to remain. The Ohio Republican State convention has been called to meet in Columbus on the sth and 6th of June next. The canvass in our neighboring State is likely to be one of much interest again by reason of the obtrusion of the temperance question in some shape. The “Ohio idee” is blossoming forth in spots, which is to regard this election as the forerunner of the national campaign of 1884, and the successful man in the race'necessarily the candidate to lead the party in 1884. A short time ago the president of the Canada Southern railway wrote to President Arthur stating that his company intended to build a bridge across* Niagara river, and asking for the right of way on this side. The *jominunication was referred to the Attorneygeneral, who has delivered an opinion to the effect that the President has no authority to grant such and that the power over matters of this character is vested solely in the legislative branch of the government The board provided for under the terms of the metropolitan police bill, has been named. John W. Murphy, John P. Frenzel and Volr.ey T. Malott are the men selected. It will be time enough to discuss the members of the board when it is understood decidedly who they will be. We have no interest in a dress-parade board; we want to know who the men are who are going to execute the jaw. At present the acceptance of the duty by Messrs. Murphy and Malott is a matter of doubt. High license is what is called for, both as a means of confining the liquor traffic within reasonable bounds and for raising revenue. The following license fees are charged in Illinois: Champaign charges S4OO for license and has 14 saloons, Decatur S2OO and 21 saloons, Rockford S6OO and 22 saloons, Bloomington SOOO and 33 saloons, Paris SBOO and (| saloons, Elgin SSOO and 15 saloons, Danviße S4OO and 40 saloons, Pontiac S4OO and 5 saloons, Streator SIOO and 33 saloons, Ottawa SSO and over 00 saloons, Joket charges SSOO ami has 60 saloons. The attention of Rev. Morgan Dix, and other reformers who mourn over the extravagant follies of women, is respectfully called to the fact, which they seem to have overlooked, that the men in this country spend, in the aggregate, six times as much for their clothing as women do. These figures do not include expensive indulgences in whisky, tobacco and other luxuries peculiar to masculine tastes, for which women have no corresponding outlay. These cold facts were brought out during the investigations of the tariff commission, and were, no doubt, quite as surprising to the members of the commission as they would be to the reformers, were the latter in the least addicted to searching for facts. Another miraculous prayer cure. Miss Annie Feeney, of Hudson, Mass., was 3tricken with paralysis on the 7th of October last, becoming perfectly helpless, and, in a degree, incapable of mental exertion. Tho best physicians could do nothing to help her. Friday, March 2, at the request of the young iady’e friends, Rev. Father Riordan visited her at her home and read prayers over her. The following day she gave evidence of a partial restoration of her mental facilities, followed in time by the return of the power of speech, and during the last week she at- ' tended to all the domestic work of the

house. This is an improvement over the i old way of having a general prayer-meeting called for the purpose. And now that prayers j read over the afflicted do the desired work, it will not be long until the proper remedies ' can be forwarded bj* postal card. In the j same line, but in a larger way, is the Rev. Dr. Monck, of the Apostolic Church, Brooklyn. He makes a regular business of laying on of hands, and is reported to have had great success in curing the sick, though, the account says, “it is not infrequent that it is necessary to touch a sick person two or three times.” In cases where the diseased are unable to come to the church, the Doctor attends to them by laying his hands on an apron or handkerchief, which friends carry J to them. The postal-card way is certain to be adopted sooner or later. THE ENEMIES OF IRELAND. How blind must be the men who flatter themselves that secret crime—agrarian outrage, assassination and explosion—will lead to freedom. How strange it is that men of judgment can regard the murder of unarmed men and Hie jeopardy of women and children as the way to secure national recognition by the world? There is one and only one way for Ireland to throw off the yoke of British government, and that is by revolution. Bushwhacking and guerilla warfare will not do. A shot here and there from behind a hedge or wall will never make Ireland a nation. Until the entire population are united in a tno rough purpose to secure freedom by an open and honorable appeal to- arms, and the sacrifice of their lives, if need be, in j the contest, can there be rational talk of national independence. And even then the undertaking must be regarded as hopeless. England, with an unmatched navy and one of the finest armies in the world, could and would crush the Irish people like an eggshell in the hands of a giant. Ireland has a population of 5,363,590, while England, exclusive of Scotland, has 25,480,160. In addition to this, all the military power—every ship, fortress, soldier and gun —iz in the hands of England and ready to do its bidding. This is a political fact that can be Ignored only to the peril of those who blindly choose to disregard it. It is folly to despise these things, and it would be simply inviting destruction to attempt an armed contest. What, then, can Irish agitators do? Manifestly, without the aid of some other power the people of Ireland would simply rush to destruction by precipitating war. In this extremity America has been appealed to. Not directly, but in a manner that is at once compromising and in possible defiance of the rules of international comity. It is remarkable, too, that the strongest and most confident appeals have been made for American sympathy following every fresh outrage in Ireland or England. When Cas'eudish and Burke were assassinated the leaders of the cause on this side of the Atlantic were active in raising funds tor the support of those at home. Apd now, following the attempt to indiscriminately murder innocent men in London, word comes from Boston that it will again be an easy matter to raise money to carry on the dreadful work. What estimate is placed upon Americans that they are expected to give moral and financial support to such deeds? How long will the delusion be kept up that murder and assassination will popularize tho Irish cause in the hearts of the people of this country? There is widespread sympathy in America for Ireland in her wrongs, and the iiope has been general that the day might soon come when they would all be redressed an and her people restored to every just right and privilege. The outlook is greatly discouraging. The secret murder of unarmed officials, the wanton destruction of property and the peril of unsuspecting and innocent people never did win sympathy except among savages, and never will. Until the people of Ireland pronounce unqualified condemnation upon these atrocities they cannot hope for elfective sympathy and aid from any source. The double murder in Phoenix Park set back the Irish cause a century, almost, and the attempt at indiscriminate slaughter in London has indefinitely postponed hope of deliverance. It were dilferent if any prominent leader would denounce the perpetration of these deed3. The lieutenants of the Irish army of observation, such as Sheridan, Patrick Ford, and others, not to speak of bloodhounds like O'Donovan Rossa, openly defend these crimes, while those al>ove them, as Parnell and Egan, have no word of condemnation. Such words, brave, and true and strong, as those of A. M. Sullivan, are like pearls in a waste of sand. If it be hopeless for Ireland to revolt, it is worse than folly to assassinate, for it only estranges those who would like to be friendly, and makes hitter enemies, hard and hostile foes, of those from whom reforms and concessions must come. By deserving sympathy, and working upon the feelings of the middle classes in England, so rapidly becoming the governing power of the kingdom, the cause of Ireland would be infinitely strengthened, and eventually justice would be obtained. The present course of insane and unjustifiable violence, not only not denounced and repudiated but concurred in and tacitly indorsed, intensifies the deeprooted prejudice that has so long dwelt in the hearts of the English. Ireland has unquestionably suffered great injustice ami is to-day discriminated against. Her cause pleads itself, .and the verdict of I history is in her favor. It they were pa- ! tlent and wise in whose hands her | destinies are placed, the needed reforms would be forthcoming, ns God is just and right is right So long as they consent to stand sponsors for assassination and encotir-

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age crime by not discountenancing it, so ' long will the beauteous island carry an tin- | necessary and grievous bnrden, to which the J false friends of its people contribute the j bitterest and severest portion. No true friend of Ireland can regard the present condition of affairs with aught than the 9incerest sorrow and the deepest concern. There must soon come a change. In which direction shall it be? ___________ THE ENGLISH “BLACK COUNTRY.” The letters of Hon. Robert P. Porter to the New’ York Tribune, from the industrial centers of England, are causing considerable comment in free-trade circles, the cruel facts therein contained going far toward disproving their pet theories. That they are true in their statement of facts as he sees them there can be no doubt, and their revelations are such that honest men iu America can but congratulate themselves that the same condition of alfairs does not exist here. It is sufficient, without comment, to reproduce portions of his last published letter, written from Lye Waste, Worcestershire, in which region the women and young girls attend tho nail and bolt forges the same as men. Here are a few extracts: ‘‘The inhabitants of this desolate district are among the most industrious, and yet the most wretched in England. They are engaged in making all kinds of nails, rivets and chains. The work is done in little ‘smithys’ attached to the hovels in which the workers reside, and for which the usual rent seems to be about 2s 4d to 2s 6d a week, a trifle over fifty cents. These houses, as a rule, contain little or no furniture. They are filthy and wretched beyond description. What spare time the unhappy nailer’s wife gets from nursing the baby and i preparing the meager meals, is spent at the smithy fire pounding away at the anvil until late at night. But the extra work that the woman does, combined with that of one child—say a girl of fourteen —will barely keep the family from starvation. For example: An expert nailer, working steadily from Monday morning to Friday night, can only make two and a half bundles of iron rods into nails, for which he gets 6s7>£d, per bundle, or for his week’s work, 16s Bd, exactly $4. Now, his wife, by working every moment of her spare time and late into the night—neglecting the wretched little children—can make a bundle of commoner nails, for which she is paid 3s Id, and the lit-tle-half-starved, stunted girl of twelve, with her brown arms and steady, unerring aim, will hammer out half a bundle, Is 6dMTotal earnings of an industrious and hardworking family, threj at the forge, for the entire week: English United States Money. Money. Father lGs 8(1 $4.00 Mother 3s Id 74 Daughter Is 7*3(1 39

Total gross earnings of the family per week.. 2lb 4 1 ed $5.13 “But out of this pittance must come 3d for carriage of iron from the ‘foggerV and returning the nails, Is for the smithy fire and 3d for the wear of tools. Net earning, $4.77 per week—the united earnings of three industrious, sober persons, I stood in the doggers’ ’ shops of these nailing districts and saw the pale, emaciated women drag their weary limbs up the narrow black hills to the ‘gaffers,’ and eagerly watch the weighing of the heavy sacks of nails. The doggers’ xlo not •claim’ that a woman who has no family to attend to, and who goes to the forge every morning and works all day jis a man, can make more than 8s a week—less than two dollars. But the truth ds they do not make auything like that amount. “The most cruel part of this business is that young women should be allowed to work at what is called the ‘Olivers,’ a heavy iron machine worked by means of two wooden treadles. At Halesowen I saw numbers of girls making large eight-inch bolts on these machines, and indeed they seem to work with masculine firmness and with far more vigor than the men. Mr. Ball, one of the largest nail-makers of the district, told me that hundreds of women were employed in the little ‘smithys’ at the back of tne houses in making these great bolts, aiul I visited seven or eight establishments, that might properly be classed as factories, thus employing women. Their earnings do not exceed $1.25 a week. “In some cases I found mothers and three, and even four, daughters at the forge. In most of such instances the father, I was told, spent his time in the pablic house, and the united earnings of the entire family would be less than $5. Many of the nailers actually starve, and cases of the deepest sorrow are not uncommon. “It is all very well to gloss these things over and keep them out of the newspapers, as they do in England, hut the poor in England are day by day and year by year getting poorer. Not long ago a journalist of ability undertook to show the desperate condition of the working classes here. 1 do not mean idle, worthless, good-for-nothing people, hut just such industrious people as those described in this letter. He sent the result of his inquiries to a Liberal journal and the manager refused to publish the facts. He wrote: “It is better not to call attention to such matters. It could do no good.” “In this way they hope to tempt the United States to throw down its protective barriers, and, at the awful risk of bringing our own labor to this condition, give back to England the sixty millions of customers she lias lost in so many important brandies of industry. “It is time the truth about industrial England is told. The London Standard lias dared to speak out on the condition of labor in the Black Country, and when that paper makes the following statement* I can say that it actually accords with some of the horrible facts which have come within my observation during my stay in this dismal region: '*Women within a few days of their confinement have been known to work iu the agony of exhaustion, in order to earn a few pence at tne ‘hearth’ —not the ‘hearth* of home, but tho hearth of tbs ‘forge*; they have been known to return to work in a day or two alter childbirth, emaciated in constitution, weak and weary for the want of rumple nourishmentThelr children, ragged and ill-fed, have had to lead miserable and wretched lives, with no hope before them but a life of wretchedness and vice..” Comment is unnecessary. These statements may not be set aside by the overwhelming assertion that Mr. Porter is a protectionist, and “a robber,” a “tariff thief,” and the other choice epithets which flow so glibly from the lips of hare-brained theorists. Let the workingmen of the United States reflect over the picture drawn from scenes in freetriple England. The laboring classes work hard here, and suffer many inconveniences, but nowhere on this side of the Atlantic is there anything that is half so deplorable as that which has been endured for a century In the manufacturing districts of England. It is, indeed, a “Black country.” , m:, Every true citizen will hail with delight the interest which has sprung up in our neighboring State of Kentucky on the subject of popular education. The statistics of illiteracy have produced a much do-

sired result in that State of early heroes and statesmen, showing that tho sons are not unworthy their noble sires, and that they are not content to remain in the unfortunate condition which the institutions of other years fastened upon them. To promote the cause of education a convention is called to meet at Frankfort on the sth of April next. It is not to he a convention of mere professional educators who are to discuss methods of training and school discipline, but, without excluding these, it Is to be a convention of men of large views and noble purposes, whose aim will be to devise liberal things in behalf of the education of every child in the State, without regard to race or previous conditions. We congratulate our sister State on this step, and our contemporary, the Courier-Journal, for the part it lias played and is playing in this movement

For a screaming farce commend us to the report of the committee on the new street railway and the action of the City Council thereon, whereby, by a vote of 14 to 7, the citizens of Indianapolis are delivered over forever to the mercies of the present company for street-car facilities and accommodations. According to this marvelous report and the more marvelous vote of the fourteen councilmen, there is a question of “moral honesty” involved, which would not permit the monopoly of the present company to be interfered with. It is hard to consider this action with patience in any light, the most charitable, in which it may be viewed. The railway company has violated its contract with the city in every possible way, seemingly taking delight in ignoring every consideration of the comfort and convenience of the public. Old rails have been laid, “T”. rail has been used, the tram of the rails has been laid outward so as to destroy the roadway of the street, the streets have been cut up and dismantled without let or hindrance, “bobtail” and bandbox cars are in daily use, the abuses and discourtesies to which passengers are continually subjected are reported and talked of in vain—tlfe charter of the company is daily and hourly violated in a score of particulars; but, forsooth, the sense of “moral honesty” in the Council is so acute that it will not permit the granting of the right of way to a competing company, thus securing to the city the capital to be invested in the new enterprise and to the people the additional facilities and conveniences promised. We congratulate the councilmen upon this wonderful tenderness of conscience, this sudden and strange awakening. This same Council can embark in the enterprise of building a useless city hall, the expense of which no one can foretell—the ordinance providing for the work specifically stating that when $135,000 are spent “work shall stop,” showing that it i3 not. intended to complete the building for that sum. This same Council could not bring itself to vote even so contemptible a license fee for liquor saloons as $52 a year, but with a sanctimonious leer of “moral honesty” deliberately gives over the full monopoly of the streets of the city for all time to one company. For if the “moral honesty” of the Council will not permit a rival company to come here until the alleged option of the present company i? exhausted, of course the monopoly will lay worn-out or “T” rail wherever it may be necessary to occupy disputed territory, and thus crowd out every rival forever. It is not often a rich and prosperous company comes across a complacent Council the members of which will vote fortunes into its coffers for the asking. The City Council of Indianapolis, however, is so troubled with the “moralities” of an alleged contract, which confessedly has no force in law and which is treated as so much waste paper by the party of the second part, that it makes haste to vote untold possibilities of wealth into the pockets of a monopoly. “’Tis strange, ’tis passing strange.” If the reported ground for the action of the Council be the true one, the members should not venture too far from home. Their verdant and unsophisticated natures are certain tube made the prey of designing and wicked people. For there are such in the world.

A press dispatch from Lafayette, presumably colorless, says of the slander case on trial there, before the plaintiff had closed her testimony: “Handler made a strong showing that the slanders lie had uttered against Mrs. Gougar were true, and while his side of the case was developed the public feeling ran pretty strongly against Mrs. Gougar. But since she opened the testimony on her side the current seems as strong the other way. It looks as though she will be able to completely brush away every point made against her involving any unlawful act. It is not proper, though, to conclude that Mandler absolutely lied about her, but rather that lie was mistaken in the woman he accused of going into Wallace’s office and remaining until a lute hour of the nigiit.” A little romance, growing out of the wreck of the Cimbrfa, Las come to light in New York. Among the passengers on that ill-fated vessel was a young German Jewess, Miss Hulda Hchnml. After the collision witll the steamer Sultan, she, with other helpless, struggling people, was thrown into tho water. As she was about to sink a friendly hand tiffed her to a floating log. A sudden flash of light from the Sultan lit up the face of her iesouer so that she saw it, for a moment, clearly, and then all was darkness. A passing boat picked the girl up and she was afterward sent to Hamburg. At a railroad depot there she met again the man who had saved her. They had been entire strangers before, but the life-saving episode was a bond whioli by all written and unwritten oodes of romance was not to le Ignored. Fortunately the man, Gustavo Boeck, had no other bonds in the way, so the couple, with little preliminary courtship, naturally fell into each others arms after the fashion most approved by writers of highlycolored tictiou, which is, after all. no stranger than truth. As had been the previous intention, the lovors took passage in another vessel anil

reached New York last week. They immediately sought out a raiuister and were married, but Boeck not being of the same religious faith ns his Jewish bride, they hesitated to make themselves known to her uncle, who was expecting her arrival. They reckoned without a knowledge of newspaper publicity, however. When tho exalted uncle failed to find his niece he raised a great outcry among the police, and Miss Schmul’s mysterious disappearance was in all the papers. Then the couple came forward, were forgiven, and now, all is well. Divorces are so common that their history is tame reading, and the following is chronicled only to show that by accident the nuptial knot I may be made something more thau a slip-knot: I Mrs, Gale, of Philadelphia, wants a divorce and ought to have one, but cannot get it. Five years ago she left her home in Maryland, and according to previous arrangement was met in Philadelphia by Mr. Gale, who there married her and took her to the house of her relatives, where she has since resided. Contrary to previous arrangement, however, Mr. Gale hied himself at once back to Maryland and has never lived with his wife nor contributed to *her support. The lady, naturally displeased with this eocentno conduct, seeks to have the marriage dissolved, but is informed that she is not a legal resideut of Pennsylvania. As she has not been iu any other .State for five years, her homo is certainly not In Maryland with her husband, and she is informed that she can bring no action for divorce there. She thinks of going to New England to see if freedom can be found there. Another Important question lias been adjudicated, and an anxious public .will now know what to do in such eases. A Georgia Court has decided that a man has no right to take off his coat and sit in his shirt-sleeves in a railway car. The drummer who did so, and refused either to go luto the smoking-oar or put his coat on again, and was put off in consequenoe at the first station, has lost the suit which ho brought for dam- 1 ages. It is interesting to note that there is at 1 least one thing that even a drummer is not . allowed to do on a railway train. It seems a trifle f severe in case the drummer’s vest-back was entire. But what is a man to do who buys a firstclass ticket, and has no coat to wear? M. Aurillk, a French architect, recently stooked his residence with elegant marbletopped furniture. It was beautiful and gave satisfaction until in an unlucky moment Madame Aurille discovered that tho marble had been harvested from a cemetery, and still bore inscriptions on tho portions not usually exposed. The j gentleman brought suit against the upholsterer, but the oourt pronunccd against him, declaring that marble was marble, no matter whence it came. Outlie strength of this decision, furnituredealers will now probably get up some very tine dressing-cases, easy chairs, etc., from materials once used as burial-caskets. It is economic, to say the least. Don’t fool with an unloaded pistol, don’t kindle the lire with kerosene, don’t jump off tho cars while they are moving, and be careful with “Hough on Hats.” These injunctions, with several others of the same kind, should be obeyed at all times; but because Mrs. Boland, of Bridgeport, Conn., was burned to death while kneeling before the fire saying her prayers, it does not follow that there is no efficacy In prayer. The practice, on the contrary, if indulged in with moderation and judgment, at a proper distance from tbe grate, may be a safeguard against flames. Mr. Isaac Bmitii, of Albany, N. Y., aged sixtythree, has Just got out of the insane asylum, where he was placed by his two married children because he had bought some new clothes and was preparing to marry a handsome young woman. What very unhappy old men the old men of this country would be if all were looked up as lunatics who propose to remarry. Queen Victoria modestly asks fora portrait of the dog which is supposed to have eaten Lady Dixie’s wild Irishman. If Victoria will drop into this office she can obtain n real live dog, and it shan’t oost her a cent. If the Queen can cure the beast, of his present depraved taste for pie, his appetite is warranted good for at least three Irishmen per day. To the Editor or the Indianapolis Journal} When will the township assessors be elected! Sections 4,735 and 6,374 of the revised cod© seem to conflict. Regular assessors are elected in April every two years, and assessors to list and assess all property for taxation are to lie elected at the gen eral election every four years. ABOUT PEOPLE. Joaquin Miller says that Dr. Tulmage talks a perfect flower garden, while ho fights mosquitoes with his arms. Victor Hugo celebrated his eighty-first birthday by giving a dinner party to his friends. Sarah Bernhardt was one of the guests. Dispatch from the Czar to Lady Florence Dixie: “1 congratulate you upon your fortunate escape. Please tell me where you buy your corsets.” Mrs. Ella K. Trader, who spent SIOO,OOO of her own money in aiding wounded soldiers during the war, wow lives in poverty ut Asheville, N.C. The Princess Dolgorouki Ims .taken a superb mansion in Paris for two years, and proposes to live there quietly with her children, taking no nptioe of Russian politics. The following is what an eavesdropper heard: “Now, Mr. Davis, you must run up to the third story and got my smelling bottle and my fan.” David Davis—“Oh, that this too solid flesh would melt.” Terre Haute Express: “A private letter from Crawfordsvllle says that Hon. B. W. Han: a, of Terre Haute, will in a week take control of the Review of that place. A man with the ability of Barless Hanna will make a newspaper win.” Mr. Gladstone has a dozen detectives about his person by day and night. On Sunday when he went to the communion rail in the little Eugiish church at Cannes two detectives stood by him while he received the elements of bread and wire. The Rev. Mr. Tulmage lectured in New' Orleans last week, and in talking with a reporter said that the changes in all phases of Southern life since he visited the South five years ago amount to almost a revolution, and in some particulars to a resurrection. The French government has ordered the remainder of the crown jewels to be sold at the end of April. Among other jewels, the diamond called tbe Regent will be disposed of. It was originally bought for the sum of $3,300,000 francs. Who can buy it? Who will? Mr. Edward Cary, who lias for ten or twelve years been au editorial writer on the New York Times, has assumed the editorial conduct of that paper, the former editor, John Foord, having purchased a large interest in the Brooklyn Union. Mr. Cary is about forty years old, and is from Albany, N. Y. In paying out wages to his workmen, a manufacturer at Marseilles, lU., privately marked S7OO in bills. Within three weekH, $342 of tills money was deposited iu the local bank by saloon-. keepers. That is tlie maelstrom that is sucking up the hard-earned gains of our workingmen and sapping the very foundations of domestic comfort and woman’s peace. ViCTORiEN Hardoij has one criterion when a young author comes to him with his manuscript and asks advice. The author of “Fedora” asks: “Have you studied Sciibef Do you know thoroughly the works of Dumas Pere!” If the new comer smiles with the disdainful superiority of

“another school’’ in literature—furnished with iy.\ brilliant specimen—finrdou says; “Well, then, scan the one and analyze the other. When you have attaiued t.lie cleverness of Scribe and the vigor of the other you will succeed.” As to Bartholdi’s goddess, a New York letter states that the task of fastening a sheet-iron, statue 148 feet high and weighing only eighty tons upon a pedestal still higher, ami that is to be exposed to a tremendous wind straiu, is so difficult that a cable dispatch was sent to France a fortnight ago asking the French engineers to write out their views on the subject. Don Porfirio Diaz, ex-president of Mexico, is something over fifty years of age, spure of figure, medium height, upright as an arrow, and shows unmistakable signs of his Tndlan lineage. He was born in the Btate of Oajica, a section of Mexico which has the honor of giving to the country such men as Benito Juarez, Ignacio Mejia, Ignacio Mariscal, and other eiuiueut Mexican statesmen and soldiers. A memorial to Johu Milton in the village of Horton, Buoks, England, where the poet lived with his father and mother, and composed ills'* “Comus,” Peuseroso,” and “Arcades,” is being diaopesed in the neighborhood, anil the promoters want to interest the publlo in filling the east window of the oliurcli with stalued gla to Milton’s memory. Surah Milton, the p et’a mother, was buried in this church. The Empress of Russia has personally interfered to prevent the closing of tho Academy at St. Petersburg, where women ore studjlnc medicine, as was proposed by the Russian Ministers of the Interior, on the plea that it was a hot-bed of Nihilism. The Empress is anxious that the number of medical practitioners should be increased iu Russia in order to control the annual epidemics which carry off so many victims. A Japanese woman who had lived iu America Rlnee childhood returned to her native land. Bhe writes back to the Independent from Tokio. She has quickly regained facility with chopsticks, and is convinced that skill with them is hereditary. She found the men of that city more po- ! lite, as a rule, than Americans. She bcoame peri fectly familiar with the Japanese language within a month, though she supposed she had entirely forgotten it. She has resumed the native dress, and oonsiders it very pretty and graceful; but she.positively cannot bring herself to arrauge her hair in the true Japanese fashion, whioh is beautiful in appearance, but requires so much pomatum that the thought of it is rpul„ sive to one accustomed to the American coiffure,? THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The Herald can see uo reason to deprecate the attempted assassination of Lady Dixie any more thau the murder of Cavendish, if it is admitted that aesasination of any one “tends to free Ireland.” But It. does not, and never did. So tho crime, besides being suicidal to Irish interests, was a dastardly outrage.—Chicago Herald. The great body of the agriculturists of the counrry are in as good condition as at any period in the past, and the same may bo equally affirmed of artisans and operatives, with tho slight modification implied in the reference to the Inconsiderable number of industries affected lv the revision of tho tariff.—Bt. Louis Republican. Lady Florence has thrust herself perhaps somewhat lnconsideraD-iy into the thick of tho political battle now raging in Ireland, but neither she nor 500 women as clever as she could do tho cause of Irish autonomy so much harm all over the world in ten years as one suoli act of murderous poltroonery as that which the cable today reports has boon done In a day.—New York World. Tiie absolute Independence of a notion go imbued with hatred at her door as Ireland is will never be dreamed of by England, and yet tho possibility of any amicable scheme of association is destroyed or indefinitely delayed by such acts which seem to have no meaning bur continued strife and wider alienation of feeling between those who cannot separate. Tiie spectacle is one of the saddest in the range of modern civilization.—Bt. Louis Republican. The duty of a law-maker i& to try to do what is best for the whole country, and Mr. Sherman’s acts iii the Senate have spoken for him more sar--1 lsfactorily than his quoted rent arks about the new’tariff. It is not a discreditable thing t<> strive for the rapid and full development of any branch of useful industry, and there would h© very llt-tle good accomplished in this world if men were, prohibited from seeking a pul “u goo i because it happened also to be in harmony vim their private interests,—New York Tribune. There is too much reason to fear that the murderous attack spoken of in the dispatches was the result of this accusation If this should prove to be the case, and t lie would-he HssasslriF, when they a recaptured, should turn out to be Irish Jnviucibles, there will be an accession to the popular iudignntion in England that may lead to the most serious results. In America, also, people will begin to ask whether this is the kind ot “warfare” O’Donovan Rossa and bis comrades intend to wage against England.— Bl. Louis Globe-Democrat. No higher praise can be given to tbe Episcopal church than that It ih able to include in its fold men differing as widely as do the Broad-ohurch-men and Low-cliurohmen and the Anglo-Catho-lics. However widely these men may differ in doctrine or in ritual, so long as they are animated by the divine spirit of the Savior there is room for them iu the church. Binct* the secession of Bishop Cummins and his followers there has been little disposition shown iu the church to enforce upon ail its members the views of any' one school of thought, and It will be a matter to lie sincerely mourned by all good churchmen if the rumored prosecutions of clergymen in this city and Chicago are permitted to take place.~ New York Times. All Irish-Americans of decent feeling will give heed to the dangerous signs of the times. By seeming to sympathize with the perpetrators of dastardly crimes they’ are losing the sympathy of the whoie world. By supplying money to an agitation which has become nothing but a cloak for outrage they are causing Ireland to be viewed by the universe as a haven for cowardly ruffians who shoot trom behind hedges and assault women in disguises. They are postponing for a century their country’s chance of freedom, and are bringing their countrymen within measurable distance of a calamity more appalling than any which has happened since the Huguenots were hounded to death in the streets of Paris.— New York Herald. llow to Get Even with the Gas Company. Louisville Courier-Journal. Gas consumers will find that a very easy way to get even with the gas company by ;t perfectly legitimate process, is to turn the gas off at tho meter every night at the retiring hour and keep a few candles for use in case a light is wanted during the nigiit. The leakage of gas is prevented, ami the air in sleeping rooms is purer under this system. A Result of the 'farin' Bill. Philadelphia Press. Foxes are said to be increasing rapidly in the blue grass regions of Kentucky after* a close escape from extermination. This is undoubtedly due to their belief in Henri Waiterson’s preq hecies that a protective tariff will make a howling wilderness of Kentucky. Will Bn Invited to a Back Seat. I South Beml Tribune. The true source of any party’s strength is the people, and the popular conviction that tiie party is right. In this State, with tho late Legislature fresh in memory, flic conviction of the people is that the Democratic party is decidedly wrong, and it will be invited to take a back seat in 1884, Tho “Great Campaign,” Washington Post. English writers are still harping on the “great campaign” against Arabi Pasha. The hoy who reported “a thousand cats in tiie back yard.” when he had really seen only “our old cat and another one,” was the model on which these writers are building. A Suggestion to St. George. Chicago Time*. Britannia would do well, perhaps, to dis charge the British iion and get a St. Bernard dog. It Does, Indeed. Cincinnati Enquirer. Judge Butterworth sounds well