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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ENGLISH'S OPERA-HOUSE—Henry Irvin* and Ellen Terry in “The Bells'' and “The Belle’s Stratagem." GRANT) OPERA-HOUSE—Joseph Murphy in “Terry Gow," matinee and evening. PARK THEATER—Rentz-Santloy Novelty Company. THE'DAILY - JOURNAL BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1884. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON—American Exchange in Europe, 419 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—Fifth Avenue and Windsor Hotels. WASHINGTON, D. <?.—Brentano’s, 1,015 Pennsylvania Avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer House. X CINCINNATI—J. C. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine Street. LOUISVTLLE—O. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. THE INDIANA SOLDIERS’ MONUMENT. Tlio following contributions to the fund for the Indiana soldiers’ monument havo been made public through the columns of the Journal: L. M. Campbell, Danville SIOO.OO Benjamin Harrison 100.00 The Indianapolis Journal 100.00 The Terre Haute Courier 50.00 C. L. Holstein 50.00 Dr. Charles I>. Pearson. No. 30 East Ohio street. Indianapolis 100.00 McKain & Murray, Indianapolis 50.00 Stanton J. Peelle 50.00 Other contributions, no matter what the amount, will be acknowledged. It Is hoped the response will be prompt and general. Let it be n people’s monument to the soldiers and sailors f Indiana. A STATUE for the Indiana soldier is im|>erH- > now. It cannot be erected too soon. Gutter drunkards and dead-beats are not just the material out of which to make reform leaders. The Washington Post calls upon the Democratic majority in the House to begin the work of seating Democratic contestants at once. Wfndell Phillips was the author of the saying that he was in favor of settling the Kansas troubles with the Bible and Sharpe’s rides. * UNDER the heading “Notable Events” future generations will read: “1884 —History of the rebellion first taught in the public schools in Indianapolis.” Let us have an instance where a Grand Army post in the North or a veteran soldiers 7 organization has asked for the restoration of Fit* .John Porter. A GENEROUS rivalry should prevail in the enterprise of raising funds for the soldiers’ monument. Subscriptions made now will keep the thing going and inspire confidence. Can a school commissioner be found who knows anything? Up to date tlio only ones who have found out anything are those who have lusked their children what is going on in the schools. Probably it would be better to elect these children commissioners. BaKKK Pasha seems to have met the False Prophet somewhere up the road. The next news nil! probably be that General Gordon’s dead body has been found on the prairie, with his po. lints turned inside out. Then England will have the light to go in and murder a few of th fellows along the Upper Nile. A stiiooi. patron says his child states the ’Cason why the rebellion history is not taught n the public schools, as given by a teacher s that "it is one sided. Professor Ridpatli wrote it iii favor of the North.’" By these little shreds of information we are being led up ,o the truth, and we shall soon lmow why the History Is suppressed, and at whose instigation t wa> done. TitKKK is no use in wasting time and space u a discussion of Mr. Morrison’s tariff hill, ih- author does not expect it. to pass; prominent Democratic, congressmen think it will be killed at once by striking out the, enacting clause: while a leading Demoeratie authority pronoune.es it "neither flue trade, revenue reform, nor protection, but a jumble of incongruities and absurdities, such as never liefoie was submitted to the consideration of Congress. ’’ It is greatly to be feared that there is more is the question of the suppression of history in the public schools than the school board aud officers would like to be known. It seems that a history which says nothing of John Brown and African slavery, and which devotes more space to Stonewall Jackson than to Ulysses S. Grant in connection with the war, has been continuously taught the children without question. During all these years where has been the school hoard? It is evident, from what the nominal members say. that they know absolutely nothing, or next to nothing, about the conduct of the schools. Who have been the controlling spirits in the school board and have "run” the schools? SOME Washington scribbler printed a statement that. Secretary Teller had expressed himself depreciatingly of the civil-service law and •if civil service reform. The junto of great men at Washington, who by their mighty Fabers set up one man and pull down another at their sweet wills, telegraphed the stuff to various parts of the country, whereat the abbeditors who thank God every morning for theiidivine command t regulate the universe, and ! vhti begin tht task by dividing the ■

world into two classes—themselves the rem nant and the balance the “unsound majority” —proceeded to demolish Mr. Teller, and to show that he was a spoilsman and totally unfit for his position, or, indeed, for any respectable man’s countenance. And now Secretary Teller comes out and denies that he ever talked as reported; that he believes the law efficacious so far as it has been tried, and testifies to its good work in relieving the departments of much of the pressure for place. This is a fair sample of columns of stuff in newspaper’s who have 1 ‘reform” on the brain, and whose creed is that all public men are thieves except those ujion whom they have laid apostolic hands. THE PROPOSED NEW HIGH-SCHOOLS, It certainly seems to be high time to cry halt to the school board of the city in more matters than one. In the first place, as to the proposed liigh-school building: The board has now a large floating debt, and to this the proposition is to add SIOO,OOO more for anew higli-school building on the site of the present one, comer of Michigan and Pennsylvania streets. The consideration of this important matter brings up the whole question of high-school education, and its relation to the 95 per cent, of the children who never reap the slightest benefit from it. The city of Indianapolis is naturally, as well as artificially, divided into two sections, the northern and the southern. There have been, through all the years, wellgrounded complaints about the inaccessibility of the present high-school site to children on the South Side entitled to the benefits of the higher education. These complaints are well founded, and if the high-school is to be perpetuated in its present form, there is no question that a building must be erected on the South Side, maimed by a corps of professors, offering precisely the same instruction, in kind and degree, as that furnished hy the school on the North Side. This "just demand cannot be much longer ignored. One high-school building will no longer answer the physical or intellectual demands of Indianapolis, if the existing grade of high-school education is to be kept up. So, a new high-school building on the North Side means a companion on the South Side; it means an expenditure of at least $200,000 insiSad of SIOO,OOO, and an increase in the tuitional expenses of the school system of $15,000 a year for a staff of professors for the highschool south of Washington street. Curiously enough, concurrently with this demand for new high-school buildings, is the cry for more room iu the lower grades; and this is a constant, and will be a constantly-in-creasing, demand from the necessities of the case, because of the increase of population and the increasing per cent, of school attendance keeping pace with the development of school accommodations in the grades which the larger per cent, of children both need and avail themselves of. Now, which of these two demands shall be answered! Shall the ornamental, top-loftical high-school course, which but 5 or 6 per cent, of the children can or do take—a course of instruction from which the thought of practical people is turning away, and which has been largely embroidered upon the common school system by educators who, in their thirst for refinement, have largely refined the real heart and purpose of free education out of their thoughts aud plans—shall this embroidery and elabora tion ho continued and enlarged at the expense of the necessities of the lower grades? Shall one child be educated into high-school graduation, in order to appear before a crowded audience in a public hall at commencement exercise with an essay tied up with a white ribbon, and receive from the honorable, the president’ of the school board, a diploma tied up witli a blue ribbon, while ninetynine children, clamoring for instruction in the fundamentals of an English education—which is the definite purpose of free schools—are left to wander in the streets because there is no room for them. This is a practical question; it is being pressed upon the attention of the people, whether they will or no, and the proposed action of the school board looking still further toward the inversion of the commonschool system, which is at once the pride and the prop of our free institutions, should arouse the public to an unmistakable expression of their sentiment. The Journal has intimated its view of the subject—it leans to a lopping off of. the top branches and a broadening of the umbrage below. Whether this idea be in harmony witli the general thought is not for us to assert; but it is our province and duty to call attention to the question, and to ask that the school board shall he fairly amenable to the popular judgment if it can make itself known. The News of yesterday has this statement: “Yesterday afternoon there wasa lengthy consultation between President Brown and Prof. Mills, the exact nature of which has not transpired; but, after its conclusion, Mr. Brown told a News reporter that the board intended to ferret out the matter, that Professor Mills was responsible for the suppression, and that lie hail kept that fact concealed from tho hoard.” We are very free to say that this is not at all in harmony with the general impression. Did Commissioner Brown never hear of the suppression of the rebellion history in the schools until now? It is openly charged hy the Indianapolis | Journal that the history of the United (States since the year 1800 is not allowed to be taught ! n the schools of t init State. The course of historv closes with the blooming administration of James Buchanan. The student is left or . .■ i.imt since the close of the last Derao- • I• n ’ministration the country has made no hi lory; there lias simply been an interregnum, wnich will continue till another Dejuo- ’ administration comes into power, when tli“ threads of the narrative, will ho taken up

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at the point where they left off, with the South on top, and the Democracy of tho North meekly executing the will of their natural masters, tho barons of the plantation. Still, as Indiana sent upwards of 20U, 000 brave men into the field, we suspect the children of the State are not altogether ignorant of What has happened in the last twenty-four years. —Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The C. G. is a little off in its statement. It is only in Indianapolis that the United States histoiy is lopped off at March 4, 1861. Everywhere else, even in Mudsock, the whole history is taught. THE FRENCH INVESTIGATION, It is stated with no inconsiderable flourish of trumpets that a railroad company has tendered “Colonel” French four car’s free to transport his witnesses to Indianapolis before the investigating commissioh. We have failed to notice any offer by this or by any other company of so much as a free pass to any witness against “Colonel” French. This bit of snobbery is of a piece with the efforts that have been made to bolster up “Colonel” French ever since the investigation was first talked of. The effort has been to bear down with an avalanche of the awful greatness of this “model officer” any “disgruntled” clerk or employe who may consider himself to have suffered from the lash of a petty tyrant. There is too much of this in this country—too much of special cars and coaches and toadyism for men dressed in a little brief authority, and too much “discipline,” and sneers aud abuse and lack of opportunity to men who are compelled to work for their living and be tire underlings of “model officers.” Because of all this, by reason of the way in which this whole French business has been managed from the first, the Journal has not hesitated to say, and repeats with all possible emphasis, that the “investigation,” under the circumstances, can Ire satisfactory to nobody, nor can it be conclusive. Every step so far taken should be annulled, and a new method adopted, whereby the truth could be fairly made known, and the question of “Colonel” French’s usefulness in this division determined upon the principles of common sense from facts as they are known to exist. In the absence of a disposition to do this, tho commission have, possibly, done the next best thing in addressing a circular letter to all clerks and employes in the division, inviting their complaints and testimony, appending to each a copy of the ample promise of protection over the name of Postmaster-general Gresham , and fixing a time for future hearing far enough distant to allow anyone so disposed to come before them, either in person or by letter. But, after all, what will all this parade and bother do to settle the question of ‘ ‘Colonel” French's usefulness as an officer in this division? The very machinery put in motion to investigate the universal complaint against him, shows that he is very far removed from “a model officer,” and that his value is at an end, at least in this division. THE HIBTORY QUESTION. Nobody wants or expects a red-hot, fireeating history of the war to be taught to the children of the public schools; but every one of ordinary common sense and American manhood does want the plain, unvarnished facts in the nation’s record for the past twentythree years taught, and people will not rest, satisfied until they secure that much of a decent respect to the greatest period of American history from the school hoard and officers. Nearly one hundred pages, or one-fourtli, of the Eclectic History of the United States is devoted to the period since the breaking out of the rebellion; yet all that is untaught, and patrons of the schools are compelled to pay for books, a large portion of which is totally unused. If the statements made in the last eighty-odd pages of the Eclectic are not fit to be taught, then the school board should not have adopted it as a text-hook. But there is nothiug of the kind; tho statements of fact in all the histories used in the schools are only such as any child should know. There is and has been some malign influence iu the schools that has closed the history of the country at the end of Mr. Buchanan's administration, because it was feared there would he some who might he hurt in their feelings by the teaching of events in which they bore a discreditable part. This influence must and will lie unearthed. At present Prof. Mills seems to be tho one who could tell the most as to ho w the practice came about. He says the history has not been taught since he has been connected with the schools, or for a period of eleven years. Was the practice in vogue when he came here? How did he learn there was such a practice? Did he ever inquire into the reason for it? Did he ever have any talk with any school commissioner about it? Was it ever suggested to him that the teaching of the war history would not be “prudential,” aud if so, by whom? No such ride or practice could have been put into operation and maintained for eleven years without somebody being responsible for it. Who was the responsible person or persons? So far all the members and officers of the school board have, with one acoord, made excuses. But the author or authors of the scandalous practice will be discovered sooner or later. Seceetarv Folgeb has won the respect of every woman w"hp earns her bread, which number includes the vast majority, by the neat manner in which he disposes of Solicitor Raynor's sentimental gush o’H’ 1 ’ Ike proper sphere of “the sex." In his orde? directing the appoiutmeut of Mrs. Miller as master Cf a steamboat, Mr. Folger says: “Nor is there need of talk, pro or con, on social ‘status.’ or ‘woman • rights,’ so called. Having been put on God's footstool by Him,

she has the right to earn her bread in any moral, decent way which is open to any of His toiling creatures. She chooses to do so as the master of a steam vessel. It is an honest calling. If she is fitted for it, though clothed in skirts rather than breeches, she has a right to follow it, and no. man should say her nay. ” These opinions are neither original nor uncommon, being held, in substance, by all sensible men; but the Raynor species of nonsense is so prevalent that the expression of different views by one in authority is refreshing by contrast. Last evening one of the public-school teachers was found so well posted in the history of the present generation that she thought Stonewall Jackson was commander-in-chief of tho Southern armies; that Met 'lellan was a confederate; had never heard of Halleck or Hooker; remembered that Ben Butler commanded the rebels at New Orleans, and had an indistinct recollection that such men as McDowell, Hancock and Thomas once lived; further that Governor Morton commanded all the Indiana forces. She had no excuse for her ignorance, save that she disliked war histories, and the board never required that kind of information to be disseminated. —News. Please let us have the name of this teacher. She is possibly one of the first fruits of our admirable “system.” Wabash College. It gives tho Joumnl much pleasure to transfer to its columns the appended letter of President Tuttle, published in the last number of the Herald and Presbyter, with respect to the new museum of natural history and the growth generally of Wabash College, one of the oldest and ablest of Indiana’s educational institutions: “Twenty years ago tho educational equipments of Wabash College were quite limited. Its library, museum, philosophical apparatus and its stock of buildings were small. Tho first sign of growth was an unusual and almost unsought in crease of endowment funds; then the building of the wings of Center Hall for the library, chapel, museum and recitation rooms. Next came Peck Scientific Hall for physics and chemistry—a remarkably fine building which now shows signs of being tilled to its capacity. “And now comes the latest sign—almost unheralded, but with a warm welcome. At a large expense tho museum of natural history has been prepared and is already in use. It contains the lecture-room, the laboratories and rooms for the dissecting and microscopic work of Professor (Coulter’s department of natural history. These rooms are already occupied, ami are admirable. The upper room of the east transept is litted up for the rich collection of botanical specimens. The room over the west transept is devoted to the archaeological collection, already quite large. The main room, which is 100x50, is lighted from above, and already holds the Ward casts of huge extinct animals. The mineral and fossil ceilections are to be placed in this room as soon as the cases are ready. It is a very beautiful room, and when it receives all the collections just named, it will bo an object of generous pride, not only with the friends of Wabash, but all the friends of education. “I have spoken of the growth of the college. It has been eminently a growth. Each change has come without noise or proclamation, and, it may be added, with little expense for agency. The library holds 23,000 books, and is constantly growing; and the museum many thousands of specimens, and is also growing rapidly. It is a place full of advantages for the pursuit of classical and scientific education. “Center Hall, Peck Hall and the museum are warmed by steam, made in the new boiler-house, which is removed to a safe distance from the other buildings. The plan of the college has been to separate its buildings and tho equipments so as to diminish the risks of fire. We prefer this to a single large building, however imposing it may be. The risks of fire are reduced greatly by this policy. The college has grown, and yet we trust it has not yet got its growth.” In a notice of this letter the editor of the Herald and Presbyter writes in the editorial columns of the paper: “Wabash College is constantly advancing in all that a college ought to be and have. Our readers will rejoice to see the article of President Tuttle, descriptive of the new museum of natural history in connection with that college.. This addition will greatly increase the usefulness of the institution. Dr. Tuttle and his colaborers have labored long and zealously for the upbuilding of the collego in all its departments, and we rejoice with the friends of Christian culture and education, that their labors have not been in vain. ” Commenting upon the amusing struggle for precedence among some of the “leading ladies” at Washington, a Philadelphia paper advises Mesdames Frelinghuysen, Carlisle, and Miller, the three most actively concerned, to engage in the novel experiment of holding their tongues. This rude advice, so far as the Speaker’s wife is concerned, is uncalled for. According to latest advices, that lady has not only held the position given her by the President, hut has also, with great discretion, held her tongue, and this is what makes the rest of them so mad. Nothing exasperates a woman who wants to quarrel more than to be confronted by another womau who won't talk back. _ During the past seven years the German Empress has conferred a golden cross, with an autograph diploma, on no fewer than 1,027 fomale servants who havo remained uninterruptedly in the same family for forty years. In other words, such honorable service Is made honorable in a very acceptable and tangible manner. The idea is a good one, for any honest lalor is honorable, and no one in limited circumstances need be ashamed of serving as “hired girl.” Better that, with the attendant comforts, than even marriage to a man who will be unable to provide and incapable of love. Newspapers do not meet the popular demand, after all. During the Nutt trial, at Pittsburg, not one could be found willing to defile its columns by printing the Dukes letters in full. An enterprising man filled the want, however, by printing the letters with all their indecent details and sending them out to bo sold by boys on the streets. Thousands of the sheets were snapped up eagerly by all classes of citizens, and the enterprising man reaped a pocketful of what might have been honest, but were certainly dirty pennies. _ A certain alleged literary gentleman of New York is engaged on a book that ho confidently expects will astonish the world. In it he will attempt to show that Queen Victoria aud John Brown were secretly married shortly after the death of the Prince Coilsort. He further claims that Disraeli in some manner came into possession of the secret, and used it to his own advancement. The Now York literary gentleman probably aspires to becomo tho Baron Munchausen of the western world. Miss Nellie Hazlktt, of Moundfivillo, West Virginia, “beautiful and the belle of the village” (of course), has astonished the natives and lior rifted her parents by running off with aud marrying a tramp, “as repulsive a specimen of his class as could be found in a long day’s march.” Nellie has returned with him, but refuses to ox . plain. It is said that she did it to pique a recreant lover. Ho will please consider himself piqued, not to say lucky. A pitiful antipathetic as well as horrible ,rtory comes from Gallipolis, O. A farmer living near place recent?}' returned from his work in the fi<*ki td find his hotii*o in flames and his wile and on© child consumed wi n ' the building.

His little boy, aged four years, was wringing his hands and crying: “Mamma is burned up.” The little fellow' said he ran into the house tw’iee, when the fire began, to get his little sister, aged two, to come out,, hut she would not, and when he went in the third time she ran into another room in her terror and crawled under the bed, where she perished. A young man of Bucyrus, 0., who disappeared on tho day sot for his marriage to an estimable young lady of that place, has w ritten to her from the next town, asking her to meet him there and marry him. Ho says his wealthy relatives wlio were opposed to the girl paid him SI,OOO for running away, but that ho did not promise them to givp her up. The young woman, who values herself at more than a thousand dollars, has concluded that tho lover is not a good man to tie to, and will not meet him in the next town. Mr. and Mrs. llihuh Ksinsky, of New York city, celebrated their golden wedding on Sunday night, on which occasion their thirty-seven graudchihlren presented each with seventy five gold rings, or one for each year of Mr. Ksinsky’s life. Mrs. Newman, of Evansville, this State, a member of the family, was present on the interesting occasion. _ To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: If there is a vacancy in the assessors office and tho auditor appoints a person to fill the vacancy, will said appointed assessor hold the office until the term of his office expires, or, is an assessor elected fhis coming spring election? In 1882 we elected an assessor for four years, I believe. The assessor whom we elected died; and ilie auditor claims that the one ho appointed will hold the office till the term expires. We claim that he will not, and that we have to elect an assessor this coming spring. How is it? Jasper, Dubois county. A Tax payer. Section 6374, R. S., prorides that “all township assessors last elected or appointed shall continue in office until the next general election, and until their successors are elected and qualified under this act.” The constitution of the State provides that all “general elections shall be held on the first Tuesday after tho first Monday in November; but township elections may be held at such time as may be provided by law." Township elections are not general elections. An appointed assessor holds until the next general election. No vacancy can continue longer than until the first “general election" after it occurs. The' appointed assessor, under these provisions, will hold his office until the next “general election,” when his successor may be chosen. If one is not chosen then, he will hold over until one is under the provisions of the act. To the Editor of tho Indianapolis Journal: Please state how it comes that tlio electors of New Jersey gave Lincoln four and Douglas three votes. I supposed they would all vote for ono candidate. E. A. Robertson. Hoosierville, Ind. A fusion electoral ticket, composed of two friends of Breckinridge, two of Bell, and throe of Douglas was run. The friends of Douglas also nominated a straight electoral ticket, adopting the throe on tho fusion ticket. Those three electors were elected and voted for Douglas; tho other four being Lincoln electors. ABOUT PEOPLE ANI) THINGS. Assistant Postmasteii-genkral Elmer was elected general manager of the American Security Company, of New York, at a salary of $12,000, As his salary as a public officer was bur $4,000, it is not to be wondered at that he willingly mustered himself out of public life. The Washington Sunday Gazette prints the following as a true copy of the letter of Roscoe Uonkling to tho President, declining a scat on the United States Supreme Bench: “Mr. President—Your letter tendering me the nomination for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is received. I respectfully decline. Roscoe Conk ling.” Every female servant in Prussia and Alsace-Lor-raine who remains for forty uninterrupted years in the same family l'eceives from the German Emperor a golden cross with an autograph diploma. Between the Ist of January, 1877, w’hen the custom was established, and the end of last December, tho honor had been conferred on no fewer than 1,027 persons. THE following anecdote of P resident Liuoolu is related by General Badeau iu the Century: “Sheridan started before daybreak in pursuit of what was left of Lee’s army. Ho sent word to Grant: ‘lf the thing is pressed, I think that Lee will surrender.’ Grant forwarded the dispatch and an account of the victory to Lincoln, at City Point, and the President replied: ‘Let the thing be pressed.’ ” Senator Colquitt is a hale and hearty man, and has many personal acquaintances whose faces are always familiar, but whose names he cannot recall. When an acquaintance meets him, the Senator shakes him warmly by the hand and mumbles something which the man cannot possibly understand, but which he is left, to suppose is his name. He goes away quite proud of being so well remembered. SPEAKING of his plans for to-day, Mr. Bradlaugh, the “Parliamentary claimant,” recently said: “I shall be lu the House of Commons before the Queen’s speech is read; and. suppose that I swear myself in and take my seat.. The House might expel me. If it did there would have to be anew election anil I should be back again in a fortnight. * * * I shall call no more meetings. I shall rely on the law and my right, and I will not gi v * the House one day’s peace until it either takes my seat away from me or lets mo do my duty to my constituents.” Apropoh of (ittinbetta's facility in speaking on the inspiration ot the moment, the following anecdote is told: While journeying one day with a young Deputy from Paris to Versailles, he said: “Do not speak to me. I have a long and important speech to make, which I have not even had time to think over.” The silence, therefore, remained unbroken. When at last his friend looked round he saw that Gambetta was not deep in thought, but fast asleep, nor did he wake until they reached Versailles. When reminded of the speech he had intended to prepare he only laughed and shrugged his shoulders. In tho evening, however, he delivered a speech as splendid and finished as if he had made voluminous notes and careful preparation. MISS Anthony said: “I have been roundly abused and ridiculed for ‘allowing a female clerk of mine to send a letter in which woman suffrage was spelt ‘sufferage.’ and was not corrected. There is a little secret history about thfft Jotter that will le amusing to those who aru laughing at me and my female clerk, who cannot spell suffrage. Tho fact is that my clerk made a correct copy of the letter, which I approved, and which was then seut to a male clerk, a college graduate, to make a large number of copies. Every copy which this gentleman prepared read ‘sufferage,’ and, what is still more startling, a number of members of Congress, in replying to the letter, adopted the same unique orthography. This may turn the laugh a little onto the othor side," wls Miss Anthony’s closing commont, and the reporter so too. After the Comte de Chambord died the usual discussion arose as to whether the doctors had done the host that could have been done for him. A French medical editor, believing that he had at last heard the end of the matter, vonturod to dine one day with a lady, & Vftry old friend; but she, also, started the topic. Tlfe gentleman, thinking it only right to entertaiu her in her own way, told in roturn the story of Pindar. “Poor, noble-hearted, groat-minded Pindar; now, alas, dead; and the doctors, perhaps, might have saved him!" The hostess shed a gentle tear, the medical editor resorted to his handkerchief, tho hostess broke completely down. Tho little chocolate girl, almost a companion of the hostess, entered ami learned the particulars. She also wept. “Oh, monsieur, ” she sobbed,

“you say that he—he. too—would be alive if the doetors had done all they could?" “Well, no, no; not exactly alive now," said the gentleman. “And when," asked the hostess, “did your poor frieml Pindar die?" The medical man covered his face with his hands. “Poor poet," said ho; “ho died 442 years before tho Christian era!" Justin McCarthy, the novelist, is a native of Cork, ami fifty-four years of age. For a number of years he w r as a reporter on the Cork Examiner and an enthusiastic member of the Cork Historical Society, which was mainly a recruiting ground for the YoungIrelanders. In 1850 he went to Liverpool, and afterward became editor-in-chief of the Morning Star, which, under his management, did excellent work for the cause of Ireland. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, had a hard struggle when he began the practice of law. Ills shingle hung unnoticed for many months. Becoming desperate, one day, he packed up his few books and started for the depot, determined to abandon his profession and go to Texas. He had reached the ft>ot of the stairs which led to his office, when he was accosted by an elderly man who inquired where Johu Morgan’s law office was. “Right here, sir; my name is Morgan." “Going outs" “I am about to start for Texas on pressing business." “Indeed! Then can you direct me to a good lawyer? I’ve a little case to dispose of." T decided," said Mr. Morgan, .afterward, in telling the story to a friend, “that my Texa-; trip v%'as not so pressing after all. I took the old gentleman into tuy office and heard his case. I won it, ami since that day fortune has favored me.” During the past year tho professor of aesthetics In the University of Munich, a proverbially wearisome writer, delivered his lectures to a somewhat exiguous audience. There were five students in all. who week by week melted and grew beautifully less, until at last but one was left. This solitary individual, however, seemed to concentrate in his own person all the diligence, application aud punctuality of his frivolous fellows. At the conclusion of the lost lecture of the course the Professor approached him ami praised him for these admirable qualities, and proceeded to inquire of him: “What is your name, my young friend'" No answer. “What country are you from?" Absolute silence. The matter w'as soon elucidated, for it was discovered that the patient and jiersevering disciple was a poor deaf mute, who had taken refuge from the severe cold of winter in the warm lecture rooms of the university. In appearance Arahi Pasha is a big, strong, broadshouldered. good-natured fellah. His fez thrown well back displays a broad, massive forehead, surmounting large, soft eyes, which have in ordinary moods a kindly, dreamy expression. There is an undafinable something about the man which impresses favorably all who come in contact with him, and for those who understand his native Arabic, tho only language he can speak, there is a singular charm in his conversation. His stock of useful and theoretical knowledge is, unfortunately, not at all in proportion to ers of expression, so that his love of discoursing sometimes leads to a lamentable display of ignorance. Like all men liable to be intoxicated by the flow of their own rhetoric, he could be wildly inconsistent without being hypocritical. A dutiful son. a good husband, a kind father, and, ou the whole, an upright, respectable man, he was never the determined, stoical hero or the blind, uncompromising fanatic ho has sometimes been represented. Colonel I)aht, of Georgia, who was a gallant, officer iu the confederate army during the war of the rebellion, tells the following amusing story which has not heretofore appeared in print. "I have always had." said he, “a groat respect for the valor of the Massachusetts troops, and there was one regiment particularly, the Ninth, which fought us like tig*u ; ;. It so happened that during several engagements we were pitted against each other, and there was much dosparato wrork, I can assure you. During one of our encounters we were fortunate enough to surround one of their companies, and as we were shooting aw Ay, they, seeing that unless they surrendered they were certain of annihilation, show'ed the white flag. Unfortunately this was not seen by my entire command, and several shots were fired after 1 had given the order to cease. In the midst of this desultory firing thore came a strong Hibernian voice from out of the >ushes, *Howld up, yez scoundrels. We have surrendered, and yer killin’ Diiamocrats." M. UK Foy, the great Paris matrimonial agent, has just retired into private life, refusing to part the good will of his profession to any successor, but taking with him to his country seat an enormous fortune and a pretty daughter. His modus operand! was cautions in the extreme. Ho carried on his profession in a handsome suite of rooms, at one end of which was a mysterious chamber, so constructed that his clients could como in and go out without meeting one another. On entering the great man’s sanctum the vrould-be Benedick or Beatrice gave full particulars of his or her position, fortune, eta., the correctness of which was inquired into, the client paying a thousand francs as a preliminary fee. No such vulgar means as photographs were uaod, but the exact requirements being mastered, the partios were brought togethe? to meet their fate in the ordinary course of social life. His list included prineasses, duchesses, and many Americans. On signing the marriage coutraot a handsome commission was paid. CURRENT PRESS COMMENT. The general situation calls for the exercise of caution in business, but the clouds are breaking up, and the country will want the usual amount of supplies, so that the spring trade promises to be large in volume, but whether it will prove to be profitable remains to be seen.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. It is an open qnestion whether or not a use of the public funds for high-school purposes is not a perversion of such moneys. It is true that the State is, for its own protection, interested iu the education of the people, but an education that does moro than lit the youth for the common duties of life is held by many to be unwarranted. —Chicago News. SOME of the liquor dealers have worked themselves into a state of noisy and offensive agitatiou, and boast of the votes they control and of what they can accomplish in election:*. Wo do not believe that these blatant fellows represent the more respectable dealers. They are certainly making a great mistake. The temper of the times is distinctly favorable to a careful and judicious limitation of the * traffic—a limitation that shall go further than the present system. If they stand out against this, they are simply inviting a severer policy.—New York Tribune. The reasons given bv Secretary Chandler for not making appointments in the Navy Department ou the strength or civil-service examinations have an air of insincerity. One cannot but feel that the real truth of the business is that Mr. Chandler is a politician rather than a statesman. He should understand that the American people are very much in earnest about roform in civil service, and that neither party can afford to resist their manifest purpose. The defeat of Senator Pendleton renders it all the more important tliat representative Republicans should be true to the popular demand in this regard.—Chicago Inter Ocean. If publishing is a nrivate business, let it be conducted wholly at private expense like the grocery business. If it is a public business, let government monopolize it, as it has monopolized the postal business. It is of no avail to say that government has recognized the propriety of transmitting printed matter at tho public expense by deadheading newspapers within the counties where they are published. The fact that government does this does not prove that government ought to do it. If it can be shown that it is proper and expedient for government to go this length, then there will be some basis of reason for going further. But this has never been shown. —Chicago Times. More than all, however, the pupils in the schools are already overburdened with work. The great trouble witli our educational system is the multiplicity of the studies to winch the children are required to dovote themselves. School boards have gone on introducing now devices for taking up time aud distracting attention until it has become well-nigh impossible for a child to get move than a superficial or confused knowledge of his tasks. * * * Rather let the school course be simplified, so that the boys and girls shall come out with a thorough knowledge of a few things, instead of a superficial knowledge of many. Then the pupils will be sounder in mind and body, and less disposed to indulgence in stimulants when thoy reach maturity.—New York Sun. The whole and sole object of the movement for the regulation of the raihoaus is not to impose a single new disability on them; it is only to make them recognize the centuries-old obligations of tho common oarrier. The railroads of this country have placed themselves outside the law of their being. They assume to act a part in the distribution of the wealth and industry of the country that is not only oripesed to public policy, but is in direct conflict with the la'fr of the common carrier as that lias been built-up by the experience and the struggles of generations. They are now to be brought back within the social fold. They are to be compelled by force if need be to their discriminations, their favoritism* to and E laces, their defiant negations of the authority of the kws aud the courts.—^Chicago Tribune.