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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Bates of Subscription, etc., see Sixth Page. SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1884 TWELVE PAGESr a- 11 ■ -■ ■■ " ——' -- “Joseph; he didn’t get no bird.” “And they drew and lifted up, * * and Bold Joseph.”—Gen. xxxvii, 28. “Old Sumptuary” got into the national platform, and the English family are happy. Wb think Grover Cleveland is beaten. —New York Sun. So do we. Who will care for Butler now? Is there another convention yet to be held which needs a candidate? Just as was expected. The Democratic convention has turned out to be another boom for Blaine. Governor Cleveland says he shrinks from the presidential responsibilities. Mr. Blaine does not shrink. He is aU wool and a yard wide. Republicans have had their own way thus far in the campaign of 1884, and tK& feeling of confidence that was so strong before the Democratic convention assembled is intensifled. Mb. Hendricks succeeded in killing Mr. McDonald at Chicago, and his revenge is gratified for Mr. McDonald’s fidelity to him at Cincinnati. It now remains for Mr. McDonald to elect Mr. Hendricks. The Indiana Democrats claim to be the soldiers’ friends, and present as their candidates for President and Vice-president their two eminent soldiers, Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks. “Soldiers in peace, Citizens in war.” General Butler has declared that he canaot agree to the nomination of a monopolist. With all his eccentricities the General has Dev<v been accused of a fondness for crow, and the probabilities are that he will not ‘ partake this season. A Buffalo dispatch of Thursday reports Governor Cleveland as saying that he would be much happier if someone else were elected. If this is all the Governor needs to make him happy, he may look forward to a period of ecstatic bliss after November. The latest story is that General Butler, who already has an office in New York city, •will acquire a legal residence there, after which his friend, John Kelly, will make him mayor. General Butler is not big enough for President, but for Governor of a small State like Massachusetts he answered admirably, and there is no reason why he should not shine as mayor of New York. He taught Boston a few things, and could undoubtedly be depended upon to wake up the metropolis to a lense of its iniquity. Any Democrats who are grieved because their presidential candidates do not possess bar’ls of a respectable size will do weU to join the prohibition party without delay. Dr. McDonald, of San Francisco, the leading candidate for the prohibition nomination for the presidency, has a bar! and a large one, together with a reputation of keeping it on tap. Possibly the purposes for which the Democracy would use the contents of the bar! would not be in strict accord with prohibition principles, but it is probable that no questions will be asked by the distributor. The Indiana Democracy, in convention assembled, resolved, as the twenty-first article of * their confession of faith, as follows: “It will be the mission of the Democratic party to foster and build up all the great business and material interests of the country and restore the government to the purity of its [ earlier days. To successfully accomplish this a man should be placed in the presidential chair in whom the business men of the coun try and the whole people have implicit confidence; a man fuliv endowed with all the qualities desirable in the head of the great American republioji a man with a pure and spotless personal and political record, and always sound upon all the great questions of the times. We know Joseph E. McDoneld, of Indiana, to be such a man. We respectfully present his name to the people of the United

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States as worthy to be their President, and we hereby instruct the delegates from Indiana to the Democratic national convention to support his nomination for that high office as a unit, and to use all honorable means to secure his nomination.” Mr. Hendricks went to Chicago as a member of the Indiana delegation, and accepted the place of chairman of that delegation under the above instruction for Mr. McDonald, who was undoubtedly the choice of that party in this State. He made the presentation speech, ten words of which were for the “old ticket” for every one for McDonald. Failing to get the first place for himself, he accepts the second. Was there ever such Punic faith? Mr. McDonald will, no doubt, take the stump with great earnestness for honesty and reform. THE CHICAGO NOMINATIONS. The nomination of Cleveland and Hendricks at Chicago dispels any doubt, if any there may have been, as to the electoral vote of Indiana in November. There is nothing in Mr. Cleveland’s record that can by any possibility draw to him any votes which would not have been given to any other candidate on that ticket. He is a young man, and without record as a statesman, a third-class lawyer, and a seeker for place from the earliest days of his manhood and the accidental candidate for Governor against a weak and driveling opponent, at a time when anyone, with even a passable record, would have succeeded. His record as Governor has been one of mediocrity and far short of the promises of his party. He has been a willing tool in the hands of monopolists, as is evidenced by his vetoes of measures looking to the amelioration of the labors of the working classes. His every act has been in favor of capital as against labor. He has been the ready assistant of those seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of the sons of toil. He has advocated no measure that would aid them, but, on the contrary, has arraigned against himself the real friends of the poor. His most ardent admirers can point to no act that should endear him to the laborers, and he has given to capitalists the highest fares that they have claimed as against thd reduction demanded by those who carry pails, and to whom cents count as dollars to the rich. His prominence is accidental and evanescent. Asa presidential candidate, Mr. Hendricks might have brought the experience of years as a legislator and as a Governor, but as a candidate for Vice-president he is only a tail to a kite; less than nothing as a power for good or evil, and only an

“Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay— Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.” Mr. Hendricks says “that he was not prepared to say whether he would accept or not; he did not want the nomination, and felt embarrassed at receiving it, under the circumstances.” Mr. Hendricks was the chairman of the Indiana delegation, yet he allowed Mr. Voorhees to withdraw Mr, McDonald’s name and substitute his own for President. Mr. Hendricks could have prevented Senator Voorhees from taking his place, or speaking for the Indiana delegation, if he had seen fit so to do; but it is apparent that he was willing to take the first place on the ticket, even at the sacrifice of Mr. McDonald; but his hesitation comes in only at his acceptance of the vice-presidency. There was no doubt when the first place was in expectancy, but it arises only when the convention ignores him for that, and, for expediency’s sake, gives him the second place. The honesty of his purpose may be well questioned when it is only a matter of doubt whether he should accept the second place, the first having been given to another. IRISH HOSTILITY TO CLEVELAND. The following are among the opinions elicited by the New York World from leading Irishmen in New York city. Their unanimity is striking: “Mr. James A. McMaster, editor and proprietor of the Freeman’s Journal, the wellknown ultra-Catholic publication, is opposed to Governor Cleveland, and said: ‘Governor Cleveland was elected Governor in 1882 by Mr. Blaine’s friends in this State. They will vote for Blaine. Governor Cleveland has not made a very good record. HU ruling that a rich, moneyed corporation, by buying up one Legislature, constituted itself a high contracting power in a treaty with the State in place of being as a corporation subject to the State, shows that the passable mayor of Buffalo made a failure as Governor, and he would be a disastrous candidate of the Democratic party for President. “ ‘Mr. Cleveland favors a concentration of power ,and thousands and thousands of Democrats will refuse to support him if nominated. He has no show of carrying this State against James G. Blaine.’ “John Devoy, oL the Irish Nation, is firing red-hot shots at the Governor. “Patrick A. Ford, editor of the Irish World, has issued warnings in his paper to the Democratic party. He says that Governor Cleveland's nomination will lose the State to the party, and drive thousands of Democrats into the Republican party. “Mr. M. B. Gallagher, president of the Parnell branch of the Land League: ‘I would cut off my right hand before I would vote for Cleveland. He will get few votes from among the Land Leaguers. He is an aristocrat, and a friend of monopolists and bondholders. The Irish people will prefer BJaine to Cleveland. The workingmen all over the country are now thoroughly organized in trade and other unions. They will never indorse Cleveland if he is nominated. He acted as a corporation lawyer when he vetoed the five-eent-fare bill. That is in itself enough of an issue to kill him if he is nominated. His nomination will mean political suicide for the Democratic party.’ “James Redpath: ‘I voted for Cleveland for Governor, two years ago. He is the first Democrat I ever voted for. He has acted in such a way since he has been Governor as to change the good opinion I had of him. He has totally disappointed me. I will not support or vote for nim if he is nominated. I prefer Blaine to Cleveland a thousand times.’ “W. A. A. Carsey, president of the Independent Labor party and its candidate for mayor in 1876: ‘We have a national convention in Chicago July 30. We will indorse Hie

nominee of the party the platform of which suits us the best. The Republican convention put several good labor planks in their platform. If the Democratic convention treats labor more liberally we will indorse its ticket. We care really more for the platform of a party than its candidates.’ “ ‘How about Governor Cleveland?’ “‘1 find that there is a strong, increasing opposition to him among all the labor organizations. The anti-monopolists are arrayed against him to a man. If the contest should be between Cleveland and Blaine the sympathy of the working classes will be for Blaine. From what I can see I think Blaine will poll a big vote from the Irish people as against Cleveland.’” There were others in the same tenor and equally unqualified in utterance, showing unmistakably a deep-seated hostility to Cleveland, not by men of the John Kelly stripe alone, but representave men of the laboring classes. THE PEOPLE AND THE TARIFF. Not all Democrats are fools, nor are all of them for free trade, as indicated in the fight over the tariff plank at Chicago. The forces there were so evenly matched that the result of their work is a hermaphrodite resolution that means everything or nothing, just as the reader pleases. The time was when Democrats were so blindly partisan that such a straddle would be accepted “for the good of the party.” But the conditions are changed, and the people are better educated on this point than they were eight, or even four, years ago. One of the principal reasons of Hancock’s defeat in 1880 was the “tariff-for-revenue-only” phrase in the Cincinnati platform, emphasized by his own utterance, evidencing his utter ignorance of that great Question. A better understanding of this issue is now evident. The repeated assaults of the Democratic party on this principle which underlies our industrial prosperity have awakened the people of all sections to a study of its merits and to a realization of the threatened danger. Senator Voorhees, of this State, far in advance of his fellow-Democrats in Indiana, has taken the right stand, and had the pluck to put himself on record at Chicago. He evidently has the future of politics in view, and will some day have the satisfaction of still leading when his coadjutors of to-day are relegated to private life. Nor is the sentiment in favor of protection confined to a half-dozen States in the East. States like Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are unquestionably in favor of a due measure of tariff protection to American mills and men. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are in the same category; while a sentiment is steadily growing in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee in favor of that policy which has done so much to build up American industries and strengthen the home market. The cities of Georgia, under the assistance thus afforded, are rivaling those of Massachusetts in the way of cotton manufacturing, while northern Alabama and Tennessee are becoming the Pennsylvania of the South. The Memphis Avalanche, Bourbon Democrat from center to circumference, pertinently says: “The enormous industrial development of the South during the past four years under protective tariff laws is a complete and practical answer to the free-trade cranks who are hoarsely howling ‘Down with protection!’ The South can bear with this sort of protection and this sort of monopoly until the average price of its farm lands is equal to the average price of Pennsylvania farm lands, or six times more than it is now.” It will hardly do to longer juggle words on a question of so vital importance. There are literally tens and hundreds of thousands who depend upon labor furnished by protected industries that are personally interested in seeing that no hostile legislation paralyze them and send these men adrift. Nor do the men in the mills alone realize the danger threatened. Grain-growers are equally anxious to keep the wheels whirling and all these men employed. In the factory, they are valuable customers. Sent to the field, they are very undesirable rivals.

USE OF MENTALITY. Prof. E. D. Cope suggests that men may be divided into three classes, according to the practical use they make of their intellectual powers. These types are the mercantile, the literary and the scientific. The first type accumulates material wealth, and often regardless of the rights or comfort of others. Their reasoning powers run., to the calculating of values and in scheming to get control of the sources of physical power. This type is the necessary outcome of the struggle for existence. It is a good training school for the intellect, but is a degraded type when it becomes permanent. The literary mind deals with the manner pf things, whil*} the other two types deal with the matter. The literary mind has to do with the beauties and refinements of life. Symbols are its instruments, and these it is prone to mistake for the things then/elves. Its range is the-“best that has been thought and said in the past,” and in education it leans to the ancient and classical. Professor Cope put* the scientific mind at the head, as it “occupies itself with realities, and finds chief value in the truth. This it seeks for and sets forth at all hazards. It finds its pleasure in mental rather than material possessions, and counts its wealth in ideas.” It differs from the mercantile mind in this that, while each deals directly with matter, the mercantile sells to the highest bidder, but the scientific mind gives freely its commodities in the shape of inventions and discoveries for the benefit of others. These three types are rarely fortunately combined in the same person; there are wealthy misers, starving writers and unrewarded inventors on every hand. Emerson had business shrewdness

with great literary power; Lubbock is both scientist and statesman; the late Sir Charles William Siemens is notable as a great inventor and also accumulated wealth by his inventions. The great scientists and discoverers have generally wrought from neither personal nor humanitarian motives; they have been impelled to the study of nature and phenomena by interior and hidden reasons. Man loves the curious and unknown, and scientific research has been prosecuted in the darkest days of political and civil strife. The New York Sun refuses to bo comforted. Realizing in advance the inevitable defeat awaiting the Democratic party, it says: “If Mr. Cleveland should finally come forth as the candidate of the Chicago convention, he will appear on the stage bearing the mark of destiny, and that destiny will be defeat. At the same time the disaster will be most pernicious in its effects on the Democracy. The folly of repeating such a foolish experiment, with a man independent of party oblifations, will be signally punished, and the isorganization it produces will be of a sort that will take years to recover from. If the Democracy must be beaten in 1884, there are plenty of honored and distinguished statesmen who might be selected to lead the doomed army, without invoking, in addition to the calamity of overthrow, the danger of disorganization and dissolution. If the Democracy is now to be beaten—and beaten when the chances of victory are better than they have been for twenty years—in Heaven's name let the tragic experience be conducted under some leader with whom the calamity will be free from disgrace and not entirely fatal!” Barnabas C. Hobbs. The educational and personal history of Mr. Barnabas C. Hobbs, Republican nominee for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, appears in tiie July number of the Indiana School Journal. A reading of Mr. Hobbs’s educational career in Indianans evidence in itself that no better candidate could have been nominated. For forty years Mr. Hobbs has been prominent in State and national education, and, though advanced in years, his energies show no sign of abatement, and his acute mind and great heart are still bent to his life work of public education. His educational work has covered a wide field. A graduate of Cincinnati College, he returned to his native State, and for sixteen years wsa president of Bloomingdale Academy. In 1866 Governor Morton made him one of the trustees of the State Normal, and he was active in its organization and equipment. The same year he was elected president of Earlham College. He was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1868, and in his biennnial report presented the claims of the colored people for their share of the benefits of the school fund in a masterly manner, securing buildings for their accommodation. The School Journal continues: “Early in November of 1869 occurred an event which finds no parallel in history, and which is of special interest to the educational world. A funeral fleet swept in majesty across the Atlantic, bearing from the United Kingdom to the United States, with honors seldom paid to a king, the remains of a private citizen. The war-ship Monarch, the first war-vessel of the Royal Navy, was the funeral barge. Shadowed by nine great guns was the chamber of death, in which tall candles were kept burning, amid splendid draperies of mourning. A vessel was dispatched by the government of France, and one by our own as convoys of the Queen's ship, and followed across the sea the remains of the great dead. This was the return of George Peabody to his native land. In youth a grocer boy at Danvers (now Peabody), Mass., from 1830 to 1847 a merchant in a great house ot Baltimore, and from the latter date to his death, Nov. 4, 1869, a leading spirit in the business halls of the world’s metropolis, the greet philathropist had steadily and rapidly advanced in wealth until he had built up a colossal fortune. Three millions of dollars ne had given to the cause of education in the Southern States of the republic, and over a million more to various educational enterprises in America; and these together were not half the total sum of his benefactions.”

How to best utilize this fund, enlarge and apply it to the war-worn States of the overthrown Confederacy, was the great problem before the National Educational Association in 1870, and Mr. Hobbs was made chairman of the committee to consider it The scheme he presented for federal aid to education in all States where it might be needed, has received much and favorable consideration from the people, the press and the federal government. Os Mr. Hobbs's mission to Europe, the School Journal says: “In ’79 the Spirit moved the Friends of America to send a message to friend Alexander, the Emperor of Russia, and another to friend William, the Emperor of Germany. Dr. Hobbs was chosen to perform the mission. At St. Petersburg, he left with the Prime Minister a memorial, which urged that the Mennonites of the empire—a sect conscientiously opposed to war—might be relieved from military service. At Berlin, Dr. Hobbs presented to the Crown Prince a memorial which advocated the settlement of international disputes by arbitration, rather than by war. For some years Dr. Hobbs has been working in the interests of Indian education in North Carolina and Tennessee. For the enterprise undertaken by the Friends with reference to the descendants of Aborigines in those States, he has secured the sanction and aid of the government. He has made an enumeration of the Cherokees of the reservation, and determined their share of apportionments of revenue authorized by the general Congress, which share had been diverted from its purpose by errors and frauds.” Dr. Hobbs is noted as a clear and forcible speaker, a logical thinker, and a graceful writer. He has always been a busy man, interested alike in science and education; he made the geological survey of Parke county, in 1872, and, as trustee of the State Normal School and of the Rose Polytechnic, he has contributed largely to their success. His integrity of character, his long experience in Indiana schools, his national reputation ss an advocate for the eiucation of all classes, without distinction of race or location, his faithful service as State Superintendent when in that office, make him the most desirable man for a position usually made the tail-piece of State political tickets, but which is really one of the most important departments of State government The wickedest man in New York .has been found in Erie county. Ae is a farmer living near Buffalo, and on Sunday last, seeing that rain was about to fall, he hustled some of his neighbors afield, and began to gather in the hay crop. James Sampson, for such is his name, is a liberalist in religion, and had very little respect for the day any how, and when his horrified neighbors, who were church members, came out to remonstrate, he doubled his sin by innocently proffering them rakes and forks to help in the work. Then they were filled with righteous wrath, and, on Monday, he was arrested for desecrating the Sabbath. Mr. Sampson, like his ancient namesake without a “p,” gave them a good deal of jaw about that time, and swore he would at once proceed to arrest the minister, organist, choir and all paid members of the church for working on Sunday. The children of dark-

ness are sometimes wiser in thiir generation than are the children of light The wicked farmer should have been attacked with spiritual weapons. .. Mrs. Englekind, of Reading, Pa., was a practical believer in woman’s rights. For reasons best known to herself she despised men and would have none of the objectionable sex about her premises after Mr. Englekind’s decease She died the other day and several expectant male relatives hastened to hear the will read, not supposing that she would carry ljer grudge against them into her grave. Mrs. Englekind, however, was consistent to the'last, and bequeathed all her property, which is considerable, to her daughters and grand-daughters, and to their female heirs forever, leaving no man a cent She also provided that her body should be buried in a certain lot In the cemetery, which lot shall he fenced in and no man shall ever be interred in that inclosure. Whether she expected to join the departed Englekind as being the only endurable white man, or whether she hoped to find a heavenly land where only female angels congregate, is a secret which the eccentric lady did not disclose. The Concord School of Philosophy will “blow in” at that village, as usual, the latter part of this month. The programme—would it he proper to say the menu?—will consist mostly of Emerson, done in various styles. There will be “Emerson as an Essayist,” “Emerson as an American,” “Emerson’s View of Nature,” “Emerson’s Religion,” “Emerson’s Ethics,” “Emerson’s Relations to Society,” “Emerson Among the Poets,” “Emerson’s Relations to G®the and Carlyle” and “Emerson’s View of Nationality.” The chances are that the old gentleman, who was a very respectable person, and is now dead, would not recognize himself were he unlucky enough to be present at this dishing up of his literary remains. By a singular oversight the committee neglected to assign to any philosophers the duty of presenting "Emerson in His Relations to the Legitimate Drama” or ‘ ‘Emerson as a Minstrel.” * Earlham College announces a special course of study for the education of ministers and Bible-class teachers, in which the English Bible will hold the principal place, but which will also include church history and doctrine. While it is one of the distinguishing doctrines of the Society of Friends that the church can not confer spiritual gifts, and that it “is the prerogative of the great Head of the church alone to select and call the ministers of His gospel,” it is held to be the duty of the church to recognize and foster those possessed of spiritual gifts. The Bible work will be in the charge of President Joseph J. Mills, who is one of the most forcible and esteemed ministers of the Society of Friends. Wm. Wood & Cos., publishers, of New York, have signified their desire to contribute the necessary library for this department to the school.

Mr. Cleveland’s friends think there is nothing so vile as disrespectful allusions to the private character of a candidate. Mr. Cleveland, at any rate, ought to be let alone. He shrinks from presidential responsibilities, he says himself, and, if half the stories are true, he shrinks from several paternal responsibilities. He is a shrinking soul, who must and shall be left in obscurity. The teachers of the country have taken pos session of Madison, Wis., and have filled it literally to overflowing. Hotels and private houses are taxed to their utmost capacity, and it is expected that late comers to the convention will have to be quartered in tents placed in the park. At least 4,000 teachers are said to be already in attendance. The amatuereditors of the United States and Canada have held their ninth annual reunion at Chicago and awarded a prize for the best amatuer poem. We fear this is a thinly-disguised organization for the encouragement of crime. POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. Senator Hoar says that the independent kickers are mostly “young men who consider a slip in grammar a graver offense than a breach of the Constitution.” The correspondent of the Boston Herald in Maine writes that he knows of a number of Irish-American voters in that State who will support Blaine in November, but who will vote the Democratic State ticket in September. The Republicans in Virginia have not waited until the Democratic ticket is put in the field to begin organizing for the campaign. The canvass • made will be the most thorough the State has seen since the war, many Blaine and Logan clubs having been formed already. The Hon. T. V. Powderly, grand master workman of the Knights of Labor, and Democratic mayor of Scranton, Penn., for three terms, says of the report that the Knights have determined to oppose Blajne and Logan: “I have never seen a more bare faced lie in print.” Senator Jones, of Nevada, writes to a friend in that State that he is perfectly satisfied with the nomination of Blaine, and that it is one of the few presidential nominations which had been spontaneous and absolutely responsive to the popular sentiment. He believes that tne campaign will he aggressive and enthusiastic. This is the case against Governor Cleveland, according to a dispatch from Mr. ' Watterson to the Courier-Journal: First, the country knows nothing of his opinions upon national questions; second, he is anew man, without experience in national affairs or a personal knowledge of the public men of the time; third, he is antagonized) not only by Tammany, but by tho trades-unions and by the Catholic hierarchy. In the Chicago convention, on Friday night, pending the call of the roll on accepting Butler’s platform, an exciting scene occurred between Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, and Gen. John M. Palmer, of Illinois. Voorhees voted, with seven others, in favor of Butler’s platform. Palmer made some remark questioning the vote of Indiana, when Voorhees turned and said. “I vote my convictions, and as I please, and accord you the samb privilege, and don’t permit anybody to question my vote.” “Cleveland is the weakest man the Democrats could put’up,’’ said A. Loudon Snowden, superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint. “He is naturally weak, because he has not had any experience in national legislation or policy, and is merely a man of average ability, who made a very good mayor; and he is politically weak because he cannot command popular strength outside of his own State, and because the most formidable element in his own party, the labor class especially, will not support him.” Mr. H. A. Coffeen, of Danville, HI, Grand Worthy Foreman of the Knights of Labor in America, said on Wednesday night: “I desire to state that the parties oalling themselves officers in prominent labor organizations who have rushed into print with the information that Cleveland would get the support of the labor associations of the country were not what they represented themselves to be; that they had not the interests of the laboring classes at heart, but were the hirelings of Cleveland. The workiugmen want General Butler. If the convention nominates Cleveland it will sound the death-knell

of the Democratic party, and the solid vote o£ the workingmen of the country will be cast for James G. Blaine.” BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT, London has more than a million public gaslights in its streets. Princess Louise has suffered from neuralgic headaches ever since she was thrown from a sleigh in Canada. “Uncle Henry" Logan, the colored messenger of the Register’s office In Washington, who handles more money than any other nian living, earns $720 a year and lives in a $lO a month cottage, John KEqLY is said to have done the mason work in quite a number of buildings that are now standing in New York city. He owns one of the finest residences there now, however, and is worth half aniillion. Says the venerable Marshal Canrobert: “I am a Christian, sir; lam a Catholic, though not a very Roman one, and Ido not often practice my religion. Still, for all that, when I am summoned to quit tha scene I shall ask God to sign my marching orders.” Premier Gladstone’s wife has begun a series of Wednesday evening receptions, which assemble all sorts and conditions of men and women, including aU the foreign embassadors resident in London, all tha members of Parliament, and Mr. Tenniel, the cartoonist and caricaturist of Punch. In the Luray cavern, the guide remarks, “Now I will show you the crowning wonder of all,” and points to a little circular depression in the rock—a perfect bird s nest—and there, to carry out the illusion, is a little white egg, smooth and perfect in shape as reality. There were three, but some vandal stole the others. The bankers of Paris recently petitioned the French government to obtain the abolition of the law of 1791, which authorizes the mayors of communes to fix the price at which bread shall lie sold. The law remains in active force at but few places, being in reality almost a dead letter, but its action is only suspended, and at any time it might be revived. General Grant is at Long Branch for the summer. He has discarded his crutches, and is able to walk with a stout caue. The injury sustained to his hip last Christmas is still a souroe of trouble, however] Though there is not the slightest soreness under manipulation, there is a weakness of the entire limb which displays itself the moment he stands on it. It is estimated that 2,500 people were damaged physically on the “Glorious Fourth." If all the eyes, ears, hair, fragments of skin, nails, fingers, and even lives that have been sacrificed during the past century iu celebrating our national independence had been in condition to serve under the immortal George, the whole revolution might have been settled at Bunlqpr Hill. Joaquin Miller attracts attention in Washington by means of his log cabin. In a corner as you enter the room is an eagle’s nest containing six eggs. Over the mantel are hung photographs. The logs are gayly festooned with bowie knives, firearms, swords, hornet nests, wild flowers, Mexican saddles and hunting paraphernalia, letters from noted personages, and Indian trophies. George W. Cable, the novelist, has arrived at Sunsbury, thirteen miles from Hartford, Conn., from New Orleans, with his family. They have leased a comfortable old residence for the summer, not far from the home of Sallie P. McLean, the writer of “Cape Cod Folks.” Mr. Cable is to devote the summer to his literary work, with the intention of bringing out a book in the fall. The venerable father of Miss P. Couzins has been appointed United States marshal for the eastern .district of Missouri. He is a curious looking old gentleman, with very short legs and weary eyes. He attends all the female suffrage conventions, and takes a pardonable delight in pointing out his eloquent daughter and proudly saying. “I’m her father." She calls him “pa,” just like any other girl, but he invariably answers her with a polite “yes, marm,” or “no, marm." The Woman's Herald of Industry and Social Science Co-operator is a female suffrage paper which is published at San Francisco. It wants

“A woman in the White House, A woman on the throne, A woman for Governor.” And it has a ticket at the head of its columns, which reads: Equal Rights Party. For President of the United States, Abigail Scott Duniway. For Governor of California, Clara Shobtridge Foltz. The Gardener's Monthly laughs at the govern* ment's blunders and failures in its efforts to raise tea hi this country, while nurserymen were aware all the time that there was no real difficulty in the way. The Monthly says: “The tea plant has been grown successfully, and is still growing successfully in many parts of the South. Tea has been made from the leaves as good and as cheap as the Chinese ever made. Let the government give but a bounty—protection if you like to call it—for a few years for piivate enterprise, and we will guarantee the success of the Chinese tea plant as a tea product in America." The northern coast of Nicaragua is the site of the Mosquito kingdom. Although an integral portion of the republic of Nicaragua, the government exercises but a nominal control over it. By treaty with the British cabinet Nicaragua acknowledged the Mosquito king as sovereign of this strip of land, and agreed to pay him a subsidy of $7,000 per annum. When that particular king killed himself through rum drinking, the English missionaries elected an illegitimate son of the royal family to succeed him. Since that epoch the Nicaraguan government has ceased to pay the stipulated subsidy, although it figures in each appropriation. Attention is given to the singular theory in London that “mind-reading,” as of late exhibited, is based on the muscular action of the hand. At a recent sitting of savants and amateurs, an expert demonstrated, in a manner wholly satisfactory to the spectators, his interesting proficiency in muscle-read-ing. Though he admitted that he could not succeed against determined opposition, and declared it impossible to read abstract thoughts, the success attending his direct efforts was surprising. He says that the delicate muscles of the haud respond to the processes of thought, and that mental action has its correspondence in muscular movement. SUCH of the Egyptian peasants as have received some little culture know that the waters of the Nile come from the “land of the dark men”—from the mountains of Abyssinia. In 1874, at the time of the war with Abyssinia, it happened that the Nile was slow to rise, aud the opinion was expressed that the King of Dabeseh was fulfilling an acient threat of Ethiopian kings to lead off the Nile before'its entrance into Egypt through a canal into the Red Sea. But the inhabitant of the more isolated inland villages kas not even such lights as these. Should you ask him as to the Nile and its origin, he would, with a grateful glance toward heaven, answer, simply, “Min Allah!” that is, from God, or from heaven. The coyote is the Oregon herder's wily enemy. He Is constantly on the warpath and takes no pains to conceal the foot. If the sheep wander away from the camp at night, the coyote is likely to find it out before the herder doee, aud at once proceeds to feast upon the finest of the flock. If very hungry he will kill one qnd devour nearly the whole of it; then summon his confederates, and lead them to the slaughter for fun. The sheep soon scatter in frightened squads all over the range. The ooyotes will then quit, as though aware that a more vigilant watch will be kept, and will turn their attention to some neighboring herd until the previous night’s raid shall be in some measure forgotten. Coyotes are constantly being killed off, either by being shot or poisoned. The latter mode is more effeotive, but it is attended with serious danger to the shepherd dogs, whieh, in spite of the utmost precaution, often hunt up the poison and eat it. Throwing Away an Opportunity. Philadelphia Telegraph. McDonald threw away a golden opportunity to climb up behind the New York leader, ana may have cause to regret his alliance with Tammany. Had bis foresight been equal to his hindsight the ambitious Hoosier would doubtless have acted differently. McDonald claims to be a statesman, but he is first a politician every time. i