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THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW & SON. For Rates of Subscription, eto., see Sixth Page. SATURDAY, AUGUST 16. 1884. TWELVE PAGEST “I have Just now received the atrocious libel of the Indianapolis Sentinel. The story is utterly and abominably false in every statement and in every implication. Political slanders Ido not stop to notice, but this editor assails the honor of my wife and children. I desire you, without an hour’s delay, to employ proper attorneys and have the responsible publisher of the Sentinel sued for libel in the United States Court of Indiana. It is my only remedy, and I am sure honorable Democrats, alike with honorable Republicans, will Justify me in defending the honor of my family, If need be, with my life.”— Mb. Blaise’s Telegram, Aug. 14. The people ask that the best men to be had be nominated to-day. He is a wise Democrat who does not abuse Ben Butler. He may have to vote for him yet this year. The awful necessity of having to resort to cannibalism ought to relieve the Greely party from all blame. That the revolting details should be demanded and hawked about as morsels of food is disgraceful to our civilization. Mr. Joseph Harper, jr., will never feel called upon to bare his head and “go down to the sidewalk” to meet Grover Cleveland and relieve him of any manuscripts. Mr. Cleveland seems incapable of writing a letter, to •ay nothing of a book. With Cleveland’s star on tigs wane and Butler’s rising, it is believed that Codman and other alarmed Massachusetts mugwumps are getting ready to support Pomeroy. Their influento and chances of success will be just as powerful in one case as the other. Harper’s Weekly holds up Grover Cleveland and admiringly compares him to Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Webster and Clay. Heavens and earth! What sort of a brass image have these deluded independents set up for their private and exclusive worship, anyway! The immaculate George William Curtis has communed with the editor of the New York Evening Post, and adopts the remarkable eode of morality lately promulgated by that professedly virtuous sheet. Having thus consulted, or, as he prefers to call it, “investigated,” Mr. Curtis resolves that Cleveland is vindicated, and that revealed truth leaves the candidate “entirely free from any just charge of base conduct in the past.” It is evident that the difficulty encountered by these gentlemen in **+"!,*•+***+.*

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owing to the fact that the “plain people” stubbornly refuse to understand the English language as the “reformers” do, and persist in retaining their own opinion as to what constitutes base conduct. If Mr. Curtis, Mr. Beecher and others had only been thoughtful enough to put out an amended dictionary and to secure the insertion by the Testament revisers of anew plank in the moral law previous to the campaign, their success might be greater. PLEADING THE BABY ACT. The following extract is a portion sui generis of a three-column, double-leaded “reply” made by the Sentinel in answer to Mr. Blaine’s libel suit: “The suit ordered by James G. Blaine against the Sentinel is an entertaining one. It is the first of the kind ever brought by a candidate for the presidency. Its precipitation is extraordinary. The grounds on which it is brought are flimsy. The manner of its bringing makes it an attempted injunction-—-a threat by implication—against any printing by the press ox the current scandal concerning his private life. “A reading of the editorial sued upon shows that the charge of malice is ridiculous. The reports it referred to are not only common talk throughout the country, but have heretofore, also, been printed. The article really constituted but an inquiry. Does Mr. Blaine shrink from newspaper investigation into his private record? Was he sure, when ordering this legal action, that it would be determined before election day? Could he not have found a speedier way for proving the reports against him unfounded—if unfounded they be? “The truth is, Mr. Blaine, under the mask of inviting, is fighting investigation. He invokes the tardy processes of civil law by an action intended to deter the press from discussing his private life. He calls electricity to his aid to hurry the suit for frightening other papers from exposing him. It is a proceeding worthy of the man who stole the Mulligan letters.” The entire mess—for it is nothing more than verbal hodge-podge, intended to conceal the only too evident fact that the Sentinel has no adequate reply to make—is written in the same low key. That it is insincere needs but a moment’s investigation to demonstrate. The fact that this is the first suit of the kind “ever brought by a candidate for the presidency” the Sentinel would like to distort into a reflection upon Mr. Blaine, whereas it but emphasizes its own infamy in directing attention to the fact that this is the first instance in the history of this country that partisan organs have gone low enough to slander the honored wife of a presidential candidate. That the Sentinel itself regards this as an attempt to enjoin the press from publishing the truth on any subject nobody will for an instant believe. The Sentinel knows, as well as it knows that this is campaign year, that there is absolutely nothing in the bringing of this suit to prevent it publishing exactly what it chooses. It knows, too, that if it had any good reason to believe the infamy it gave utterance to, it would appear to-day with the editorial in question in black type, reaffirmed and emphasized. It must have known on Friday, the Bth inst, that the implication it published was maliciously false and libelous, and evidently for that reason it proclaimed it hypothetically, if by chance it might escape legal responsibility through such cowardly technicality. If it had any reason to believe the story then, why did it not publish the story as a fact? If it believes it now, why does it not reaffirm it? The argument that this suit cuts off comment is too specious to deceive anybody. If the Sentinel pleases, it may have its editorial reproduced daily in black type of a size that will make it cover an entire page, and this may be kept up until the case comes to trial, or until after the November election. And it need not stop at that; it can unqualifiedly affirm what it has been dastardly enough only to insinuate. True, there is the danger of a criminal suit, but if it believes that it is right it need fear nothing. Never, perhaps, in the history of Indiana journalism has a baser libel been uttered nor a more contemptible justification been presented in defense. Pleading the baby act, that the charge was not made specifically, but was simply an “inquiry,” is beneath the dignity of any respectable paper. Put yourself in the place of the man against whom this “inquiry” was directed—what would you, reader, think of it? What would be your first impulse? Mr. Blaine, doubtless, would like to take the scurrilous writer by the throat, and never relax his grip until the breath of life was choked out of him. Many a man has been horse-whipped for just such cowardly and infamous business; many a one has been killed, and the indignant husband has been turned acquit both by courts and public opinion. Is it a personal attack that the Sentinel invites when it says: “The action of Mr. Blaine in flying to the courts gives the lie to the whole pretense that he is a. plumed knight. The action belies the character.” Does such a pitiful braggart and blusterer forget his insignificance? Mr. Blaine has taken the only honorable course open to him. Not “for the money there is in it,” but that it is the only way prescribed by law whereby he can punish the def&nrer of his wife and children. Without waiting an instant to learn when the federal court would meet in this district, and without weighing the effect such a course would have on his presidential prospects, but with the sense of his duty as a husband and father strong upon him, he appealed to the laws of the land for redress. It would be no adequate compensation did he gain the value of this entire city; but if he shall succeed in placing the grip of law about the throat that willfully slanders women and children, he will not have suffered in vain. The “reply” of the Sentinel is flippant, dishonest, cowardly. Without the respectability to attempt the amende honorable, and without the courage to reaffirm its charges, it juggles, temporizes and pleads the baby act.

Always contemptible when coherent, it has descended to still lower depths, from which it jeers at an honorable man who has dared come to the defense of wife and children against the most dastardly assailant in all the category of offenders against the sanctity of home and the chastity of woman. The suit for libel will, in the order of things, have to go to the federal court; but the great court of the people will pass on the merits of the case long before the formal trial is had. If the popular verdict be not in favor of the outraged husband and father, then, indeed, is morality at a low ebb, and it is a vain thing to plead for individual morality and personal purity. TABIFF AND WAGES. The New York Sun, arguing against the Republican policy of protection, as explained and sustained by Mr. Blaine in his formal letter of acceptance, shows that the increase in the average rate of wages between 1850 and 1860 was about 17 per cent. The increase in 1870 over 1860 was about 31 per cent. Now the Sun’s great point is made. Figures are given showing that in 1880 the average rate of wages had decreased about 8 per cent, from that of 1870. In each statement the average rate paid for each ten years is given. The Sun then admits that the average rate of wages was about 20 per cent, higher at the end cf twenty years of Republican rule than at the time the Democratic party went out of power. That there should be a small decrease duriDg the years from 1871 to 1880, inclusive, is not strange. The financial panic of 1873, with its disastrous effects on all kinds of business enterprises, extending over several years, was quite enough to reduce the pay of workingmen. The Sun seems inclined to fall into the simple error of expecting wages and wealth to go on increasing from decade to decade, without regard to the impossibility of such a thing. Certain journals have seriously and elaborately argued that because the wealth of the country increased about 84 per cent, between 1850 and 1860, the same ratio should be maintained indefinitely, as if such a consummation were possible. By such a plan it were a very simple thing for anybody to become immensely rich. On exactly the same plan the lad who saves a nickel this year, makes it a dime next, and twenty cents the third, doubling each time, would be worth $2,416,640.20 in just twenty years, or in August, 1904. The absurdity of such arguments is apparent enough. The Sun then makes the equally absurd statement that “It must be remembered that * * the mechanics and laborers were paid in greenbacks, which were, for a portion of the ten years, at a discount of from 100 to 240 per cent." The reader may be excused in declining to believe that even greenbacks, under stress of Democratic hostility, could depreciate to 140 per cent, less than no value at all. The Sun then confidently proceeds to argue as follows:

“As to capital and its profits. We find that the value of the products of manufactures in all the States and Territories in the last four census years was as follows: 1850—Value of products $1,019,106,616 1860—Value of products 1,885,861,670 1870—Value of products 4,232,325,444 1880—Value of products 5,369,576,191 “This shows a percentage of increase in 1860 over 1850 of about 80 per cent., in 1870 over 1860 of about 129 per cent., 1880 over 1870 of 27 per cent-, although the percentage of wages decreased, and in 1880 over 1860, the first year of Republican rule, of about 184 per cent.” This is even more specious than the plea that the total value of products should increase at the rate of 87 per cent, every decade. The argument here made means to convey. the idea that while wages of laboring men increased but 25 per cent, from 1860 to 1880, the profits of capital have grown 184 per cent, duiing the same time. In the value of these products the writer has purposely slurred over the cost of materials. Analyzing this, and correcting the false logic, we may state it thus: The wages paid a contractor to build a house of a certain kind increased 20 per cent, between 1860 and 1880, while the value of the finished house is increased 184 per cent. Stopping here,' the inference to be drawn is that the capitalist has realized ail increased profit of 184 per cent., while the builder has gained but 20 per cent. The error here may be found when it is explained that more, or more valuable, materials have entered into the construction of the house; so , that, with the additional 20 per cent, paid for labor, as shown by the Sun, and more labor required at the increase, and, it may be,, a bun-, dred or more per cent, invested in material, the 184 per cent, increase in “value" may easily be accounted for. This Ls the only fair statement that can be made of this question, and it is beneath the dignity of any reputable journal to descend to such pettifogging as has here been attempted. It is an insult to the intelligence of the public, as, manifestly, the paper making such argument does not expect its readers to think aud examine for themselves. The aggregate value of manufactured products has increased 184 per cent, between 1860 and 1880, because a very much greater volume of capital has been invested. Tens of thousands more men have been employed, and, according to the Sun, the wages of all this great number has advanced 20 per cent. The necessity of naming good men by the Republican convention to-day ought to be apparent without argument. For the Legislature the Republican party wants men not only popular among the people, but personally qualified to discharge every duty that shall devolve upon them. The demand is for men who will favor the passage of wholesome laws, such as will inure to the good of all classes. Their record? should be such as to command the confidence of the people, and their oharacters a guaranty of good work. The Legislature

about to be chosen will select a successor to Senator Voorhees, and for that reason it is peculiarily urgent that the named to-morrow should one and all be men who will add strength to the ticket. What is said concerning legislators applies with equal force to candidates for county commissionerships. This is an office involving the largest interests of tax-payers, and should be filled by men in every respect equipped for the duties of the responsible position. The Republican nominating convention must demonstrate that it has the best interests of the whole people in view in the work it does to-day. This done, and the support of the people deserved, there will be no doubt of the outoome of the election. A Daniel come, to judgment! Verily the time is out of joint, and the people have other marvels than quakings of the earth and wonders by land and sea. If the reader doubt, let him read the following from the Cincinnati Enquirer: “If disgusting personality and character wrecking must be introduced into politics, it is time for the press to assert dignity and relieve itself of the dirty work of the campaign. It is time for it to refuse to be the vehicle for slanders for the benefit of those who expect to reap profit, or who set scandals in circulation for the mere vulgar enjoyment of seeing them in print. Why should newspapers be the conduits for the filthy products of malicious scandal-mongers?” What is the Sentinel editorial on James G. Blaine cbm pared with the unqualified accusations brought by Republican prints against Mr. Cleveland? Why did not Cleveland bring suits against these papers? Does anyone suppose that merely because he is unmarried he is not jealous of his reputation?—lndianapolis Sentinel. Well, why did he not? And why have not he or his friends entered unqualified denial? The Journal, for one, would be glad to have him rise to the occasion, and, in the words of Blaine, denounce the story as “utterly and abominably false in every statement and in every implication.” In the interest of truth and decency, cannot his “independent” friends do this much for him?

The Atlanta Constitution, which it is needless to say supports Cleveland, rises to remark as follows: “Everything seems to invite the United States to take charge of Cuba. If we can't buy it we can take it; but for such movements as this we shall have to wait for a Democratic administration.” Had one of Blaine’s supporters given utterance to such a jingo speech every Democratic and independent organ in the country would have been attacked with hydrophobia. With consistent contempt for womanly modesty and morality, the Sentinel indorses the sentiment of the woman (?) who carded the New York World to the effect that “men who have not been immoral should be placed in a glass case and consigned to a museum.” This beautiful sentiment was uttered at the conclusion of an apology for Governor Cleveland. The head of the Democratic ticket is probably in the woods now preying to be delivered from his friends. A TRUTHFUL Democratic exchange tells about an organization of the national veterans, who, aided by numerous members of the Grand Army, will do active campaign work for Cleveland in western New York. Perhaps they want to assist a man who would be a comrade if he were old enough. He is fortyeight now, but was too young to go into the army. Mr. Penpi, of Thebes, Egypt, departed this life about 2,700 years ago. He was embalmed according to the custom of the day, and slumbered quietly in the necropolis of Upper Egypt until a few months since, becoming a finely-pre-served mummy. Mr. Pomeroy, consul-general at Cairo, then obtained possession of the mummy, and presented it (or him) to President White, of Cornell University. There the wrappings were removed. They consisted of about a thousand yards of linen of a yellowish color, in strips ten feet long and four inches wide, fringed at the ends. Prof. Tyler, of the University, sent a piece of this linen to a relative, Mr. James Greene, of this city. • It is as strong and firm as the day it was woven, and is a marvelous specimen of the skill of the weaver, and the capability of the Egyptian loom. The inscription on the case, translated by a French savant of Cairo, states, beside giving the name, that the venerable party lived in the twenty-third dynasty, which would be 300 years before Confucius, 50 years before the founding of Rome, 750 years before Juliu3 Ctesar invaded Britain, 500 years after the Exodus, 175 years after Solomon, 800 years before Christ, and would make him a contemporary of Elijah, Elisha, and Ahab. Cashier Dickinson, of the late Wall-street Bank, who has gone to join Eno and other capitalists, is said by his father-in-law, one of the leading stockholders of the concern, to be a very good-natured man. “The suspension of the bank,” says this model father-in-law, “is due largely to his good nature in loaning money on securities in excess of their actual value. Although the suspension is a bitter blow to me, it would be a great deal worse if he had parted with his honor.” In view of the prevalance of bank failures from like cause, defrauded depositors may soon be expected to rise in their might and demand that good nature iu bank officers be made cause for dismissal if not a criminal offense. It may be mentioned in this connection that Cashier Dickinson is supposed to have taken his honor with him to Canada, as no traces of it have beonfound. Maud S., queen of the turf, whose aristocratic nose goes under the wire a quarter of a second sooner than the next best “flyer,” holds daily receptions at Saratoga, and from 9:30 a. m. to 4:30 (why not 2:094) p. m. her stall is besieged with admirers, principally ladies, who crave the sweet boon of touching hsr dear little nose, and leave testimonials of admiration in the shape of floral offerings. How sweetl At a summer resort In central New York the leading hotel is strictly a temperance house, no one being allowed to have wine or liquor in his room or at table, even though ordered by a physician. Another regulation is the strict ob-

servance of Sunday—arrivals and departures on that day being virtually forbidden. The proprietor of the hotel has found these rules not only moral, but profitable to himself, and has attained wealth in the fourteen years during which he has conducted the enterprise. These are pointers for Acton. William C. Rhinelander, scion of the aristocratic family of that name, living in New York city, is now on trial to determine his sanity. That he will be proved non compos admits of little doubt He was insane enough to fall in love with a very pretty and very estimable young lady, but she was penniless, and of course the family knew by that that he must be insane. If he is committed to an asylum, through the influence of his family, it will be an outrage. “Few die and none resign,” especially from Democratic offices. N. C. Barnett, who has just been renominated as Secretary of State in Georgia, was first elected to that office in 1842, and has held the place continuously, with ths exception of the brief period of Republican supremacy. He is ninety years old, and sensitive about his age. An old custom has been revived recently in Europe for dinner parties, that of conversing for a quarter of an hour in verse. The scheme probably originated with some host whose viands were scanty as a neat and certain way of depriving guests of their appetites. Now that quinine has got down to “living rates,” druggists are inclined to complain because there are no more buyers than before. This is economy. The American people are learning the folly of indulging in luxuries merely because they are cheap. The people of Athens, Ga., are eating sand to cure them of dyspepsia. Whether it cures the dyspepsia or not, nobody can justly accuse them of having qo “sand in their gizzards.” POLITICAL NOTE AND GOSSIP. There is a rumor that Mr. Bennett, of the New York Herald, has discovered that he made a mistake in supporting Governor Cleveland, and that a flop may be among the possibilities. General Sickles, who was so enthusiastic in his support of General Hancock, asks: “How can a Democrat be enthusiastic over Governor Cleveland?” He can see nothing but defeat for the Democratic nominee. Rev. W. S. Studley says that “Mr. Cleveland's very candidacy is a disgrace to the general public.” And he also adds: “I don't think there is an intelligent man in the city [Buffalo] who questions the substantial truth of this terrible story. ” Emery A. Storrs has got off a definition of Cleveland. “The Democratic candidate,” he says, “is a man with a 194 collar, a No. 7 hat. a No. 11 boot, a bachelor married upon the European plan, with his domestic relations served ala carte.”

Says a correspondent of the New York Sun: “For a lawyer of a respectable law firm, doing a living business even, to desert that high and honorable profession for the purpose of being a public executioner, whatever the temptation of the emoluments of such office might be, is a wonder to me.” A deal of nonsense is being printed regarding General Butler’s desire to own a newspaper organ. The General looks after the dollars and cents with a sharp eye. If he wants to boom himself, lie can do it through the Herald—and he knows the price per column which he paid last year for the privilege. United States Marshal Tanner, of Illinois, has forwarded to the chairman of the Republican State central committee his resignation as a member of that committee. He takes this step in order to put’ an end to any controversy that may exist as to the propriety of holding the position while filling a government appointment. One Gibson, who is a Democratic congressman from West Virginia, has been amusing himself and astonishing the natives by proclaiming that colored voters were being imported into his State, and asserting that none of them would be allowed to vote. He has great faith in the “shotgun policy," but West Virginia is too far North for the brigadiers and Gibson’s friends to indulge in it with impunity. It is not so certain that the Hon. Thomas B. Ward will have a walk-over for the Democratic congressional nomination in the Ninth district. The convention meets on the 21st, at Frankfort, Clinton county. Among the names now mentioned as likely to come before the convention are thoSb of R. P. Davidson and F. E. D. McGinley, botli of Lafayette. McGmley is the present mayor, serving his third term. Davidson is an attorney. General Gibson, of Ohio, who is now in Maine, says that there is not the least doubt that his State will go Republican in October, and give 20,000 majority for Blaine and Logan in November. The 40,000 wool-growers who voted for Hoadly for Governor will vote with the Republicans this year. There Is no defection among the Germans to speak of, and the Republicans will have large accessions from the Democratic workingmen’s ranks. The New York Sun has a long review of "The Various Defenses of Grover Cleveland," which is a fair condensation of all investigations of the charges affecting his moral character. It concludes in these words: “Judging solely from these statements in extenuation of facts which are not denied, we are forced to conclude that if the things now developed had been known to the country three months ago, there would not have been in the United States of America a man less likely to be nominated for President than Grover Cleveland, of Buffalo.” National Republican: The Democracy only use Mr. Cleveland in order to secure assistance from tho independents, and the people know it. and they also know that the Democracy, if it gains the office, will rule. No individual man or weak ally like the independents will’ rule them, or even help rule. If the Democratic party gets inpower it is going to rule. AVe know to our sorrow how it has ruled in the past What it has done in the past wo may be sure it will repeat in the future. The little moral clement the independents will add won’t redeem the Democracy in their day of power. New York' Sun: Mr. Cleveland’s stock of thought appears to include about three ideas, intrinsically good, but monotonous and povertystricken when turned over and over by themselves alone. Ignorant of history as of public and private life, except in the narrowest sense and in the lowest range of intellectuality, careful of himself and of his own selfish ambitions and purposes, he suggests no parallel that can establish any resemblance with the candidate whom the Democracy elected [meaning Tilden], eight years ago; and from this fact let Mr. Schurz and and his friends draw all the comfort they can. Captain W. L. Ellsworth, chairman of the executivo committee of the American Political Allif.'.’.oe, sayi that the membership of the order is more than 475,000. General Grant is proposod as its candidate for president Captain Ellsworth says: “Though he has not as yet sent us his official acceptance we feel assured, as he has not declined the honor, and from private advices, that ho will run.” General John C. Fremont is expected to accept the nomination for vice-presi-dent. When asked if the Alliance had any connection with the old Know-nothing party, Captain Ellsworth said: “Yes, sir, it has. Its platform is the adoption of the Know-nothing belief in the broadest sense. It believes in America for Americans only, and condemns the elevation of any foreigner to the dignity of office. 1 The interview further developed the fact that the Alliance was formed in 1871. In 1876 its influence was thrown for Hayes, but in 1889 members were allowed their choice of the candidates

of the other parties. The Captain is sanguine in his expectations for this fall, claiming Louisiana, Maryland and Florida, and possibly Virginia. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. At Ceres, near Turin, a young woman poisoned herself last month on the marriage of her younger sistor from fear of becoming an old maid. Mrs Anna Mclntyre, of Fonda, N. Y., aged ninety-two, is learning to play the piano. The neighbors think she is old enough to know better. Capua, whose luxury proved too much for Hannibal's army, is frequently ravaged by a hand of brigands who have settled down to business near it. Solutions of oWoral should be kept in dark glass bottles. Sunlight decomposes it into chloroform. The change is not easily perceived, and has caused a number of accidents in the past five years. The Rajah Mansour, from the Straits settlements, who was recently presented to the Prince of Wales, expressed himself thus concerning the heir apparent of the British crown: “He is a nice chap, stands straight up, and bows and smiles. ” It has been discovered in St. Louis that a Philadelphia agent for the distribution in the West of portraits of Butler and West, the Greenback-national nominees, has substituted the face of Senator Vest, ok Missouri, for that of General West, of Mississippi. SAID Thoreau: I am inclined to think bathing almost one of the necessaries of life, but it is surprising how indifferent some are to it. One farmer who came to bathe in Walden, one Sunday while I lived there, told me it was the first bath he had had for fifteen years. During the prevalence of cholera in Italy, in 1867, many of the carbineers and soldiers who went to succor the afflicted villages were killed by the peasants, under the delusion that they came to poison them. If the cholera again appears this autumn, the peasant** threaten to renew hostilities with the military. The London AVorld says of the season now closing that “Men have been more difficult than ever to secure whenever dancing has been announced. To suck straits have certain givers of dances been put that they have commissioned persons who used not to ba tolerated iu society to procure young men for them.” President Arthur is having a large photograph of himself, 22 by 28 inches in size, framed by Me Kirov. to be presented to Aleck Powell, his colored bodyservant. The President has written in a large and bold hand on the margin of the picture the following: “To Aleck Powell, from his friend Chester A. Arthur.” Professor von Pettknkofkr, of Munich, has written an article in a local paper, in which he shows that a bacillus or germ is not alone sufficient to explain the causation and transmission of cholera. There must be certain conditions of season and soil which favor developement. These he calls the “local and time factors.” Madame Blavatsky, who is undoubtedly a clever woman, looks about sixty. Labouehere says: “No one seems to be certain how old she really is. She is supposed to know more about occultism than any one else. She gets out of her body, I believe. If she would only tpgch some of us how to do it in the hot weather some of us would be grateful. ” Prince Bismarck, it is said, distrusts an Englishman who speaks French perfectly. This is from no contempt for linguistic attainments, for the Chancellor, albeit no man of books, is one of the best of linguists. But he evidently holds that an Englishman very familiar with France and the French is an Englishman spoiled. This is rather unflattering to the French.

An intimate friend of the late Mrs. Swisshelm says: ‘ ‘She had a warm spot in her heart for the man who was once her husband. She often admitted that she was unfit to occupy the position of wife, and I know that she divided between herself and husband the causes which led to their separation. Had he not married again, I think they would have been reunited in their old age." An old New England fashion—happily nearly extinct now—is recalled by the following advertisement, said to be posted in a Prussian village: “Bids will be received by the selectmen regarding the orphan girl, Elizabeth Kroutzke, who, for purposes of education, clothing and general care, is to be adjudged to the lowest bidder. All persons desirous of competing are hereby invited to appear." The new Mrs. William Sprague and her sister make quite a sensation on the beach at N'arraganset Pier, where they are staying. Their costumes are exactly alike, of broad red and white striped materials, and red'hose and head handkerchiefs to match. The two display their agility by racing up and down the sands with flowing locks and an easy abandon which renders them the center of attraction. A DELICATE point in accident insurance has just been decided in England. A man fell in an epileptic fit with his face against the ground, and, no one being near, he suffocated. He was insured for $2,500 in an “accidental insurance association," and a coroner’s jury gave a verdict of “accidental death,” but tha courts held that death was due to disease and not to injury by accidental violence. A White mountain correspondent says he surprised a bevy of young women near the Fabyan House just as they were ornamenting a tree with a poster to the effect that one hundred young men are wanted by the young ladies at the hoilsa to do escort duty on all proper occasions, to hunt out and take them to all nice walks and rambles in the dim aisles of the forest, or to relieve the tedium of their lonesome evenings in the parlors. A LADY visitor to Worth's establishment in Paris, describes that dress-making celebrity as tall, burly, red-faced, and slouohy-looking, with fishy eyes, and a hot temper for customers who refuse to leave orders after inspecting All of his clerks are compelled to wear the same cut of clothes, and the color and fabric must be of fine material. Worth himself is very careless in attire, hasty in judgment, and decidedly petulant. He affects a passion for flowers and owns some fifty acres of nursery plants and blossoms. Engineer Melville, remembered in connection with the various Jeannette distresses, was with the Schley rescuing party, and bore a part in the Portsmouth jubilee Monday. To a group of friends he said: “I received a telegram from the Rev. Mr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, opening his tabernacle to me, and offering $15,000 for nine months if I would lecture. Btat Melville doesn’t do that, hey? Melville doesn’t sell the blood and toil of his comrades for $15,000 or any other sum. No, not if he hadn’t a dollar.” The French orown diamonds were frequently worn by Marie Antoinette, who had a great fondness for precious stones, as was, indeed, amply shown by the unfortunate affair of the necklace—one of the causes, historians have said, of the downfall of the Frenoh monarchy. Both the wives of Napoleon I wore colored stones in preference to diamonds, Josephine because she was too dark, and Marie Loniso because she was too fair. The Empress Eugenie made no little use of the Frenoh orown jewels, and was the last person to wear them. The amount of absinthe drinking which takes place at Marseilles, where the cholera still lingers, is abnormal. The great street is the Rue Cannabiere, which is the Boulevard Montmartre of Paris raised in intensity. The shady side is an almost unbroken series of cases, and from early morning until late at night usually the tables in front are occupied by Marseillaise, with a little decanter full of syrup of gum and two or three bottles containing absinthe, from which they help themselves. Since the advent of the cholera these tables have been wholly deserted. • M 2. 'WHITTIkr, when in London many years ago, was made a lion by literary people. The fathor of “Pendennis” and “Becky Sharp" was prominent among his entertainers, and honored Whittier by a dinner at his club. Whittier and Thackeray went together in Thaokeray’s carriage to the dub-rooms. At the dinner nnieh wine was drunk. Thackeray drank bottle after bottle, apparently without being in tha least affected by it. He was as witty and clear-headed as though he had been taking nothing but soda. Whittier was temperate, and drank but little. As morning crept on, however, Thackeray succumbed, aud hU valet hadsto carry him to the carriage. On the way home he became maudlin, aud threw his arms around Whittier's neck, vowing eternal friendship. Whittier grew thoroughly disgusted and resolved to have nothing more to do with Thackeray.