Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1893

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY. M AUCII 6..1S93. WASHISCH-N OFFICE 51J5 Fourteenth St.

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All ctmmunieationt intended for publication in ih isjwfer mutt, in order torecexxe attention, beactowpanied by the name and address of the writer, TllK INDIA NArOLlS JOURNAL. Can be found at the followinprplaccs: PAWS American Exchange In Paris, SO Eoul-T&rd fie Capucmea. KEW YORK Gileey II erase and Windsor Hotel. miLADELrniA A. iTKemble, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO rainier Xlouse. CIXCIXXATI-J. K. Haley fc Co, 154 Vine street. J-OriSVILLF C. T. Dee ring, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets. CT.IX)TJIS Union Keiri Co, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C-Sllrgs House and Ebbltt House. TnE people of Indiana have reason to to thankful that the Legislature of 1893 cannot pasa any more bills. For a time tax-eating and salary-grabbing will do, bat in timo it will disintegrate a party, as the Indiana Democracy will find. - So apprehensive that Mr. Cleveland will make things unpleasant for them were the Democratic leaders in this city that they did not even fire a salute- on Saturday. It is probablo that the labor organizations will forget, boforo tho next election, how the Democratic Senate snubbed them in the interest of railroad corporations, ns they have in tho past, but they are very indignant now. The attorney of tho street-railway company knew what ho wns talking nbout, Thursday, when ho said that tho bill comDelling that corporation to pavo between the tracks where streets are paved, would not pass the Senate. WniLE the Legislature advanced the salaries of nearly every Democratic official in Marion county who asked it, St drew the line on Judge. Buskirk, in spite of his appeals and tears. The decent people in Indianapolis, regardless of party, are "laying" for Buskirk. TnERE is a good deal of talk of reviving tho old status of the American marine. Nothing would contribute more to this, on the Pacific coast, at least, than the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. This would insure a largo and growing trade and tho carrying of it in American vessels. Sixty-four years ago Andrew Jackeon, the father of modern Democracy, declared that "to tho victors belong the spoils' and that was the corner-stone of his party. On Saturday his Democratic successor declared that office must not bo the roward of party activity. That is the revised Cleveland idea. On Saturday a thirty-twoyears' period of Republican rulo was finished. It be gan in 18G1, after thirty-two years of essentially Democratic rule. To blot out the Republican . period would bo to eraso from tho history of nations tho most luminous period in tho annals of miy nation in the world. But what intelligent American of to-day can say that ho is proud of tho epoch between Jackson and Buchanan? Great minds will not run in tho samo channel. Thero is Senator Kopelke declaring that tho Supremo Court has no constitutional right to interfere "With a gerrymander. Again, there is Chief Justice Morse, of Michigan, Democratic candidato for Governor last fall in that State, and doubtless onoof the first men President Cleveland will cal! to responsible position, who declared, in an opinion setting aside a Democratic gerrymander, that it was tho highest and most important duty of tho court to sit upon tho legality of legislative apportion monts. President Haukisox is quoted as saying in regard to the car-coupler bill that, while ho thought tho bill did not go far enough in its provisions to grant tho relief desired, ho had particular pleasure in approving it on the last day of his term because of tho endeavors ho had made for many years to obtain legislation of this character. He advocated it in the campaign of 1888 and in each of his annual messages to Congress, and he is known to have tried to impress on Senators and Representatives the necessity for legislation that would give some protection to tho lives and persona of trainmen. There has been a good deal of talk during tho last year or two cbout the alleged mismanagement of tho Census Bureau, it being charged that the bureau had been mismanaged, that funds appropriated for census work had been wantonly wasted, that tho chief of the bureau was unfit for tho place, etc. This talk finally led to tho appointment by Congress of a committee to investigate tho charges. This has been done, and just beforo Congress adjourned a majority of tho committee, through Mr. Bynum, submitted a report saying that from the testimony submitted tho charges were not sustained. The Democratic platform adopted at Chicago, on which Mr. Cleveland wns nominated and elected, contained tho following: We denounce Kcpnhlican protection as a fraud, a robbery' ot tho great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the federal government bat no constitutional power to enforce and collect taritl duties, except for the purpose of revenue only. Thero is nothing in Mr. Cleveland'a Inaugural message that squares with

this declaration or that indicates tho slightest disposition on his part to carry it out. A tariff plank framed from expressions used by Mr. Cleveland in his address would read ns follows: We favor "tarUl reform," meaning thereby a more just and eqnitable system of federal taxation." "tho rectification of wrongs' and '&n honest distribution of the fond of governmental beneticeuoo treasured up for all." These are Mr. Cleveland's strongest expressions on tho tarifi'question. Compared with tho Chicago platform they aro a spring zephyr to a cyclone or a toy gun to dynamite. Is Mr. Cleveland trifling with tho people or has he ceased to have any convictions on the tariff question? -

GENERAL HARRISOS'3 RETURN. After four years' service as President of the United States Benjamin Harrison to-day returns to his old home. "With the exception of this absence and tho period of his service during the war, ho has never been away from Indianapolis for any length of time since he first came here to reside, in 18o4. That period, thirty-four years, covers all of his adult life. When he came here he had barely reached his majority, and had not yet voted at a presidential election. His life was before him, his character was yet to bo formed and his career to make. If, while he and his young wife were getting settled in the little house selected ns their first home, some prophet had foretold or some dream had revealed to him that thirty-four years later they would go henco to Washington, ho a3 President of tho United States, they would probably have treated the revelation ns an amusing themo of comment, not worthy of a second thought amid the prosaic duties and stern realities that surrounded them. And if it had been again revealed to them that after serving four years n3 President ho would come back to his old home a widower, his young wifo passed away, ho would doubtless have turned from tho vision with a shudder and prayed that so great an honor ns the presidency might never corao to him if it was- to bo accomp nnicd by so great a sorrow as the loss of his wifo. Happily for us all, wo can only read tho pages in tho book of fate one at a time. Those who have known General Harbison longest and best will readily believe that with tho sadness that marks his return to Indianapolis thero is mixed no small degree of pleasure at tho thought of again meeting and mingling with old neighbors and life-long friends. For although ho has often been represented as a cold man, thero are really very few men whormako as strong attachments and possess as much depth of feeling as does General Harrison. This feeling goes ont not only to his personal friends, but to his old neighbors and to tho city of his long-time residence. It embraces tho State of Indiana and all its people. There is no more loyal Uoosier living than Benjamin Harrison, and nono who carries the honor and welfare of tho State nearer his heart. He has always especially prized tho approbation of his neighbors. On June 27, 1888, tho day after his nomination for President, in addressing a visiting crowd of Indianapolis people, he said: "No man can bo so highly honored by any convention or by any decoration which any of tho authorities of tho government may bestow as by tho respect and confidence of those who livo near him. .My heart is touched by this demonstration which my fellowcitizens have given mo of their personal respect for nie." Ho has expressed sim ilar sentiments nt other times, leaving no doubt that ho rates among tho great est and most highly prized honors of his lifo tho confidence and esteem of tho people of Indianapolis. On tho 4th of March, 18S9, the Journal, speaking of General Harrison's inaugu ration, said: As President of the United States Presi dent Harrison belongs to nil the people. but tils neighbors, and friends, ondcitizons of Indiana generally will still regard him as in a peculiar sense their President, and will watch bis course with deepest inter est. It is fortunate for them ana for the State that the first President it has furnished should bt so admirably endowed nnd equipped to serve the country well and retleot honor on tho State. The natural solicitude of Indianians for the success of his administration will be accompanied by absolute confidence in his ability to cope with any situation, and in the perfect purity and patriotism of all his motives. Wo think this fairly reflected tho feeling with which General Harrison's Indiana friends regarded his assumption of tho presidential office and with which they have watched his administration of it. It has been a feeling of profound admiration for tho man nnd ot genuine solicitude for his success, coupled with entire confidence as to his ability to cope with any situation or emergency. His lifelong friends felt that they could not bo mistaken in their estimate of tho man. Nor were they. He has not only fully met, but far surpassed their expectations. Ho has grown to tho stature of one of America's greatest statesmen, and to-day ho returns to his old home bearing the garnered honors of a bril liant career, and followed by thouni-. versal esteem of his countrymen. A DISREPUTABLE RECORD. Sinco the Legislaturo of 18G3, which disgraced itself in tho eyes of patriotic people by refusing to vote money to equip Union soldiers, Indiana has not had a lawmaking body controlled by a majority so shamelessly partisan, so boldly defiant of constitutional methods and common fairness, and so entirely devoid of intelligent and high-minded public spirit ns that which is in its last hours. The majority has spent hours in posing as tho champions of labor in spread-eagle speeches, but it has not passed one of tho measures promised organized labor on tho stump. Denouncing corporations on the stump, tho majority, or a controlling clement in it, has dono their bidding in spito of tho protest of people and taxpayers. It has had no timo to pass ft bill putting an end to tho Robey infamy, but the majority found amplo timo to pass a bill lobbied by Sim Coy and other saloonists to depose a just judge. It found nmple time in which to deprive tho voters In a scoro of cities of tho right to elect municipal ollicers this spring and to create Democratic police boards and polico therein, but that majority

turned a deaf ear to the inhabitants and officials of Indianapolis when they asked it to compel a grasping streot-railwny company to bear its share in the improvement of the streets. In making appropriations it wns liberal with thoso which aro managed by Democratic boards and parsimonious in enst a where the money would not all be handled by Democratic tax-eaters. It increased tho appropriation of tho Board of Charities 2 j per cent., w;hen tho zeal of its Secretary, in defending tho management of the southern prison, apprised tho Democratic majority that the executive officer of the board would henceforth devote himself to applying whitewash to cover

the delinquencies of Democratic ineffi ciency and dishonesty in prison and hos pital management, but it could not afford n dollar to extend the institution for tho feeble-minded, which has proved its capacity to make hundreds of unfortunates self-supporting through life, who, but for such ft school, would bo worse than paupers. Tho majority has denied tho Soldiers' Orphans' Home, which is doing a noblo work, a few thousands, but it has paid a battalion of doorkeepers, clerks and cuspidor-cleaners and put up the compensation of well-paid Democratic officials. The majority has voted money to set up the statue of a 6oldier who was not an Indinnian, but it has steadily refused to vote a dollar to mako it possible to entertain 50,000 Indiana veterans, who individually did more, to establish the valor and patriotism of Hoosiers than did the somewhat notorious George Rogers Clark. It has defied tho Supreme Court by re-enacting an apportionment law which enables less than half the voters of Indiana to elect two-thirds of tho Legislature, and it has fixed the suspicion of fraud upon its manipulation of tho machinery of elections by defeating a proposition which, previous to tho Legislature of 1S91. was on tho statute book for years, permitting small political parties to have watchers at tho polls. The majority has confessed its incapacity to deal with public questions most important to Indiana, liko tho "good-roads" movement, by ignoring them. In short, the majority in tho Legislature cannot point to an act it has passed which indicates that it has ever been actuated by an intelligent and broad-minrled public spirit. LET THE COUNCIL ACT. Tho refusal of tho Legislature to do anything for the National Encampment of tho G. A. R. is a disgrace to thatbody and to tho State. They voted thousands and thousands of dollars for political favorites nnd jobs, for the increase -of salaries and for new and useless offices, bat refused to give a cent towards receiving and entertaining the surviving veterans of the war. Indianapolis, speaking and acting for herself, must repudiate this action of the Legislature, and, as far as possible, relievo herself of the disgrace which has been put upon the State. The Council must avail itself to tho full extent of the enabling act authorizing it.tolappropriate 875,000 for the encampment. This sum, with what can bo raised by private contribution, and supplemented by individual efforts and private hospitality, will enable the city to haudlo tho encampment fairly well. Tho course of the Legislaturo should be a lesson and warning to the Council. It must not duplicate the disgraceful action of tho larger body and repeat upon tho city tho stigma that has been placed upon the State. There should be no quibbling, no question, no hesitation and no delay in tho matter. Tho entiro amount authorized to bo devoted to tho encampment should be appropriated nt once. Tho doty of tho Council is too plain for argument. "Whoever opposes tho appropriation on any grounds whatever is to this extent ft public enemy, and should bo branded for all timo ns one who is ready to sncrifico tho honor of tho city to selfish grfrdor petty spito. BUBBLES IN TUB AIC Clean In On Sense, now 13 VIckars's new playf fs It clean "Yes; It is a clean 6tcal from tho French." Longing fur Excitement. Engineer Well, young man. tow ao you think that you would like tula job! Small Boy flow often does the holler blow upl Engineer Oh, there's no daugcr of that. Small Boy I guess 1 wouldn't want tho jo. New Nursery Rhvme. Sine a soog of sixpence, bottle full of ryo. Hundred thousand Democrats hungry after pie; When tho pio Is raseed around, oh, won't , they bo fdad Bat for each happy Democrat, a dozen will bo mad! lint tie Ship Nomenclature. If in search of a narao that is bound to bo laclty, Let tho next battle ship be called The Kentucky; For it's sure that her trans would do terrible slaughter, And, thoiiKh shot full of holes, she would never take water. Hash Youth. "Is the sporting reporter inl" . v No. lie is In the hospital now. Wo sont him to interview Blugsuy, the prize lighter, iu regard to his prospective assault on the stage, and the youug idiot asked Blugsby if be intended to play the wild man of Borneo." Tun New York Sun's Washington correspondent has had ooular evidence that Hon. Hoke Smith is a real flesh and blood person, and thus describes his personal appearance: There wit no iilstakingthe man. Hoke Smith wa tl.e tallest man in the lobby and halls of the Arlington. He worn aliich silk hat. which made hiai look tnller still. He ha black hair, worn long, though not in the extreme Southern faMon. Ho committed the solecism of wearing black diagonal trotters, with a Mack diagonal co:U and waistcoat. His shoes were double soled, and square at the toe. His collar was moderately high, and turned over at the ends. The tie was a ready-made four-in-hand, of tiio kind which can be boucht for :'.7 cent in New York, but probably eot more in Atlanta, where Hoke Smith u a centlemau of distinction and wealth. Hie coat wns cat Lich. Tber was no jowrlry. except a long, heavily-linked watch chain, Hanging from the top button of his waistcoat. nnU a grayish-Mue enameled locket rendont from the watch cbaiu. Hoke uitudil not commit tho oftense of puttinc a scarf pin in a ready-inarto four-in-hand rr,arf. Down in Atlanta men of wealth and distinction wear rcaily-uiado scarfs. When the Hon. Holco has been in Washington a few months he will discover that it is not good form for a gentleman of his position to wear clothing made of diagonal goods, and that square-toed shoes are quite out of date in the North. A Connecticut girl has had her life saved by a novel. The young man whom she had declined followed the growing custom in such cases of shooting her because ho loved her so, ana the ball, striking the story book she happened to oV

holding against her breast, glanced ott, inflicting only a slight wound. It could not p&vo done better service if it had been the Bible, which figures in sucii cases in religious literature.

TIIE IIAKRlbON ADMINISTRATION. Pitrsipent Haurison gave the country n dignified, honorable, brave, peaceable, splendid and prosperous administration. Urooklyn Standard Union (Kep.) His political opponents bavo a kindly feeling for the outgoing President, and they wish him '.roll wherever he may set his hatrack. St. Louis Post Dispatch (Dem.) Personally, Mr. Harrison leaves the White House with the respect of both political friends and foes. He is honest, able and patriotic Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) Tiik administration of President Benjamin Harrison, which closes to-day, will occupy a prominent position iu .American history. It had been able and clean.- Louisville Commercial (Ind.) IIauuison may properly be adjudged the foremost man of bis party, and. what is better still, the leader among the able, wise, honest, courageous, patriotlo statesmen of oar Nation. Cincinnati Tribune (Hep.) President Harrison's administration has been patriotic, wise, conservative. Under it the country has prospered. He has given ns an example of what an American administration should be. Philadelphia Inquirer (Kep.) Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, has earned the coniidence and respect of the American people. He retiree with general approval of his motives, judgment and pubiio conduct. New York Independent. While on public questions many of President Harrison's constituents differed with his views and dissented from bis policies they will invest him, as be resumes his place as a private citizen, with unaffected sympathy and sincere respect. Brooklyn Lagle (Dem.) President Harrison retires with a clean pubiio record behind him, and is entitled to the respect and confidence of the vast constituency he has represented. Many a President who deserved less at the hands of the peoplo has been re-elected. Chicago Dispatch (Ind.) As cloan and patriotic an administration as tho country ever nad ends its career on Saturday. Each membor of it, from the President to the Secretary of Agricnlture, both inoluded, has done his duty earnestly, conscientiously and intelligently. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Hep.) In a word, the peoplo have been served by this administration not only with unsurpassed fidelity, bnt with such broad and far-reaching statesmanship that the blessings it has conferred upon the Nation will endure throughout many succeeding administrations. New York Tribune (Uep.) "He has rnado a good President'7 is the spontaneous verdict which will be procccnced by millions of bis fellow-countrymen of all States, and parties, and shades of political opinion as be relinquishes his oilico to his successor. A nobler eulogy an American couldscarcely ask. Boston Journal (Kep.) He has never been, in the usual sense, a popular man, and probably has not sought" to be. He has been what is very much better than that, a man whom his fellow-citizens respect, to whose thoughtfulness und integrity of purpose they have confidence, and whose patriotic services they prize. Philadelpia Times (Dem.) President Harrison's honesty of purpose has shone out clear as the noonday sun in every othcial act. With unflinching honesty has been joined unwearied vigilance. Many great questions have called for settlement at his hands. He has dealt with them with viuor tempered by prudence, lie has exhibited in each emergency the qualities of a statesman and a patriot. Boston Advertiser (Hep.) That President Harrison is a person of eminent respectability, of good intentions, of much experience in political attairs, and of no mean ability, his worst euemies will concede. His Cabinet advisers were in the mam men of capacity and fitness for their respective posts. The faults and failures of the administration, therefore, were largely duo to conditions with which an abler man in the place of President Har rison conld not have coped. Philadelphia Jtecord (Dem.) President Harrison, who lays down his high trust to-day, is secure of tho future. He will have a greater roward than more re-election could be. The calm, sure, lasting judgment of history will pro nounce him one of the ablest Presidents of one of the best administrations in all the annals of the Kepubllc. Outside of too two or three transcendent chiefs born to lead the Nation through tho crucial struggles of its life, none will stand higher whon reviewed through tho judicial light of time. Philadelphia Press (lie p.) Hi: has not only been faithful in tho dis charge of the duties of his ofiioe for that were small praise but he has also shown himself possessed of a large view of tho duties of that oilice and dominated by an unselfish, patriotic desire to accomplish the beat things for bu country. The poli ticians have cot found themselves able to use him for partisan and personal ends. and we thiok that his reputatiou will not lose but gain by that process of time which alone is able to put men and affairs inatruo perspective. Christian Union. TIIE MATE PK ESS. TnE people are patient, but long Butter ing prepares them for revolt. The Democ racy of Indiana are hastening their own fall, i he present session of the Legisla ture has dono much to hasten tho end. Richmond Palladium. -Democracy is Indiana has succeeded in making nearly fifty new oflices (police cornmissioners) in which to place its spoilsmen and make the people pay for them. The additional unnecessary expense to this city will foot up thousands every year. Muncie News. The ammunition being piled up to use on the Indiana Democracy, Governor Mat thews, Green Smith. Mcilngh and nearly the whole gang in the next campaign. would knock them out If they were not so well protected by the gerrymander. ierre Haute Lx press. The responsibility of giving tho State an honest apportionment rests with the De mocracy. Should they fail, and thoy will. the matter will beat once taken into tho courts for settlement. The peoplo almost alwavs get their rights la courts and De. niocracy is nearly always condemned. Fowler Republican-Era. If Indiana is "naturally Democratic," as the Democrats arexfond of claiming, then they would have nothing to fear from an honest and constitutional apportionment of the State. Their gerrymander luw, which they force- upon tho peoplo in deiianca of Supreme Court's decision, gives the lie to their oeaertiou. Columbus Republican. Or Harrison's term it may be said that its fonryears have been among the most prosperous and progressive in the conn try's history. International complications lit UU Ulliinuiii uiuunvi i i i ii nu.icu, uilg have, without exception, been settled with dignity and with credit to this country and thn Harrison administration. Gas City Journal. A fitting tiuale of tho Indiana Legisla ture's disgraceful record is the passage by the Houpe. under gag rule, of tho old a p. portionrcent act of legislative districts according to the gerrymander of 10;, declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. This :s enough. The body can now adjourn withont attempting another thing. South Bend Tribune. Gerrymander and gag rule go together iu the Indiana Legislature, 'and & party cauens is more respected and obeyed than & Supreme Court deeision. It is a shamnful condition of atlairs which the State will have to bear in digrace until some

day tho honest voter arise in their wrath and sweep the Democratic party from

power. Mishawaka Lntorprise. The true spirit of the Indiana Democ racy was exhibited in forcing through the House of Kepresoutatives, in defiance of a decision of tho Supreme Court, a bill which is simply a re-enactment of the monstrous and ontrazeous gerrymander law of 1SU1. The caucus has willed it, and it ih to be the law again in soito of its unconstitutional ity. Great is King. Caucus. Now Albany Inbunc. 3 The most infamous acts of an infamous Legislature were the pp.ssaire of the MoHugh bill and the gerrymander bilL Tho first takes away the right of self-govern-inent of the people of the cities of tho State, and the other disfranchises a large number of the peoplo of the State, and is a blow at constitutional liberty. The first one was passed at the instance of a corrupt gang of otliceholders in the cities, the other in order that the Democratic thirst for office, no matter if attained at a sacrifice of hon or, decency, justice, and all the exalted privileges of the American citizen, might be gratined. lheso two acts alone will forever damn this Legislature in the eyes of every lover of the right and of all im partial historians. incennea Commercial Benjamin Harrison can go as proudly to his retirement as any man who ever pre ceded him. As President he has consci entiously and with signal ability performed his whole duty. No one could do more. He has been faithful to a lofty idea) of American nationality, which exalted the most bumble citizen and held tho country highest in the rank of nations. He sunported the policy whioh he believed would add most to his country's riches and honor and to the prosperity of its citizens, lie was President, and no cliques, faction or friend controlled him. He never lost a man's respect thiough weakness nor yielded Jiis cou viotions to win a friend. The honors which have come to him. the admiration so freely expressed for remarkable talents, will endure because they have been the recognition of duty done. Terre Hauto Express. . Tun metropolitan police bill, which passed the Legislature, means the creating of thirty-five or forty new and unnecessary offices, two-thirds of them to be given Democrats. It will cost each of the towns upon which these officials are forced an ex tra expense of 81.800 for salaries. But the main purpose of the law is to secure a Democratio police in all these cities for the protection of that class of people whose business makes it necessary they should depend solely upon the Democratic party for protection. The expenso will bo by far the least or tho evils that this new police regulation will entail upon cities like Richmond. Politically, it will so disgust good peoplo that tho Republicans will, in the end, Lethe gainers, bnt morally the whole city will mirier while this end is be ing reached. Tho limit to which Democracy can be endured 14 fast being reached. Its overthrow is being hastened by its own acts. Richmond Palladium. ALOCT PEOPhE AND THINGS. The King of Servia is only soventeen years ot ace, but he rules with a wisdom and Itrmuess that were denied his unhappy father. It is related as a curious literary coinci dence that when the Duke of Marlborough died so suddenly and so unexpectedly sev eral weeks ago be was just concluding a magazine article on "The Art of Living." As a child, King Umberto, of Italy, was extremely fragile, and as a youth he was very delicate. When he grew older, how ever, his constitution improved, and now he almost equals bis late father, Viotor Lmmanuel, in robustness. The prices of valuable Russian furs have been almost quadrupled in Germany in re cent years. Not all of them are genuine. as may be inferred from the faot that dead cats, which were worth 2 cents apiece forty years ago. now cost 25 to SO cents each. In the northern part of Russia it is cus tomary for tho bride to stand for three days and three nights under a veil sus pended from the ceiling bewailing the loss of her freedom. Her parents and relatives, commiserate with her during this spell of regret. The Rev. Joseph Cook, having been asked at what historic event he would have most wished to be present, replied "the creation." whereupon the misobievoni Boston Pilot slyly remarks that had this desire been realized the good parson would probably nave wanted to superintend tne wnoie job. When a New Yorker bought, the other day, a little household Budhist shrine tho Oriental vender caressed the laoqnered case with its tiny hinged doors, showed tha beneficent little , god standing upon the sacred lotus, und said: "On holy days and at prayer times you have it open, thus, so that yon may see the god and he may Iook round; but in business hours you shut up the doors and hook them, thus. Just same all the world over."' John W. Macxay, whoso sixtieth birth day will soon be celebrated provided the San Francisco lunatic's bullet does not terminate his existence got his first start in California as a miner under Mr. George Hearst, afterward United State Senator. Uncle George used to tell how Mackay, then a tall stripling, clad In blue flannel shirt and jeans trousers, applied to bim for work in a little mine he ' was exploiting. Ho hired him at 4 a day. Reviewing the postofHeial career of the Presidents of tho United States, a Washington writer notes that six men Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Johnson and Hayes became planters or farmers upon retiring from public life; that fiveVan Barcn, Fillmore, Tyler. Grant aud Cleveland openly tried, to get another term; that rive Van Buren, Polk. Fillmore, Pierce and Grant traveled extensively at the close of their ollicial career; anl that four Adams, Pierce. Buchanan and Hayes sooner or later became recluses. Mr. Gladstone is accounted an abstemious man in the matter of indulgence in wines, yet his daily allowance ?s a respectable one from an American point of view. For lunoheon he drinks two glasses of white wine and one of port, and for dinner be invariably has claret and port. The port be sips with the cheese and dessert of his dinner, dispensing with coftae, whioh keeps him awake. When he dines ont he drinks about three glasses of champagne. This is a mild allowance as compared with that of Pitt and other "four-bottle" Prime Minister., but, like Mercutio's wound, 'twill serve. I have." says a St. Louis man, "derived much benefit from treatment by a specialist who is an unlicensed medical praotitioner, and who in consequence has to get round the law by charging nothing for advice, and making his income out of his preparation sales. The first tme I saw him he acknowledged very frankly than be was a quack, adding that ho was not ashamed of the name, as it covered as distinguished a man as Pasteur as well a himself. I thonght at the time ho was joking, but on making inquiry I bavo found he is right. Pasteur is not even a surgeon, according to the French law, and when ho wants to Inject fluid into a man Ijo has to have a registered surgeon do tho catting; This may be magnificent, but it certainly isn't sense." TOPICS OP CCIiUENT INTEREST. Union String?. X. Y., is about to try a novel experiment in tho way ot temperance reform. A number of prominent citizens, including several clergymen, propose to take chargo of tho liquor tratlic m a way which will enable temperateperonstobave an opportunity to purchase, intoxicants, but there is to be no "treting" nor auy approach to drunkenness. A committee will pasa upon the names of persons to whom liquor may be sold, but those whom this committee have decided against cannot have drinks. Minors aro not to be allowed In s iloons. and no sales of larcr quantities than a drink aro to be made, except on tho prescription of a physician, aud all sales of this class are carefully recorded. The profits are to be applied to the reduction of the town debt. "Worth its weight in gold" is generally thought to be expressive of the highest degree of value. So it would be if there were

nothing worth mors than its weight in

gold, but there is. ibis is ambergris, a fatty, repulsive-looking substance, and of curious origin. Ambcuria, which is worth more than its weight in gold, is simply hili&rv calculi. or gall stones, from a whale. It is, therefore, the result ot di? ase. It is invaluable iu the making of fine perfumery. It is dometimeri found floating in the ocean, having been elected by the whale, u1 is sometimes tound in their dead bodies. The m-ir.ft is about an ounce, A Iet. liedford, Man. hrm. which deals in ambergris, will exhibit some, of it ot the world' fair, in connection with a fall illustration of the implements and methods o! whalo lishing. English scientists are wcrdcrfj!iy interested in the recent discoveries of - Prof. Dewar. whose methods and investigations have suddenly won him a prominen; placo in the tcientific world. Briefly 6ti.ted, his discovery is that the natural gases, ?nch aa oxygen and nitrogen, and even the air itself, can be reduced to liquids of tlie consistency of water. He produces lic,uid air by the pint; also liquid oxygen, v'jtch if fonnd to have strange magnetic an t lightabsorbing qualities. These results are obtained by means ot an almost incoucetvabls degree of cold, produced by means of vacuum and pressure. Oxygen is liquefied at 182 degrees centigrade and nitrogen nt !92 degrees. Professor Dewar hopes to reach a temperature of -40 degrees, afcj which hydrogen will liquefy. His discoveries are causing a sensation in scientitio circles, and are expected to lead to others of great interest. With the departure of zero weather tho hens have resumed their wonted activity, and the market is abundantly supplied with fresh eggs, at prices which bring them within the reach of all. Eggs at 25 cents a dozen aro cheaper than meat at 124 cents a pound, for there is more nntrinientin dozen eggs th&n there is in two pounds of meat. After their long resting spell the bens ought to lay without ceasing for awhile, and they will have to iu order to keep up tho country's average product of COo.000,000 dozen eggs a year. By the way, it is said that wo Americans consume annually per head more than twice as many eggs as the people of Griat Britain do, statistics showing that every man, woman, and child in the United States manages to dispose of about ten dozen eggsayar. Ia spite of the vast quantity ol eggs we produco, we also import eggs to the amount of about $3,000,000 a year. The Postal Guide for IStti. recently issued by tho PostoiEc? Department, contains a large amount of information concerning the organization and operations of the service. It shows that on the 17th of Deoember last there were 67.CCS postoQice in the United Statrs, of which C4.447 were fourth-class oflices, and the rest presidential or salaried oflices. The total number of money-order oflices was 17,7.8. Indianav has 2,143 postoflices, of which 2,031 aro fourth-class, and 112 aro presidential oflices. The Guide contains an alphabetical list of all the postoflices iu the United States, an alphabetical list of tho oflices in each State and Territory, a list by States and counties, an alphabetical list of all the counties in the United States, a classified list of postoflices with salaries attached, and ntu"h otber practical information in .regard to postal affairs. The list of posto.iices oontHins some curiosities in the way of names. Some nanu s) ar,e very popular and are repeated many times, though nevermore than once in tho same State. There are thirty-four Washiugtons in as many different States, besides twenty combinations of the name, such at Washington Center. Washington Grovo, Washington Heights, etc The memory of Columbus is perpetuated by twenty postoflices in as many different States. Thero are thirty Lincolus. besides a number of Lincoln Citys, Lincolnvilles, etc. Indiana has Lincoln in Cass county, Lincoln City in Spenoer, and Lincolnville in Wabash The name of Jackson is repeated twentynine times, that of Jefferson twenty-seven times, that of Monroe twenty-seven times, that of Adams sixteen times, .and tho names of other Presidents about in tho same proportion. Twenty-two oflices bear the name of Blaine and twenty-four that of Harrison. Bible names and those of noted characters in ancient or modern history are freely drawn upon, and some of them many times repeated. There are lifteeu oflices named Homer, two after his hero Achilles, and seven Hectors. Thero are seven Virgils and one Dante, three Dickens and one Thackeray, one Shakspeare. eleven Burns, and so1 on. The Christian ' names ot men and women figure extensively. Some names that one would hardly expect to And are repeated often. Thus thero aro eleven Macedonian nineteen Montereys, three Constantines. six Jerusalems. six Mount Pisgshs, live Mount Tabors, thirteen Mount Zions. etc There is a Jug in Alabama, a Jug Tavern in Georgia, and a Jug Town in North Carolina. The shortest name in the list is B, in Tippecanoe, this State, though Kentucky and South Caro lina each have on O.K. Among the odd names in Indiana aro Amity, Aroma. Art, Banquo. Bean Blosson. Bigfoot. Deputy Desolation. Don Juan. Fickle. Halo. Hawpatch, Hoosiervllle, Mollie, Moral. Nickel Plate. Oolitic. Pony, Popcorn. Pncker Brush, Santa Claus, Sweet Home, Toto, Wild Cat, Young America and Zipp's. There are hundreds of names in the list that seem unaccountable and many that aro almost unpronounceable. Cleveland's Wealth. New York LMter. The President-elect owns socio ban It stock, or did. aud his property Is per manently invested in directions toward which federal legislation cannot point. He went out of the White House 8150.CC3 richer than ho entered, mainly owing to a fortunate real estate investment in Washington. Hiseamin2S6ince he has been practicing law here have, it is believed, been fully equaled by his expenses. He lived m no very luxuriant way until ayear ago. in a house on upper Madison avenue, and in a stylo entailing an expense, judging from the experience of thoso who lived similiarly, of about S -0,000 a year. His investments (have yielded incomes to be reinvested, and the general impression is that he is now worth 8-0. OX). Mrs. Cleveland, who is richer than he, controls hef own property. Corruptible Public Officials. Anonymous "Writer, In the March Fcrani. The typical Legislature or City Council or (elected) board of education consists of members of whom one-third will vote as they think, or at least as they prefer to vote, regardless of possible advantages or disadvantages to theinsolves. Ths votes ot another third are merchandise purs and simple. The remaining third consist of debatable men, usually respectable in private life and with honest intentions to do their public duties, but often rather wealr. in character and iisaly to owe money that they cannot pay. Whether men of this class serve out their terms honestly depends on tho temptation they happen to encoantcr. If repeatedly called on to 'ote on questions affecting largo computing private interests tbeir chances of romaining honest are very small. Ilarriion's Fame Secure. Ph'.la.lebyMn Tiroes (Dera.) In the uncertainties of the prefent situation it is impossible to forecast the futnre of our only surviving ex-l'resident. His ability, hi knowledge, his experience and his earnestness are too valuable to bo lost to the country or to be expended in the dignified retirement of a professorship of law. But in whatever way they may hereafter be made available, he ban already written his name securely on the roll of faithful public servants in that great list which spans th wonderful century from Washingtou to Cleveland. A to Compliments. New York Ctfrr.ip.ercl.il Advertiser. Mr. Olney, in bis eDeech in Boston, expressed the opinion that his appointment was altogether in the- nature ot a compliment to tlio bar. Viewing the Cabinet from top to bottom, leaving out Lamont. the bar mu&t foel itself most highly complimented. As for Mr. Lamont, bis uppointment was a graceful nnd touching compliment to tho equine and trolley streetcar service. SpraUSng fur Muuy Democrats. Wathlcsua Tost. The Post is- cot disposed to crowd Mr. Cleveland, but as mood as be wets comfortably lociited we would bo pleased U publish bis views ou the best mode of securing appointments to otlice.