Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1879.

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THE DAILY HEWS. THUBSDAT, FEBRUARY 20. OT». The IndiaB&polis News has the largest circulation of any daily paper in Indiana.

Is the lower houee of congress yeaterda t, the first performance for a long time worthy the name of a debate took place. The republicans had a little the best of the question and of the argument.

It is amusing if not instructive to see with what unaminity good republican papers hare discovered that Senator Bayard is a man of no political prominence or mental force, and how awfully strong the battered Tilden is in both these particulars. _

If the Washington Star is correctly informed, President Hayes will not veto the Chinese immigration bill. It says that inasmuch as the hasty psssage of ths bill puts a stop to negotiations which were under way with the Chinese government, he might be opposed to it, but that it is known he is strongly in favor of a limitation on the inflow of Chinese, and when the question comes before him it will be simply as to tbe way in which the desired consummation can be brought about, and in this light he will not veto it. If that is a specimen of the President’s reasoning, we are sorry to know it, and if he acts upon it we will be sorrier. The spirit of repudiation is seen as plainly in the legislation concerning the Chinese as in any one thing congress has done or attempted to do. The binding force of a national obligation rests as lightly on the nation’s law-makers, as their resjieclive declarations when they meet in poUtical conventions and formulate party platforms. There is not one whit diflerence in spirit in the repudiation of our agreement with China concerning immigration, and the repudiation of our agreement with the people of Europe and elsewhere concerning the payment of our bonds. If a treaty is to give way for supposed party necessity, there is no assurance that the same necessity may not cast our financial obligations to the four winds. The prevalence of poUtical immorality and the baleful influence of partyism, has never been more plainly seen than now. ♦ ' '■ — Tub Grant movement began to boom seventeen years ago to-day, when a certain obscure brigadier in the union army wrote to the haughty rebel major-general: “No other terms than an immediate and unconditional surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediaely upon your works. —[Toledo, 0., Blade. Bo “the Grant movement’’ is a military movement is HT We are called upon to break tbe unwritten law of the republic, which Is regarded as its snrest safeguard against a dictatorship, in order to put a soldier on guard. If Grant were a statesman whose admirable wisdom had made him a marvel in the conduct of civil affairs and it could be demonstrated that his great judgment were needed again to deal with civil problems, there might be something less sinister in a third term idea. But when his adherents tell us it is because of bis military record and qualifications that he is to have the reins of rulership again, we do not see how the intention of perpetual dictatorship could be more plainly avowed. If such reasons are sufficient for a third term they are equally sound for a fourth, fifth and sixth term, and as the third term movement assumes what its projectors believe is consistency and form, we shall be mistaken if any of them are found who will deny the desirability of Grant as his own successor until he dies. We do not believe this republic has reached that stage yet. The Brazilian subsidy swindle showed itself in the senate yesterday strong enough to successfully resist being summarily thrust out or to be cut down from $200,000 to $100,000 annual stipend. This is simply the test bill, on which the subsidizers have been united, and if they cany it, as seems likely from the proceedings yesterday, will-be the beginning of a long line of similar measures by which monopolists will wax fat from the earnings of the people. Mr. Roach is one of the few individuals to whom this country is compelled to bow and pay his qfpra prices for a vessel. But on top of this comes this impudent demand that $200,000 a year for ten years shall be given him for carrying the Brazil mails. This will enable Mr. Roach to find customers for steamships, and add to his profits as a protected ship builder the profits of a pro* tec ted mall carrier. The item of trade with South America is altogether an insignificant and secondary feature of this job. A tariff which makes such a trade impossible, finds its strongest supporters among the fellows who ar* conspicuous in urging forward this subsidy swindle. These men, as the New York Times well pats it, “are in fact intent upon perfecting the application of Uve protectionist principle by offer-

ing a bonus for the performance of a service that weald be rendered, In other circumstances, without any other consideration than the profit accruing from legitimate buainem. ,, The whole thing is in keeping with the vicious legislation which has characterized thia congress, and which, if it be not ended by the injection of a little common honesty and business sense, will make bad times for thia country. It Will Keep Coining If we may judge from experience, the liquor problem will never be settled in this world. It is only another form of the unending conflict between good and evil. While men like drink, as men have liked to drink aince Noah, other men will make liquor for them, and others still will keep it where they can buy it as they want it. That is as certain as the existence of sin. And while driukiog make® poverty, crime and disorder, as it has made them In all ages and lands that have made liquor, there will be good men and devoted women who will strive incessantly to stop it Not to cure it merely, but to crush it; not to make it pay the cost it forces on community, but to rid the land of it utterly. And they will continue to ask and urge, not repressive legislstion mejgdy, but destructive legislation. Prohibition is no Maine theory or invention of Neal Dow’s. It was discussed nearly a hundred* and fifty years ago in the English house of lords, and supported by one of the ablest and most distinguished nobleman of his time, the celebrated earl of Chesterfield. In a speech opposing the licensing of gin shops in February, 1743, he talked exactly as John B. Gough and Francis Murphy and Mrs. Wallace talk to-day. Take a sample of prohibitory eloquence one hundred and thirty-six years old: “It surely never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of civil affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.” “Luxury, my IdTd, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will. Would you lay a tax on a breach of the ten commandments? Would not snch a law be wicked and scandalous, because it would imply an indulgence to all those who could pay the tax?” “If liquor tempt people to their own destruction let us secure them from these fatal draughts by bursting the vials that con tain, them. Let us crush at once these artists in slaughter, who have reconciled their countryman to gicknesa and to ruin.” Neither Dow nor Gough ever said anything stronger than that, or could say it with as much point and force. The war has gone on, warmer, cooler, furiously at times, feebly at times, but never wholly ceasing ever since. Will it not, like Tennyson’s brook, “Go on forever.” Practical legislatures will seek to do that which can be done, first of all, and and then that which will do most service when done, and as practical men rule the world in the long run, liquor legislation has been almost entirely repressive instead of destructive. Tbe solicitude has been directed to the point of making it pay for its mischief, rather than wasting efforts to kill it and keep it from mischief. Following this direction a correspondent of The News proposes an act of congress levying a tax by stamps on the sale as well as the manufacture of liquors. Another proposes the eonfiscation oi all impure or adulterated liquors, which, if thoroughly executed would leave hardly enough between the oceans to set a canary bird on a spree. That policy is out of the question for the same reason that absolute prohibition is. It puts the forces of good and evil in direct conflict, and the devil is too strong In this world to be beaten in that sort of fight, as he always has been. Another plan, called the “Swedish system,” has recently been brought to tbe attention of this country by some of the eastern papers, and proposed in the New York legislature as an amendment to the proposed license system. It requires that the number of licenses shall not exceed one to every five hundred of population, and that they shall be sold at auction to the highest bidder once a year, the successful bidder paying one-fourth down, and the remainder in a month, on pain of forfeiture. He must notify the proper authority where he will sell, but if the owners of property within two hundred feet object, no license shall be issued for that place. The “local option” feature remains. The Swedish features merely reinforce it. Whether this would be better than our license law we do not know. Probably it would, in giving the public a better chance to discover who are trying to get licenses than now, when all the information is an advertisement that nobody ever reads, or a county board order that is never seen till it is too late. A public auction of licenses would be sure to draw a big crowd, and spread the news to everybody, and the necessity of a cash payment would a»ert one of the very worst evils of the present law, the failure of rascally or bankrupt dealers to pay for and take out the licenses granted to them, an evasion by which probably fifty saloons or more here are run as free as air. That ought to be stopped any how, and it can eaaily be done by withholding the grant till the money is secured. Withholding the license does no good.

CUKKKNT OOHUJENT. Minister John Welsh writes from London to the secretary of the state that the $17,500 paid him is not a sufficient sum to sustain the dignity of his office. Mr. Welsh undoubtedly speaks the truth. The enormous expense thrust upon men in his station soon use up a paltry £3,500 a year. In London the “upper ten” have to pay two prices for everything and with the moet rigid economy $17,500 will not go very far. We should pay our representatives abroad a suitable sum so long as we have them. But better still, we should do away with them altogether. A diplomatic service, so called, for this country is a wretched piece of wasteful nonsensfc. There are no duties attaching to the office worthy the name. We should keep abreast of the days ofsteamships and ocean cables. The number of unemployed laborers and mechanics in New York is one-half less than the number five years ago. In 1873 the average of the unemployed reached 25,000, and,

subsequently, for a time, 00,000. It Is now only about I2,ooo. Ii ta said the president is keeping tbPBerlin mission for some republican senator who will be out of a job after March 4. The sneceasor of Bayard Taylor will look well communicating with the German court by means of a dragoman, emphasizing hit second hand remarks by nods and a continuous grin. Tbe average retired senator is guiltless of a knowledge of tne German language, and not overly well grounded in the use of the English. Mn. Zschabuh CaARDLBR, b man who la oonUouaUr maligned by the democratic preae a* a drunkard and a rascal, but who N known by er cry body to be a temperate maa,—[Philadelphia Bulletin (etalwart.) Oh, stop there! Zachariah is elected, and all that, but don’t try to rub it in on the people. It is well enongh to say he is honest and has never been accused of being a fool, but to try and trick him out as a temperate man is a little too much. Next thing it will be that be isn’t a profane man. In this connection a telegram from Lansing, Michigan, to another stalwart paper, the Chicago InterOccan, is a curious commentary. It reads: “In tbe evening Senator Chandler gives a reception at the Lansing house. No liquor will be provided by him.” Now, that’s a nice declaration to have to* make for a tem-

perate man.

It will be remembered that four years ago or more, when the candidates fo^ the republican presidential nomination were in discussion Secretary (then senator) Sherman published a letter favoring Governor Hayes for the place. This was when Hayes wasn’t known outside of Ohio, and the support of a man so conspicuous in public life as John Sherman was a big support. If Hayes isn’t a Sherman man there U no gratitude in hu-

man nature.

It is said that the lobby now attending on congress in the interest of ths Western Union telegraph company, is one of the most formidable that has been known for years. Governor Williams’s favorite tune: “Sweet

spirit,” etc.

The Chicago Inter-Ocean gives an’account of a boy who committed suicide. Cause assigned, “reading religious books.” It is in order fpr the supporters of yellow-back trash to raise a howl now at the pernicious effect of religious reading on the young. “Let ns hear no more of what the country owes to Grant.” He owes more to his country than any other American ever did; owes what be can never repay. The disgrace of the Grant era in our political history, its degradation of national character, its tarnishing of national reputation, its prostitution of the highest offices to the basest end^ its corruption of every department of the public service, its poisoning of public morals, and finally the creation of a fraudulent executive to which it transmitted its disgraced sceptre, all these are charged against Urantism, and so long as this damning record stands the honest people of the country will be of no temper to hear of indebtedness to Grant.

—[San Francisco Examiner.

The passage of the anti-Chinese hill by the senate shows that the abstract notions of human rights and the equality of races upon which the question of slavery was fought do not find a place in the heads of leading republicans to-day. Of the twenty-nine votes the bill received seventeen were republican and twelve democratic.—[Detroit News. Year by year personal independence in congress is lowered, and men talk of expediency, trade, and log rolling. It is a discouraging fact that very few propositions before congress stand or fall on their intrinsic mer-

its.—[New York Times.

In passing the pension bill and the Chinese bill it seems to have been a contest between the democrats and the republicans which should grub the lowest for party capital. There was not a particle of statesmanship about the passage of either.—[Washington

Star.

Mr. Chandler is another star of the reconstructed galaxy of the nearest supporters of General Grant, which will hail his coming when he shall return by way ot Asia and the golden gate, accomplished in all the manners of royalty, to make his triumphal course to the white house, borne on tne popular acclaim, without the formality of a convention, thereto remain as long as a grateful people shall ask.—[Cincinnati Gazette. „

Ferry Boat Collision.

Yesterday afternoon the ferry steamers

El Cajpitan and Alameda, nlying between

San Francisco and Oakland point

in mid passage,

and the boats were close to each other

point collided

A dense fog prevailed

before they could be seen. Tbe bow of El Capitan struck the Alameda on^the port quarter, shattering her guard and rail, but doing no serious damage. The port bow of El Capitan waa crushed in and she filled and sank to the hurricane deck. The boats remained fast to each other for several minutes, during which time most of tbe passengers of Et Capitan got on board the Alameda, except a few who jumped overboard in the excitement. There were about forty passengers on El Capitan and nearly 300 on the Alameda. One sailor was injured by a fragment broken off by the collision. No lives are thought to

have been lost.

The African War. Advices from Cape Town January 29th, via Madeira, are as follows: Col Wood’s column was attacked January 24th by 4,000 Zulus. The enemy were dispersed with but trifling loss to Col. Wood’s command. Several attacks on Pearson’s column and other columns have been repulsed, but the gravity of the situation has not been exaggerated. The enemy are concentrating towards Elkowe, where Pearson is intrenched. A grand attack is daily expected. Col. Wood is falling back to cover Utrecht.

The Chinese Infamy. . f Richmond Independent.] Chinamen have been told by our missioniaries to learn our customs', our civilization, our religion. Now who can blame them if they do not believe these teachings? Who can blame them if they drive out our missionaries? The blow struck by that bill at the development of the great empire with its many millions will not soon be forgotten. A’ generation will not wipe out the injury. China is a Big Country. When two members of the Chinese embassy were in Baltimore the other day, a highly intelligent citizen asked them which was the better tea, Oolong or Young Hyson, and was surprised to hear that they did not know. The first tea plant one of them had ever seen was shown him by a tea merchant of Baltimore.

Looking after the Spoils. A Mr. Row, state commissioner of insurance of Michigan, has succeeded in getting a bill introduced into the Michigan legislature which will make it a crime to belong to a secret society with the beneficiary feature.

UPITOAyr. Sketch of ths Ufm of Bishop Folsy of Chicago, who Dtod Yesterday. Rt Rev. Thomas Foley, bishop of Pergam us, inpnrtihm ntfiddtum, coadjutor and administrator of the diocese of Chicago, waa born March 6, 1822, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was of Iriah parentage. He was the son of Matthew Foley of the county Wexford, Ireland, hia mother being also a native of the came locality. They emigrated to the United States early in 1821. At the early.age of ten years he entered the preparatory school of St. Mary's college, Baltimore, and after pursuing the prescribed course of study, matriculated at the college itself, lie enjoyed there tbe best educational advantages that the institution afforded, and, in 1840, at the age of 18, graduated with the degree of A. B. Having determined to devote his future life to the service of the church, he next entered the theological seminary attached to St. Mary’s, where ne studied divinity, and passed six years in. preparing himself for the sacred calling to which he was aboat to consecrate his being. Having received the minor orders in due course, he was ordained to the priesthood August 16,1846, at the cathedral in Baltimore by the most Rev. Dr. Eecleston, archbishop and metropolitan, by whom he was subsequently appointed to take charge of the Catholic missions in Montgomery county, Maryland. In this charge there were four churches to be served, these being located at Rackville, the shire town, Rock Creek, Seneca and Barnesville. After officiating in this field < for a period of eight months, be was called upon to act as assistant pastor of St. Patrick’s church in Washington, D. C., having for his senior the venerable Father Matthews, who had for fifty years ably filled the pastorate in the capital city, a most eminent scholar, and one who enjoyed the confidence and friendship of General Washington, as well as of all the presidents daring his lifetime. He passed two years in this parish, at the expiration of which he was called, in 1849, to the Baltimore cathedral by Archbishop Eccleston. He here labored with acceptability for a period of twentyone years, and during that time filled several important positions. When the late archbishop, F. P. Kenrick, was translated to that see, in 1851, he became bis secretary and chancellor of the archidocese of Baltimore. He also filled a similar position under the late Archbishop Spaulding. He also acted as secretary and notary of the plenary council, which was held in Baltimore in 1866. In 1867 he was made vicar general of the archdiocese of Baltimore, which office he filled, being eminently qualified for the same, until his removal to Chicago. He was appointed by the holy see, November 19,1869, to the present bishopric, to oecupy the episcopate in place of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Duggan, who had become infirm and unable to perform his official duties. He waa consecrated to this high office at the Baltimore cathedral, February 27,1870, and repaired to Chicago to take charge of that diocese, and was regularly installed March 27, of the same year. He was an efficient and most able chief pastor, and an ardent laborer in this important, ever increasing field. He was a man of scholarly attainmetts and profound learning; very unassuming, of a retiring disposition, and of pleasant address. On all with whom he was brought in contact was left the impression of his being an earnest, efficient and faithful laborer in his Master’s service. Bishop Foley was not in reality bishop of Chicago, but was only administrator of the diocese of Chicago. In 1868 Bishop Duggan became insane, and was therefore unable to attend to the affairs of his charge. The church treats insanity as an illness, and hence Bishop Duggan is still really the Bishop of Chicago. When Bishep Foley was raised to the episcopal dignity, from the position of vicar general of the archdiocese of Baltimore, he had to be given a bishopric. He could not be made bishop of Chicago, for this diocese had a bishop already. He was therefore made bishop of Pergamus in partibut infddum or infidel parts. He was assigned to the diocese of Chicago to administer its afl'airs during the infirmity or illness of Bishop Duggan.

The Geneva Award. The amendments to the Geneva award reported to the senate, antagonize those of the house and the bill is likely to fail.

8. B. N. [Buffalo Commercial ] The late Admiral Goldsborough was one of the most uncivil officers in the navy. It is-related of him that he once found in his room the card of a young man attached to the diplomatic corps, who had called during the admiral’s absence. Not long after the young man accosted him on the street and asked, “Did you get my card, Admiral?' He shouted out, “Yes! and what’s the meaning of E. P. that you wrote on it?” “Why that means en pertonne, that I called in person.” “It does, eh?” said the admiral, who went off in a mood of disgusted meditation. In a few days he returned the call by sending his carol around by a messenger, first writing 9. B. N. in one corner. Again the two met. “You received my card, did you?” inquired the admiral. “Yes, and what does S.B. N. mean?” asked the polite young man. “Sent by a nigger!” thundered the admiral.

Bismarck Rebuked. In the German reichstagyesterday, Herr Lafcker presented the motion of which he gave notice the previous day, contesting the government’s interpretation of" the socialist law, and refusing the consent of the reichstag to the proposed arrests of members. Deputies Kicker and Lasker spoke in support of the motion. After a long debate the first part of the motion (disputing the correctness of the government’s interpretation of the law) was adopted by a large majority, only German conservatives and imperialists voting against it. The part reinsing to assent to the arrests was adopted almost unanimously. -i Not Indirect Corruption. [New York Sun.] When legislators, judges of the state and federal courts, including the highest judicial tribunal at Washington, and others in exalted station, consent to accept and to use free passes on the railroads, franks from the Adams Express company, franks from the Western Union, and franks from other corporations, it is easy to understand how action is affected in congress, and why decisions are made in regard to thess interests. In can hardly be called indirect corruntion when the gift is taken with all that the name implies.

Tlnie Knough for Subsidies. [Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald.) In the ocean carrying trade the private enterprise of this countrv has not a fair chance; it is trammeled by unfair navigation laws. Let congress accord to every American hia right to buy shine where he pleases. Then if American ships bought in open market can not be made to pay in the Brazilian trade, it will be time enough to ask the government to come to the res cne with a subsidy. Bank In Trouble. The bank of Oswego, N. refused to pay checks yesterday. The cashier says the assets are sufficient to meet the HahilL tie*. It will be decided in a few days whether the bank will go on or wind up. A New Departure. [Cincinnati Gazette.] The color line has been drawn at yellow.

******

i we we’ked together

ta over the am. f amamar weather,

ly love tuned quteuy and leaked on me. Ah, the aummer weather, the Ukt euminer

weather!

Ah, the purple ahadow en hill end aeel

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And I looked in hor ojtrb re if® wRlkod togotbof ( A nd knew ike ehy eecret aha tain weald hide. And we want hand la hand through the bloeeom-

Ina heather, •

She who now waa my iwratheart and I by her

aide;

For the ahade was the ahadow of Lova’a wing (rather, Which bears, aa he riaea, the lecrata wa aide. Now, come cloud or aonshtne, dome joy or waep-

It can%e no longer aa’twae before.

Ju»t - - -

And farewell to the joyaace and freedom of yoro; For It croasrd Lore’s face when he lias a^sleeping,

t a shadow of change o’er the aoal comes creep-

log,

“ thejoyi

re’s (ace raking.i

—[From Morris's new volume.

SCRAPS. Many natives of Alaska wear seal skin

coats.

Bret Harte’s tales have been translated into the Servian tongne. A new Idaho town, with only one g$rl in it, has been named Onegirlia. The Indians are the'greatest people in the world lor preserving locks of hair. A Baltimorean advertises for a “position as son-in-law in a family of means.” Russian dissenters from the Greek church are now computed at fifteen mil-

lion.

Long Yow, an actor in the Royal Chinese theater, San Francisco, is paid at the rate of $6,700 a year. A clock at the Paris exhibition fired off a pistol hourly. The exhibitor explained that it was to “kill time.” In the United States there are of women in the various professions, 530 doctors, 420 dentists, 68 preaches, and 15 or 20 law-

yers.

Up to date, four boys and one girl have been killed and six children maimed while coasting in Pittsburg and Allegheny. An honorable member of the legislature of Wisconsin confidently informed his fellow-senators that he “well knew the original origin of this bill.” Whisky is now made from leather, and this may perhaps explain why so many persons who drink it are always “strapped.”r—[Norristown Herald. Among the names in the Philadelphia directory are Zuschmtt, Yrigoyen, Zakrsewski, Yunguichel, Schwitzgqozle, Quickendugtel, Pequignot and Dohischlegel. Things which every man can do better

than any one else: Poke a fire, put on his own hat, edit a newspaper, tell a story after another man has begun it, examine

a railway time table.—[Burlington Hawk-

eye.

The late pope, Pius IX., it is said, never allowed a lady to kiss his foot at his audiences, always giving her his hand. Pope Leo XIII., on the contrary, sees ladies go through the ceremony with cairn indifference. Fred. Douglass says in his new lecture: “There is no use talking about emigrating beyond the reach of the white man, for he has taken possession of every quarter of the globe, and will be found wherever the sun shines.” Miss Juliet Corson lectured at Cooper institute on cookery, and illustrated her remarks by steTeopticon views. There were shown photographs of good rounds of beef and legs of mutton, and also phdtographs of the reverse. Speak gently, speak gently; no matter how much bigger and how much broader across the shoulders than yourself the other man is, nor how cross he looks, speak gently. The bigger and broader and crosser—the gentler.—[Burlington Hawk-

eye.

John Bradley, of Philadelphia, could not, in consequence of heart disease, lie down, nor even sit down comfortably. He had a bed made in such a way as to sustain him in an upright position, and in that contrivance he slept for five years. He died a few days ago. A boy, after hearing Wendell Phillips lecture, asked his father: “Pa, why don’t they give him an office? He seems to know all about everything!" “He can make more lecturing,” said the father, absent-mindedly. This was the youth’s first lesson in patriotism.—[Rochester Ex-

press.

When Gen. Veach, of North Carolina, escorted Gov. Jarvis, Senator Vance’s successor, to the gubernatorial chair recently, he shook hands with him and said, “Now, Jarvis, I’ve done all I can for you. Be comfortable and you will soon get u»ed to it. God bless you and make me your succeesor,' Gcod bye.” In a primary school, not long ago, the teacher undertook to convey to her pupils an idea oi the uses of the hyphen. She wrote on the blackboard, “Bird’s-nest,” and, pointing to the hyphen, asked the school, “What is that for?” After a short pause a small Fenian piped out, “Plaze, ma’am,for the bird to roosht on.”—[Bos-

ton Globe.

She had “buzzed” him without ceasing during the whole of the first and half of

the second act, when, noticing the wildly distracted expression of his eyes, which mark the man who in trying to follow a

KQI IMK DENTISTRY. XF%y Horans Got “Otathtar Food”—What Kills* Loalsgton nnta Kysdyk’s Hnmbt#t on tan—Colt’s Tootli-Instnunsata data*

“If you want to sse something new go over to John Wood's stables on ihsCutHa this afternoon,” said a well known hone man to a News reporter yesterday. “What ia it?” inquired The Newe gath-

erer, all attention.

“Well, it’s a horse dentist, and the nov-

elty ia well worth aeeing.”

The reporter went. The dentist was there, Dr. R. E. Clark, of New York, buaily engaged in dressing the mouth of a lively five-year-old dark bay hone. The doctor talked as he worked. “Look in this fellow’s mouth,” he said, opening the animal’s jaws. “See on the side there the mucous membrane lining of the cheeks cat and inflamed? Done by the sharp and

edges of the teeth.”

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dialogue on the stage and keep the drift of his companion’s monologue fails to do either, she asked in a tone of surprise. “Why, Mr. Jenkins, ain’t you interested

in this play?”

Fred W. Vanderbilt, the youngest son of William H. and favorite grandson of the late commodore, has married the divorced wife of his father’s sister’s son, in ether words, of his first cousin—Alfred Torrence. She is 35 and he is 21. He has $2,000,000, left by his grandfather, and is part heir to his father’s immense estate. William H. says: “It is easier to manage three railroads than one infatuated son.” A weak-sighted old lady had her journal read to her by a maid, who entered her service the day before, and the poor woman could understand nothing of what she was listening to. “However,” said the maid, “I am reading what is here.” At the end of a quarter of an hour the sufferer discovered that the maid was reading the lines across the entire breadth of the paper instead of down the columns.—[Paris

Figaro.

Girls are advised by a Chicago physician to always sleep on their backs it they want to keep crow’s feet from the corners of their eyes. “These blemishes,” he says “are the malt of sleeping on their sides. The pressure upon the temple and cheeks leaves wrinkles at the corners and nnderneath the eyes which disappear in a few hoars, but finally become so fixed that, neither hours nor ablutions will abate

them.”

An eminent French coacbmaker says: “I never build two carriages exactly alike, not because I do not build each one as well as 1 know how, but in bmlding that I learn how to make the next one better. When I place these carriages of thine in the exposition building, f thought them perfect but now that I haye spent three months looking over the carriages of other builders, I see that they are not ao,” Here ia an illustration of the value of these allows to intelligent tradesmen.

low do I remedy it? I use a file like this, first.” Here he took an instrument with . a long handle like a shoemaker’s raspj the file portion at tbe end being flat, one inch wide and about three and a half inches long.” With this I file off those sharp corners yon have seen. The horse rather likes it, you see,” he said, beginning work; ancf, indeed, the animal inclined hia head affectionately toward the operator, leaning his jaw heavily npon the instrument, the doctor holding hia mouth open with his hand. “Bite?” (this in answer to a bystander) “Not a bit ot it. No danger even from the most vicioos hones. I control them from the eye, and have their attention from the minute I begin. Besides, they seem to know that I’sa doing what I do'for their benefit. I can ran my hand into this fellow’s month clear up to the elbow”—and be did ae. “Yes,” said Mr. Wood, “ao you can. He’s none too gentle, either. Kicks sometimes.” “Half the horses ailments come from the teeth,” continued the doctor, filing away. “People attribute them to something else, nearly always. Frequently dose them for worms. Don’t think of looking in their mouths. Teeth bad— they fail to masticate and get off their

feed.”

“Dose the horse ever have the toothache?” innocently inquired the reporter. “Of course, he does. Why shouldn’t he? he.has teeth enough—forty. A mare has thirty-six, being without the four bridle, or canine teeth. Yes, the horse has twelve incisors, the cutting teeth in front, four bridle teeth, the remainder molara. He has twenty above and twenty below. When a horse has the tooth-ache it shows in his driving. He’ll flinch, twist vonnd or turn his head to one side. Uneven teeth bother horses greatly. The famous Lexington that died three years ago starved to death. His teeth were so long and ao uneven he contdn’t masticate hia food. Here are some of my dental instruments,” continued the doctor, stopping work for a moment, and opening a small valise, disclosing saws and other implements of cold steel that forceply reminded the reporter of several seances he had with teeth extractors. “You see I have foiteps made with long handles to get the needed leverage on a horse’s tooth, for they pall hard.” “Do you ever give anaesthetics?” “No; but I’ve been accuned of it. Do you know what killed Rysdyk’a Hambletonian? It was called epizootic. It wai this: One of his molars dropped out, and the lower tooth kept growing and pressing into the cavity until an abscess was formed, the pus discharging through his nose. Then he died—died of pyemia, blood poi-

soning.”

“A re col is troubled with their teeth?” “Yes; they shed their first teeth, just as children do, and I frequently have to operate on them, as in anedding they often leave ahells of abnormal growth sticking in their gums. When this happens their mouths get sore, they get off their feed and grow thin and poor. Then they are taken advantage of and doaed with wormmedicine, when the trouble is all in their

moutha.”

while, the horse submitting without any

The filing was going on all this

ibmitting without any

efforts to escape, a negro holding hia head in position while the doctor attended to his work, the animal not being restrained by either baiter or bridle. Finally the job was done, twenty-five minutes being consumed in the work, the teeth deprived of all their rough and cutting edges and made serviceable for oats and corn. The next animal brought oat for the dentist’s hand was a gray, seven-year-old. “See these molars,” he said, putting his hand fearlessly into the horse’s mouth and forcing his jaws wide apart, “they’re cutting right into his cheek.” He then began the operation of filing, as he had done with the first animal. The gray, at the first stroke of the file, seemed much astonished, dilating his nostrils and breathing hara, but as the work proceeded his eye swelled and glistened with positive pleasure, and as he coaid not with the doctor’s hand in his mouth, indulge in a horse-laugh, a broad simper of satisfaction traveled along his jaw. * “See the difference,” said the^dentist, “between this and the usual method, where it takes three men besides the operator to hold and manage the hone. I never have any trouble. 1 have fixed a number of horses here in thin city, and they all undergo the operation with about the same docility that this one does. I have dressed John B’s mouth, his teeth were sharp and uneven; fixed Mart. Hare’s horses, Hambrino, Margrave and Darlington, and Blue Jeans, Tranby and George B. for Enoch Woman, Tranbiana for Charles Carter, and a number of others. This operation of dressing the mouth, as I call it, is the most frequent. Young horses as well as old ones often require this attention. Tooth pulling, yon understand, is not so frequent. Horses’ molars are only to b« removed when decayed. Ever see a horse’s teeth taken out by the old method—knocked out with a chisel? It is barbarous. If the tooth doesn’t come out the first blow tha horse is thrown down and held by four or five men until the tooth is knocked out at the leisure of the

operator.”

Here the second horse was finished, and a third brought out from his Btali without anything but a loose halter on him and that slipped off his head and hanging from his neck. “Seven years old?” inquired the doctor. “Yes.” said Mr. John Wood, “and fresh from the country.” Here the doctor everted the lips of the animal showing a set of incisors that reminded one of the cuts in country newspapers advertising full sets of teeth for $10. “Look a{ bis back teeth,” said the dentist, opening his mouth wider, “they are regular sawteeth. See how thev are cutting into the lining of the mouth.” Here the same filing was done as in the case of the other

two horses.

“Do turf men take kindly to horse dentestry as you practice it, doctor?” “Oh, yes, I’ve operated on a large

number of the moet celebrated horses In the country. Col. Pepper’s Woodford Chief (of F rankfort, Ky.) has been under my band- George Wilkes, Honest Allen, and nearly fifty brsod mares of Z. E. Simmons, of New York- Almonte and American Clay, of Gen. Withers of Lexington, Ky.; Imported Ashstead and Pacing AbdallaUf W. H. Wilson. Cynthiana; Aberdeen and the entire stud of Captain Ryndera; Rarus; Lysander Boy and Doc Lewis, both belongiM to W. H. Vander-

bilt; Clifton JBoy, Sleepy Geo

boat of others.

THK OPEN POX.AE NBA.

A Roller Who Soya Ho Hoo Bom TWars KonanrhoMe Heotiraaol m to Wfcos He Bow.

(St Xenia Bepohtteaa.]

aa a seaman than almost any man oof living, waa in tha city yesterday on hi# way to Washington to neyotioto with tha government for a small atoaaasr to assist in his further explorations in Arctic sans. Capt Tuttle is a native of New York, bat at the early age of 16 ran away from his parents and went to sea, and has over shk*—some thirty-five veore-beeo sseafanngman. Ha u a large and museniar man, with the appearance of having been inured to hardships. Ha has been all over the globe, ha aaya, and has sailed in every sea, and has made twenty voyages to the Arctic regions. Since hia early manhood he has been captain of whaling and surveying ships. One of tha things that particularly attracted his attention m sailing northward waa that ha found the sea more and more open, especially every fourth year. He made his last trip about a year ago, starting from Hakodado, Japan, in a full runted ship with 45 men, all told. In latitude?!} he found an open aea clear of ice. In latitude 81 be noticed an extraordinary dip of the compass, and on taking soundings discovered the cause of it to be immense lodes of a magnetic substance, in five fathoms of water. It waa mixed with minerals and fine particles of gold. In latitude 82 he encountered the ice oelt, grounded under the water and extending in height in some places over four bandied feet. It stretched east and weat aa far «*■ the eye could reach. He here diaCv red the needle pointed due soqth, and in his own mind concluded the magnetic deposit he had passed had some connection with the direction in which the needle usually pointed. By climbing to the highest points on the icy barrier he could fee directly into an open polar sea lying beyond, and by tracing along tha belt eastwaidly he found a passage through into the sea, with a depth of ninety fathoms or five hundred and forty feet. The water waa quite warm, and a gulf stream was ateadfly setting out with a velocity of from foar to eix miles ptf hour. He pulled through this passage in whale boats, and found it to be about eighteen miles wide. Ia the north part of this open sea hrffoynd nearly fresh leaves of plantains, bananas and other tropical plants floating on the water, and showing that they had been off the trees but a abort time. Last October he found a large female whale going north through the open passage before mentioned, and also saw migratory birds going north. In July these birds went back south with their young, and aboat the same time he observed whales going south with their young. From these facta he concludes that during a considerable part of the year there was a warm climate within the open polar sea, sufficient to produce tropical fruita. In the ice barrier on one of ms trips he found bones and tusks of the mastodon^ which in 1876 he carried to the centennial at Philadelphia. They were so large that some naturalists thought the animal to which they belonged must have been forty feet in length. He also found some hard wood in the shape of troughs imbedded in the ice. They looked like feeding troughs, and the edges, had the appearance of having been gnawed by animals. In sailing west he struck the north part of the coast of New Siberia, where he found a race of people that he thought no one had ever seen before or heard of. They spoke an unknown language which sounded like. Hebrew. They spoke a few words of Hawaiian and Esquimaux language, and with them and the aid of signs they conveyed the idea that they came from the north. He waa a little acquainted with the Esquimaux language, having passed four winters with that people, living on raw walrus, whale bluboer and bear meat. During one of them winters, which was without daylight, he made a journey of throe hundred and eighty miles in the dark. During his adventurous career he has met with many disasters, the most serious of which was an encounter with a polar bear. He had both arms and both legs broken, and * lost one finger off hia left hand, another being so badly lacerated by the teeth of the animal that it ia sadly out of shape. He also lost two ribs, which were completely torn from his body, which bears the marks of wounds which it seems almost incredible that any man could receive and live. The polar bears attain aa incredible size, some being reported to weigh as much as three thousand pounds. He contemplates making another trip to further explore that open polar sea, but needs a small steamer for towing purposes, which he hopes to obtain from the government. He proposes to start sometime in 1880.

leepy George and a

“There,” concluded the doctor, turning the horse over to the hostler, “the job’s done,”.

Congressional. The senate yesterday passed the MU railing tbe pay of letter carriers. The postoffice appropriation bill waa taken up and amended by increasing the amount of the appropriation for transportation by railroad from $9,000,00Q to $9,400,000. Of fuch sum $400,000 may be expended to maintain and secure from the railroads necegpary and special facilities for the postal service, and $1,698 to pay the balance for salaries and expenses of the special commission on railwayman transportation. An amendment was also agreed to increasing the appropriation for postal clerks, route agents, local agents and messengers from $1,350,000 to $2,770,000. Also, an amendment providing that from and after July 1, 1879, railway postal oflfce clerks,

classes, whose shall be from $800 to $1,400 per annum. Other amendments were agreed to as follows: Allowing the bureau of engraving and printing of the treasury department to bid lor the contract of printing postage stamps; authorizing the nostmaster general to issue postal cards for circulation in the mails of foreign countries linger the provisions of the universal postal union of June 1, 1878, such cards to cost two cents. When the amendment proposing a subsidy to a line of Brazilian steamships was reached.a long debate ensued which lasted til) adjournment. The house spent the entire session in committee of the whole over the legislative appropriation bill, and a very spirited debate ensued over the amendments bearing on test oaths and appointment of supervisors.

GrmuMte Healthy. [Grenada, (Mbs.,) Sooth ] We are authorized by onr efficient and competent board of health to say most emphatically that there has not been a single case ml yellow fever in town, or about town, or near town, or anywhere in all this re-

arly in D cember last. And excepting Mias Poltevent’s case there has not been a caw in thia city since last October.

Tn recall** adaption ef Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup to so many phases of throat and bronchial d seaaea baa rendered this remedy «*- mereely popular. Sold everywhere. » cents a bottle.

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