Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1877 — Page 4

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TILE IXDIAXA. STATE SENTINEL, DNESD AY MOIINING, JUNE 27, 1S77.

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aSscribers . whose time has expired will "please remit at once, or we shall be compelled to-Qrop their names from our subscription list. INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. TERMS: Oae Subscriber ene year 1 1 50 nbs 4 subscribers, one rear, to oae P.O. 5 00 12 Ot U 20 " U U M 20 00 Where ten or more names are sent In, an ex; tra copy Is given to the getter-p of the ckib Agents sending over four Muet and 11 25 fo ach name will be allowed a commission of wenty per cent, on the grew amount of their nbociintlons WEDNESDAY, JUNE When a paper can get down to the degraded level that it can afford to steal its tele graph news it becomes a proper associate of criminals. The Journal says the News steals its dispatches. Ex-Se5Ator Twitchell, of Louisiana, had a prolonged interview with the president todav. tit? wan'.s to te appointed pension sein, at New Orleans. Washington Special. , A better appointment could not be made. Journal. Yes, Twitchell is a sweet-scented product of radicalism. The campaign Of last sum mer ventilated his record most beauti'ully. Twitchell is a "sweet boon" to any party, as Artemus Ward said about the tower of Lon don. He ought to have a foreign appoint ment, so that the beauties of Louisiana carpet-bag radicalism might go abroad in an embodied life, breathing form, and spread its beauties among the nations of the earth. O, Twitchell, Twitchell! Shake! Tub machinery of the present bogus ad ministration gives frequent and unmistakable evidence of being propelled by a very small boiler. It was built for a large craft. but the motive power gives out signs of weakness. "When the people are awaiting with breathless anxiety some wise adjustment of financial affairs some relief from the terrible strain that is upon all pottions of the country, we are astonished with the statement that Sherman, secretary of the treasury, will not even explain the situation of affairs in his department to those who go for information, and who honestly and ably differ from him as to the present financial pol icy of the administration. We say differ with him. Not only that, but who prophesy the most direful results if the present schemes of resumption and contraction are perse vered in. Then, too, in the midst of it all, the bogus president is arranging for a grand tour through the New England states, to be dined and wined at Boston, fishing for an LL. D. degree at Harvard, and perhaps forcing recognition of his bogus claims to the presidency out of democratic Connecticut THE X EXT ISITED STATES SENATOR. It is evident that Morton will have a well organized opposition in his own party to encounter in his race for the senate next year. Heretofore opposition to him in the republican party has been feeble, being confined to Defrees, Branham, Garber of the Madison Courier and a few other feather weights. Defrees is provided for in the government printing office at Washington, Branham is dead, and Garber's guns have been spiked by the bestowal of the Madison post office, therefore the old pponents of the senator are not to be feared. But in their place others have appeared, and if present appearances are not deceptive his re-election is extremely doubtful, even ahould his party hare a majority in the next legislature. The opposition has brains and determination, and if it is closely organized'and properly handled the chances are that it will push Morton to the wall. It will concentrate upon General Harrison, and if that gentlemen were as adroit in politics as he is in the law, his chances for the senate would be better than Morton's. But to succeed, he must improve upon his race of last fall. When he was nominated for governor, those who knew him expected that he would strike out for himself; but in this they were sadly disappointed. From the day he made his first speech at Danville to the end of the campaign, he proved himself a political abortion, utterly Incapable of leadership. Instead of rising to the bight of .he occasion and discussing . the real ques- ' tions at issue, he put on the bloody shirt and exhibited himself about the state in that ensanguined garment. He bad talents, he had much reputation as a lawyer, and he bore an honored name, but he threw these advantages away and made the canvas upon the line marked out by Morton, thus playing the second fiddle in the senator's orchestra. 1 , By the infamous apportionment law of Indiana it will be necessary for the deniocX racy to carry the state by a popular majority of 10,000, in order to win the legislature; but this it expects fo do. ". Last year, with the republican party united and supplied with money witboot limit,-the democracy succeeded by over fl.000 votes, and next year, with its opponents divided and 9 large corruption, fund at its dis poaaJ, it can get the majority neces-ary to atri J the legijüLure ii it i pidil

officered and handled. The people wUl not

forget how they were swindled out of the ruits of a hard-earned victory, anl the rec ollection of It will nerve them in their ef forts to defeat those who did it. We say the people, for there are many rrjen who voted the republican ticket last IpJi who love fair play and honest dealings,, and these men will help with their vot -sa to drive from power the party which u tilixed perjury and fraud in the theft of t'j presidency. Had the will of the people, been respected and their verdict at the rolls not been set aside, Samuel J. Tilden wjuld now be president and the present occupant of the white house be at Columbus signing notarial commission i and pardoning convicts. This fact will cause many of those who voted for Hayes to turn their backs upon a party which has pjoved itself ready and willing to accept success at the hands of villains and perjurers. It is not now the time to speculate upon who shall be the recipient of senatorial honors if the democracy succeed in carrying the next legislature. Whoever he may be, the country will have cause to rejoice that he will take the place of one whose senatorial life has brought nothing but evil upon the country. As ambitious as Lucifer, as bloodthirsty as Marat, and as unscrupulous as Bacon, the acts of the present republican senator from Indiana have been a source of unmixed evil to the country. The day he leaves public life and sinks into the retirement which surely awaits him ought to be a day of thanksgiving and rejoicing in Indiana. He has ruled his party as with a rod of iron, and through his party hau been. able to impress his policy , and his hates upon the country. No law which had for its object the peace and pacication of the country ever had his support, but every proposition to shackle a vanquished people and intensify the hate against them commanded his best efforts and talents. Whoever may succeed him will be an improvement, but it is to be hoped that it will be some one who, by his commanding talents and earnest efforts in the cause of peace and fraternity, can by contrast bring out in its blackest colors the senatorial woi of Morton. Neither must his labors in the stealing of the presidency be forgotten. His handiwork on the joint coramission'proved him an adept in political thievery, even if further proof were wanting. To most persons the apportionment laws of the state would be sufficient evidence upon the subject, but his action on the joint commission was piling "Pelion on Oisa." He must and will be beaten next year, if the democracy of Indiana does its duty. g...-. THE REAL ISSUE. In the absence of political campaigns, which arouse partisan antagonisms, the people are turning their attention to matters of more vital importance, and are seeking with intense anxiety and earnestness for a solution of problems which involve the means of existence. The .difficulties, however, are 8 J numerous that the most astute thinkers regard the immediate future with undis guised alarm, and the embarrassments are so formidable that even their modification is regarded as a task of herculean proportions. For a series of years the wealth of the country has been rapidly diminishing. Men of wealth have been reduced to poverty. Moneyed institutions which enjoyed the confidence of the community have fallen under the pressure of panics and hard times. Cor porations engaged in manufacturing enter prises and various industries have been com pelled to suspend operations, to permit their investments to lie idle rather than sink their entire stock and private fortunes in the en dcavor to stem the tide of adverse influences. In this dowaward course of business affairs men of moderate means, de pendent upon their labor for support, nave been driven to tne verge of despair oct of employment and out of money, with a gloomy future before them, it is reasonable that they should demand, with a seriousness born of desperation, that a remedy be found and applied. To find a cure for the evils which are widespread, to remove burdens which are press ing with ponderous weight npon the people it becomes manifestly imiwrtant that the cause of the embarrassments and distress should be definitely ascertained. For tunately the facts exist which lead to ration al conclusions, and afford the people the means of finding the way out of the wilderness into which they have been led. In retracing the path way over which the country has passed since ISOi, marked as it is with wrecks and ruins, increasing and enlarging from that period down to the present, it will be found that, as the party in power deprived the people of money, it increased the business disasters of the country, and that the outlook in a large degree realizes the apocalyptic vision of John when he saw death on a pale horse, with hell (doubtless signifying the tax gath erer) following in the near distance.. It was evidently judicious to contract the cur rency from the highest point reache in the circulation, but those who had the delicate matter in charge, being both ignorant and venal, were utterly in competent to manage a transaction that in volved consequences of such magnitude, and as ' a result tne poncy adopted with re gard to contraction was to reach resumption or a specie basis. Out of this has grown such an accumulation of bankruptcy and idleness, such shrinkage in the values of all real property, such a general prostration in all .departments of business and' such wide spread withdrawal of confidence, from all legitimate business enterprises that, in the estimation of those whose opinion .....- . .. re .entitled to . consideration, ... the - coun try is now on . the . verge of ruin It is evident If contraction has been produc tiveof the evils 'we have catalogued, that contraction ought to ceoue, and to this con elusion the entire people are coming. There tue iica now but few dissenting voices. The

demand is growing in emphasis. The ver diet is that John Sherman ought not and

must not continue to reduce the wealth of the country and increase the business de pression. The people have not by statute or otherwise clothed him with autocratic power over thtlr fortunes and their lives." They will no lenger be deceived by the arts and tricks of financial-demagogues who are working for pay in the interest of bond holders and gold rings. "Specie payments," honest money," and similar clap-trap has ost its power over the masses. Intending no wrong to others, they are determined not to sutler that the rich may be made richer off of their miseries. But John Sherman fails to read aright the signs of the times. Havng the confidence of his master, he pushes boldly forward with his contraction policy at the rate of $5,000,000 a month, and as a consequence, at a time when confidence in the future of business shonld be growing in strength, it is giving evidences of greater weakness. Every movement of the secretary of the treasury is calculated to deceive the people. It is stated that there are $300,000,000 legal tender currency outstanding, and hence that it can be reduced $00,000,000 without prejudice to business. But there is no such an amount in active circulation. The amount "tied up" is nearly $1:50 000,000, as is shown by the following statement: Reserves of banks- $ 40,000 ,000 Held In treasury for redemption of certificates of deposit .... w Ten million fractional currency fund 7,772,271 To retire notes of Insolvent banks and general currency balance - 12,500,000 Due disbursing omeers .. - 13,ikK),üoü To retire bank circulation... 1 4..'J27 ä2 141,97y,82i Leaving only $218,000,000 greenbacks in act ive circulation. If Sherman carries out his programme of contracting at the rate of $5,000,000a month till January,l$79, the amount will reach $100,000,000, leaving at that time but 1118,000,000 outstanding, which, and allowing the greenbacks, - national bank notes, fractional currency and specie in cir culation June 1, 1877, to be $082,073,072, Sherman's policy would leave on the 1st of July inactive circulation only $130,093,H37, a fraction over $10 per capita. With this showing further business disasters are inev nable unless the vicious policy can.be ar rested. And this is the real issue. THE ARMY. If the Nez Perces braves In Ihaho couM only be Induced to make a raid on Waxliinnton next fall and scalp the democratic members who voted to reduce the army and tie the hands of the war department, they would earn a vote ol thanks from the nation Jour nal. The radical party will never forgive the democratic house of representatives for re fusing the appropriation of money to crucify sovereign states, lne administration or Grant the most infamous one that ever cursed the country used the army to up hold thieves and destroy states rather than to protect our frontier settlements. Had it been, last summer, within sustaining dis tance of Custei that brave man and his fol lowers would not hive been massacred. But Grant wanted it to sustain Wells and his thieving associate on the Louisiana returning board while they stole the presidency from the people. He wanted it to protect Stearns and his radical associates on the Florida returning board while they fraud ulently set aside the verdict of the people of that state. He wanted it to over awe tne representatives ol tiie people at Washington and compel them to acquiesce in the counting in of Hayes by the president of the senate. Had it not beenjor the army Wells and Anderson and their negro pals would never have dared to reverse the will of the people of Louisiana and give the electoral vote of that state to Hayes. Had it not been for the army Stearns and his carpet-bag associates would not have risked their necks by counting in the Hayes electors in Florida. Had it not been for the army Grant and Chandler and their co-conspirators would never have devised the plan to rob the people of their choice for president through the manipula tions of the president of the senate. The people owe a deep debt of gratitude to the democratic members of the last congress for refusing to appropriate money for their further enslavement Had not congress refused the army money without stipulating that it should not be longer used to destroy liberty and throttle states, the carpet-bagger Chamberlain would now be the acting governor of Sou th Carolina instead of practicing law in New York, and the rough and brutal Packard and the imbecile . Stearns would now be signing themselves governors of Louisiana and Florida. No one act of the last house deserves so much encomium as that which made it impossible for the army to be longer used to uphold thieves and stifle a free ballot. The proudest epitaph the last house could have would be that "it 'preserved liberty and made it possible for 'free government to exist, by prohibiting the 'array from being used to enslave the people." " NOTES A XI OPINIONS. The Brooklyn theater Is not to be rebuilt. The prospectus for a New Atlantlo cable company Is announced. CorsT Moltke talkfr so little' thäf he his gained the title of the "silent man.".. , All the Loufsvllle foundries are closed In consequence of the moulders' strike- " Mckpiiy, the temperance man, says that he is not going to marry the Ohio widow. BwiRDt'KNB has ready a new Merles of Poems and Ballads." Naughty, but nice. President MacMahos has conferred the cross of the legion of honor on Hubenstein. - Blaine Is resting at Saratoga, while Gail Hamilton Is chasing a goose to get a feather to make a new pen. "Tue president and his family rise at six'. We thought seven was the number that raised them ouce on a time. 1 ' . i TUB flood of the Arkansas river has done much duruage. It is estimated that from 20,000 to 30,000 bales of cotton have been lost. Nicooli was hissed at Covent Garden, Ijondon, the other night when he appeared with ratu, who was loudly applauded. Rather on.

fair, "for what is sauce for gooso is suice for gander, too."

Fkask Movlton and. Theodore Tllton are now bitter enemies, and T. T. wants Gall Hamilton to "pitch Into the mutual friend." Galvkstox, Texas, has a city ordinance which prohibits the keeping or raising of pigeons within the limits of the corporation. The rteamer which was conveying to Russia the gigantic Krupp gun exhibited at Philadelphia, has grounded near the island of Oassel. Geoiuje F. Baiibitt, "All Sorts" of the Bos ton Post, will read the declaration of lnde-' pendenee to the "Hubites" on the Fourth of July. Rvssiax ladies are said to be angels to their equals, and brutes to their Inferiors. They generally regard their husbands as in the latter class. Disraeli does not write his speeches now but he prepares, as they occur to him, the happy bits and epigrams which are so brilliant and sparkling. National costumes arc the rage in London fashionable houses. How deliclously nice the attire of a South Sea, Islander must be when the mercury touches 102 in the shade. The father of Charley Ross says that the mystery surrounding the fate of his child seems to be deeper titan ever, and that he has given up all hope of ever seeing his boy again About fifteen per cent, of the deaths in San Francisco for the year ending May, 1877, was occasioned by diphtheria. Eight hundred and seventy-three persons died during that time from that disease alone The Columbus, Ga., Enquirer, says that a Vild goose was Injured so badly that it died. Just before dying It "gave vent to some of the most beautiful strains ever sung by bird ot any kind." This story Is authentically vouched for. The roughs and sneafc thieves of St. Johns are robbing stores and residences. There Is no gas in the city, and the darkness has aided them In their work. The police have been reinforced, and hundreds of citizens are doing private police duty. The sexton of Grace church, San Francisco, committed suicide at the altar of the church because some of the congregation did not like him. now many sextons would be alive in this world an hour longer if they were equally sensitive? Or preachers either? General Grant wore the full uniform of a major general for the first time in London at the special performance at the Royal Italian opera house given In his honor. Alban i sang the "Star Spangled Banner." Grant's box was decorated with flowers. The audience was very enthusiastic. TUE TACIFIC COAST. The Dearth of Rain in California and Its Consequences. Climatic Changes and Their CsnwIndiana's Krprecntatlv The Way to Come. I Special Correspondence of the Sentinel.) Santa Barbara. Cal., June 12. To read descriptions of some parts of California a year ago, and then descriptions of the Fame localities now, one would naturally think the writer drunk or crazy, so different would be the account given. A year ago a vast garden f ring id the sea for a thousand miles, and extended back two hundred miles, known as California. This now is but the skeleton of its former self, owing to the comparative drouth. The drouth is local even m this state; it can never be general. Owing to the natural laws that effect the whole climatic character of the Pacific coast, a drouth can never blast the entire country bordering the Pacific. The trade winds that blow continuously during the summer season from the southwest, as soon as the)' reach the higher altitudes, or colder regions, are very materially effected, and their humidity is precipitated in the form of rams. Northern California and Oregon are, of course, several degrees cooler than the southern parts of the forme t state and Arizona, and the very coolness produces rain. Oregon is a land of rain. "It always rains there," says fome one. And the northern part ol this state shares largely of the same feature. The rain fall is as varied as the climate, or the habits of the people, or the complexion of the inhabitants. In northern California, for instance, one year the rain fall was more than 100 inches, while at San Diego, in the southern extremity of the state, it was but three inches. This year the lower counties are suffering very much from drouth; in fact, south of a line running east from San Francisco the rain fall has been very light, not.averaging perhaps more than two inches. The spring has been very cold for this country until recently. One strange effect of the cool weather and the drouth is that some of the fruit trees, apple and peach trees for instace,have not put out their foliage, but stand as bare of leaves as in the dismalest days of January in Indiana. And they will not be covered with leaves tl.e entire year. . DOT WEATHER. The heat in the last week has been fearful. Yesterday the mercury stood at 12 o'clock at 100 in the shade. It was like being in the breath of a furnace to walk along the streets. No doubt, and it is but justice to this delightful climate to say so, some of the heat was produced by immense fires that have been raging in the country above. For the dispatches tell ua this morning that a fire broke out a day or two ago upon a large ranch near Lompoc, some 75 miles above this city, and so great was the conflagration that up to that time 6,000 acres of land were burned over and several hundred, head of cattle had also been burned. - Houses, barns, hay, . barley; in fact, all, kinds of property, shared the, same fate. Not even live stock was ,T exempt. This will add very greatly to the want nd suffering of this part Of the country, for this fire occurred in a wealthy section. By the way, you in the east who can not look out of your windows without Seeing plenty everywhere know literally nothing of the want of sections of this country. Mark you, there are no sufferings like there would be under similar circumstances in the east. There are no sufferings from cold, night or dar.Tfae entire populace could live In the fields if necessary, and game can be bad anywhere in the mountains; but the want is from such 'luxuries . and frequently such necessaries as you bavp in the east ' DOWN TO BED ROCK." , ' ,- Horses and cattle in the drouth section are put on the lowest rations, while family living is down to "bed rock." I heard a minister a , few days . ago . asked . to give his , services at a . camp meeting, , as they greatly needed his assistarice.-but he was notified that lie must -pay Iiis own expenses, 'as they could not'provide even for the preachers. This indicates close living, don't you think? i The present drouth and close condition of things make this an auspicious year for persons to e mierate to this country. This is the worst of" all ycas, and property in many

places has decreased

because of the dry weather. But Californians hang on to high prices with the tenacity of a leech. The financial reasoning, regarding real estate, which is the foundation of all things pertaining to wealth, is about this: This is the land of gold, gold comes from the ground, therefore land must be high. And it is contrary to the true spirit of California to ever lower a price once fixed. It may be increased, but never diminished. Of course, stock gambling and other nefarious stealings are exceptions, because "bearing" is a part of the programme in alt swindles. Indiana has a very large representation in the golden state. And many are leading men in the various professions. ixdiaxa's representation. Senator Booth is an alumnus of Asbury university, and is one of the leaders in politics. But he takis the independent line, lie was raised doVn toward the "pocket," somewhere in the Hoosier state. We have met Iiev. Stephen Bowers, another Iidianian, who was raised near Indianapolis, lie was stationed in this city till very recently, when he was offered ä lucrative position by the government, to assist in the archaeological explorations of this country. Mr. Bowers has spent a good deal of time in the study of this branch of science, and has been very active in developing the archaeology of the state. This gentleman conteniplutes returning east at no very distant .-iay, we believe; probably to his native state again. At Los Angeles there is an "Indiana colony." which is made up entirely with men from your state, mainly from the neighborhood of Shelbyville, Indianapolis and smaller surrounding towns. The colony is doing pretty well. Of course, in a few years they will do much better than now, for their ranches will be more fully developed. As a matter of association with persons from one's own state it is a good place to invest, but as a great financial investment I have no great amount of faith in it. '-Colonies" in California are sometimes a kind of fraud. They hold out every inducement to newcomers, but a man generally pavs very well for all he gets. The best way for any man to do in coming to this country is to get all the information he . can from every source, and then use his own eyes and brains. He will do better in the long run. Philanthropists are not a native production of this state, and very few that I have seen are burdened with charity. You may mark it down as a fact that if a stranger iS very good to you in offering financial advice bis chirity is a fraud, and he has something to sell and wishes you to be the buyer. That's the rule that I have seen without an exception in this country. In our next we will have something to say about newspapers, men and things. A. IL T. 1IIL.TOX AND HEBREW. The Way a Chicago Merchant Looks at . the (netlon. A merchant writing to the Chicago Tribune says: It lias undoubtedly bothered some of your readers, as it has the undersigned, to understand what Judpe Hilton meaut by his distinction between Hebrews and Jews; hut, as he has somewhat illustrated his views by putting tne Hendricks and .Nathans as belonging to the one and the Adler Liberals as helonging to the other, I think I can, by following his example, get at his understanding of the difference. Let us suppose that the order to refuse admittance to Jews at the Grand Union hotel, belonging to the estate of A. T. Stewart, should induce Jewish merchants to withdraw their patronage from said estate, and by that action make it still more unprofitable to run their seventeen woolen mills, which are now reported to be run at a heavy loss (the Jews handling a large, if not the largest, proportion of woolens manufactured in this country). Let us further suppose that the headquarters which gave the order for the Grand Union should continue "to direct the management of the Chicago jobbing-house, which is fast becoming the laughing stock for merchants in this section. Let us further suppose that headquarters manage other enterprises in a similar manner, and that in consequence thereof the estate of A. T. Stewart fe Co. should within a few years be wasted and the concern become bankrupt, would not the Jews belonging to the Hendricks and Nathan school (Mr. Hilton's favorites) say, "There is another miracle performed by the God of Israel. This man Hilton has outraged and insulted his chosen pople, and Jehovah has stricken him down."? And would not the satirical men belonging to the school which Mr. Hilton calls the Adler Liberal simply say, "This is an event perfectly natural and logical. A man who may have been cunning enough to become possesed of a large fortune accumulated by the hard, and successful labor of another showed himself entirely incapableof taking care of it, and by prejudice which is only another name of ignorance and other foolish actions has destroyed within a few year? what another man has built up during a lifetime."? Iam well aware that what I have said does not go to the merits of the question, but it is a collateral question well worthy of the consideration and attention of Mr. Hilton, if he is capable of comprehending it. . Merchant. A Tnrklsh Batcher and the DogH. Along comes a hideous burden, born by a miserable and much enduring horse, whose load is hidden by a ghastly, bloodstained cloth; it is the itinerant butcher's stall of Pera with a stock of goat's flesh and Caramanian mutton of inferior quality; sloping planks on either side form both the shop front and the block, on which the uninvit ing viands are cut up. There are butchers' shops in I'era which furnish the tables of the better classes with excellent meat, the beef coming principally from Odessa, .but the wandering meatman is the purveyor of humble households, who patronize also the trade of another individual somewhat in the same line of business, the "djighirdji," or dealer in liver and lights. He comes forward balancing a long iole duly garnished with dangling hearts and pallid lungs. The street dogs sympathize keenly with the national taste, and a pack of the yellow, dusty creatures follow the fascinating garland, licking their lips in eager anticipation, but not, as yet, daring to advance to the assault; perhaps the man will stop at that piece of open ground, and share the treat among them, as animals are frequently fed this way through the bequest of pious.Mussulmans; but no, he is moving onward. The stir in the canine kingdom has aroused Marco, the patriarch of the tribe, a tawny brute, whose rough old body shows the scars of tiinv a hard encounter thev .call him the "king of the quarter," and few in dogdorn venture to resist his will; he rises and hakes himself, then moves forward with sublime indifference to learn the cause of the commotion. "Ah, ah! those dangling bits look good!" He mounts a ütüe hillock for nearer Inspection and a drop of blood falls on his nose. It is too much! He for gets himself and the dignity of his position, snrines onward and tears away a large eheeep's heart, and 1 n one wild moment of combined attack, the whole of the long pole is stripped. The man turns gently round; his merchandise has vanished, and, without a word, he camly retraces his steps; it is his j'kfsniet:"--TempIe Bar. Mrs Mary Mapes"" Dodge, editor of St. Nicholas, will spend the summer at Cutch ogue, L. L

ALL, SORTS. Senator Hamlin, of Maine, is a zealous and successful gardener. ' 1xAnd.T?ow.they re calling Gail Hamilton "N ot-Afraid of-b er-Ink." Minister Noyes has been baying a new wooden leg with which to make his appearance at court at Taris. It will replace the leg he lost at Atlanta. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has given a gold watch to the agent of the Boston lecture bureau who traveled thirty thousand miles with him in the west during his recent tour. Connecticut church festival committees are charged with placing little wads of cotton batting in their dishes of strawberries. The children can't eat so fast and toothless old sinners don't have to do any chewing. InJacre, South America, to avoid the mountains,the postman passes monthly down the rapid Chatuoya tied to a log of wood, with his letters secured on his head, and thus keeps up the intercourse on both sides the Andes. An.Ottawa tailor advertises that last week he had eight out of seventeen suits left on his hands through the inability of the customers to pay, and he invites the merchant tailors of the city to call and see the names of the delinquents. Salvini has been starring at Berlin with extraordinary success. He not only drew full houses but the audience was invariably composed of the cream of Berlin society. Hislngomar, Othello and Hamlet are pronounced immense successes. The prince af Wales arrived in Tari to meet the Princess on the mo'-ntngof Sunday the 3d, and almost at once carried her off to breakfast o Me a l te at the Restaurant de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne; and yet there are slanderers who call him a bad husband ! The human body expands immensely with age. When eleven young men are seated on one side of a street car, they can easily sit up a little closer and make room for a pretty girl, but seven of them can monopolize an entire seat to the utter exclusion of an old woman. It is proposed to extinguish, by purchase, the rights of succession of the duke of Kdinburg heir presumptive to the duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Gotha and transfer them to the hereditary prince of Saxe-Mein-ingen, thus forming a state to be known as üaxe-Thuringen. Mr. Motley not long ago wrote to General Wilson: "I have had the strongest admiration for Mr. Bryant ever since my college days, when I first began to know his poetry by heart. One of the pleasantest events, to me. of ray last visit to New York was the mäkiug of his personal acquaintance a privilege which I had long desired." One day when Southey and Coleridge were drinking their wine after dinner, a young cousin of their host, John Poole, . rode nn and said. "I hrim von wat -na-

- i , - - r j ..u u 1 1 o Rohefitiierre is dead " Vhrnnnn Rrmtliov X ---- - V UVJ L l Utll J put his head between his hands, exclaiming, "Good heavens, I would rather haTe heard of the death of my own fcther." It is a fact that in those days government was so suspicious of the poets that they sent down a spy to watch their proceedings. At certain restaurants the custom is to rav the ladies who attract customers a certain commission on the bill of themselves and companions. The other day a newly married couple visited this restaurant, and the groom ordered a costly dinner for two in a private supjier room. In due course the bill is called tor and settled, and the waiter adroitly slips a five-franc piece into the young bride 8 hand, and whispers to her: "From the boss. He says to bring him again bring him often bring lots of em." Gladstone is six feet high, and carries his head erect and thrown somewhat back. which adds to his stature, apparently. His figure is well developed, muscular and large boned, and his weight somewhere about liK pounds. His e3es are full of fire, deep set and keen. His cheek bones are hieb and his jaws are broad and somewhat bold typical or his bcotch ancestry and descent. His reneral contour is easy, though angular, lis complexion is swarthy, and indicates predisposition towards biliousness. He neither dresses well nor neatly. He wears high-quarter shoes that are almost slovenly. and a hat hungry for a good brushing. In the style of his shirt collar Mr. Gladstone is peculiar. The great commoner affects a flowing style of linen sideboards that are constantly in play with his tireless jaw bones. As a whole, be would not strike the looker-on as an exceptional man. His walk and his talk, however, are strong. Sngraretitioas llus Bnlldera. First, let your cellars be large, well ventilated and lined with stone or cemented above the level of the ground. The breath of life in furnace-heated houses depends literally on the air of the cellar, unless there be a Hue for fresh air extending from the furnace out of doors (never the case in cheap, showy houses. ) The air of the whole house is sucked through this narrow and often unclean apartment, the care of which is usually intrusted to ignorant servants. We have spoken in a previous number of the malaria engendered by massing quantities of vegetables in the cellars as is the practice in farm-houses during the winter. The lining of stone or cement not only prevents dampness but is absolutely necessary in streets through which the sewers pass, as a protection from rats. Terriers, ferrets, traps or poison are feeble defenses against the legions wbich swarm in nightly from a neighboring culvert. Next to the cellars comes the kitchen, which should be large, airy and sunny. To take no higher ground, conveniences in this department are a politic investment which pays a full interest of capital, especially to the housekeeper who does not live in a large city. Stationary tubs, closets beneath the dressers for flour, dry groceries,, spices, etc, will be likely to tempt into he household a better class of servants, and when she is forced to turn cook and baker herself will take half the burden from her weary hands. An addition to comfort much neglected by builders is the lighting of stairways, closets,, pantries. We have in our mind's eye a modest little house, in a closely built neighborhood ot dark dwellings, which gives you a sunny, cheerful welcome In every corner; a result produced not only bY Windows wherever a window is practicable, but by a sky light of plate glass, which sends down sunshine through three floors of closets, halls and pantries. A mistake made al-o, Which resolves itself Into a question of humanity, is the placing the servants' chambers on the top of the house, be that three or seven stories above the kitchen. Passingalong a city street at night one can not look up at the dim lights burning in these far skyey atics without a groan of compassion for the wearied wretches dragging themselves t J their bed? np yonder after the day's hard labor. "Home and Society," Scribner for July. ii '. - A little hand book containing selections from Tennyrou's )rems, suitable for public recitation and reading. Las ' just been published in Ihigland. '