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|eabing.
Andrew Miller was a principal
proprietor of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary,
and the manager or treasurer of the fund
out of which the payments were from
time to time issued to the author. When
the work was completed, Andrew was
so overjoyed that he sent the following
acknowledgement of the receipt of the
last sheet of the manuscript:
“ Andrew Miller sends his compli
ments to Mr. Samuel Johnson, with the
money for the last sheet of copy of the
Dictionary, and thanks God he has
done with him.”
Which drew from Johnson this keen
retort:
“ Samuel Johnson returns his com
pliments to Mr. Andrew Miller, and is
very glad to find, as he does by his
note, that Andrew Miller has the grace
to thank God for anything.”
Penalty of Gallantry.—A story is
told of a prominent politician which
now, for the first time, finds its way
into type. Some years ago, this gen
tleman and Senator M — were in New
York, and about to embark for Albany
on the Drew. An old German emigrant
woman, loaded down with baggage,
happened to reach the gangplank at
the time. The noise and confusion of
the scene as the boat was about to start
bewildered her. Our political friend, a
gallant man, taking in the state of af
fairs at a glance, immediately relieved
her of the load, and requested Senator
M—to give her his arm. The upper
deck was crowded with gay people,
many of whom recognized the gentle
man in question. Mr. P — then marched
them the whole length of the boat,
gracefully waving his hand, and ex
claing, “Clear the way ' Make room for
the bridal party
Training girls for household duties
ought to be considered as necessary
as instruction in writing and arith
metic, and quite as universal. We
are in our house more than half our
existence, and it is the household sur
roundings which affect most largely
the happiness or misery of domestic
life. If the wife knows how to “ keep
house,” if she understands how to “set
a table;” if she has learned how things
ought to be cooked, how beds should
be made, how carpets should be swept,
how furniture should be dusted, how
clothes should be repaired and turned
and altered and renovated; if she
knows how purchases can be made to
best advantage, and understands the
laying in of provisipns, bow to make
them go the farthest and last the
longest; if she appreciates the impor
tance of system, order, tidiness, and the
quiet management of children and ser
vants, then she knows how to make a
little heaven of her home —how to keep
her husband from the club-house, and
the wine-cup. Such a family will be
trained to social respectability, to busi
ness success, and to efficiency and use
fulness in whatever position may be
allotted to them.
It is safe to say that not one girl in
ten, in our large cities, entered into
married life, who learned to bake a loaf
of bread, to purchase a roast, to dust a
painting, to sweep a carpet, or to cut
and make her own dress. How much
The perfect knowledge of these things
bear upon the thrift, the comfort,
and the health of families, may be con
jectured, but not calculated by figures.
It would be of immeasurable advan
tage to make a beginning by attaching
a kitchen to a girl’s school in the na
tion, and have lessons given daily in
the preparation of all ordinary articles
of food and drink for the table to the
best advantage, with the result of large
saving of money and increase of com
fort and higher health in every family
in the land.
Waiting for Rain in Monte Flat.
It was dusty in Monte Flat. The ruins
of the long dry season were crumbling
everywhere; everywhere the dying sum
mer had strewn its red ashes a foot deep,
or exhaled its last breath in a red cloud
above the troubled highways. The al
ders and cottonwoods that marked the
line of the water courses were grimy with
dnst, aud looked as sf they might have
taken root in tho open air; the gleaming
stones of the parched water courses them
selves were as dry bones in the valley of
death. The dusty sunset at times painted
the Hanks of the distant hills a dull, cop
pery hue ; on other days there was an odd
indefinable earthquake halo on the vol
canic anies of the further coast spurs;
again an acrid, resinous smoke from the
burning wood on Heavy-’l ree Hill smarted
the eves and choked the free breath of
Monte Flat, or a fierce wind, driving
everything including the shrivelled
summer —like a curled leaf before it.
swept down the flanks of the Sierras, ami
chased the inhabitants to the doors of
their cabins, ami shook its red fist in at
their windows. And on such a night as
this—the dust having in some way
choked the wheels of material progress
in Monte Flat—most ot the inhabitants
were gathered listlessly in the gilded
Ur-rodm of the Moquelumne Hotel,
spitting silently at the red-hot stove that
tempered the mountain winds to the
6ESK6M mW®**
shorn lambs of Monte Flat, and waiting
for the rain.— Bret Harte.
Once upon a time a local editor
dreamed that he was dead, and in an
other world. He approached the gate
of a city before him and knocked for
admittance, bnt no one answered his
summons. The gate remained closed
against him. Then he cried aloud for
an entrance, but the only response was
scores of heads appearing above the
wall on each side of the gate. At sight
of him the owners of the heads set up
a dismal howl, and one of them said,
“Why didn’t you notice the big egg I
gave vour” At this norrid and most
unexpected interrogation, the poor
local turned in the direction of the voice
to learn its owner, when another voice
shrieked: “Where is the piece you were
going to write about my soda foun
tain ?” And close upon this came the
awful demand, “Why did you write a
piece about old Peddie’s fence and
never say a word about my new gate ?”
Whatever answer hewas about to make
to this appeal was cut abruptly off by
the astonishing query, “What did you
spell my name wrong in the programme
for ?” ’ The miserable man turned to
flee, when he was rooted to the spot by
the terrible demand, “Why did you put
my marriage among the deaths ?” He
was on the point of saying the foreman
did it, when a shrill voice madly cried,
“What made you put in my runaway
and spoil the sale of my horse?” And
this was followed by the voice of a fe
male hysterically proclaiming, “This is
the brute that botched my poetry, and
made me ridiculous!’* Whereupon
hundreds of voices screamed, “Where’s
my article? Give me back my article.'’
And in the midst of the horrid din the
poor wretch awoke, perspiring at every
pore, and screaming for help. The
next day he resigned, and we had to
hunt up another local editor.
A fresh anecdote of Henry Clay, or
any of the wise and witty men who
were his contemporaries, is always re
freshing. When General Jackson ap
pointed Mr. Buchanan to the mission
of St. Petersburg, he inquired of Mr.
Clay, at a whist party in Washington,
what style of dress he should wear at
the court of the Czar. Mr. Clay replied
that as they were about of a size
(Buchanan had not then grown so stout
as he appeared later in life,) the coat
he wore as one of the United States
Commissioners at Ghent was at his ser
vice.
“But it has been worn, Mr. Clay,”
was the response to the offer.
“Oh, that is nothing. You can turn
it, Buchanan —you’re used to it.”
Mr. Clay never let pass an opportu
nity to have a fling at Mr. Buchanan,
after the latter had written his famous
letter charging bribery and corruption
in the election of John Quincy Adams
to the Presidency of the House of Rep
resentatives. In the course of a speech
in the Senate, Mr. Buchanan stated
that when a young man he joined a
volunteer militia company that marched
from Lancaster to.the relief of Balti
more, wheu the Monumental City was
threatened by the British during the
war of 1812. Upon reaching Hagars
town, however, the troops, learning that
the invaders had been repulsed at North
Point, returned home without further
participation in the war. At this point
Clay arose, and addressing the chair,
expressed a desire to ask the speaker a
question.
“Certainly,” was the courteous re
sponse.
“ I would like to inquire of the Sena
tor from Pennsylvania,” remarked the
great commoner, with that inimitable
twist of his cat-fish mouth, “ whether
the gentleman marched to the relief of
Baltimore because he had learned that
the British had left, or whether the
British left because they heard the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania was com
ing ?”
Mr. Clay had a standing joke, which
he never failed to perpetrate at Mr.
Adams’ expense when he caught his
Massachusetts colieage in a congenial
crowd. Adams was afflicted during his
whole life with a disease of the lachry
mal duct, which caused his optics to be
constantly watery. The two occupied
the same apartment, and a rosy and
buxom Swiss damsel attended the room.
Clay's story was that upon his attempt
ing to snatch a kiss from his handsome
chambermaid, he was bluffed off with :
“Oh, Mr. Clay, you must not, for
Mr. Adams a few minutes ago begged
me with tears in his eyes for a similar
favor, and I refused him.”
The Mennonites who recently vis
ited this country for the purpose of
examining Western lands for the lo
cation of a colony, have bought a
large tract from the directiors of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
road. The purchase covers 19,000 acres,
situated in the vicinity of Halsted, Kan
sas, which is situated at the point where
the railroad crosses the Little Arkansas
river. It is believed that the Mennonites
will eventually purchase a tract six miles
in width across the entire belt of forty
miles which is covered by the land
grant of the railroad. This will give
them control of Halsted. The site
selected is sa d to be in the midst pf a
go. d farming country.
One hundred and eighty ladies have
been already entered for the lectures
for women at Cambridge, England. ■
One hundred and seventy entries have
been made for the classes to be con
ducted by correspondence.
Fable in Rhyme.
The Belly and the Members—AEsop.
CHARLES W. HUBNEK.
Long time ago, beyond the reach
Os any man’s imagination,
The Body’s parts, endowed with speech,
Forgot their purposes and station,
And so, in solemn convocation,
They each and all resolved to teach
Their brother, Belly, by rebellion
That he was nothing but a leech,
A lazy, good-for-nothing scullion ;
Who gained his living and support,
By what their labor could afford ;
Therefore they swore, by earth and skies,
To cut him off from all supplies.
“I,” said the Hand, “will never raise
A finger to increase his days
“I.” said the Sfenih, “ refuse to take.
Food offered for the Belly’s sake
The Teeth ; “If we his rations chew
May we be rotten, through and through.”
This solemn covenant and league
The rebels did not keep a week
Before they found their strength decay,
And the whole Body waste away;
Forced by such stern experience
To learn, that they could not dispense
With their despised brother member,
The Belly, they proposed surrender ;
Convinced that one, no matter who,
Without the other could not do.
And that the Body’s health is then the best
When each, in friendly concord, aids the rest
Atlanta. Ga.
A beautiful illustration of hard times
is the fact that a feature of a juvenile
party in New York was a Christmas
tree trimmed with five dollar bills.
Jacob Simonton, up in lowa, is a be
liever in. the maxim that “practice
makes perfect.’’ His twenty-second
babe took the first premium at the Page
county fair.
A Western editor meta well-educated
farmer recently and informed him that
he would like to have something from
his pen. The farmer sent him a pig
and charged him 89 75 for it.
The people of that remarkable colony
on Pitcairn’s island in the Pacific, the
descendants of the mutineers of the
Bounty, now numbering seventy-six,
are very destitute, and aid has been
sent to them from San Francisco.
“ How do Santy Cans come down
the chimney ?” asks a little three-year
old, whose faith in the old legend is
not so strong, as was that of youngsters
in the days of open fireplaces; “ how
can he sketze through the stovepipe, I
wonder ?”
Smith can’t see why his wife should
object to his staying at the club so late,
simply because he said when he came
home the other night. “My dear it’s
the coldest year for many nights, at fif
teen degrees past ten, the clock stood
sixteen minutes below freezo.”
An lowa editor says : “ Last season
we got five bushels of potatoes for one
year’s subscription. This year we con
sider ourselves lucky if we get two bush
els for the same equivalent. Now we
ask what encouragement is this for a
man with a growing family ?’
Providence, in beautiful accord with
its name, has such thoroughfares as
Faith street, Hope street, Joy street,
Benevolent street, Happy street, etc.
The other day a man was found fainting
from starvation in Benevolent street,
and was carried through Happy street
to a hospital.
The Saturday Review laughs at Dr.
W. 11. Russell’s “ Diary During the last
Great War,” “which,” it says, “em
braces everything, from the author’s ap
petite to the battle of Sedan, and from
the Crown Prince’s white breeches to
the fall of Paris.” “ The specific gravity
of Mr. Russell,” it adds, “ when most
condensed is equal to an ordinary writer
when most expanded.”
In the Territorial Legislature of New
Mexico, there are only seven Americans,
and the committees on Indian affairs
are composed entirely of Mexicans. The
speeches are made in Spanish, and all
proceedings in both houses are conducted
through the medium of that language.
The bills are drawn up in English and
translated into Spanish. The clerks of
the Legislature act as interpreters.
Mrs. Hannah F. Gould once wrote
this as an epitaph of Caleb Cushing :
Lie aside all ye dead.
For in the next bed
Reposes the body of Cushing,
Who wended his way
Through the world as they say,
And perhaps, now he’s dead.
He’ll be pushing.
Mr. Cushing retorted as follows :
Here lies one whose wit,
Without wounding, eould hit :
May the turf lie lightly above her;
She lias sent every beau
To the regions below,
And gone down herself for a lover.
ICasbtou flofts.
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New-fashioned collars and cuffs are
fastened by gold or jet links, with long
ball pendants. They are quite unique
and pretty.
Fur muffs are completely thrown
into the shade by the new ones of
velvet trimmed with fur and a huge
bow of black satin.
Tight-fitting coat sleeves with cuffs
continue the style for all ordinary cos
tumes. No seams, however, are per
mitted to show.
Worth makes his velvet basques and
skirts all in one. the sides being fast
ened up very high and the ends forming
drapery behind.
Pretty and serviceable breakfast
jackets are made of navy blue cloth,
double-breasted, with rovers of silk or
satin a darker shade.
Dressmakers now have away of pad
ding the bottom of the skirts of silk
ball Nobody seems to under
stand why this is done.
Those gaudy belts and buckles so
popular last summer Lave gone com-
pletely and entirely out of fashion, save
among “ Biddies.”
The newest French dresses intended
to be worn in-doors are not bound on
the bottom of the skirt, but turned in
and double-stitched.
In some respects the prevalent mode
of looping and draping evening toilets
is eminently classical, partaking some
thing of the Greek style.
Swans’ down is coming into use
again as trimming. Brides have a
penchant for it, and nine out of ten
trim their wedding robes with it.
Old lace appears to be as much
prized and sought after as in the days
of Queen Anne. A set of antiquated
lace brought §7,500 in New York last
week.
The following bit of description,
from a Cedar Rapids paper, will be
useful to Jenkins in his fashion items
at parties this winter: “ The Misses
Holcombe whirling through the air like
fairies, the younger in her flesh-colored,
high-heeled boots, and the elder in her
blue silk, white overskirt, her hair
braided and hanging down her back,
was a scene which pleased all, ana
tickled their papa into smiles as he
admired his daughters making such
a favorable impression.”
Ten newspapers have been discon
tinued in lowa since the first of No
vember.
During the last term of the^ Mas
sachusetts Supreme Court in tsalem,
forty-nine divorces were granted.
Lady Caroline Guest, of England, has
an annual income of §1,500,000 from
her coal mines in Wales.
A rich Bostonian, of ritualistic pro
clivities, proposes to build au Episcopal
Church in that city, costing §500,000.
One hundred and two applications
for divorce have been filed by citizens
of York and Cumberland counties, Me.
The soil of France is parceled out
among 9,000,000 owners. That of
England among 35,000.
Yale College received during the
year ending June 30, gifts to the
amount of §196,284. Harvard received
during the same time §158,075.
The people of Omaha are variously
and pleasantly alluded to by outsiders,
as “ Omahogs,” “ Omahosses,” “ Oma
horribles,” etc.
The name of the present Duke of
Buckingham is Plantagenet Campbell
Temple Nugent Bridgyes Chandos
Grenville.
The Chicago Post says there are up
wards of 8,000 divorce cases on the
calendars of the Illinois Courts, and
that they are augmenting at the rate of
eighty per day.
The blue-grass region of Kentucky
lies across the middle of the State, and
contains some 12,000 or 15,000 square
miles, or about one-third of the State,
and includes about twenty counties.
The late Wm. Whcelright, of New
buryport, Mass., gave away, during the
past ten years of his life, in various
charities, over §600,000, yet he had
enough left to bequeath §300,000 each
to his wife and daughter, §15,000 each
to twenty-six relatives, and §200,000
for a scientific school at Newburyport.
The late Seth Adams, of Massachu
setts, who left an estate of §1,701,000,
provided in his will for the establish
ment, within fifteen miles of Boston, of
an asylum for the treatment of hypo
chondriacs. Mr. Adams had himself
suffered from hypochondria for many
years.
The New York Financial Chronicle,
the recognized authority of the United
States, estimates the crop of 1873-4
at 4,065,000 bales against 3,930,508,
the crop marketed the previous season.
1 In this the paper includes the over
land at 141,000 and the Southern con
sumption at 137,000 —the same as last
year.
The oldest known rosebush in the
world covers one of the wails of the
Hildesheim cathedral. It is over one
thousand years old. The main stem is
one foot thick in diameter, and sepa
rates into six large branches, fifteen
feet from the ground. Seme seven
hundred years ago it was put under
cover to guard it against the ravages
of the weather. It still sends forth
every year, an immense crop of roses.
A Louisiana correspondent writes to
the Independent: “ There is a foolish
and injurious misunderstanding of the
Southern position to-day existing in
the Northern mind, which ought to be
corrected, and which a few facts and
figures can readily remove. Suffering
as she has done, and enduring losses
which would have* beggared any less
productive region and less energetic
|>eople, the South is not appealing in
forma pauperis to her apparently more
prosperous sister to-day, or threatened
with a paralysis of production and
labor as she is. On the contrary, she ‘
is recuperating and developing her re- i
sources in a manner wonderful to con- j
template, and, in spite of misgovern- j
ment and other drawbacks, gives prom
ise of a greater prosperity under her
new condition than that which made i
her the envy of less fortunate localities
under her old and discarded svstem.
A car load of s Ik worm eggs, valued
at $2,000,000, passed through ban
Francisco. reee r tly, en route from Yoko
hama to France.
Dr. Linderman,Directorof the Mint,
states that when our present form of
government was adopted there were no
national coins, and it was, therefore,
necessary to make foreign coins legal
tenders. The products of the foreign
mints being, therefore, receivable for
cui toms, it was necessary to fix their
value in United States money, and
in doing this the average amount of
fine metal was the basis of estimation.
The coins, being more or less worn by
the attrition of circulation, were valued
at 4 less rates than if of full standard
weight. After the establishment of the
mint, and the issue of a sufficient
amount of coins, the different acts of
Congress making foreign coins receiv
able at the custom-houses in payment
of duties were repealed. The old rate
of computation was, however, contin
ued, and up to the present time has
formed the basis of appraisement of our
imported merchandise; but, as none
but United States coins were actually re
ceivable for customs duties, and several
changes having in the meantime taken
place in the moneys of account of other
countries, Congress took up the subject
last winter, and a law was enacted
(approved March 3, 1873) requiring
foreign invoices to be converted into
United States money of account on the
basis of the pure metal representing
various monetary units as compared
with our own. This law became oper
ative January 1, 1874, and will greatly
simplify the computation of fireign
moneys, and cause all foreign invoices
to be converted into United States
money upon a correct basis for the col
lection duties. Nearly all foreign coins
are, under present practice, undervalued,
the variation being from one-half to
four per centum. Under the new law
the assessable surface of foreign in
voices will, in the levy of duties, be
correspondingly increased.
The question whether goods in bond,
and withdrawn after the 31st of Decem
ber, will be subject to the new or old
rates of computation, is under consid
eration by the Secretary of the Treasury.
In cases where foreign countries have
recently adopted new moneys of account
respectively —as, for example, Germany
and Denmark—and which have not yet
taken effect, invoices will be computed
according to the assay value of standard
coins representing the monetary units
still in force.
It is estimated at the Treasury De
partment that this new aud true com
putation of the value of foreign coin
will increase the receipts at our custom
houses something like a million dollars
per year.
The Washington National Republican,
good authority, gives the following out
lines of the negotiations between our
government and that of Spain, which
will probably be entered upon at once
on the arrival of Minister Cushing :
When Mr. Cushing arrives at Mad
rid, in the capacity of a regularly
accredited Minister from this Govern
ment, it is probable that the Spanish
Government may open negotiations for
the purpose of making a treaty between
the two Goverments, the provisions of
which shall more positively define the
authority of either Power to ascertain
the character of vessels suspected to
be engaged in illegal or fillibustering
expeditions. It is believed that Spain
is now ready to accord to us per
manently the right which has been
conceded in the Virginius case, to de
termine in our own way any questions
arising from actual -or alleged viola
tions of our registry laws, and to pun
ish in our own way such persons as
may be found to have fraudulently
carried the American flag at the mast
head of any vessel during a voyage or
expedition against the peace and author
ity of a friendly nation.
The main point to be settled by this
proposed treaty is the treatment or
punishment which shall be accorded to
persons who may be captured in filli
bustering acts, as the members of the
crew‘of the Virginius were. The laws of
Spain now provide that they may be
treated as pirates, while international
law defines piracy to be the commission
of acts of robbery or murder upon the
high seas. It is evident, therefore,
that the laws of Spain are 'at variance
with established international law, and
that while a vessel, as the Virginius,
may be intent upon an unfriendly act
toward Spain, or any other treaty
making Power, she cannot be adjudged
as a pirate; first, because her mission
is unfriendly to one Power alone, and
second, because her mission is not one
of murder or robbery upon the high
seas.
It will be seen that the questions here
presented will, when discussed with a
view to the negotiation of a treaty, in
volve the consideration of the tradi
tional policy of the United States
against the Right of Search. Spain
will probably insist that, without the
privilege on their part to exercise that
right, it is possible that fillibustering
expeditions may sail from ports of the
United States to her great disadvantage
and injury. The United States will
maintain that unless a belligerent condi
tion exists by the recognition of the
Spanish Government, no authority to
interfere with the sailing of vessels
carrying the American flag can possi
bly be recognized, and that when such
recognition of belligerency does exist, if
the right of search is exercised, it must
be at the risk of grave consequences by
the Government which exercises it.
India is threatened with famine.
The following is a brief sketch of
General Cushing’s life and a history
of his public services:
Mr. Cushing has a history, and for
tunately it is one of which neither he
nor his country are ashamed. He is as
old as the century, having been born at
Salisbury, Essex county, Mass., in Jan
uary, 1800, but, as recent events have
shown, he is by no means in the “ sere
and yellow leaf.” On the contrary, his
vigor of mind and body is unimpaired.
He inherited a capacity for public af
fairs, his family having furnished many
members to the public service.
He graduated at Harvard at 17; was
two years tutor, and after five years’
study was admitted to the bar at*New
buryport. Though successful at the
bar from the outset, he paid much
attention to literature, and was a lead
ing contributor to the North American
Review —his papers on legal and histo
rical subjects attracting great attention.
He entered political life in 1825, as re
presentative in the lower house of the
Legislature, from Newburyport, and in
1826 was elected State Senator. He
was a member of the then Republican
party. In 1829 he visited Europe,
where he spent some two years, much
of it in Spain, Jwhere he acquired an
intimate knowledge of the Spanish his
tory and literature, as is shown in his
“Reminiscences of Spain,” published
in 1833. The same year he published
his valuable “ Historical and Political
Review ” of the Three Days’ Revolution
in France, and its effect on other Euro
pean nations. He was again elected to
the Legislature, and two years later to
Congress, where he served four terms.
He supported John Quincy Adams for
President, and remained a Whig until
the Tyler administration, when he be
came a Democrat, and has remained
one ever since. He took a prominent
part in Congress both as a worker and
debater. In 1843 Mr. Tyler nominated
him for Secretary of the Treasury, but
the Senate rejected him. He was then
sent as Commissioner to China, and in
1844 negotiated the first treaty between
the United States and China. Return
ing, he was again elected to the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, and became
conspicuous in 1845 by advocating the
Mexican war, then unpopular in his
State. When the Legislature refused
funds to equip a regiment, Mr. Cush
ing did it at his own expense, and was
appointed colonel, and in 1847 joined
Taylor on the Rio Grande. He was
made brigadier general, and one of the
three officers to examine the charges
against Generals Scott, Pillow and
Worth. While still in Mexico, he was
nominated by the Democrats for Gover
nor of Massachusetts, but defeated.
In 1850 he was elected first mayor of
Newburyport, and re-elected for the
second term. In 1852 he was appointed
a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme
Court, and in 1853 President Pierce
made him United States Attorney Gen
eral, in which position he won great
distinction by the ability of his opinions
as legal adviser to the Cabinet. He
was again in the Massachusetts Legis
lature in 1857, ’SB and ’59. Since 1860
Mr. Cushing has been chiefly known as
the intimate advisor of the Government,
especially on questions of international
law. He has served on the Mexican
Claims Commission, and as one of
counsel for the United States at
Geneva, where, as everywhere else, he
won great distinction, notwithstanding
the savage attacks made in England
on his narrative of the arbitration.
Dr. Sears, agent of the Peabody
Fund, in a recent letter, says: “ Noth
ing more important, nothing more con
ciliating, could be done by Congress for
the Southern States than to make a
liberal appropriation for the public free
schools. The white population gener
ally feel the necessity of educating the
colored race as well as their own chil
dren ; but almost the whole burden falls
upon themselves, as the colored people
have ordinarily but a slight
Mr. Hoar’s educational fund bill meets
the case substantially, and would un
doubtedly be acceptable to the people,
with the exception of a limited number
of party men.” This alludes to the
measure introduced by Mr. Hoar in the
last Congress. He has introduced the
same or a similar measure into the pres
ent Congress.
A Brooklyn wife desjrous to econo
mize, begged her husband to discharge
the man servant. Husband refused.
The other day the husband was at the
back window ; presently the lady of the
house issued from the house, talked
with the man servant a few minutes,
then threw her arms around his neck,
and then kissed him heartily a half
dozen times. Man servant got his dis
charge without difficulty. This new
device of economy will doubtless work
quite as well in effecting the dismissal
of female servants.
We observe that the Methodist Min
isters’ Association of New York, when
met on Monday to learn “ What can we
do for the cause of God in New I ork
and Brooklyn?” were addressd by Jas.
Strong upon the desirability of an ac
curate map of Palestine.
The United Presbyterian Church, of
Scotland, has built a church and two
school-houses in Xeres, Spain, at an
expense of <£40,000.
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