Show retirement of general on half pay lias apparently not diminished the activity or the influence of that avor zealond champion of popular rights lie wis ostensibly deprived of his command for insubordination but the true reason ans of course eliat he had received a heava vote in seven de that au active agitation was I 1 going on in liis name and eliat 1 journal hul been established in his interests advocating vo a dictatorship ilia retirement lias not put a stop to this business tiie generals friends are as active as eer campaigning for him in the provinces and tho general himself has not been quiet his influence in the chamber of deputies was lately shown when one of liis friends made a motion for urgency in alio revision orthe constitution it was a test question for the government and the government failed alie motion was adopted by a majority of thirty one thereupon premier birard and liis associates at once resigned what the outcome of this new crisis will be it would be vain to conjecture M floquet has consented to take tho place vacated bym birard and has formed a cabinet of such strong men as M goblet M de freycinet and M Lockro yr but it is not believed that the new can command a working majority in alic chamber in eliat case of course they the way of the rest ax exchange truly says that the tariff is a device begotten by shrewd minds as a means of revenue to the novem ment in time of need and perpetuated by still shrewder minds as means of robbery during a quarter century of peace A ST louis paper saya an enjoyable feature of the program in st louis will be the final ejection of samuel J from the democratic party how loose rohnl my waist were ohp clothes of my childhood ig my doubled up corsets reminda me etli yam tut slips that I 1 wore aeu 1 aeu to cho stonewood stoe wood had more real thi bustle and train the bustle 1 ku A i thing highly treasured by all lilios j built in the mockingbird mocking bird style but give mo the garment with loosa noss unmeasured the old mother ft kiich weak men revile the dear mother hub hard the loose mother hubbard alie honored which beats any etyle A WESTERN paper calls upon its readers to weep over the borrows of a liquor dealer chos s family has been reduced to a of utter destitution because of the actions of the prohibitionists inclosing up his saloon and driving him out of business the account hs much to bay about inhumanity persecution etc and the public generally is called upon to witness the awful effects of a tyrannical prohibitory law it is indeed unfortunate that the innocent should be called upon to buffer temporarily from the effects of prohibition but fo mako use of such a case to op position to a prohibitory law is the very topmost of all absurdity tiie cases where prohibition has brou glit any one to a state of destitution are extremely rare but what shall be said about the destitution caused by the licensed liquor traffic the one class of cases stands to the other in the proportion c drop of water to tho atlantic ocean the united states has adopted a new seal for use on U S notes and certificates it is similar iu deain to the large one used on the old 20 note with the addition of a small lace border with many points in geometric lathe work it is light pink in color circular in form and nearly two inches in diameter heretofore a separate seal was used on notes and gold and silver certificates varying in size and design according to the character and denomination of the note hereafter the new seal will bo used exclusively on all paper issued the change in the size and design is said to be in the nature of an additional safeguard against counterfeiting the subject of temperance at the international ter national counsel of women held in washington brought upon the stage many women noted for their work in this cause miss frances willard the dent of the N W C T union leading with a strain of eloquence which held her audience in chains broken only by applause she stated that there are now forty district departments and ten thousand unions kaid eha we have sharpened our weapons in sight of the enemy and they are to an edge wo wanta national prohibition amendment against the liquor traffic the esau and the docial pariah of this land the following sentence Is a celebrated punctuation puzzle and if properly punctuated makes good sense if moses was the son of pharaohs Phara daughter then he was the daughter of pharaohs Phara son also makes sense punctuated properly iving charles I 1 walked and talked three biays after be was executed |