Show 6 H EVENTS AND COMMENTS 1 t1 in finally be abolished SLAVERY WILL t Cuba in1SS8 i TLwiIvD againa bag ibeen Jdernon strated that the political candidate should have no pedigree Thoroughbreds s Thorough-breds have no business in a hop liti a e cal race THE BURDENS of Montana bearhunt ° ers have been added to by an eastern i paper which says that in that Territory when a hunter is eaten by a bear his I r ° 1 neighbors say he has been admitted t to the barf It f I bar-f f IN PARIS the dressmaking trade represents the movement of 50000000 a q t r presents µ 1 r < year andl goes employment to t 30000 women Sdme of the society women t spend as much as 30000 a year on their costumes t SERGEANT BUISIEB the winner of the queens prize at Wimbledon in shooting Ji the of his t at Spalding in classfiring t ie bu meat made a remarkable score 1 t 1 He fired ten shots each at 700 and 800 jJ i yards his total being seventyfour I 4 I out of a possible eighty His first eight shots at SOD yards were bulleyes I and ij the last two inners or thirtyeight i 1 points out of a possible forty hI c A CURIOUS public house is among the i f r latest attractions in Paris Itis called La i Taverne du Bagne The walls are hung t f with paintings representing the horrors r 4 hor-rors of convict life interspersed with f F l portraits of notorious Communists i All the waiters are dressed in convict q 1 uniform and wear the chains and i loulets of the regular forcat Dhe landlord r i 1 land-lord is Jitoyen axime lisbonne one f l of thalea ders of the insurrection of 1871 I r A rHt to THE SUPREME Court of Texas has J recently decided t t at m indictment 1 b j I Bound by a grand jury of more than 1 lf twelve men is unconstitutional in that j State I and that a conviction based on an fI j lr t indictment so found is invalid There u f are more 1000 convicts in Texas ilt I who were indicted by the excessive I i J juries now ruled out by the Supreme 4 ourt and they all expect to get out on f t that decision Governor Ireland has c denounced the judgment of the court I + r AS unjust and unjustifiable but that I 1 r + Goes not affect thejudgment in the least try I i 4 f i AGRARIAN WABFABE is again threatened p threat-ened in Ireland By reason of the i present low prices of agricultural products ff pro-ducts caused largely by American 1 competition farmers are unable now 1 j i to pay the rent rates established three J 1 jears ago in settlement of war between l L tenants and landlords which commen it l 4ed in 1879 This rent rate was satisfactory tf satis-factory to the tenants when established I but ° prices of products were much better than now In the meantime ioweverr the tenantry have learned the ± f icienee of boycotting and an agrarian J war ofwill be quite different thing Y 1 romtiwhat itthen was f HOWEVER LOGICAL or illogical may have been the conclusion that was avery 1 i 1 a-very comfortable condition of mind j regarding prospective silver legislation 8 t expressed last week by a Colorado mining f min-ing nfanthen in Butte He has 2000 t i 000 invested in the industry and in 1 conversation upon the subject said U I dont bother my head about the i much discussed prospective action of jf Congress upon this gnbje k Silver is < silver and I belie that softer or liter f it is bound to find its proper level bG It I f higher iu price or lower whether Congress i Con-gress tampers with it or not Silver is I b all rightEr I 4 GKEAT BBITAU L has long made a specialty spe-cialty of landgrabbing and has always tti had better luck at it than her continental t continen-tal rivals Just now for instance I while i France worrying itself over reverses in Madagascar and Tonquin and Spam and Germany are quarreling about the Caroline Islands Great Britain is about i 3 i to step in and gobble up Burmah It 1 t is announced that the cabinet have decided to annex that territory and depose de-pose King Theebaw who to say the truth badly needs the grand bounce The trade of Barman is considerable I It I ana its geographical position gives it li considerable political importance in the I 1 game for the control of Asia r fi r THE BBBLET Academy has printed i t from a papyrus manuscript what 1s f i said to be a writing containing hitherto unknown fragments of Aristotle on the i t e state and i institutions of Athens from I the time of Solon or the middle of the sixth century B C to the time of Aristotle himself in the third quarter tl of the fourth century B C This work S t refers particularly to the reforms of the constitution of Solon effected bv I disthenes the grandfather of Pericles i + who ia 010 B C and the following a years I remodelled the government of s Athens and introduced the scheme of f 1 ostracism The publication has excited I I i much interest among the Academies of 1 Europe and classical students s generally r G gener-ally I i t > 4 i 7 t |