Show mn JOSEPH JEFFERSON has been engaged for a number of yeara upon hia autobiography which will soon begin to appear in the century no more inter eating record of a life upon the sta could ba laid before the american public and sir jeffersons personality is perhaps moro sympathetic to the peo pie of this country than that of any actor we have bad aft is the fourth in a generation of actors and with his children and grandchildren upon the stage there arc six generations of actors among the jeffersons the record which lie has made of the early days of the american stage is said to bo peculiarly interesting especially tho story of his travels as s boy in his fathers company when they would settle down for a season in a western town and extemporize their own theatre the autobiography will begin in the century during the coming autumn and the installments will ba illustrated with a portrait gallery of distinguished actors WHEN the cleveland administration ecat out of power there were over thirteen hundred vacant post offices of this number 1000 were fourth class offices made vacant by resignations and were filled by assistant postmaster general stevenson but on february post master general dickinson declined to sign any more commissions and they failed of the remainder are presidential offices filled by president cleveland but which the senate refused to confirm fifty aro offices of which the term of the incumbent expires this month thirty are offices of which the senate confirmed the appointments but the commissions were not issued and teu are offices to the presidential class by reason of increased receipts GENERAL AKEJI says the chicago leiis intends to go to philadelphia at the end oi each week to discharge his duties as superintendent of sunday school can the postmaster general run a sunday school and sunday mail trains it the same time without their colliding with each other this is nn important question sir wannamaker believe in advertising his business in sunday newspapers will he cause thousands of his employees to work on sunday in the railway mail service and elsewhere as they do at present the friends of sabbath observance will watch the postmaster generals Bo lution of the sunday problem with interest ane of next april is alie centennial of the constitution of the united states and of th inauguration of george washington as the first president bi the resolution of september 15 1788 the time for the constitution to go into eu et was fixed as march 4 before that date eleven of the original states had ratified it but the national government did bot begin under it until april SO 1789 when washington was inaugurated augu rated as president in new york city april is therefore the centennial of the constitution and the government of the united states ix the senate on wednesday butler offered a serbei of resolutions declaring the tenure of the president pro tempore does not expire at the meeting of congress after recess upon the president having appeared to take the chair that the presence of the vice president does not have the effect to vacate the office of president pro tempore that office of president pro tempore shall be held at the pleasure of alie senate ES predicts that tracy will make a good secretary of the navy it is to ba hoped so and that he will push the improvement of the american navy with energy and good judgment A dmd beginning was made during the four years of Clev elands ad and it is to he hoped it will be continued under harrison the american navy haa been a burning disgrace to the nation A TALE of sorrow and distress comes from china thousands are starving and dying from exhaustion and exposure there belief has already ben received from america and england but mora is needed until spring crops are gathered tho famine will continue and to insure spring pl antins money s required from abroad in the camino there is neither seed nor money to purchase it THE importunity of office seekers at discounts anything in the history of the country some congressmen have recently changed their place of residence to escape the horde of place hunters that dog their every step men who have BO principle to guide them in their politics are from the very nature of things pap guck cra would one not give asks lubbock for a primer of the aest century 7 for to paraphrase aej known saying even the boy at the plough will then know more ol 01 science than the wisest of philosophers do now recent camera achievements is a portrait copy taken by the light of a cuban firefly fire fly in thirty seconds and a photograph of the aurora borealis to obtain the latter had been declared an utter impossibility an editor of an iowa paper baing asked do bogs pay says that a good many do cot that they tako the paper for several coara and then have abo postmaster bend it back marked refused gona wt etc THE new york orld recently published the record of vice president lavi P morton as a boodler it shows that he has been in politics bince 1872 and during that time ho has contributed 1 and collected from others nearly as much more for the treasury of the republican party in the last falls campaign alone ha contributed and collected more to elect harrison and morton the declines that in mortons Mor tons accession boodle is first triumphant in a presidential election this is hardly correct boodle was first triumphant in 1850 when the vast sums of money which dorsey and morton dumped into indiana turned that into a state morton was the master boodler then as he is to day that is a title which befits him better than the one of vice president it is a title that he has earned not one that he has bought for a purely ornamental purpose Is honor doubtless of his father freddy grant goes to austria president harrison on wednesday nominated him to be minister to austria hungary frederick D grant is thirty nine years of age and the oldest son of gen grant he accompanied his father during the war and was in five battles before he was thirteen year sold he was lieutenant of the fourth cavalry when he resigned from the army in 1876 having seen much active service in indian campaigns while in the service he married miss ida honora daughter of an old citizen of chicago and has two children one boy and on e idal since general grants death coi grant has resided with his mother and cared for her estate AN interesting feature of the coming paris exhibition will be a group of forty nine structures intended to give a history of the human dwelling the different types of shelters represented will include those of the prehistoric period under in caves on water and on land and from later those of early his ciric civilization of aryan civilization of roman civilization in the east and i in the west and of rude civilization disconnected from the general progress humanity the chinese japanese eskimo african aztec etc the interiors the costumes of the occupants and the surroundings will be those of tho different epochs studied editon REID of the new york tribune was on tuesday given the french mission by president harrison it is learned that the nomination of reid as minister to france was entirely unsolicited by him or his friends it has been the intention of the president ever since the election to tender him some important appointment and this it is understood would have been the mission to england but for the impression that the earnest advocacy of biome rule for ireland by the tribune might render the relations of reid with the tory government of lord salisbury less cordial than would be desirable AN important improvement in clocks has been shown alie british Ab for the advancement of science by mr W H douglass the new feature is tho torsion pendulum which with lever and escapement may be applied to ordinary works and by its slow rate of vibration makes practicable alio conversion of an eight day clock into one requiring winding only once a year As minister to spain thomas W pal roer will revisit the scenes of his youth he has been thero before aud knows how to eat and sweet oil in his soup as well as the best native hidalgo lie ia familiar with the castlean there loo A country editor closes hia financial review with the remark money is close but not quite close enough to reach seems to be blooming for west virginia an account of whose gubernatorial complicate comp licati ins the has already explained ou wednesday it was reported that the republican members of the legislature had entered into an agreement after a thorough canvass of the political situation to refuse to obey the call of gov wilson for an extra session of that body en the grounds that he is not the lawful governor of the state and is therefore ther eforo kith K ith out authority to issue such a call this determination has reached the ears of the democrats and has kicked up an immense hubbub while the democrats havo ony majority in the hauae they are two in the minority in the senate and they are busy now arranging to combat this new move of alie tion it is likely should the republicans fail to respond that the sergeant at arma will be bent to them at their homes and this might easily precipitate trouble postmaster GENERAL wannamaker haa purchased a residence in washington that cost him alie president of the united states has granted amnesty to jacob Heick lc and riceld jones of the territory of utah these persons applied for the amnesty having stated that aliey had been guilty of bigamy or polygamy aud unlawful cohabitation but that they had abandoned these practices and no longer countenance or ive support thereto the papers are now in the hands of marshal dyer who desires the persons for whom they are intended to furnish their addresses that ho may forward the documents to them |