| Show 8 THE statement having been made that horace greeley suffered greatly from the tue omaha herald does the statement but argues that thit mr greeley wab was a noted easy sleeper that he slept readily by night or by day at home or abroad in church lecture room or railroad carriage very likely at one time it wag was so but it does appear that tired dred natures sweet restorer was not so BO completely atthe at the command of the great editor in his latter years the anxieties of the late campaign and of the attendance on his sick and dying wife greatly diminished his facility of procuring sleep almost at will as may have been the cate case in his hib fresher and more vigorous days when hla his vitality was unimpaired by the strain and aud weariness of the anxieties that accumulated their intensity upon him more recently whitelaw neld reid present editor of the tribune makes the that mr greeley since binco his presidential tours could acar acan scarcely gely fely secure an hours good sleep in the twenty four tho the rev mr talmage taimage Tal tai mage maRe in the brooklyn tabernacle in a sermon in which he took occasion to comment upon the death of the venerable philosophic editor made the following remarks mr greeley told me ten days before his nomination at cincinnati that he hb had not had a sound bound sleep in fifteen brethren of literary to toil WO we had bad better slow up put down brakes brakis you who are going with the express train at sixty miles an hour had bad bet ter take the accommodation at thirty five miles an hour it is this night work that is killing hitting our literary men the braes bran beads of the commin coffin lid jid are made out of gaslight first the devil tries to stop atop the useful thinker by making him lazy but failing in that he be standa stands in the editors room or the ar lists studio or the ministers study baying saying do four times the work you are doing write two books this year go out and deliver fi nifty fifty fly lectures at a night 11 men of intellectual toil you anre re careful of the candle to keep it burning brightly you had better begin to look after the candlestick it if this was the case his frequent sleeps bleeps during most of those fifteen years must have been but cat sleeps mere doza dozing I 1 and his habit of sleeping anywhere w her was wag far less recuperative than a good bound slumber of seven boura bours I 1 in 11 the twenty four with the wake wakefulness of the lark during the remaining seventeen As it is the sudden decease of mr Gr greeley iddles in what might have been the full development of his powers and the flush of his physical and mental virility is another serious warning to active and ambitious men man is ia a machine capable of performing much but liable to be overstrained over overs trained strained and overworked and the golden mean menn of moderation is necessary to prevent excess in labor manual or mental as well as to prevent excess in many other directions direct lona lons MP MB FELL feli a mont cenis cenia engineer hae has done some good things in england in the w way ay of demonstrating the practical utility of narrow guage railroads he lse constructed a narrow guage line with v ten inch track to convey heavy iron ore traffic from mine to ordinary railroad subsequently under contract with the government ho be constructed a narrow guage road of 18 inch track at the at al der delaho a ho military camp the width of thell theli the line with double track being only ten feet this road is considered entirely successful a speed of 20 miles an hour being easily made upon it 30 miles an hour being the maximum which is sufficient Buffi clent for all ordinary purposes bes beb this road which is built upon posts cost to per mile so bo well is the government satisfied with it that narrow guage roads will be constructed at other military posts and government establishments these narrow gauge roads are manifestly destined to play an important part in the future development of the mining and agricultural interests of thib thio continent it if such roads are desir able in a small densely populated country like ilke england much more to fo must they be in a country of magnificent distances albeit of wonderful resources like this the cost coat of construction and working i of a very light narrow gauge load foad road is ii comparatively trifling while aasi nasi aalst aast a vast amount of pa passengers and freight teanie traffic can bs ba carried upon it i in mountainous s mining districts an and d in sparsely settled agricultural regions igi igl roads d 3 0 of f thia this acono economical mi cal cai de eruption description s but amply sufficient for MI lil local traffic would be great boons to the people would help mightily to develop the resources of localities where moree more costly railroads can not be expected to be made and would be highly conducive to the general welfare THE washington correspondence of the newyork new york herald thus presents the unfinished business bu biness alness before the prest prea ept ent cession of Con congress gresa grese no last session of any congress of late lato years has had bad such an unie unil unimportant massof mayb mabb of unfinished bubines s before I 1 it t there ahre are over three thousand pending bills bils of which not as many hundreds are founded on legislative sense and season beason not a hundred fall fail sable bable in any form and not twenty perhaps essential t to 0 the well weli heing being of the country many are eriv private ate claims which are oftener than not private steals or naked gratuities A few are attempts under specious and misleading tit titles lesto to get some few thousand outlying acres of at public lands here and there for the railroads that have grabbed all the rest in the localities some such as the french spoliation claims are founded on equity but burdened with legal technicalities of great retarding force there are bills to give bounties to slaves who were enlisted instead as of to the presumably loyal wa masters who were paid in part till Con congress gresa put an estoppel on further payments at the instance of secretary stanton and to enable discharged soldiers and sailors and orphans of the late war to acquire homesteads on special conditions of favor legislation granting pensions bounties rewards and privileges of various kos koe kinds for service in the late war is far from ended and a reference to the statute books will show that hitherto such legislation has continued through the period between one war and another all the way down from the war of the revolution to that with mexico in the line of monopoly and subsidy bills come the postal telegraph companas Comp anys bill of mr palmer of iowa the proposed ocean and gulf steam lines and the construction of steam sloops of war at private yards opposed to these are such bills as those designed to reserve what Js Is letof the public domain for borac ac settlers of a mixed character are the bills designed to use the means of the government to connect and improve the inland water routes the immediate advocates having havin g private Inte 1 interests mainly alyin in vieland vie wand making the bestree of the undeniable public benefits benefi tel tsi involved in the utilization of all pos possible ible ibie means 0 of f water transportation as against the railroads there are bills blus to codify and mend amend the coinage laws to retire mutilated and worn bank notes and to have exemplary investigations into all steam boller boiler explosions these will be followed by bills to tb assist jn in funding the remainder of the debt and to restore our foreign carrying trade the most moat important of pending bills is that to i establish reciprocity with canada in the fisheries and canals as its provided in the washington washing aon ton treaty mr haideman haldemann Hald haid emans bileto bill to cover the treeless prairies with a is in a to come up for action but congress Is I 1 yet supine on the subject and jt it will probably remain for some future legislator to harvest what he hns hab sown the bill to establish a territorial government ui nt for the late nomadic tribes now concentrated on adjacent reservations Is ia likely to become a law the civil rights bights bill in ia some form or other stands a good chance of going on the statue book and will make but bub little noise abroad when it finally gets there A sort of companion bill extending the presidents power of suspension of 0 the habeas corpus act jn in ku klux haunted regions will in all probability die of neglect in the present posture of southern affairs the initiatory movement toward relieving the supreme court judges of their routine burden will be taken but the measure will be handled bandied deliberately and cannot be looked upon as one of the coming laws of the third session of the forty second Con congress gres greb some ne new w members intend to sigu signalize alize their entrance into congressional life by presenting inchoate schemes of enactments and others going out will buncom bize a little littie with ar an eye to the time when a chance may come around for a return but those who are good for another term certain and for terms ahead in possibility may be expected to follow a middle course be sparing of new legislative projects project a and about those already oll on the table tabie I 1 I 1 of th the more or e 1 I m rt a alness of the bes beb session s lon ion that which which will becee v considerable attention the correspondent says the only point on which members seem to agree is that it will be impossible to dispose of it all the present session it is proposed to amend the rules of the house with a view yiew to facilitate legislation and to change the rule giving conference committees unlimited power amendments to the civil code and the postal telegraph bill will be likely to consume the most time special claims under the geneva award may be re berred to the court of claims and the award of the british claims commie commis sion bion must aiso also be provided for there are the various regular appropriation bills and the sloops of war appropriation bill with On consideration of american sea commerce to which may be added the thousand and one billa which various parties and partisans parti will be sure to want introduced some of which may beso bebo be so successful as to got into congress and receive more or less consideration at all events and especially as this is a short ses bes session sIon blon con CoD congress gress grebs will ivill not be short of work THE tremendous floods in italy continue and the damage accomplished and threatened is very great in england too and on the seas adjacent very udus unusual dial fial storms have been prevailing of late ladd and extensive devastation is reported po arted A good many remarkable things ahre are happening about this time |
