Show FOREIGN NOTES the uniform of the persian is covered with diamonds and precious stones to the ivalue evalue of roubles coubles rou bles the london telegraph says queen will find no difficulty in receiving the shah but hut wonders will be done in the te case of his wives five years ago the rateable of property assessed to local rates london was not much more than sixteen millions and a penny produced the rateable value now exceeds twenty millions and the produce of a penny rate reaches the culture of rice is prohibited within one mile of savannah the radius being known as the I 1 dry culture limits twenty three squatters were arrested the other day violating this prohibition and ordered to destroy the growing 0 crop the death of the young I 1 ta musin the zoological gardens r dens amsterdam leaves guy fawkes dawkes of regents park london I 1 the only living vin specimen of this animal bom in n europe drope he is in excellent health and it is hoped that he may live lve to attain maturity miss amy sedgwick the popular actress who has been living in brighton was married on tuesday morning may 27 to mr nin charles pemberton a solicitor of liverpool the corem ceremony ny was performed eda at tho the parish church hove the bride was given away by sir cordy burrows on saturday star theatre and music hall hail princes street derby was totally destroyed by fire on the previous saturday night a drama entitled tho the poor of new york was performed one of the features of the entertainment being the spectacle of a housa house in flames the patt pau maut matt gazette says of mrs birs geotes biography of ithe the historian of greece the life lire before us is in truth first a memoir of the couple secondly of the lady thiral thirdly Y 1 01 of fth the 0 philosopher hilo sopher there are at 1 least I 1 ast t three ree letters of the ladys to one of f the gen gentle gentie by a bill in the house of commons it is proposed that the expenses incurred by returning officers for hustings ac should be defrayed from tho the country and borough rates with a proviso that candidates who do not poll polli one fifth of or the electors who voted be liable to their share of the expenses there Is a certain pasture in one of the towns in Western Hampshire mass blass in which so many cattle have been killed by lightning within the last few fey years year s that cattle owners began to regard it with suspicion and hesitate about hiring it for purposes of pasturage its rocky substratum is supposed to possess some magnetic power charles enbe k the old lame milkman of agina sagi saginaw naw W hun hung himself he had three daughters daughter one son and a dog his ris children refused to see the remains or have any trouble about the burial of the body while the dog remained all night with the body of his m master u ter and ard would not leave until fo forced re ed to do so cincinnati is to have what so far as wo we know is a novelty in american cities a public forum to be for meetings of citizens A wealthy weal citizen proposes to build it on a public senare in front of the new post office at a cost of half a million dollars the rostra or speak stand is to be of marble lz ez the london morning jost post is oldest daily newspaper in that city having reached year among its contributors have been charles lamb sir james diac Blac kintosh robert southey thomas moore bloore william wordsworth and arthur young prince regent afterwards IV was once one of its proprietors but history does not inform us lie ile ever contributed anything its columns the geneva branch of the international cannot pay the rent on rooms and another swiss has been compelled to sell its costly banner to pay its bills by curious freak of fortune it bought by the the so ic clety piety of pio plo nono so that tb friends of the pope who wiio aid his revenue by a modest but regular con trib ution now bear before the flag captured at a cost of francs franes from his enemies shaw tho the life guardsman of all the heroes of waterloo shaw the life lire guardsman towers above them all the line of or cavalry says john scott at the commencement of the engagement was drawn up a little in the rear the eminence on which our infantry was arrayed they could not in this situation see much of the battle but the shot and shells flew thickly among them which they were compelled to sustain without moving nothing tries a gallant spirit more than this shaw was hiland hit and wounded in the breast his officer desired him to fall out please god said this fine fellow 1 I 1 shant leave my colors yet shortly after orders came down that the cavalry should advance the tho whole line moved forward to thetos the top of the hill hul here they saw baw our artille artillerymen artilleryman artillery rymeR meb men running from their guns attacked by heavy masses of french dragoons it was agreed among ourselves said a private to scott that when we began to gallop we would give three cheers but ours was not very regular cheer ing though we made noise enough shaw was waa fighting seven or eight hours dealing destruction truc tion to all around hll hil him at one time he was attacked by six of the french imperial guard four of whom he killed but at last fell by the remaining two A comrade who was by his side a great part of the day noticed one particular cut which is worth recording As he was getting down the rising ground into the hollow lillow road a cuirassier waited and gave point at him shaw parried the thrust and before tile tiie frenchman recovered cut him right through his brass helmet to the chin and I 1 his face fell off like a bit of apple A life guardsman whose desperate wounds went quite through his body told john scott that he was left upon the ground within the french lines wounded in a char gehe threw his helmet from him for his enemies were chiefly exasperated I 1 against dinst our heavy dragoons by wh whom am t they hey had summered suffered so much after some time be he raised his head two french lancers saw the movement and galloping up to him dropped both their weapons into his side they left him for dead but hu still retained life and shortly a plundering V arty party came down from the elein y s position they stripped the poor fellow and several of them who had been in england as prisoners of war took this favorable opportunity of reading him a lecture on facts aud and prin as the the french nation to choose its own sovereign and the perfidy and rapacity of england whose hi inexhaustible exhaustible gold was evel at work producing wars and the various miseries of dissension after the poor life guardsman was stripped they sent him to the rear but being too weak to walk he was dragged with his feet trailing along the ground for fourteen miles being occasionally struck k by those about him to force him komove to move his legs ho saw several of his fellow prisoners murdered but the french being in full retreat as the night came on and closely pursued by the prussians they at last allowed the miserable man to sink down on the dunghill of an inn ina in one of the small towns through which they were at the time passing here he lay with blood running about him he was awakened from a kind of doze by some one creeping ng down by hi side he turned his head and saw his comrade the famous shaw nv buo iio kio could scarcely crawl to the heap leap being almost cut to pieces ala aia ah all illy iny dear fellow pm uril done for faintly whispered whispered the latter but few words passed between them and they soon dropped asleep in the morning poor shaw was lying dead with his face leaning on his hand shaw says scott carried death to every one he rode against lie is said to have killed a of the sufficient to make a show against the slain furnished for any of homers heroes his death was occasioned rather by loss of blood from many cuts from the magnitude of any one had bad been riding about fighting whole of the day with his streaming and at night he died we have seen all the year round cs one of the bluest of bostonians on being requested by a and vulgar young fellow for permission to marry one of his girls gave this rather crushing reply certainly which would you prefer the waitress or the tho cook chow coon city government tiow jiow vow TSOW to govern great cities is still an unsolved problem de do villes eulogy on the new engla d system of town government is is strained a whit it is the moist perfect system of government devised for a town but it breaks utterly down when it is applied to large municipalities athens was a model democracy while it was young and small but her fate show showed ed the impossibility of ruling a nation by the same methods and mechanism that availed for a neighborhood bor bo bood hood the wheelbarrow wheel barrow answers for the garden but will not the work of the farm tho tile ox ok team will not take the place steam on the road or in the manufactory new now york was a well governed city sixty years ago there were no leaks in her treasury in 1850 every dollar was accounted for there were no unnecessary expenses extravagance was an exotic that would not grow in a soil so severely virtuous and an d rigidly prudent an officeholder office holder was ashamed to grow rich while in office but what was natural and easy in a community of seventy five thousand p people eople most of whom knew e each a ch other and most of whose interests were subsequently one has been found impossible in a city of a million of people of lerent different diff interests races and nationalities new york was a neighborhood it is iss now a miniature world its enterprise covers the globe all ail the states and nations are represented in its population ita people are strangers to each other there is nothing homogeneous in its life the cost of its government has necessarily risen from a few thousand dollars a year to millions most or its officers are necessarily strangers to the great bulk of the people who are too much absorbed in their private business to pay much attention to municipal affairs and the methods of government which worked so admirably in a town have disastrously failed in the metropolis the thi watering pot is indispensable in horticulture but will not irrigate a province the garden sarden engine is a pretty plaything but ut useless in a contla conflagration gration it may be thought that rew new york is an exceptional city and that the methods which have failed in this and concentrated population may succeed perfectly elsewhere there are exceptional circumstances in this city one fourth of the real estate is owned by a dozen individuals and corporation corporations one half of our mechanics and business men live out of town and feel no special interest in our municipal affairs but these circumstances have less effect upon the municipal administration than many people imagine philadelphia hia hla is a city of hoi hof homes hailies lies iles her rouses houses are mostly occupied by owners and have fewer occupants than those of any other city on this continent her business is diffused most arost of her business men I 1 live ive within the city iines lines one would suppose that in that quiet and orderly city the old mechanism of municipal adminis administration tation would work without friction and produce the most admirable results but on the other hand it has been found round that her tr treasury e asu ry has been systematically robbed for years of immense sums for which she has nothing whatever to show and she has been saddled with a debt even longer than our own the difficulty is not in a few exceptional circumstances but in a defective system of municipal government the boys garments do not fit the full grown man here is brooklin a city of residences with no great business interests to provide for a elt eit city for elegant retirement ti from the bustle and of business streets street 4 and complications which merely to be kept in order and adorned and yet this quiet city which would seem should almost need government at all has been shamelessly pillaged in all sorts of ways until every department of its government is covered with corruption and its treasury is bankrupt its taxes are so high that ve veny very people can afford to own there recent reports show boston is in the incipient stages a similar municipal demoralization chicago cincinnati and in fact three quarters of our cities with population of over a hundred thousand are in the same category the tile facts are patent and teaching conclusive A large heterogeneous concentrated tion alfe orbed in private cannot and will not give the requisite attention to the details of municipal government to keep it wise efficient and honest the old system assumed that every body could and would be interested in municipal poll ties but experience proves that the inhabitants of these vast and busy are not interested in municipal politics and can not the time and patience requisite to follow out their details detail merchants like stewart and claflin and lowe would sooner pay all the bills of the city pity for six months than take the time to investigate the affairs of the various departments and to look up the records of the various candidates nor for office allow that there has been too much india ference and neglect hitherto still it is impossible to see how any amount of interest and time the people of this city can be expected to give to municipal politics will prevent extravagance and corruption the fallt is not in the citi zens but in a system that admirably answered the purposes for which it was devised but which is unsuited to the circumstances of our time and has completely failed whenever applied to the government of I 1 large lange a and nd concentrated populations aze age T the city of the future must be governed by different methods and with a totally different apparatus than any wo we have today to day V R Y graphic mothers speak gently children are mirrors that quickly reflect our every tone and word if you would have them polite and gentle in their manners it la Is absolutely necessary that you be so in in your treatment of them if you speak eak in harsh impatient tones to tb eem them very ron soon they will learn to answer you in like manner and in their play with each other many a cross unpleasant word will be heard not only for the sa sake ke of your children but for your own good learn to speak gently and low it will be a great help heip to you to try to be patient and cheerful anger makes you unhappy and your children also impatient angry tones never did the heart any good but much evil what though you are tired by the mischievous or wilful acts of your little ones be patient firm gentle tones insure obedience quicker than harsh orangey words do not turn them away impatiently when they come to you with their little cares and troubles but sympathize with and comfort them thus winning their entire confidence confidence what if they do binder you in in your work with their countless wants and ceaseless ques tion ings Is it not of or far more importance that their hungry minds be f fed ed and their little ittle hearts heartt 4 be made happy than that every h household duty should be finished i at tile the appointed hour if you knew the little restless hands and feet would be cold tomorrow to morrow would you chide BO so Impat impatiently lendy when little finger marks appear on the newly washed windows or muddy footprints on the clean kitchen floor do you know that they will not instead of spending hours in embroidery brol broi dery and cufflin ruffling on ou their little dresses spend time in talking and reading to your little ones play with them and try in every wa way to make their home BO so pleasant that as they grow to be young men and ana women they need not seek for pleasure elsewhere so pleasant that in after years as men and women they aie battling with the cares of life its memory may bo be a sweet resting place for |