| Show EDITORIAL NOTES it that cotton subjected to hydraulic pressure is only half as strong as that which has not been BO so tre ate dand that the former is dull and lu while 0 th the el latter at retains its gless glossiness iness and silken sheen it U is heid held in the cincinnati commercial I 1 that the republican party parly in the south is dying for want of white whito material the present df depression of trade and nd business according to EUro european peau critics will not hot end for time tinie to come the boston globo does not seem to be well pell up in fashion eug erg jisi ush but is evidently somewhat bewildered there therewith With and aud there thereby byj according to the following in that paper pap pad erThe eket descriptions of a genuine fashion writer are almost as biffl plu it to decipher as a too loo al and might furnish ae severe i etude for one ope trained tra ined in the mysteries of egyptology taking the matter aud and the method er they are calculated to craze the mind of a manof man mau fit only ordinary accomplishments the Gl should ask one of his wives to interpret and explain the hard words and difficult terms religious papers are lot not always so courteous and mee wee spoken as they might be the new now york examiner and chronicle talks thus of a philadelphia contemporary the Alati rational onal baptist of last has a ledding editorial which might possibly have been dreamed of by bom eom dyspeptic who had anade his hia supper oil on sour krout 11 an englishman figures out the causes of rali rall railroad road toad accidents Ia cOlden ts in this thia way machinery 41 pi pe r cent defective d signals 28 per cent defective detective roadway 18 per genf defective rolling stock 13 peo pet per bent tent tn many of the states no di V borce ace is granted but by special a act it of the legislature iu new york adultery s the di only 1 legal cause cause in the tho benighted state of bouth south carolina it is claimed that there has been bep D po grant of divorce since the revolution ow owing ing to depression in business and general kioa chicago divorces scarcely averaged one a day last year corales Co coral rails ralls is coming into fashion again queen isabella writes to the P pope ile 0 offering to intervene with herson berson acing alfonso on the r re e question isabella aou would id make a nice mediator media torin in religious matters I 4 the london church carch bells doubts whether is decent reading for a christian man in the royal theatre of munich actors who die on the stage are prohibited from coming before the curtain to bow to the audience before the the play the london press advises americans in london bondon to abstain from the silly practice of deluging the stage and smothering favorite performer performers 4 with bouquets bouque tg charles oharles bradlaugh sued an oxford grocer and recovered xao cao 50 damage damages for or slander in the grocer saying laying that thai mr B had bad been disciplined cip 1 lined for his family and leaving them chargeable to the workhouse if mr B enjoy the luxury of being profusely ly blau slandered with a great improbability of securing even nifty fifty cents damages and the certainty of being further slandered if he nought sought damages let him come to this country op the san francisco chronicle says bays fit F pit it is a well weli authenticated fact that the female femal ei population of aw world rid ald wap wab is tp day more numerous than the male and that this ihla numerical preponderance la Is constantly increasing at the ratio laid down in tabular form by the various census bureaus of civilized nations not ilot more than a thousand years will elapse before the whole world will returned be turned overto over to the tender mercies of the softer sex and the few men remaining on earth at that time will occupy cases and cages in museums and zoology zoological cal cai gar gardens d end the scriptures talk of a man being as pre precious clous elous as fine gold in the latter days which would be the case now if all the men who aro arc not men were deducted home some borne years ago bev hev IF VV Ribert bibert robertson sony soup of brighton england said of that country what is quite aa as pertinent now of this country jf if judgments are in store for our country they will fall because we pre jre ra selfish men and because we prefer pleasure to duty and to honor and because we love our church more than our christianity and our christianity more than truth and ourselves more than all these are the things that defile a nation the savannah X news emis evis thinks that the prospect is that if the business of investigation goes on much longer it will result in the total destruction of the government and also of the great party of moral ideas itself strawberries are not scarce in various parts of the country but a hit tit louis paper observes that BO no one can afford to buy them yet unless be is in the post ost trading business or nestles wk within hin bin the shadow of the emma mine the st louis republican says peter brown a negro beat out his bis cifes brains in a hut in bla big a hollow ollow threw the body into t the bee missouri burned the hut and fled he was caught tried weds convicted of murder murden in the first degree and sentenced to be hung the court of appeals reversed the judgment then he was tried pleaded guilty of murder in jn the second degree degrees and sentenced to 99 years in the penitentiary 7 as there is a state law that enables enables a man sentenced for life to be charged discharged elis at the hend fend of fifteen years they are quarrelling eastward upon the question whether visitors shall or shall nol not mot ba allowed to ava walk ik on the grass on the centennial park grounds could not the american people have chosen a better time to wash their shockingly soiled linen than the centennial year and under the very noses of odthe the multitudes of foreign foreigners rs who come to celebrate the hundredth aty aly of the bishof birth of the republic during last winter for the first time known to the present inhabitants lee ice formed at jerusalem and the arabs baving having never seen it before were puzzled with set sel t the e query how ice lee could turn into glass glam the son of man had not where to lay his head and he rode into berut jerusalem on an ass asa ploton plo pio nono none his professed representative is said to have the choice of rooms in the vatican and horses in the vatican stables it is said to have been demonstrated rated that for telegraphic purposes the english language is twenty tive five to thirty three per cent cheaper than the french german or any other language WHY WRY SHOULD HE BE RELEASED tue THE U S house of representatives ii tl appears has passed a joint resolution to take steps to procure the pardon or release cofone E 0 al condon who is confined in an english prison As law is generally administered i with some bome regard to justice c e in laeng england the presumption is unavoidable that condon has been found round transgressing the laws of country and that he has been thrown into prison in consequence as a pun punishment I 1 i ashment due it ia is as ns easy to live within the laws in england as it is in the united states and there is practically quite aa as much personal liberty in the former as in t the h e latter count country ry for those who are inclined Inc luc libed to obey the law as good citizens or subjects but those who are not sa so minded will nind find there is much more certainty if they transgress the laws of their being judicially punished lel lea in england eng ian lan d thail in amer ameri ica lea condon must be aa siu amerl american citizen ci tizon of or there would be no propriety whatever in president grant acting as a mediator for him nor aa as it is does there seem to be much propriety in such medi mediation atlon if condon went to britain and by his fenian acts broke the british laws what could he be more just and proper than that he buffer suffer the pen pee alty ally of those broken laws he could easily have avoided such penalty by staying at home and minding his own busin business eks or if be he had bad been minded to go to the british isles by minding his own proper bual bust nesa ness while there there la Is no country in the wide world where a man from any country if he will behave himself with n any by kind of decency and manifest any kind of re respect for the laws of the land will be more fre free e and be le let iet alone more strictly than in britain but it appears condon could not do this he put his foot within the meshes of the law and he was caught what can be said but si served him right Is it a pity that being di ah n american condon should be legally punished for com corn milting any crime or breaking any law such demoralizing pre sum bum cannot be entert in ed d by rational people it is not customary in britain nor tor for criminals to escape the lawa awls penalty on the various frivolous pretexts which are often sufficient here to practically nullify legal provisions As to fenian insurrections they are not circumstances which the british government is likely to look upon with any great degree of leniency the consequences of those insurrections if trilled trifled with would be so 80 serious that undue mercy to the tho offenders would be gross criminality to the peaceably disposed subjects of the me realm odonovan bossa rossa Is reported to have told a san francisco interviewer recently that among the designs of himself and his fenian associates was the e setting on fire firo of the large towns and cities of england reckless of losses and sufferings rings A crime of such deadly purpose and such dreadful and widespread consequences would not be bo entitled entitle d to any mercy whatever nor can a government which la Is t the b e object of such threats be reamona reasonably b ay expected to bo ready to ex extend te nd much mercy io criminals connected with any such buch conspirators against the peace and welfare of the country if president grant were to request the pardon of condon he be would make himself liable to the humiliation of having his request declined if it the request were arl granted anteo it would then appear hat that tile the criminal was released bec aut ait auta aitA he had influential friends would constitute an invidious distinction between him dimand arid grid his fellow criminals who had no such friends to td intercede for them and who might beno be no greater criminals than con Cou dorn dori if ifo so great as he be this therefore would ing the ends of justice rather let condon berve serve out the penalty of that law which he has broken an and d then he be may learn sense enough to stay at home or behave himself if he goes abroad darus DABES TO DO RIGHT AN exchange has the following t there is one trait in general grants granta character that will be remembered to his bis honor long after the things for which he has been criticized shall haye have been forget forgotten tem teu he has the courage of his convictions there is absolutely nothing of the t trimmer e immer a bout about him he dares todo to dochat do what he thinks to be right does it without stopping to inquire what the world may maybay say bay 11 it is a commendable trait in any man wan to have haye courage to act out his bis convictions to daro dare to do what he believes to be right so far as president grant is endo endowed wedIth with this quality he ha should be respected as a man and more respected as a high atwould it would be abood a good thing for the country if the number of people who act upon their convictions vict ions lons were much greater than an it la Is sow how we come to reflect lupori it we ive w e are satisfied that in this territory of utah are a greater proportion of of people who possess this quality of doing what they believe to be light and to a grester greater degree than can be found in any other community what causes their daring to do what they think is right out the more saliently is the tho fhe the fact fie V that they dare to avac act t |
