Show EDITORIAL NOTES decoration day appears to have been generally observed east of the mountains in a spirited manner manlier the educational news says the main action of breathing should be at the waist hence any form of dress or belt therefore which constrains the base of the lungs and 1 presses upon the stomach and intestines must do serious harm 1 according to the st LOUIS times philadelphia is a very tl pious 0 u i place particularly on sunday y the centennial buildings are ard closed but the suffolk park races afford all the sunday amusement the pious philadelphians ians can reasonably ask for there are seven fifty convicts in the hd d and state prison the largest number ever in that institution at atone one time and this is the centennial year too massachusetts must be showing what she shu can do president grant is beginning to find it necessary to use spectacles tho the pope is credited with saying in a recent speech that can ran an anthill ant hill of heretics had especially precipitated itself upon this poor italy bishop berkeley gave to yale college more than a hundred years ago his bis farm at newport it iti I 1 now worth about for the foundation of a it scholarship the president and fellows of the college with remarkable leased the farm for 1000 years the rental is annually the disciples of 1 mazzini were enraged at Gari baldis receiving a pension perhaps they would have liked it this from the san francisco oatis 1 kle cle is especially for the ladies fio fit it may comfort the habitual tea drinkers to know that the becu liar crisp and curly shape of favorite brands of the tea plant are produced by the oscillating motion of the bare fl neet feet of who perform a sort of buddish dance danco in large pans the bottoms of which are strewn with the dampened leaves travelers in china witness this process in all the tea prod producing acing districts the new york preaches the following short free trade sermon the low price tag of foreign articles every one with the telltale tell tale comment iamont co in gold is worth all possible argument for the use of the money of the world for the conduct of the business of the world and every nation in it the textile fabrics of a country like spain the butt of every spread eagle orator for three generations are a most unpleasant but a most Instruct instructive ive ivo lesson in the cheapness of free trade under the worst of governments the london school board has bag resolved that as a means to encourage learning the art of swimming it is desirable to have inserted in the education code a provision to the effect that the attendance of scholars at lessons in swimming under a competent instructor tor for not more than an hour a week may be counted as school attendance an epidemic of suicide prevails in the cities of italy the chicago temes times cautions the patriotic in this way be careful while you are at til the centennial ben centennial tennial philadelphia has more women than men and every one the superfluous is looking around at the crowd and reflecting that possibly she wont have an other chance in a hundred years A washington correspondent of the chicago tribune says president grant remarked to a senator recently in less than ten months my term of office will expire and I 1 shall again agrain be a private citizen J I 1 count the intervening da s with the same pleasure that I 1 used when in the graduating class at west point to count the days that must pass before I 1 would receive my diploma and leave the academy e in the new york times says bays of the death of dr W hall the cause of the death was ascertained to be fatty degeneration of the heart it appears that for some years past dr hall had greatly over overta oveita tasked sred himself in his literary labors rising at five in the morning and working barking almost continuously until ten at night his health had always been good however ho and with the exception of a slight cold contracted during the spring rains of the past month he had not co complained m of ill health up to the day of his death the king of Dahomey refused to pay the tribute imposed on turm turn for outrages upon english subjects and invited the english to go to aboney and he would pay them in powder and bullets an english newspaper says sir william ewi tt e expected the refusal and will alil strictly c aly blockade the two rivers by which dahomey receives merchandize merchandise dize which will cause a serious joss loss to his revenue the coast towns will also aiso be burned but no expedition inland is probable sir titus salt tells the mayor of 0 f bradford that he designs to found two scholarships of the value of 1120 each a year in connection with the bradford grammar school all ail aud and d two scholarships of loo 1100 each a year in connection with the bradford girls grammar school congregational gregat ional sunday schools erected by sir titus at a cost of more than have been formally presented to the congregational denomination at saltaire Sal taire new ew coaches now run between london and the following places tunbridge wells windsor dorking guildford watford and st albans high wycombe Wy combe and oxford in the course of a divorce suit sult between signor gianesi Vi anesi conductor of the royal italian opera orchestra covent garden theatre and maria henderson or Vi anesi a chorus singer mr parry asked mr gianesi Vi anesi did your wife complain of this to will which eil ell witness replied she complained of everything miss julia mathews who recently died in st louis of rheumatism and fever was the daughter of frank mathews and niece of charles Mat mathews hews bews and was born in london in 1815 she made her debut on the stage in melbourne australia and became a colonial star for ten years she has played beadi leading ng parts in comic 0 opera pera she was ona oca of a profusely gene generous disposition siti oll A london correspondent of the new york world says A venerable gentleman told me the other day that he had bad lived during nearly ninety years and that he had given his especial attention t throughout more than half of this period to the collection and classification of reports of criminal trials it cit may be that my in creasing years render the task more difficult but my opinion is that crime of the worst character is becoming so prevalent that no ono one man can keep pace pice p ice with it my books of murde murders rii are far in arrears I 1 am far behindhand with my divorces aud my forgeries have so accumulated on my hands handa that I 1 have been compelled this thia week to employ a young man to aid me in posting up the records s the baltimore gazette associates quacks and preachers in the following style the rev mr mather of ohio wants quack advertisements verti kept out of the methodist church journals that is right but he ought to go a step further and make it a clerical misdemeanor for ministers to write quack advertisements more men women and children are annually poisoned by pills and nostrums strums no which lare jare ae recommended by preachers than in any other way we have often thought that there is some mysterious alliance between quack doctors preachers and u undertakers wonder if there is when is that little affair of blaines going to blow ovel anxious as we may be to do him a good turn there are also duties which we owe to our readers and the general public which we should not neglect and we really cannot be troubling them every day with a column or so about that paltry that other little affair of is somewhat more considerable bui bul is it not getting time the matter was dropped this is centennial year and there seems to be tie no intention to let sidney lanier monopolize the cantata bu business iness he may find a host of rivals yet on this hundred terraced he height i bo so let him look to his laurels the poets are being stirred up put on their mettle here is a local specimen of their products set to music sal bait t lake out boutot of thee ogden thee thea provo C logan thee the thee st Georgc georgic Fe springtime cio clo cie cries 4 it rains awai awal I 1 summer cries lve lus its ive warm awall autumn crie cries sIts M cool winter cries it snows awall crickets cry we jump awall sil huppers hoppers cra crawe we come awall fellow cries now you dont sayi bayl other fellow we come to at slays ayi indian grunts white man etayl every word of this cantata was distinctly heard at the furthest end of our immense sanctum and was vas received with bursts of ap bev eov G VV IV manning vicar of st union cornwall who died recently was an trie character he had lind his coffin made many years year sago ago and he slept on it or in it for many months and in it for several weeks before he died it was fitted with a matl tress and a pillow and he be lately had a carpenter to alter it so as to make it more comfortable the walls of his bedroom bed room were papered with letters and with notices of the steps to be taken in the event of his being seized with illness one sunday while in the pulpit he gave his domestic servant notice to leave his employ the deceased continued to do duty in his church till very recently the anaheim gazette of a recent date says we are informed that senator jones F encouraged by the great success that has attended his venture so far prop proposes oseg osei to enter upon its extension in the he direction of salt sat lake very shortly and it is stated that he has decided to adopt the route via anaheim and the santa ana eanon canon in preference to running parallel to the southern pacific via spadra saadra the tue route proposed would come right up to anaheim arla Aria helms heims passing through the hill place on the north side of town and thence keeping the santa ana canon t to 0 san bernardino the follow following lug will be worth seeing at the centennial or anywhere else major J W powell chief of the second division of the geological survey of the territories has nearly completed in clay for the centennial exhibition a model of the great cation of the colorado the yosemite valley and niagara gorge upon a scale of one halt half an inch to the mlle it is stated that australia has made rapid progress in horticulture and is fairly entitled to be designated the fruit garden of the southern hemisphere the quantity of tropical fruits produced la Is enormous and as a consequence prices are ate very reasonable pineapples are sold at ad apiece and grapes at ad per pound oranges are also cheap and of most delicious flavor the sacramento sae Bac bee states that G E hersey co have in california a machine for shearing sheep the apparatus can be rull run by steam compressed air or horsepower and with it four men can shear one thousand sheep per day here is an itera of service to iron and aud steel makers in thellar test of the recently dis covered fields process of convert ing iron into steel nine thousand pounds of steel were made in the two furnaces nine heats were run in four of which were placed five hundred pounds of cinder pig and a like amount of mccormick pig iron As soon as this became liquid chemicals were thrown in to separate the sulphur and chorus and after this another package which converted the iron into steel in five minutes from the time of the first introduction of the chemicals the cost of the chemicals is sixty four cents per ton of steel while the saving in iron fa is from four and one half to seven per cent while the loss in iron hy by the bessemer process is nearly thirty per cent 1 I 1 M de la bastle bastie is having a large building erected in france in which to manufacture his toughened glass at a cost of it has been shown that by this process glass utensils such as frying pans etc can be made which can be used on a hot range and will resist the fire as well as iron or any other metal lamp chimneys and gas burners that will not break and numberless other articles will be made of the same material the of france franca and germany try to protect thelt theu vines from frost by artificial clouds of smoke one plan which hai haj been very successful consists in carefully mixing gas tar with sawdust and old straw and piling this mixture in large heaps in the vineyards when required for use lue smaller heaps are distributed about the vineyard and these will burn freely in a few hours and produce a very dense smoke which decreases the radiation and prevents frost every soldier in france might become a marshal every american may become president and every american singing girl girt may become a prima pima donna with this last jast class it is said europe swarms A first class 1 wedding nowadays now a days is claimed to cost but people can get married without Sl oooo and be just as happy anna dickinson says sui sue wont abandon the drama nor the stage she will show people what she can do yet and make the critics who have been sharp sarp upon her retract their words an imprudent juryman started to walk from north korth garden stat station ion ioD on the virginia midland railroad to his home a few miles distant recently he carried a cad can of f coal oil and smoked a pipe on the way next morning he wo found on the road burned to A crisp and the oil all out of tb can the washington star says in his rulin rulings s thus far mr col ool has been very fair and in every idi ILI it stance sustained by precedent vron von bulow does not thinks think A much of america he would noi mol stay in this country if his big admirer admired would build him a house of geh and fill it with singing birds body proposes to prove his veracity versed in that way some anti antl antiquarian ail III n litterateur littera tear claims that britain had an empress victoria 1600 years ago c rev mr pullen of winte conne revealed to the Wis conar sunday school convention s patent method of conducting sunday school with willi splendid sot sol s e cess his secret was to chilst elder young men and the elder elde young ladies by having a be autH fw and aud accomplished young lady jady teach the young a young man teach uhe the young N adies the plan plau worked to a it ehard chard rev henry ilis ills Is congregation will stick iti ILI him they received the presby presbytery tery terl committee appointed to visit them then and inform them of the irregularity of their proceedings and ask thea them to discontinue their with the rev gentleman in consequence of the mary pomeroy bubi ness but after two hours dat the henry church decided to hoid boia on to glendenning A preacher who has fias the tho reputation of being keen after the ladies must beat best be at a premium in that religious the adventists now claim that this present centennial year is to see the end of the world fox the is said to be improving is in health at somerville massy blass asylum the detroit free i thinks it was a lucky thing for jesse pomeroy that he killed two chi children dren in boston instead in stead of stealing four pigeons C in cambridge miniature y yacht acht racing is becoming a favorite amusement 0 on 11 the park lakes at new york the ves teb vessels eis els are et various sizes up to six wr seven feet long beam up to t about eighteen in eilf clif arid arld depth up to about seven enche in uhe che A poor 4 ri pin at niort prance france 11 is the father of forty tive five nat children three wives fifteen children each large yield a m 0 OUSTER ON acol ellan IT er MIGHT HAVE BEEN GENERAL custer in the galaxy has a good gond word for general me alc clellan who hs bs be been eri erl shade since the beginning of tiie tile the fate late war general custer ouster credits U me I 1 clellan cleilan with the organization and 1 1 d discipline of the army of the potomac and estates that he was a soldier whose mental training and abilities were of a higher order and whose military qualifications and knowl knowledge edget were superior to those po possessed ese sed by any officer w who iio sut aut subsequently led the 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