Show EDITORIAL NOTES the present inhabitants of nauvoo wish to have the chicago millington and western narrow gauge it B R run through nauvoo and cross the mississippi to keokuk ku k at the inception of tho suez canal which cost england was opposed to it and she tou fou fought ht ity iti it and it was generally regarded as a chimerical scheme certain to resu result tin lin in disastrous failure now england has bought nearly half the shares and the canal te said to have been mortgaged to her last year its ita income was and the running expenses were thus returning four per cent on the investment with a rapidly increasing business victuals and f friction matches do not go well together as its recently demonstrated by the deaths of two parsons persons at baltimore who v ho lost their lives through eating cake which had become permeated with phosphorus from matches owing partly to some recent bungling executions the papers have been discussing the advisability of abolishing executions by hanging various substitutes are ore suggested the guillotine or the garrote is considered superior to hanging as now practised practiced some recommend deatti death by electricity others ethers by and vein bleeding and others again by poisonous or other deathly injection while under of alcea theties the ties tica bayard tayler claims to know something of the popular taste aaste in novel reading and he thus remarks during a long tour of ob Kra pra fc ration tion last season reason extending from new hampshire to 0 o nebraska I 1 found it to be a fact that mrs southworth was still the novelist most in demand in the circulating libraries yet jet notwithstanding this fact 1 i it t Is pretty certain that the low lowest e s t point of literary literary demoralization had been reached and passed 11 the sex is presented in three classes by mary bl murdoch mason in fashion like the following the the tho giddy butterflies the busy bees and the womans comans brighters right ers the first are pretty and silly the second plain and useful the third mannish and odious the first wear long iong trailing dresses dressea and smile at you while waltzing the second wear aprons and give you apple dump lings and the third want your manly prerogatives your dress coat your money and your vote the boston claims that rev bev canon Duckwort duckworth ils lis amt AM ams t was the first and real love of the princess louise that miss bliss margaret bradhurst an american girl was the first and real love of the marquis of lome lorne and that this 13 18 is 13 how the course of love did not run smooth with the royal noble pair on october 1 1875 the state of virginia owed and tho the sum necessary to make up the full annual interest payment of the last year was england has stringent laws in regard to the adulteration of food rood I 1 and they are being vigorously enforced in london by societies established for that purpose numerous me ousse seizures have been made by the local authorities so that it is a matter of remark that better and purer articles of daod are sold in that market now than at any former time the london tea merchants have been induced to cease importing green teas from china because they are mixed with other substances in the shape of coloring matter and are ate therefore liable to be confiscated and destroyed an american journal thinks it would be a good thing to put the english plan in ope ore operation ration in this country by the people eople insisting on the passage 0 op laws 0 of n proper grip and tenacity i and then attending to their enforcement and that it would pay in bockee end and in health |