Show CLEVELAND keeps a scrap book of excerpts from th newspapers in order to be informed of all sorts of bubli ci opinion it ts ono clerks sole employment lo 10 collect and preserve these things THE embezzlements EMBEZZLE MENTS defalcations and robberies in the federal offices at new orleans ance the close of the war foot up something over onemia on emil lion five hundred thousand dollars it should be remembered however that abo cash in the treasury at washington balances to a cent A i new mexico writes that he started back m horror on first seeing one of those black eyed beauties he had heard describe ed as characteristic of the native people she was ginger colored hard featured barefooted half naked and very untidy and she proved to be a type too THE republicans are distressed because under secretary lamars administration the clearts in the interior department are compelled to furnish their own soap the clerks themselves however doubtless decidedly pre fero pay alfew dimes for their own soap to paying as they were compelled to do under republican rule a large part of their salaries to supply campaign soap to the republican party THE TOTAL annuity voted ment to abo sons and daughters of queen victoria is which by the death of the duke Albany of and the princess alice it is the custom to grant an an nui every prince and princess of the blood royal either upon majority i orphanage or marriage the chili adren not only of the prince of wales 4 but of the dukes of edinburgh con naughty and albany will be entitled to annuities bat mr edwin arnold believes thai before long something will have to be done to check this flow of money from the treasury an Alabama burglar was sentenced to hard labor for five years he has served that term and also five bearson ye arson his costs he has nearly two years more before his debt on account of his trials expenses are paid H is pay ing at the rate of five cents per day if any device or plan more devilish in ita conception or more wicked in its execution could be bythe ingenuity of man to oppress his fellow man says the incon inspectors Inspect ori we would be glad to be advised of it the idea of im prison ine a man in this age for beven years to paya debt of something over at five cents jer day is abhorrent mr FORBES who rei distinguished courtesies at the while house during his recent vist to this country baya in his published gessia about america if by a sur df the president happens to be a gentleman then th e to visitors it would be beneficial perhaps to future presidents as well as interesting to americans generally for mr forbes to select a perfect gentleman and send him over to his benighted country aa sample since he has shown himself to be considerably be low even the standard already fa to American minds we may not be altogether gentlemanly here but we have passed the first grade which teaches ua to respect boshi yand never sligh tingly ff our hosts THE tribune la authority for the statement that there is a wide difference of opinion concerning the coat of the steamship great eastern and her size aa compared with ark the coat of building and launch an fn g the great eastern was and this broke the original company achew company was formed which spent in fitting and furnish ing her then company failed and a new company was organized with a capital of at the close this company sunk upon the vessel thua making her total cost nothing ever built can eland comparison with the great eastern excepting noahs ark and even this could not match her the of the ark was cubete cubite the breadth 50 cubias cubits and her 30 cubias cubits the cubit or the scriptures according to bishop wil kio waa 21 ca inches and computed into english measurement the ark waa feet long 91 feet beam ai feet depth and tona abo areat la feet conff 83 feel beam 50 feet depth and tons measurement so ark la quite by the great eastern |