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PRESS AND PUBLIC MEN.
- The Honesty of the Latter Certified
by the Forraer.
DENIALSFPRESS.STATEMENTS
Those Who Complain. of Society
Items.
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General H. V. Boynton, a. Washington
correspondent 'of many years' experience,
' 4coittributee an article to the •` Century"
on " The Press and Public Men," many of
the statements in which are as applicable to
Ottawa as to Washington and to Canada. as
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to the United States. The following ex- geeerally with more nervousness and neonle over there ?
positions as any other profession or occupa-
tion in the land. The work of no other is
so open to publicity. There 18 no veil, as
there is for all pthersemder which the press
can hide its shortcomings.. The sunlight
by day and the eearch-light by night
illumine the paths of all its known work-
ers."
TEM MEN eyno p0 NOT CARE.
The flippancy with which a large class of
public men dismiss what they call the
attacks of the press, and the supercilious,
nese with which so many are accustomed to
announce in their places, or declare bi
their interviews, that it is not their habit
to take notice of what the newspapers may
say, is but another form of the onlygdefence
which very my of them are altle to make
truer in regard to public life in Washing-
ton, as is known to all who have facilities
for closely observing it, than this, that, as
a general rule, those who protest to the
public the oftenest and the loudest that they
pay no attention to the press are the very
ones who watch its utterances most closely,
Congress who originate and carry forward
the great business of the natios, are men
who at all times are approaehable in the
interests of the public, and who conscouni-
cate, with. little or no reserve, all -that is
proper for the public to know, and give
most of the rest in cenfidence to all trusted
representatives uf the press for- their
pestionalleuida,nce. Of late years this nets-
maeilietweenThose moat prominent in pub-
lic life and the representatives of the press
as been steadily strengthening. -"-
The Case in a Nutshell.
At a class recitegon in one of the Public
.Schools in Illinois, a few days since, the fol-
lowing questions were asked by the teacher,
and tke following answers were given b
nItifestie-gteintililii=iineftglee'litte'TnTtZeirto .
some 12 or 14 years:
Teacher -Whet great country lies north
'of the United States?
Pupil -Dominion of Canada. . .
T. -What is the .population of Canada?
P. -About 5,000,000, sir.
T. -What is the principal business of the
vei ini3M-datistelein'nenifeneiniitirtettreiffY el-lr5-ErAtrt •
"There is a'evideatokead idea among -those
in the public service that cultivating the
press, as they are pleasedto term it, is
something very far beneath their. notice.
On the other hand they seem to think it the,
f the press to cultivate
ey find themselves left to
ge to the
special business
them, and whe
the le vege :
shadows into whic . they withdraw,' they
deem themselves ill used, and declare
favoritism to be one of the most glaring
faultsof the press. These gentlemen of
narrow vision never appreciate the fact
tbat the field of journalistic work is far too
wide to admit of many visits to individuals,
• and when the mountain does not -come to
them they never avail themselves of the
plainest alternative.
In going to the mountain lies whit has
been referred to as the proper use of the
press. If a man in the public service does
anything -which interests his constituents,
it is to, his advantage and, to theirs that they
should know it. The press stands ready to
make it known, and finds , itself repaid 'in
having the news. If the act performed is of
national interest, the Associated Press will
earry it to every corner of the land., If 18 18
local or needs c ment,, the specialswill
use it. If it is 11
party press will tai
is mutual advantag
ublication the o
, the specials,of the
e it. In all this there
One side desires the
her wishes the news.
ut if the public prophet, in his suicidal
pride, waits till his news is found by glean-
ers, and habitually refuses to go to the
mountain, he becomes the only sufferer,
since the world will manage in soine way to
wag on without any information about him,
and meantime he will remain in cempara-
tive obscurity."
ARE Ammo MEN CORRUPT ?
" When the party press first began its
exposures of party men the serious blunder
was very widely committed by the latter of
-rallying their forces to every possible effort
in shielding and defending those whom the
public had promptly adjudged guilty. From
this sprang that almost universal sneering
• at the press on the part of public men, and
especially those whose shortcomings formed
• the subject of criticism. To sneer at news-
papers as sensational, and at truthful re-
ports as newspaper lies, was the, common
form of defence for the guilty. From this
in turn arose the idea which became far too
comtnon in the land, that public inch; as a
'• elaine were corrupt. •Thq public reached
the natural 'ancl• logical conelusion that,
since the majefity of public men saw- little
to criticize in these flagrant shortcomings,
and were even ready to defend. them, the
mass could be no better than those
who had been detected and exposed. But
for this mistaken policy the country never
would, have been misled as to the general
wholesomeness of public life.*Anobservation
in Washington of more than a quarter of a
eentury warrants the declaration theta very
large majority of public men of all parties,
And in all branches and grades of the public
• service, are strictly honest, and that .the
public business in all of its divisions'and
under each party management, has been as
honestly, as promptly, and as efficiently
conducted as the most respectable private
business in the land. The excuses pleaded
and the defences made for ,the 'few excop-
, times to this rule, on the part of political
associates, have caused, the opposite opinion
to prevail. Public men, therefore, and not
the press, have been mainly and justly re-
sponsible for,a.ny erroneous opinions which
the country may have formed upon the sub-
ject." .
DENIALS OF NEVirSPATER STATEMENTS.
"It is within the experience of every corre-
spondent that many of the solemn denials
others. As a general rule, the best, men, -
•the ablest inen, and all men of all parties
who are straightforward in their purposes
and in their byes, who perform their duties
with due regard to their responsibilities and
their oaths of office, are those who truet the
representatives of the press the most im-
plicitly. These,_ en isesilass„ never suffer
from the criticisms of the press, and it
would be very difficult to point to a single
man among them who has ever been per-
sistently and unjustly misrepresented, or to
whose defencethe great majority of Wash-
ington writers have not constantly rallied
wheneyer his public acts have been un -
'truthfully assailed; • As a rule, and a rule
with few exceptions, those whose course
will not -hear the light, and who cannot
stand upen their real records are the sole
ones in public life who either dread the press
or suffer,from it.
"In the face of a, very wide belief that the
press observes no confidencee, and that it is
necessary to keep everything from its reps.&
sentatives with meat scrupulous care, lest
the public should become informed in cases
where such information would be most em-
barrassing, it is scarcely too •ranch to say
that the only class of men in Washington
who year after year are trusted implicitly,
and who year after year become acquainted
with matters of the gre,atest moment upon
the condition that this knowledge shall only
be used as a guide and shall not go beyortd,
them, are the journalists."-
- SOCIETY ITEMS. ,
"One of the most curious institutions with
which the press has to deal, and with which'
it is continually annoyed beyond endurance,
is that nondescript conglomeration in
Washington which calls itself "So-
ciety." This is • something • entirely
apart, and, generally speaking, far
beneath that large number of intelli-
gent people ,of common sense and perma-
nent standing, both within and without offi-
cial circles, with which , the capital is more
than o rdinarily blessed. The small men
and women who attain 'temporary position
in the various orders of this kaleidoscopic
conglomeration are perhaps those who are
most deeply sensitive of the shortcomings,
the exaggerations and the inaccuracies of
the press. With these, belaboring the press
is one of, its calisthenics. The whole body
is an auxiliary force for the common defence
against the press by the use of .that weapon
heretofore referred to ; namely, universal
and persistent sneering.•,- And so Mr. and
Mrs. Fresh, glorifying themselves throneh-
out the few months of their public ems-
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tepee rapidly marching the while
towards, the shadows of that obliv-
ion from which voters • unexpectedly
raised them, and into which voters
so speedily replunge the majority of thetas
are often heard to remark sneeringly upon
the absence of the representatives of the
press from noted social occasions. The
favorite form of shielding themselves is 'to
be continually asking, whenever the para-
graphs which they have written in regard
to their dresses, and eyes, and hair, and
general beauty, appear in the local prints,
why there cannot be some decency on the
part Of those who. conduct the press, and
why people cannot be let alone, and not be
given this unpleasant notoriety. It will
probably never come to the knowledge of
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Fresh that the
representatives of the press whose 'duty it
is to see everything have long since been
through this dismal round, and long since
abandoned its pathways as the most
senseless use ofstimeto which it cansheeput,
even in the national capitol. These worthies
will never believe that the scrap -baskets of
the representatives of the press contain each
1 , ' keine:tit meetecharges which in their essen; InontbsthrtIngbont-OnnennOnn-ttenne .tientae.
tittle vser, e, and which have contributed ta what is meet prominent in desirable
tions
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largely t e prevailing. idea of inaccuracy 6ociety than tnese who are loudest in their
in the pr s, were' false denials, verging in sneers at the press see throughout the
their falsity upon moral perjury., Demme 1 entire term of their butterfly existence.
are a matter of course. Their truthfulness That which gives the most curious aspect
in a majority of cases is a matter of doubt. I to all these outbreaks from these lower
A large proportion of the denials te. which , orders of seciety'S habitues is the fact
the public is treated are themselves wee_ that tile' very ' large porportion of the
curate, many are mere quibbles, and many personal notices, of which they are
are false. Witness every one of the Credit : mire to complain in public to their
Mobilier denials. The press makes manyfriends with the air of those whose pri-
.mistakes. 'The wonder is that in the rush vacy has been invaded, are prepared -in the
of its presenting an epitome of tee : handwriting of those to whom they relate.
world's daily doings it does eat inske i There is not a newspaper office in Weshing-
a thousand errors for one. It 'makes very I ton that has not voluminous collections of
Ws sort, wherein be only changes made
before their appea, ance in print have been
the necessary' corrections in orthography
and grammar. There is scarcely ever an
few deliberately. And many of those
statements concerning Which louil•mouthed
and quibbling denials are often accepted aro
true in their essentials. e.
"Three examples will serve to throw light exception to the statement -that the de-
• scriptions of prominent social occasions are
on this brant
of national fa,
of t e Union
gove nor of his i • , ni
orally a wondrous a cherny which transforms
distinction in Congress, in furnishing some
_ everything into foims of -beauty. Ordinary
sensational but true statements. 'for publica
colltumes become superb, coense-like corn -
tion : "This is exact ; but, if you ever give
me as authority I win publicly deny your plexions take on the auroral glow, non -
despatch." I classical noses are reduced to at least be-.
" Said a fennel'. dean of the Diplomatic witching retrousse forms, and , generally to
of deep in- Grecian outlines, red hair becomes the
Corps, in presenting a story
olden °album of ideal ps.interseand so down
tercet: " If y,ou allow this to be traced to g
the list the various commonplace features of
me, I will promptly deny any connection
rofessional society habitues become smooth,
with it over my official signature, and leave P
you in the lurch." and beautiful, and altogether lovely."
`f•Said a senator of Many years'serviee both THE ACCESSIBLE MEN.
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f € IC subject. t
e who ha41 hommanded one prepared in advance down to the minutest
rmiese and had been the details of dresses, trousseens and presents.
1 1 1 a with These paragraphs tt us furnahecl, are gen-
Th -Raising babies"! I don't underetaaid
you!
P. -Yes, sir, raising babies for the foreign
market !
-Ten-Your answer is extraordinary, and I
don't understand it. You will explain your-
self.
P. -I mean that_theenuadianae..rei:fi,ising_
babies for Uncle Sam !
T. -Still I fail to see the point in your
answer
'P. -Well, sir, the papers say that more
than a million of Canadians have found
homes in the United States. These were
all babies once, and were raised by the
Canadians The way the Tories are running
the Government over there, millions more
will he compelled to find homes in this
country. You now see the point, teacher, I
trust, for I have tried to make it plain to
you.
The teacher saw the point. That .Yankee
•bey takes a . philosophical view of the
matter and shotild be presented with a
chrome for hie apt answer.
New Torkto Boy Choirk
In 1869 there were but three boy choirs
in New York -in Trinity Church, Trinity
chapel and St. John's. After -four or five
years the next boy choir was organized
through the exertions of Mr. Hatch, the
banker, for Christ church on Fifth avenue,
which is now demolished. After, an inter-
val of seven or eight years, boy choirs
seemed to spring up in all directions. The
ritualistic movement in the episcopal church
no doubt has much to do with the inti educ-
tion of this kind of 'music, thoughboy choirs
are now found in what are called the " low "
and " evangelical " )ranches of the church,
and even in some of the sectarian churches.
There are now in Brooklyn and New York
between 60 and 70 bey choirs, and counting
New Jersey and the suburbs there mustbe
100 of them. The boy choir of Trinity
chapel is the best known in the city, and
this is the only church in the United States
which,has a daily choral service. 'The choir
consists of 30 members -12 men and 18 boys.
Boy singers are usually obtained from the
public schools, but a church of reputation
never has any difficulty in securing all the
talent it needs. -Fromthe Epoch.
Liked Ws Nearly Sir Els If.
The Law Gazette has told a story about
some one of the Irish judges, and lawyers
are trying to find out which'one of the
judges is referred to. It appears that a
certain learned judge is accustomed to dose
at times during the speeches of the counsel,
and, on awakening, does not always realize
the situation immediately. An eloquent
Queen's counsel was lately addressing the
Chat, on the subject of a certain town
commissioner's right to a 'disputed water-
way. In his address he repeated some-
what emphatically, "But, my lord, we
must have water, we must lia'N water."
The learned judge thereupon awoke and
startled the lawyers by remarking. " Well,
just a little drop, thank you, just a. little. I
like it strong." -LV. Y. Trigme.
Embracing the Situation.
Binghamton Republican: " Well, good-
night,, Miss A.—," said a young man the
other evening to a Dwightville girl whom
he was visiting. I think it's better for me
to go. I feel certain that if I , stay two
minutes longer I shall " be indiscreet
enough to kiss you."
" Well, good night, Mr. F ," replied
JOSEPH WAS ALL =cam.
Else There Had Reeu Some Interesting
News firom Whitehall.
There was a niotherly-fooking old lady
'sitting in the midst of her bundles at the
Grand Central depot yesterday, says
Quad, when a man with a grip sat cloww
heenle her and began_ til.reaelesenetnena
She eyed him pretty sharply for as Iew
minutes and then enquired
" Any -great news m the papers to --day ?"
• "Nothing very extraordinary," he re-
" See anything in there from Whitehall?"-
" Not yet."
" I'm from Whitehall, or purty near
there. Bin- down here visitin' tny sister.
enintWittentifeelinitettleentWteetWeektiFtWelt
seems a hull year.. Only got one letter from
Joseph, and about all he said in that was
that he took his pen in hand to inform me
that he was well, and hoped, these few lines
would find me the same; which they did.
I'm a little worried. 'tDon't find any item
there about a house or barn burning up
near Whitehall ?"
• " Jemleph was breaking -a cettwlienIcame
away. Don't see anything about a farmer
getting his neck broke or being kicked to
death ?"
" Nothing of the sort, ma'am."
"Anything about anyone falling down a
well or off a haymow ?"
" No, ma'am."
" Aoseph is awful reckless, but mebbe he's
got through all right, Anything about a
mad dog biting anybody, or a gun busting
and blowing a man's head off while he was
shooting at a hawk ?"
" Nothing whatever. I think you will
get home to find everything all right."
" I hope so, but two weeks is along time
to be away, and I'm naturally given to
worry more or less. I expect the pigs have
got into the garden two or three times, and
I s'pose the colts have broken out agin and
Joseph has left the cellar door open every
night, but if it's no worse I shall be athank-
ful woman."
"Here is an item about a farmer running
awaywith bis hired girl while his wife was
absent," said the man, as he turned the
paper.
"Do tell! Well,' that don't skeer me
any. I didn't leave no hired girl there, and
Joseph is so awful homely that even the -
sheep dodge, him. Much obleeged to you.
I'expect to find things a little topsy-turvy,
but I guess there ain't no call to worry."
• Sunday Reflections. „
Many a man in the swim feels like a fish
out of water.
It's only the self-made man that the child
is father to. ,
Time is a true physician, for it buries all
its patients.
Married couples seldom settle before
grounds of complaint come to the surface.
HELPS COLLECTIONS.
Mr. De Piscopal-Doctor, why do you
continue to preach -about Ananias and
Sapphire?
Dr. Fourthly -Oh, it helps out collections
wonderfully.
n's IN FITS PLATFORM. •
Jack Waite -I hear that Dr. Fourthly
has begun a campaign against the devil ; I
wonder if there are three R's in his plat-
form?
Mrs. 'De Piscopal-Certainly.
Jack Waite -Indeed ! What ire they ?
Mrs. De Piseopal-Religion, respectabil-
ity and riches.
DRIVEN" FROM THE FOLD.
" I don't want to be a good, moral little
bny," said Jimmie, -as he put his Sunday
School book aside. "'This book says as how
the good little boy grows up and marries
the Sunday School Superintendent's daugh-
ter. I'd hate to get stuck on that nasty,
freckled little tattletale."
Smacking Rio Chops.
New York Herald : " I suppose Jimpsom
when he strucklthe free lunch counter fairly
smacked his chops ?" •
" No • the barkeeper came around and
smacked' them for him,"
TheALIne Wanted.
Yankee Blade: Young Man -I came to
ask you•for the hand of your daughter. •
Father -Will you have patience,. young
man?
' Young Man -No, sir. That ain't the the
I want. It's Mabel.
Moonlight Persiflage in London.
the-yonng girl. ---!-!-Oh by- thenway," she Lifet_t_IThaCe _aernagnificent stareIrvieg "
added,. " want to show you my sachet bag
before t ou go. It will only take a couple of
minutes."
--Deis only „necessary -date_ that the
young man in question is possessor of a
bright intelleet, and he quickly thibraced
the situation, and we can further assert that
the irl was in it
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Their Respective Values.
Mrs. Meddergrass-Young Sassafras has
run off with our daughter,, Jerusha.
Meddergrass-Oh, he can have her.
" And he took the sorrel.mare."
" What's that ? Give me mY gun!
go after the scoundrel right away 1"
Like the Earth.
New. York Herald: Boggs -McKinley
won't get the earth this fall ; but after the
election he will resemble it.
Foggs-How ?
Boggs will be flattened at the polls.
• The Vatican conta ns 308 staircases and
1,000 different ooms.
George 'Holmes, of Ciheinnati, is the.
owner of a peculiar diamond. In the morn-
ing it is a beautiful sly blue, at noon it is
perfectly white and at 6 o'clock in the even-
ing it begins to turn black, and after sunset ,
it is like a piece of coal.
A rare reptile, A white rattlesnake, Was
exhibited the other day at a fair in Georgia
together wigni a photograph of its eye, in
which can be distinctly seen, it is said, the
likeness of a farmer who 'narrowly escaped
death from the reptile.
Belgium has a population of 6,030,043
Kansas has n. epilation of 1,427;696, vet,
in end out of Congress, after talking at " Speaking generally, the higher the rankshe is so lerge t at seven countricathe size
length for publication : "Yea ; write it of public men in any field of public duty,
of Belgium could be laid down within her
up, and print it. Butbe careful. If 1 don't• and the abler those who hold place in its
border, and yet: she wonld have 400,000
like it, I will deny the whole of it." various branches, the closer, more cordial,
f
" False denials centribu to qui te il much to and more confidential aro their relatiens square miles ounoccupied territory left.
-At the Sanford ranche and throughout
the impression which many .share.of the in- with the public through the representatives
Lite distriet around Westbourne, Manitobe,
accnracy of journalistic work. as its actual of the press. . As a rule, presidents, cabinet
• t the yield of tvheat, was an average of nearly
esepeemsisenoteireillennletneshatt offieertn.chietelerks the headii of tin erten
y or six er
said Mr. Burnand to the 'eminent actor,
pointing to Jupiter.
" Yes; but it isn't in it with me," re-
turned Irving, „ liwnleit,
" No. That's where you're alike," said
Burnand.
A Living Miracle.
Chicago Tribune : " Beg pardon, sir, but
haven't I met you before? Your face seems
quite familiar tome."
(With a pitying smile for the other's ignor-
ance.) "it ought to be if you take the
papers. I'm the fellow that was cured of
the seven year scratches by Hunkerson's
liver pills.'
Itenag Jonah.
_Medical Rec.drcl : 'The order which a
little girl brought into a Lewistown drug
stores " Mister ;Druggist, please send
ipecac enough to throw up a 4 -year old
girl."
As a dancer theCKaiser is not a success.
He is stiff and unbending as a ramrod. He
whirls with great rapidity, and everybody
on the floor getsout of his way -not so much
from respect foreoyalty as tin .preVent broken
shins and torn costumes.
Another fine Rembrandt has been pur-
chased for the royal gallery at the Ilague.
It is signed, and is dated 1657; ° 'and. is be-
lieved to 'be a portrait, of the painter's
mother, Adriaen Harmentzoon. '
George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, Mrs.
and Miss -Fawcett were mentioned by Sir
Henry Parkes in moving his female suffrage
resolution in New South Wales recently, as
fine specimens of intellectual women.
Au officer in the bureau of the, Superin-
tendent of Immigration at Washington says
that the present demand, fof abf---
vants is unprecedented. , They are for the
most part Gorman, Swedish or . Irish immi-
grants, and it is now a rare thing to find an
American girl in the hitchen.
Not less than 1,000,000pounds of rubber
as me -unworthy. melt la its pronivadiit''neeeeeee en a
Don't Stop at the Station Despair.
We must trust the Conductor, Most surely.
Why millions of millions before
Have made this same journey securely
And come to that ultimate shore, .
And we, we will reach it in season;
And ab,'what a welcome is enro
Reflect then, h.ow put of all reason
To stop at the station Despair.
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-8.Y.Linanya Wien. • .
Of little black water have we
As we journey from ocean to aetan-
From sea to oltienatesea
To that deep sea of seas, and all silence
' Of passion, concern and of care -
That vast sea of Eden -set Islande,
Don't stop at the station Despair.
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Go forward, whatever may follow
Go forward, friend led, or alone;
Ah me, to leap off in some hollow
antenertn.theellinklnattdritPltinnvensee - e.ese
on tikeertmeteetrtnterterentesti
From angels, all waiting yon there !
Go forward whatever betide you.
Don't stop at the station Despair. .
•:-Joaciain
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TEA TABLE GOSSIP.
When 1 could get upholstered .witliv-good;
. wholesome Graham bread,
An' meat that wasn't overdone nor soaked
An' good,Piot gems, that wotaldn't weigh a
clean
with grease,
point or more apiece.
Alas! I ne'er shall see again the:like of ,Hukly
Brown ; "
CUSS the day I ever tried to- Cut her wages
• down; . '
Torchrtel-ca-mataltrroveAvr-werth=narmok-
is nearly rim; ' 4--‘4
For basswood pies and dumb-bell rolliethelr
perfect work has done;
Next year the daisies o'er my headLwillrgayly
• bend an' bob, n: , .
Dyspepsy's claimed me for her:: ownrsenee
Huldyjuroped her job.
Clarence11. Pearson.
ON
She heard his heart beat where her head
Tay pillowedon his manly breast •
It seemed to her its throbbing said
A world of things of love's unrest. '
" Dear Charles," said she, " your heart
tell
Of constancy that ne'er may vary."
He dared not answer for a spell,;0
But blessed his short -wind Waterbury! "k
-This year is7:652 in the Hebre;1717.
-There are:itwenty-seven royal families
in Europeee*54
,•-•It cost $250,000 tetbury Grand Duchess
Paul of Russia.
-The Niagara Falleturuielt has now 1,175
feet of its 3,530 feet eeca,vated.
-The new . hat that is coming for the
woinen is a sort of an Alpine shape.
Johnny, get the gun !
ik„ Crime iseare among women in Scotland.
• North of the Twecd there are only sixty
female ctheiots at the present time. • •
-Mr. Tomato (to Mr. Potato, as a pretty
girl goes by) --(an the potato inashei7?
Mr. Potato -No, but perhaps the tomato
-can.
—A woman cannot be altogether unhappy
when tbe woman she has invited to supper
asks her to write down her recipe for that
cream pie.
-The power plant at the World's Fair
will be 24,0e0thorse-poWer, and will require
the services of 250 engineers, firemen and
attendant. .•
-" Oh, I know all about babies," said
Harlow to the young mother,
who wasafraid
he would let her little one fall ; " I was On
myself once."
-You seldom see a man so honest that
he says to his wife : " Where did I leave
my hat ?" He usually says : " Where did
you put it ?"
-In the kitchens of the Bon Marche, in
Paris, are kettles that hold 375 quarts and
frying -pans large enough to fry 300 cutlets
at a time' on each.
beats
Not Enough of Sand in Rim.
" Why have you given up your beau ?"
" He tried to kiss me at the gate the
other night."
" That's no great crime."
" No, it isn't, but when I resisted he
desisted." •
'Me Was Engaged.
Giant -I want a job.
Dime Museum Keeper -Oh, get along
I've got all the giahts I need.
Giant -That ain't my specialty. I'm the
tallest dwarf in the world -height, nine feet
two inches.
It is said to be a whole day's task for two
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men to fella mahogany tree. On account
of the spurs that project from the trunk, a
scaffold has to be erected and the tree cut
offab.ove.,the spurtesleavingethus a stump Of
the very best woods from ten to fifteen feet
high.
The son of John Kelly, the Tammany
•Ittipping youth
of 11. The Epoch rove that his father, just
before his death, called the boy to him and
said " John. never go into politics. It's'a
thankless task."
Dona Amelia, Ca,rdiePortug,al's firstwoman
doctor,
'dedicated her graduating thesis to
the Queen, -who ' Accepted it. It was on
" Hysteric Fever."'
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, the globe trotters
became the wife of Charles W. Wetmore, a
New York lawyer, on Tuesday.
'IT is proposed by the German residents
of the United States to in future celebrate
October 6th as " Deutscher Tag," or Ger-
man day. On October 6th, 1683, the sailing
vessel Concord, from Amsterdam, landed
at Philadblphia nearly 200 Mennonite
emigrants -from Germany. From this
modest beginning the growth of the German
population in the United States has swollen
to marvellous proportions ; and Mr. Carl
Schurz, in his address at a meeting in New,
York on Sunday, in calling attention to the
fact that Ireland has its St. Patrick's Day, •
England its St. George, Scotland its St.
Andrew, Holland its St. Nicholas and
Wales its St. David, insisted that, as Ger-
many had no representative saint's day, tho ,
anniversary 9f the , landing of the pilgrim
Mennonites 'might, well be celebrated
instead.
• Ex -President Grevy left 10,000,000
Trance. •
Twelve per cent. of the working class of
Great Britain and Ireland are women -its .
percentlyfe of Ivorkingwomen being larger
than -'is -''-found in any other country in the
world.
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'The great proportion -of the Government
inspectors who examine pork for trichina>
through microscopes are women, they having '
beth found to do the work much more
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