The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1872-07-31

iactuyes, mechanical and mining pursuits, . 7OT,-
82l In trade and transportation 19I 23S in rem
derlng personal and professional services, ? 6S4,-
Ig5. Under specific heads the principal were as
follows labOrers, l03l Goo; domestic servants,
9IlQ43; carpenters, 344 $50; miners, l52 l07 !;
shoe-makers, lll,l27; tailOrs, l6l, l2O; black
smiths, l4l.7l4; painters, IS l2S; brick and stone
maSons, 50 llOi IN cotton mills, Ill, 9O5 in wooden
mills Is, $50; m iron works, $1,000; teachers of
all kinds $50 so; physicians and surgeons, o.
5S3; ciergymeu 43 S74; lawyers, 40 236; journal
ISIS, $50 u. ) army and navy officers 2 2S6 !;
National, State and Municipal civil officers, "A,
743.
Turkish Baths DR.. Hall says Of Turkish baths
that they 50 frequently Kill people that it would be
better never 70 take one unless BY the special ad
vice Of your family physician and even then, 1t
should be submitted to only when under the spe-
ciai personal superintendent of an educated medi
cal man. he thinks they may be very good for
dirty people, such as have not had good cleaning
Oft 10 year; but he never could imagine the
utility Of putting decent man into a steam boiler
hot enough to skin lobster and then fling off all
his hide, TO the very quick, by kneadings and re-
morseless scru0biugs.
Big Papers Whether that is the best newspaper
which gives the largest amount of reading matter
Is question which che progress OF some of our
enterprising week.-Mrs. bids fair by and by to force
dent, tor example, contains as much matter as
many an ordinary magazine, large part OF it from
prominent writers and on interesting topics Do
the class OF readers who take such Journal want
SO mnch2 This is a problem which many others
besides the publishers of religious weeklies are
often compelled TO consider IN these days of large
papers aud triple Sheets.-TribUae.
We venture TO say that not one reader in a hun
dred gets through half of TribuReS triple sheet
or the Independents bed spread. Condensation
and leglbhty are the chief attractions In these days
Of railroad ana street-ear reading No one wants
a telegram Of ten pages instead Of ten words, and
IN Ike manner no one wants matter spun out to fill
a column which might equally we'll have been given
IN quarter OF the space.-N, I. Weekly Nelos.
suspsaded.-The Secretary of War last week
ordered Cadet Scott Of the third class at the Mill
tary Academy, Of West Point, to be suspended for
one year for "haziug" one Of the new cadets
Upon this the New York Observer expresses the
general opinion thus:
We cannot refrain from remarking that, to sus
pend student tor one year for hazing another is
a very small punishment for great crime Every
student at West Point guilty of such an offense
ought to be broken at once expelled from the AGA
deny The stuif is not in him to make a gentle
man and soldier. Osly small soued men, low
born and mean, are guihy of such oOwardly base
ness as Is implied IN the lutictiOn OF personal in
dignites upon the Unarmedsand defenSeess. All
colleges and academies should promptly clean out
such trash and I'll up their places with respectable
young men.
The Post Office epartment-Duriug the last three
years the Post Office Department has received for
postage, etc., the enormous sum Of SITS, 75S, SOS
and the losses by dishonesty have amounted to less
than $4,000 year, or about twentieth of one
per cent. In other words it has done a creditable
business IN three years amounting to nearly one
hundred and eighty millions of dollars, with THIRTY
thousand pOstmasters. thousands and thousands OF
miles apart, scattered all over the Union, from
Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. A further analysis shows that the percen-
toge OF loss Is even less than that for of the $780,
600 lost through dishonesty, "a 600 have been re
covered, and the probabilities are that the officers
OF the Law will succeed In recovering still more.
and thereby the actual loss TO the Government will
be htty or seventy five per cent less than herein
stated.
Boston Peace Jubilee.-Coutrary to previous an
nouDcements, 10 Is now stated that the expenses Of
the Boston musical jubilee are $l50OOO more than
the receipts Hence, Gilmore, the protector, re-
ceives nothing, as he has given the proceeds of his
benefit 20 the general fund. The Coliseum build
ing, however, still remains and out Of this good
portion OF the deficiency may yet be made up. An
idea Of the cost of the jubilee may be formed from
the following sums which have been paid to the
principal performers OF the occasion: Strauss,
$4,000 and all expenses Of himself and wife
Nine. Peschka LeutneE 81 500; the English band,
including expenses, $4,000; the PrusSian band
leader, $1,000 IN gold, aRd each of the players
500 their travelling expenses and hotel bills; the
French band received about SIP 600 and their ex-
penSes; BendeI received 81 500 and his travelling
expenses and his wiies; Weh6 got 81 ,25O; the
Emperor cOrnet quartet was paid 81 900.