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Dsm Pedro In Germany.
Frem the New York World;
Dom Pedro, 1t is now getting 10 be under
stood, is not nice kind OF Emperor for q tea
party. He has Just Mortified the Empire OF Ger
many by wearing black crayat to the Empress
reception. The Cologne Gd=ene indignantly
says that white .,ls Indispensable even at the
!. that a tolcrabiy intelligent o,aSeitan ought
an occasion, but the statement on which the in.
ference Is erected is not the statement OF fact.
Black cravats and cold water are the rule at tho
white House, and II IL reported that tho world
ling Is to be stu further ehastened by encoarng
solemn feasts at that mansion. Dom Pedro has
stu further shocked the social sense Of the Der
called on him al his hotel by appointment. liz
appeared Afterwards In heated state, and apol-
oglEed for having been delayed by conversation
with Helmholz. II must by this time be evident
TO the despotisms that Dom Pedro Is not tract
able lion. That truth vas borne In upon the sad
Dom Pedro. amer giving BIN ami oibep dixna.
tarios hasty aud casual snuboing In the Lower
Bay, went gloTiously to his hotel 10 duster aud
his own hired hack to lament that s"Longfellow"
had not boen on the tug. This imperial rever.
cnco for pure intellect, us compared with pomps
and vanisss would be bette, appreciated ~ Bss
OF the world, but even In Berlin II seems 10 be
found triilo inconycnicnt.
steamship Boiler Explosions.
From the New York Tiues:
The explosion OF one OF the SIdonia' boilers
Is the 1rst accident OF the kind which Is known
to have occurred on board m Atlantic steamer,
for the great Eastern merely exploded her steam
jacket. There b an unpleasant possibility. not
TO say probability, that II Is the first Of q series
Of similar accidents. within very few years
nearly all sea-golng steamers have been FUR
nishsd with compound engines, which require
the use OF steam at high pressure. Thick boilers
arc nov the ssss when they
quenco Of the almost uninterrupted use of steam
at pressure OF a hundred pounds and upward TO
ron qSndr aSs heavy prsup Frsy b.
comes weak from the Encouragement Of its parti-
Giles, Just asa rail Is similarly weakened by the
trains. II properly made and used, q high.pres.
sure boiler Is as safe as low pressure boiler dur
Log certain tai, PsSd pu, pressure q hundred
pounds weakens low.pressure boiler. On board
steamships furnished with compound engines
much greater care in the examination Of their
boilers Is needed than was necessary in the days
q condenshy engines, and unless this fact is
fully recognized the bursting OF boilers on board
Atlantic steamers may beeomc by no means IN
frequent.
Englands Relation to tho War
From the New York Herald:
But few days since and In face OF the reso
buttons which It was reported Mr.. Gladstone
would offer in the House Of Commons It seemed
imminent that one OF two things would happen,
either Of which might be regarded as calamity
In English politics. 1t appearedllk either that
tho liberal party would take no definite position
the war between Turkey and Russia, or that II It
did take position It would be split Into two fac
tions, each OF which must necessarily prove inca
pablo OF exercising any In nuence upon the con-
duct OF the Government Mr.. Gladstone's criti-
clsm OF the Government In his speech OF
last night is one that England will heed
cign relations Of England is so deplorable nc that
OF the negotiations with Turkey In this affair Is
. truth that Lord Derby himself IL perhaps more
than half ready to believe; that tho conference
was n FARGO tho Marquis Of Salisbury must dHft;
and that It was a mistake to send TO ConstantIno-
Turkey in tho person Of Mr.. Layard that dIstin-
guished dlplsmatist will himself scarcely deny.
sIS ~ n 'n ee ,aat ahs
remohstrances and sIpostulations," aud that the
Power which 10 prepared to exact from the I urks
II. a ao sSs PRsHSr not E.s
land, 50 much the worse for her. "If England Is
unprspared TO 20 further, she mast DO prepared
to SEQ the duty pass late other hands" In short,
this speech, which will be recorded as one OF the
greatest efforts Of the real leader Of liberalism in
Where IN the world, that Enslsnd's present rsis.
ton TO Russia and Turkey is tho browning blum
der OF her history.
Tho Force OF Character.
From the New York Tribune;
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle is neither = man OF
wealth nor OF political position, nor yet OF noble
scribed himself long ago in q petition to Parlla-
ment upon the copyright question; and yet his
letter 70 the London 1ine, concerning the Ru.
sian Turkish war, and the position OF England
toward the beiligerents, commands respectful
attention. There arc few private persons whose
warnings against q particular political action,
whose censuro Of British Minister would be lis.
tened to So respectfully. The men OF England
who occupp perfectly Independent position In
politics who are nGyer'hclss. respected BY al
bore Review and in "FiaIer's Magazine"
We hardly know where to Gud the secret Of the
feeling with which Mr.. Carlyle is regarded, I'M
less II be In thorough conviction OF bis honesty
he is not in the market. Burke said, amer his
great domestic affection, that he would not riyc
sPsSs q wheat i9T AL which the , T9rid call, us
same thing everybody would believe him. And
yet he is no cynic in tho ordinary sense Of the
word, for all his readers know what depths Of
tenderness and love are in his writings. He is
Is more so when he is right at all. No one today
money making England. Caring nothing for
name or for fame, he has won both, and Is likely
to keep than, now and hereafter.
Dead Languages and Death.
A New York druggist, whose name and place
Of business hrs paraded in tho papers Of that
city IA way that 10 likely to ruin him, put up
a prescription recently which by only n bit OF
luck failed to kill the patient who tosk It. The
affair Is Of more han passing interest 10 others
bssidss the patient aud the druggist Thesscrst
Of It is Just here: the prescription was written
In Latin. whsther OF no II is necessary TO have
mystic II on all prescriptions to make them
sfisstive may be LEFT open still to debate. II is
necessary stsrs; may ,. equally g 70 ether
Is little argument In favor OF using Latin terms
that stand against the logic OF one such affair
Is this In New York.
The physician wrote hydraqyri Chloride. This.
II Is admitted, "might mean" calomel or II mig 1t
mean corrosive sublImats, according as the drag
gist understood 1t. almost any druggist would
havo read 1t caiomel," said ono expert, Who was
spoken to about It. The druggist who had II to do,
however, put up the poison, knowing lie strength,
but assuming that the medicine was for external
application. The lady who took II was so nearly
killed that It was several days before she was out
Of danger
Nov, IL Instead OF tho Latin name, tho physician
had written "calomel," nobody supposss the pa
tient would have received corrosive sublmate
Does II need single other TACT to prove the folly
OF the present 50 frequent use OF language that
IS not oursf Doctors are no better penmen than
tho rest OF mankind, and when they write their
prescriptions In Latin, marking the quantities,
too, by symbols In which one curve more or less
may make dose eight times too big or lit G, an
opportunity for mistakes Is created which is nj.
together too great to fail Of being omen realised
In English, and tho whole tendency Of the trade
nj WI IA sImulieltV a n