, 1878-03-09

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of very cheap men and mere
politicians. Statesmen are as
rare as violets in a New England
March. Not to go away from
home, we wish we could name
one man from the state of Mas
sachusetts in the halls of con-
gress who has any claim to the
title of statesman. Senator Hoar
comes as near to it as any man
we have there, perhaps, and yet
it would be difficult to find him
if the mantle of a really great
statesman We're thrown over
him. From all parts of the
country the people have chosen
for their representatives for the
most part men whe have made no
study of any single public ques-
ton, and who show themselves
incapable Of comprehending es-
tablished principles and drawing
logical conclusions from indis-
putable premises.
A Paris society has applied to
the Lord Mayor of London for
permission to open an establish
ment IN London for the prepara-
ton and sale Of horseflesh as
food. The Lord Mayor respond
ed that no permission was nee
essary. Tha promoters of the
new industry rely upon the for
eigners in London to make it
successful. There are now six
ty-ene horsefesh markets open
in Paris.
From various women correspondents
in Washington we get the following in
formation: Justice Harlan's wife is very
tall. stately. aud handsome. Secretary
McCrary's wife is little and girlish. with
o particularly happy expression Of face.
Secretary Sherman's wife is tall. smil-
ing and has very heavy brown hair.
Senator Matthew'S wife is white haired
and CHEEKY. Senator Hamlin's wife is
gifted with rare intelligence. Senator
Angus Cameron's wife is tall slender,
and pretty Senator Dorsey's wife ls a
beautiful and amiable brunette. The
wife of the Japanese minister is gentle
and ladylike.
The first official batch of statistics
born of the Moffet register, in Virginia,
shows that from the middle of Sep:em-
Der last to the 1st of February the peo-
pie of Richmond took 7S3, G65 alcaholic
and zoe. GIG malt drinks. Leaving out
the liquids purchased in large quan-i-
ties. for exclusive home consumption, the
register would chronicle an average of
LOCO 900 drinks Ter snnnm. Adding
the registered aud estimated unzegistef
ed (one>third more) drinks. the allows
aace will be 408 drinks per voter. or IS
drinks per annum for every man, wom>
en-, and child in the city.
Rome, on the days immediate
lily preceding Victor Emanuels
funeral, was probably fuller than
it has been for centuries. The
hotels and cafes were allowed to
remain open all night. Many Of
the troops were quartered in the
suppressed monasteries. The
Colosseum presented strange
sight, with the soldiers camping
around their watch fires and the
horses tethered under the tiers
of the vast amphitheatre.
The Queen of Wurtemberg. who is
the sister of the Emperor of Russia.
and the Colonel of the EIizabethgrad
Hussars. was speaking not many days
ago of the Russo-Turkish war and its
probable end. A bystander suggested d
that England might, perhaps. at the
eleventh hour. be reused to action by
its jealousy of the Holly Mission;
whereupon the Queen said. contempt>
uously: England! England is pro>
vince of Russian empire; we shall SET.
tie the Eastern question for ourselves
and by ourselves"
An energetic revivalist is con-
Quoting meetings in u Baptist
church in Lexington, KY. He
breaches sermon in which the
delights of heaven and the hor-
rors of hell are wildly described,
and then, taking out his watch
says, Il will give sinners ex-
actly five minutes to choose"
A passenger train on an Irish
railway few days since ran over
an intoxicated fellow on the
track. He was so insensiblo to
the magnitude of his misfortune
as to remark to the guard, as he
looked at his own lacerated limb
"Arrah, now, this is to bad-I
didn't mean to stop the train"
A FRENCHMAN thinks the Eng
lish language is very tough.
i" Dare is look out" he says,
" which is to put out your head
and see; and look out, which is
to haul in your head and not for
to see-just contrarie."
A discharge OF buckshot from
gun killed man in the Cap
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