Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-08-26

THEORIES ABOUT NHKAT.-An interesting
Paris Journal, La RepubLique Franquise, stopped
Its political arguments the other day for little
While IN order to let its readers know when
they might expect an end TO this "inundation
OF American wheat" which is now flowing over
France and England alike, supplying the
hungry poor AT cheap rate With the material
for delicious bread, and making the farmers,
whose crops are worth SO much less for the
competition, grumble and long for the return
or the Empire to make bread dear and farmers
rich, the writer In La RepubiiQue Franquise
holds that It Is Lot much Of a shower. that II
will soon be over. and that we are getting the
most out OF virgin soil, restoring little TO 1t
and that Ii Will S0ol be exhausted. lie refers
especially to Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, and
says 1.-The island or jamaica Is now sterile from
the same cause" IL Will at once occur to the
Impartial and unprejudced public that the man
who reasons on the Mississippi valley with a
few little facts drawn from the history OF the
island OF Jamaica has not that grasp or his
subject that might enable him 10 heft il with
absolute confidence. Nay, even IL he compared
the history OF the Atlantic slope and applied
the facts to his theory OF these three states it
would be necessary To inquire II ne knew the
Whereabouts OF Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa
He leaves out OF account the Mississippi river
and what 1t has been doing for that country In
all the centuries that went before the settle
ment OF the Western States.-[N. y. Herald.
lsPETRoIEUM V. Massey IN A DUNGEON Gill;
A special dispatch to the Y. Y. World from Gin
cipnasi, August %; says;CD Locke, popular;
here this evening and locked up In the fiy cell
OF the Central station house. Locke was stand
ing In front OF the Enquirer Office waiting TO see
proof OF the advertisement for his play, which
is 10 be produced at the Grand opera House
next week, when the policeman on that beat
came along and, noticing that he was taking up
a great deal OF the sidewalk, ordered him to
"move on Locke became somewhat indlg-
nant and refused 10 comply with the order,
VIXEN the officer promptly took hold OF him and
marched him Of TO the Stat1on-house. On the
way TO Jail Mr.. Locke explained TO the police
man that ne was the originator OF the '-confed-
crate \ Roads," But the officer, who had read
Easby'S letters literally, marched him into The
stst!on-houSe AFTER Mr.. Locke had been 10 a
cell for an hour or more CHIEF WappenStein
heard OF his arrest and ordered him released.
Mr.. Locke is angry and threatens TO ''make lt
hot FOR the Cincinnati police department.
LORD BEAcoNStIELp Is described as remark
ably careful In his dress, although he no longer
appears 10 embroidered waiStcoatS, feStoons oil
gold chains silk lined coats and light trousers.
He goes now to the House OF commons MORN
1ngs quietly dress ed In frock coat, black
neckte and pair OF bronze-coiored trousers
But when he takes mis- walks abroad, he dopS
wonderful light overcoat, with trousers shade
darker blue necktie and when the east wind
blows q white silk handkerchief loosely tied
round the throat. In strange contrast to the
white silk are the Sunken, wrinkled cheeks and
the dead, unmoved expression. His face shows
his age but from back view that cunningly-
cut overcoat would seem TO surround man OF
forty.