The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-03-22
ionn.ire. has married Miss Dexter. of virsn. city.

1t was Washington's father who buried the Ratchet
Ralph Waldo Emerson jots down every little idea
The winter is o'er-sausages may now bay the
moon.
of ten or twelve.
An exchange shouts "Spring is on hand" Yes;
regular on handspring.
General Nathaniel p. Banks of Massachusetts,. is
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that it is poor mule
that will not work both ways
Blue is the color for lovers Of the turf For lovers
of dog fights the right color is purple
Missouri has started paper called Ambi-
ton. Well, Inhibition is glorious sheet.
Vest srday the tenth anniversary of the mar
riage of the Marquis of Lorne and Princess Louise.
The Boston Commercial says it belongs to the
Boomerang Club. Must be something like Captain
Williams club.
Ole Bull will probably keep playing farewell
engagements until the angel Gabriel plays his fare
well engagement. M
Next month the comet will be visible through
powerful glasses. will probably keep good many
husbands out late at night looking for it.
The New Orleans Iicayuae says that old age needs
an easy chair and pair OF slippers. Yes and youth
needs pair of knees and only one slipper =
Some of the moonshiners who go into the noun.
tains to make domino whiskey call themselves shep.
herds. All! that's the of the crook edness.
saltwater Lumjermdn:-"when boy walks with .
girl as though he afraid one would sec
him the girl is his sister. If he walks her
as to nearly crowd her against the fence she is the
sister of some one else
Ex Governor T. A. Straw of New HAMPSHIRE who
has been in feeble hea! tn for time past is
He has had the management Of large industrial inter-
ests in his State. and the regret at his melancholy
condition must be widespread.
Ex-senator Christiancy, Minister to Peru has taken
with him his son. boy Of fifteen. who. without gov
ornamental compensation. will be his private secretary
Mrs. Christiancy will follow him from New York on
the 10th of June. Minister Christ,ancy is sixty
and receives $4,000 year. with $500 for Office rent
Truth ys:-"rhe reason why land in England
must become less and less valuable for agricultural
purposes is that rapid communication is destroying
distances and the cost of the transit of from
California and other places whore it be produced
on plains that pay rent and that require high
farming is every year diminishing. and every year
will still further diminish The reply for long was.
Yes. but land will always be valuable for grazing
purposes. l doubt this. The importatons both of
1.-Two stock and Of dead meat assuming enormous
proportions 4s9
Truth siys:-"Thc mistake of English landowners
has been to suppose that because land for many
years increased in value increase is in accordance
with natural and immutabe law of nature whereas.
like every other commodity land is subject to the
ordinary market fluctuations tin mine in Corn
wall is worthless now, because tin be imported
from abroad at a cheaper rate than it can be OK
tracted from Cornwall mine. So field in England
that produces must necessarily become worth
less corn can be imported from America
and sold for less than it costs to grow it the Eng
lish field"
Truth says:-'.What has always surprised me Is that
land in England is bought to return about one and
one-haf per cent, when the same invested in the
funds would produce above three per cent although.
according to all rules of sense, il the public
credit is three per land ought to be bought
to produce at least four per cent. The reason for
this financial absuriity is, suppose. that the pos
session of land in England gives certain social
status. which is regarded equivalent for cash.
But it strikes that those who have laid ont all
their money in acquiring this social status will soon
have nothing wherewith to support it,"
Truth ys:--'This question of the future value Of
land in England is in every mouth but 1t IL sell.
dom alluded to in the press One is that it ia
matter that there is a disinciination to
make people uncomfortable by calling attention to
it, the other is that by series of fortuitous acci-
dents land did rise in value after the adoption FREQ
trade in cereals and the newspapers having absurdly
enough ascribed this to the results free trade do
not like to eat their own words"
Truth says:-"A monopoly may be good thing or
bad thing. but it is nonsense to suppose that
nopolists gain by its abolition. Cheap bread.
it truly stated, would be the consequ OF free
trade and cheap bread was undoubtedly necessity
il we to compete with the entire world as man
ufacturers. But how possibly it could be supposed
by any sane human being that landowner would
gain by selling his produce cheap instead of dear has
always been incomprehensible to me-"
Truth says:-"Will land in England remain uncul-
tvated and become absolutely worthless No. For
residential purposes and for shooting purposes land
will always value. provided that the increase
Of natural wealth continues to produce class that
will be ready to to rent it luxury. The
fields WILL too. continue to be titled and to produce
crops Of and grass. At present. however there
are three distinct classes that live by the culture Of
land:--1. The landlord. whose rent represents the
interest of purchase money; 2. The farmer who de-
votes his skill and capital to the production crops
g. The agricultural laborers. whose labor actually
does produce the crops This division Of the results
of farming is essentially artificial and henceforward
there will not be enough for these three casses.
One. therefore, will have to 20 to the WALL
Truth says:-"Sooner or later the English agricul-
tural laborcrs will be given the franchise it may
be well. therefore. to cvilze them and to wean
them from the village pothouse the hand
and the trutazing monotony of isolation the
other. Curiously enough this attempt has been
ma lie. and made successfully, in Suffolk. In that
county. which had always supposed was somewhat
outside the path of movement. there are more vii
lage clubs, all thriving and selfsupporting than IN
all the rest Of England"
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LITERARY CHIT-CHAT.