The New York herald., 1879-12-25

carly called by the nonethnologcal people Of the
United States.
Senator Roscoe Conkling is at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel.
Secretary Sherman returns to Washington this
morning.
spurgeon is at Mentone. very depressed in spirits,
and his condition excites some anxiety.
Queen Victoria is supposed to have got chilled on
the day she attended the funeral of her late head
keeper. Grant.
Colonel j. b. Eads. who built the jetties. has
arrived from Europe. and left last evening for his
home in st. Louis.
1t is said BY some ply yscians that tho best milk
for children is from cows of the Island OF Jersey;
but 1t ought to be watered about one-third. and
good authority says that lime water prescribed bya
competent physician should be added.
London IVorld:-"Adelina Patti is now free to sing
In Paris OF anywhere she likes. She paid the
Marquis de Caux l.Oo0.OO0f.. and is adver-
tsed to appear at the daete In Paris the 14th of
February next. The performances begin with LIZ
Traviata.."
In appointing Mr.. Ebenezer d. Bassett, who wai
United States Minister to the Republic Of Hayt fol
nino years. Consul at this port with salary o.
$4,000 year. President Solomon wrote;-"In en-
bracng you and separating myself from you upon
the wharf at Port Prince took within myself the
engagement to call you to the post OF Consul oi
Hayti at Now York il some day should come to be
the chief magistrate OF my country. It is. then.
with happiness that to-day fulfil this engagement.
and thank God for IT.
We hpd from the espondence recently pub
lished respecting the Edinbryk Reriew that Henry
Brougham and Thomas b. Macaulay were at deadly
ISSUE Each regarded. or pretended to regard. ths
saton of great takers. such they may fairly bs
likened to tho anaconda (hey were bores of the
der boa constrctor maintaining its life by crushing
out the life from ethers; but there those who,
without the powors OF Macaulay Brougham.
seek equally to absorb all conversation. The talk
of such 10 compared moro suitably to tho octo-
pus which. by absorbing lifo from others. main
tains existence but existence vaueless that IL
scarcely be called life. There Ia scarcely club
In the world which has not its octopus. but NOT
every social gathering has it's anaconda.
Tho moon has given astronomers so much infor-
nation about the earth. telling them tho earth's
true size Though Newton did not believe her until
Picards measurements showed he was right. her
true shape. and so forth. that we must not be
prised to find astronomers trying to learn somo-
thing about Mars from his small attendants. Deimos
and Phobos. The great mathemstician. John Couch
preston of the globe Of Mars is as yet unknown.
The best observers have obtained results differing
very widely inter Now. the moons Of Mars.
only they carefully observed for . sufficiently
long time will enable astronomers to ascertain the
true shape Of the planet and oven marvellous Ia
relate) to determine some points respecting the
planets internal structure. We can easily deter.
mine what should bo the change produced IN the
position Of the planes In which tho moons travel IL
the suns disturbing force were alone at work. But
the compression Of the planets globe would
modify this result. and peculiarties affecting
tho internal structure Of the planet would also
have their effect. Unfortunately 1t seems unlikely
that within the noxt century or so the moons Of
Mars will supply dennite information ON these ana
kindred subjects; for the changes themselves
ceodinaly small and tako place very slowly. while
the observations by which they are to be detor.
mined are exceedingly aHicult. In common fair.
ness to the Martian moons II should ba mentioned
that within very short time of their discovery they
tod astronomers tho Of Mars which before
had been but unsatisfactory determined by noting
the disturbances he produces other planets, .
comet or two. and forth. There is only tele-
scope by the way. tho other side Of tho Atlantic
which has shown both phobos and Deimos this
year-namely. Mr.. Commons nne three-foot
fector described by Mr. Nelson. in article quoted
In tho Popular Science Monthly. the most powerful
telescope in the world The twelve and quarter
inch reflector at Greenwich has shown Deimoss the
outer satete which proves that the satellite Is not
so difhcult an object Is had been supposed.