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United States amounts to only $4,000 tons.
British reinforcements sent to the relief G
Gen. Primrose are not expected to arrive a
Caudahar until about the first Of mex
month.
From France it is announced that tn
Jesuits intend to reopen their colleges an'
bring to a decision their issue with the gov
eminent.
The project of connecting France and En-
gland by a tunncl beneath the English Chan
mel is again being agitated in Paris. The
channel has a floor of chalk, or else of blue
clay, atfording about the best and safest
ground that could be desired for the purpose
of tunnel cutting.
And so the "Benders' lately arrested in
Nebraska prove to be only imposters after
all. Some people have a queer ilea OF fame.
What earthly benefit is to be secured by as
Stunning the name and guise of a murderer eN-
ecrated by the whole country and sure to
meet with the just punishment of his crimes
as soon as discovered and convicted?
Texas makes a more favorable showing
in the census returns than any other state OF
the Union. The least progressive county re-
ports an increase of 100 per cent. of popula-
ton during the past ten years, while the
more favorably situated counties have in
creased fully 500 per cent. The city of Dal-
las in 1870 had a population of 800. In 1850
the census count gives $4,000 as the number
of its inhabitants.
1t was in the Greedy campaign, eight years
ago, that the American people were first
startled and disguised at the spectacle of a
presidential candidate trotting about. the
country making speeches in self commenda-
ton. This feature Of Greelylsm is being
initiated by the republicans this year, and IN
obedience to orders Garfield has already
started out to make the grand rounds AS
opposed to this Hancock, mindful of the
Ilsages of earlier days, and Jealous of the
dignity attaching to even a candidacy for the
presidency, remains on Governors Island in
the retirement which good taste suggests as
the only proper course for one in his position.
The desperate scare which the rush for
hAdINpNh III iiSPiCu Ill lCptoliSRh hih
has induced The leaders to trot out Gal field
in a little speech-making tour through the
democratic state of New York. On the
eighth instant he was at Chatauqua, where
he did not forget to lead a trump card by at
tending services conducted by the Y. NJ. G.
A.. Fate though, is full of cdntre temps, and
it so happened that Smiler ColfaX, of odorous
Credit Mobiiicr memory was given a seat on
the platform on which Garfield, Il hero of the
same financial scheme. figured as the observed
of all observers. In due time the presiden-
tial aspirant mad, his little bow and offered
his little speech, By which without doubt
sunday pious votes were captured. In the
meantime Ccnklin= is betraying new evil
denceS Of diSaAtction, and the republican
managers are again troubled with the Sravest
apprehension on his account. II was to Sc
cure the corporation of Conkling that Gar
field made his unconditional surrender to the
machine il his open abandonment OF civil
service reform. Just now it seems that be-
tween the Two stools, the "machine " and
" civil service REFORM" Garfield is to be per-
ilkiStCu W ttht IL sta Oh the GROUND.
1t is about time to hear the last of Tanner
and the lists may as well be declared open for
the next craze. What has become of the
gem puzzle that every one was talking about
a few months back? From the mystic i TO a
10 days fast was something Of a change, but
who is prepared to indicate the character or
nature OF the next subject of popular interest.
This recurrence of those craZes, it would be
difficult otherwise to characterize them,
spreading like an ~electrive wave in a few
days over entire continents should re-
ceiYe attention from some philosopher capable
OF explaining them. Certain it is tia they
were never heard of in olden times. But are
they an outgrowth OF modern life, or do they
occur only in recent times because 1t is only
within late years that we have had the
telegraphto adm the development ofemotion-
al cataehlsms which did not prevail in ancient
times only because there was no vehicle for
their spread and Transmission? The latter
may possibly be the correct explanation, but
we doubt it. The step from the Gem Puzzle
to the Crnsades, the only approacli to a ~':craze''
during the middle ages is too great to be ex-
planned by anything short of a radical change
in the mental characteristics of the people in
.huenced by the one from those afflicted by
the ether. :
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