Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-29

I expect 10 hear the news boys whistling
them verv soon IN Printing House Square.
The secession IT John Morley to be
editor in. chief of the Pa,,,AaH Gazette,
as recently announced, viii str1Se Aneri /,
cans favorably. Now that the Patt-4H
has adopted the liberal policSI. Morley Is
plainly
THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
He will render valuable and efficient ser
vice to the cause in which he so profoundly
believes, and for which he has SO earnestly
worked. As literary man he has won
high reputation, having shown In all his
writings, many and varied, that he is
clear forcible thinker and an accurate
scholar The bent of his mind is practica /;
he is more a man of affairs than of the
closet, being, despite his large culture, BY
no means bookish or priggish, as pro-
fessional litterateurs are prone to be. he
has had wide experience on the periodical
press, and has such an acquaintance with
public men and measures as must serve
him in good stead at the head of the able
journal he is now conducting
The Pail Mall is one of the very D est
dailies- many persons competent to Jud. &c
consider it the best daily-in all LoDdol l..
The style of its contents is much breade T
and brighter than that of any other metro
politan journal, the Times not excepted :
and the change in its policy cannot fail to
benefit its tone and increase its interest,
especially for American readers. 1t has
never been inclined to treat subjects with
that solemnity and density of purpose so
universal In England, and which, on this
side of the Atlantic, seems akin to dull
ness John Morley will be likely to add
to the freedom and vivacity of the journal
which, under far less favorable auspices,
has deservedly won dictinction, and to
which fresh impetus and enterprise must
henceforth be given. The Pat-WaH has
always needed torepresent the Liberals, and
Morley is one of the most liberal of them
all.
VARIETIES.
Columbia College is now said, on account
of late advances in real estate owned by
the corporation, to be the richest seat of
learning in the country, Harvard not ex-
cepted Originally called Kings College,
it was opened July II, 1854, although it
had then been contemplated and talked of
fifty-one years. 1t opened with ten stu
dents, in vestry-roem of Trinity Church.
In its new and handsome building, at
Forty-ninth street and Madison avenue, it
has near 600 students.
Four of the metropolitan theaters will
open the autumn season, it is said, with
new American plays, which are rapidly
growing in quantity and quality.
Men and women do not always notice
the same things. l could not help over
hearing a couple as was coming out OF the
Union Square Theater the other evening.
They were discussing the new opera Boo
caccio" Referring to JEANNE Winston,
the woman said, "She has a decidedly
sweet voice" "Yes," he replied, as if
pursuing thought; yes, they are hand
some, very handsome legs"
l understand that the New York Oh
serser, ChurhmaR and EruageliSt, sectarian
weeklies, will in their next issue contain
jeremiads about the rapid diffusion of
atheism, anent Ingersolps late lecture and
its rapturous reception at Booths Theater.
A private London letter says that Dis
raeli (Beaconsfeldb talks of paying the
United States visit the coming autumn.
1t is not likely that he will cross the ocean
under existing circumstances.
All the hotels are fuller now than they
have been during any May for ten years.
Many of them rarely have vacant room
except Saturday and Sunday.
William H. Vanderbilts new Fifth
avenue mansion will cost, when completed
and furnished, nearly $780, 900, including.
pictures and everything else. Poor fellow!
Will nobody give him soup ticket:
The Union League Club now has its list
of membership full, which is true of no
other club save the Century.
CHAUBERT.