Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-09

! increasing regularly with the length of ser l vice; the other seven were worth $500 year 1 at first. Of course the appointments were practically for life, with the certainty in old f age of superannuation allowance. Thirty three candidates presented themselves for an | examination where the maximum number of marks to be obtained was 6, 750. The highest number of marks obtained was barely over | 2,OO0, and the other s25o clerkship fell to g candidate who had less than 1000. These prizes disposed of, no one seemed to care for
 the minor appointments, which were refused by one candidate after another till finally the | sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth accept | ed them, their marks ranging from $50 down to 800.
 The rehabilitation of Isabella of Spain in public opinion is g curious phenomenon. No | monarch and no woman could have been in worse case than when she fled to Paris across the Spanish frontier after the revolution. She was both political and social outcast, but she kept her head up, had plenty of money and has lived the scandal down. She goes every where, even to Madrid, where she is not
 wholly unpopular. The Paris correspondent
 of the New York World says she has grand
 motherly way of smiling on everybody, which
 captivates the crowd. She condescends amaz-
 ipgly. The correspondent saw her at little
 fourth rate theatre, where troupe of Spanish
 dancers were performing. In one scene a
 little, plump woman gave all the incidents of
 bull fight. First she displayed the darts
 which they stick into the bull to rouse him to
 fury; then she came on as pieador and hurt
 him with her lance, getting her imaginary
 horse gored in return and herself hobbling of
 with a well-feigned sprain caught in the fall.
 At last she appeared as the matador, asking
 permission to kill the bull. In the real arena
 the matador has to advance to the royal box,
 and as there happened to be 8 royal box in
 the sham arena at the theatre the actress seemed to think she might bring the Queen into the play. She accordingly preferred her request for permission to kill in sonorous Spanish to that most Catholic of princesses, and Her Majesty liking the humor of the thing nodded to her gentleman in attendance, who laughingly gave the word, to the delight l of every Spaniard in the house.
 There is check in the boom of the Ladies' | Cooperative Dress Association of New York | The meeting at which the plan of organization | was announced by Miss Field was 8 large one, | about two hundred ladies being present. After | hearing the plan one hundred and sixty of the | ladies decided not to support it. Miss Field had selected the trustees of the institution, | and they were to be the founders. These | gentlemen included some of New York's most | prominent citizens. stock broker, already | appointed, was to take charge of the business details, and it was proposed that the ladies present should buy the stock and become members of the association. The capital stock was to be $225. .00O. Twelve per centum on the capital stock for the first year would defray the running expenses, and small per- csntage of profit would fall into the hands of the first stock buyers. The capital stock would be doubled the second year. This was not exactly the kind of institution which the | ladies present met to discuss. They intended to found an institution themselves and not to give their money to business men as an in- vestment. They wished to elect their own trustees, and to organize philanthropic asso citation which would assist ladies with small incomes in buying durable and good clothing at reasonable prices. They did not want to found money-making institution. If there ducing the prices or toward swelling the sala- ries of the persons employed. The ladies therefore withdrew and say they will have nothing more to do with the project. It is believed that philanthropic association will be established at some time, but on different system to the one now proposed.