Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-02

nor been in an engagement. In the
city of Caracas three portrait statues
were erected in his honor at a cost of
$4,000. The statue of Bolivar, the
liberator of South America, cost only
1922 ,000. One morning a short time
ago the latter was found to be covered
with garlands of flowers, and the
former we're besmeared with dirt.
Blanco ordered them, including Boil
vars statue, to be cleaned with sui
phuric acid, thereby running them all.
italy has succeeded in borrowing a
sufficient amount of money with which
to. inaugurate specie payments. 1t
will require about $4,000. Barring
Bros, of London, the former bankers
in that city of the United States gov
eminent. have undertaken the loan.
1t will be placed upon the European
markets on the LIST of July. The Brit
ish financial men are quite jealous of
the loan. They fear it will take too
large al amount of gold from the
Bank of England, and thus cause that
institution to restrict its usual discount
facilities.
Notwithstanding what has been
said against the Irish land leagues, and
that they have been denounced by
prelates rs well as politicians, not
withstanding some apparently un-
called for demonstrations on its part,
it is evident that the said league has
effected results which could not other
wise have been accomplished. The
league and its methods have really SO
operated upon the apprehensions of
the entire British landed interests as
to now promise success for Mr.. Glad
stones bill. The bill, in fact, would
never have been proposed but for the
league, nor could it havebeen brought
to its present standing without its in
luence. 1t has produced a pressure
even upon the conservatives of Great
Britain which will doubtless be felt in
the House of Lords when the measure
comes before them. The bold stand
of Mr.. Parnell has really been the
vital force that has given the measure
its greatest amount OF motive force
and propulsion, and however much
the enemies of that gentleman may
find fault with his methods, it is to
them, not so much as to Mr.. Glad
stane, it's author, that the act, if it be-
ZONES a law, will owe its inscription
in the statute books.
An electric railway is a feature of
the Milan exhibition. The length of
the railway is about $50 yards and the
carriages run at the rate of about elev-
en- miles an hour. The motive power
is supplied by a large dyname-electric
machine which is driven at the rate of
1900 revolutions a minute. The cur
rent passes through a pair of copper
wires under the railway and by an
ingenious mechanism is made to act
directly on the wheels OF the carriage
and the train thus appears to move of
its own accord without any engine or
any visible connection with any eff
cient cause of motion.
The postal savings bank system in
England is working very satisfactorily,
and is undergoing modification by
which economy is encouraged in chill
dren and Others of limited a
The latest scheme is hat of receiving
postage stamps in deposits. 1t is not
eve necessary for the intending de-
positor to appear in person at thepost-
office, and in small villages where
there is III postofice savings banks,
a minister of the Gospel, or other re-
sponsible person may open the account
on behalf of the deposition, by witness
lug a printed form, which can be OBJ
tanned at any ~postofice savings bank.
In this form the depositor declares his
intention to open a postotfice savings
bank account, and the person witness
ing can then open the account for the
depositor by depositing the money
with the declaration at the nearest
p~ostofice savings bank.
The jubilee is in full progress In
Rome. One hundred and fifty Cata-
lans, under the guidance of the bishop
of Barcelona, were the first foreigners
to arrive in the eternal city. After
hearing mass at st. Peters, they pro-
ceeded to visit the other designated
Basilicas, chanting the prayers of the
jubilee at each of the churches.
HONEY FOR The LADIES.
Bustles increase in size.