Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-25

occupies IL to-day Inc party o
freedom in Brazil causes, perhaps
more profound agitation. This part,
declares that slavery shall be abolished
in the empire. BY singular coinci
dence the party of freedom had III
origin, and exists in the northern
part of Brazil. 1t is in the soutl
where the coffee plantations are prin
cipally located, and where it is con
tended that without slave labor coffee
raising will have to be abandoned
The southern cotton planters of thi.
country used similar arguments befor,
the war, bu, it is now seen that theil
profits are much larger, and theil
crops more abundant, than they were
in the days of slavery. There is ne
immediate danger of any interna
strife in Brazil. If there ever should
be such thing az a civil war-and
that is not anticipated-it will be after
Dom Pedro's death. A full and free
discussion of all the points of differ
ence involved can have none other
than a good effect to prepare the pub.
lie mind for coming events, however
those events may fall out.
Last Sunday was the day set by the
Second Aventists for the destruction
of the world, and a large number of
ignorant canadians were sorely disap.
pointed at at its failure to fulfil its
part of the programme, In expecta-
ton of the grand spectacular finale,
which they had reckoned upon for the
10Th, they had neglected to put in
their crops, and had devoted their
time to prayers. AS one sturdy but
credulous fellow put it: "I doan't
know zactly what to think. / says
to nabur o mine week ago: WAL,
If the worlds TO come to hend on
the 10Th of June, | bean't agoin' to
wore an hayn't; nathur hes my ma
bur. There's quite number honhus
houtJ hour way who as aquit labo'
an agone to prayin' an gettin'
ready for the crash-up an smash-up,
as you'd say" The smash failed to
put in an appearance and the pious
farmers are now left to bemoan their
own improvidence.
There seems to be only one thing
which the French will take from the
Germans, and that is their beer.
Last year the consumption amounted
to 300, 900 hectolitres, which was an
increase of 100000 hectolitres in 16
years, and 293,OO in 81 years, the
consumption in 1858 having been only
1000. In the whole of France, about
5000, 900 hectolitres are now produc-
ed. One chief cause of the increased
consumption is believed to be the bad
ness of the wine and the growing ten
dency to the use ef adulterating sub
stances in it.
German men of letters to seem to ex-
perience a hearty regret over the de-
parture of Minister White from the
American legation. A Berlin dis
patch to The London Times says:
Mr.. White has only been here about
two years, but during that time he has
displayed such qualities as to make
those who know hi m feel no slight re-
gret for his departure. Worthily in
heriting the traditions of his literary
predecessors here, Mr.. White has
preserved the special character of the
American Legation as a hospitable
gathering centre for all that is intel
lectual and attractive in the society of
the capital, so that those who
frequent his spacious saloons
in the Behrenstrasse are
almost tempted to fancy they are be-
ing entertained, not by the minister
of the great commonwealth of the
west, but by an ambassador from the
Republic of Letters. "The Guest of
the Evening" was then given--at the
banquet to Mr.. White-by Prof.
Gneist, a tower of strength in the
field OF Anglo-Saxon constitutional
history and law and the Doven of the
Doctrinaires, so to speak, in the inn
perial parliament. Mr.. White replied
in long, earnest and evidently heart
felt speech, the tone and style of
which proved him to have studied the
art of speaking in a country where
both postprandial and parliamentary
oratory are much more successfully
cultivated than in Germany. He was
quite ready to admit the English
origin of his country and its insti-
tutions, but while Great Britain
has had its past parent, he thought he
could perceive signs that Germany was
likely to become its future mother.
Mr.. White then referred to the vast
number of American students who
come to Germany in search of that
culture which they could not find in
their own country-he could count up
all those of his youthful compatriots
who frequented English universities
on the fingers of one of his hands -