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RETURNING HOME AFrs8 x7YsrsEyYEARs

| Mr.. Zcbbeus Compton and his wife. OF pla;pfayd
n. j. while at ther homo 81 noon Yesterday vera
astonished by the entrance OF their sou. Sylyanus
who was Last heard Of by them nuoteen wears AGO
and whom they have ever since believed to be dead
Before the war Sylvanus Compton was drunaist,s
clerk in Plainfeld. At tho breaking out of hostil
ties he Joined the navy, being about twenty
one years Of age. He became attached to the surg-
cal stan, and In juno, 1862, his parents learned
through letter from him, that he was on board a
ship taking sick soldiers to Now Orleans This
was the last heard from him dire ctly but they
found that he had landed safely IN New-Orieans,
ana mad been in that city. No further trace of him
could DO found, however, and after few years had
passed his parents concluded that he was dead
The returned son says that while in New-Orleans
ne fell in with pleasant, agreeable man. who in
vited HIM to join in drinking bottle of wine. After
THIS, ne remembers nothing until no was aroused
from the stupor caused by tho drugged LIQUOR. and
found himself on DO ard SLAYER three ds va ont at
he escaped from the ship ct ono port and told his
official had already been warned to arrest han a a
aeserter and send him back. The Consul advised
at some other port Where again there and escape
official to arrest him. He next lett the be
chip at an African port aud made his way to Cape
Coiopy. Here he settled down for o time married
and had one child. He sent no word home throueh
Tear OF being arrested a dessrter and taken back
on to India and other parts of Asia, and finally to
Anstraia. From Australia ne finally returned to
neid In search of his parents '
nv me- iashsr and mother were completely overcome
fsnt; ~, suHuen anc unexpected return, the mother
lions living at Painfed and ell those who knew
Whsr D sn no disappeared recognize him now
s;stars Ag won't away he left two brothers and two
hr"thsr. o a one sister has since died The two
ont parts Of the ssmalning lister differ
twsnty years ago speak Of him "a a youns man ~
sASo''Sns reputation. quiet and much lied.
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DIED.

Err July 20 RlinOr widow of Martin r. Berry
Funeral from her late residence NO. 402 Brook
Sn, Monday August l. at 2 O'Clock p m
vile Of stephen ss B SrSse Tsss <, Igy e LSs
wsshiusoSn' , s = Ssmsrsed Church corner
inst, at O'Clock p m. '''0A''"' Oh euho'S' Slss
Ss slsS SS G e. ysss 3 s widow of
O'clock the n o cS Sa sSonaA'' August l. at
July so anaF his Tsssencs Ssgtcwn T. saturday.
Relatives invited e stenS ne ns se rs.
Trails es ssn9 T ICY Ansast at O'clock
leaves at All oclocs Zoo O'CLOCK and returning
LoW-In Philadelphia July 90 Ethebert NJ Low IN the ssd
Relatives and invited TO attend the .un.r., s
at the residence father No Sc Rsnss U SeSSs %
mofSus HSa. IN I gTcskyq .Ae 2s
vile l. al Ococf sasSay Afternoon Jug 49, In Ross
thel John Raymo sst s :, %STR,as July So q e
pn. menu ,E,s.srtsOn, aged months days nay
scorTon Friday, 2sh inst. Dsva a. scott a. s,o..,
Yorf ase q ses sSote OF the College Of the CITY New
h ETA and friends invited the funeral from
day oocok p m no East so'h't' on Mon
Please send no nowors.
d Mo s Leage No ga and NJ. brethren
Brother David Scott IT, at No i3s East " our ia,e
'' 49, - 'O I RicnRR 3 P. WILLIAMS. Master
AZ M Saturday July 90 at the residence Of her sis
osptain James Tayiot in the $50 year her age INV
TgssaAS p % from her r Ise ro on
Inenen in Marble Cemetery, 2ds Plosse omit flowers
short Illness fa a H. GSnn sp Of Fe Ma July 20 alter
h s I've, and friends arc invite. % funeral from
rnS g meet Sewavcn leaving Grand Central
WIiLLARD.In brooklyn Friday July % Harriet r Ia
ioo' vile OF George l. Willard, 66h wear OF her
Fpsersi from her late no AZ second place Brook
M, ro Saonnsy Angnst 1, AZ ll.3O O'Clock - m
by request no rowers
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BITS OF CRITICISM,

MALLOCK's ORDNANCE OF THE NINETEENTH
have effect that is ml.esevous and to intro
duce it into ordinary drawngrooms under the OF
Of its sOnteSts, i iasat ordinssy roaders
vasarity feoias deryi the a.
feeted intensity OF true worship Of tho worst
And We c al 'n quite fs
conceive that book of this nature asht have been
r1ousy planned for religious purpose by man with
very deep religious convicten to express book
to be healed needed study not to eT
press very deer religious conviction rather indeed
any nnnence that once asteTiOsatng and
oontaminating.-lThs London Spectator.
AMERICAN NovELs.-Whether it be, as we
on tnss e Ss 9 sort of
other cause, know not. but - certain the ordinary
Executed IN than
here may be be that the total number beng less i
SO there are fewer abnormal pe nd less cheap
Athenaum. i--'
THE PoETs OF PEssIMIsM-The truth is that
civilized mankind collectively generally ct moments Of
exhaustion after some grest historic effort The ogh-
Cs eps sGGS by TS
actually S best sSa %ora w ' %Gsd II nSt
better and BE- every day. aud the French Revolution
the sSlasn haIpaess s0s and
wholesale bloodshed leading military espotism ao re- e,
Was move necessarily d, set n and tho tendency
Rerfecnoility OF the human race ami even
n and s & s Ts
Leopard and Byron and Heino rpd Pushkin and
Alfred de Musset All these vssty - they differ In
pecniarities Of style have In the keynote
OF despair without the hope and With the desire
OF happiness II IL true that the lines winch most OF
the lives mad fallen were not in pleasant places and
that their personal experiences gave tinge to their
general views OF things When Scopenhauer explained
70 M ChailenelL aconr the his hatred of
women on metaphysical grounds. he forgoS TO mention
MS perpetual quarrels with hs mother and Ofbcr
unpleasant encounters with the il Byrons
had been happy one he would probably not have writ
ten Don Juan"-lPan Mall Gazette.
HUGO's IMAGINATION.-Whi lille other writer's
adopt fancifu gaotV from instructive feeling that
they have not sufficient imaginative force to actualize
aly nna sinsuye situation and require the prop OF
victor Hugo with the most splendid lyrical
VISION OF any man In Europe, Is roy upon
sns vision but goes out OF his in quest alegor
GU motVs, such as second rate find far more
ready than he and for which, indeed be has no genius
whatsoever The greatest impeachment which criti
csn mas 10 bring against that fantastic GongOrism
a n.cn rom omit the seventesnth century downward in
case or Victor Hugo has dipped the Tnas of fyrica
AthenRum. -i'AA'- tAno
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STABBED IN THE NECK.

Edward Barry, age twenty nine, was stabbed with
largo olasp-knife by John Boyle shortly before 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon. Barry IL a swede and
seafaring man, and lives at No. % Cherry-st. His
assailant. who lives next door, is an Irish engineer
forty years Of age. Barry WAS In beer-shop in
tho basement OF No. 80 James-st, when
Boyle drew largo clasp-knine and stabbed him in
the right side of the neck. The police unable
to ascertain the cause Of tho quarrel. Boyle was
locked up.
The Coroner took tho sntc-mortexn statement of
tho injured man last evening at the Chambers
Street Hospital. He said
I was lying on bench In the beer saloon, No.
90 James-st., about O'Clock, whcs this man, &C
companied by q woman, oame in and asked mo for
10 cents which refused to give HIN, aud he then
stabbed me-"
When Barry arrived at tho hospital no was very
weak from loss Of blood and he was not expected to
live last evening. Tho wound was in tho lower
part of the neck, about four inches hong and three
Inches deem.
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a G Thompson and family, of Bellows Falls,
tho american Hotel.
Hotel. ~ ~ 'o ~ ~
Mr. and Mrs; a. c. Strauss are among tho PhiladeI-
Registered at the United States Hotel carly to-day
we're Albert Diehl, of Bnenos Ayres r. Won Loesse,
R :; and W. - shasr Of New-York j. Plumb,
o. Siagara Clark Seoaeld, of Atlanta s. j. Sheldon
Harrisburg, and 8. A. Gleason OF Troy.
G; T. Grouse ami William p. sabey OF Syracuse j. IA
ShasS and Miss Chase Of Providence j. Conway, b.
l. Carney VIM Morrow and Henry Ritter, OF New-York
Mr. and Mrs. William a. Drown, of Philadelphia; Mr.
ton the Rev. W. d. Th0mas OF La Crosse I. Hatch
ana Mrs Hatch OF Astoria Charles T.. Leland and Dr.
Cohoes. '
at At Congress Hall this forenoon were W. w. Culon, L.
kelspeI, ofNow. York Mr. and Mrs. j. A. Wyman, Of
HSrgen Point f. Aokley, Of burlington; Charles A.
i nj OF Boston; H. l. Baldwin and o. W. Hun
A Anon the late arrivals night are the following:
Cortlandt Howell MI. and Mira W. j. Cassard, Joseph r.
lay and family, Miss Jenny H. Kellogg. II. q. Eott.
zabrae, E. Starr f. B. maml isidor ns'F Strauss,
Nathan Strauss, o; NJ. Bogalt, David s. Banks, r. Il.
jones' Tvd d. Potter de9nqrd Jerome Or and Mrs Reid
Moran, Mrs NJ: Z. Ives, john h. Beale, c. N sedgwick
fanny sa ~ L. Whit. J a nn% M EsnS and
Christie p Rust Mrs ii. u. Hale Miss Hale II.
the Misses Bruce, william Henry woods L. " ''"'''
From other paoes-Mr. and Mrs Murray Anderson.
homes aG a hsTts and family Mrs N
Orange; Mrs. Waterman Chicago; Miss waterman,
FFGago; AMI Mr and Mrs Gsorga Tsney Boston p
tbooth Mrs William Geddes John b. schoeael Manohes-
Mr. aud srs e1ston i % %
ton Hesing Chicago; G. L. Rockwell nnd family, Meri-
den a e. F. Child and famy Boston Mr. and Mrs W
baitlore; ", III. Cloment, Cincinnati
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A PEACE CONGRESS IN 1885.
To the Editor OF The Tribune

SIR: The National Arbitration League of
Washington, ID. c., desire TO make appeal to the
friends OF humanity everywhere for moral support in
their great undertaking. which has for its aim the
peace on earth and good will TO long prayed
ior' me movement has been organized for many
months It's object Is the settlement Of all international
disputes by arbitration 80 be brought about by agitation
III every nation, but especially by Worlds
conference at Washington in 1885, when from
Oil portions OF the earth great numbers will
DO In attendance at the contemplated Boston
WORLDS Fair This seems to be time when movement
OF this kind could become praecsble This assembly
after mature dohberation mans moral and soca! re-
latlons would probably Issue address 20 the world
advlsng, among other things the organization of q
Fasy OF Nations for tho education OF the people on
peace footng 80 that Is would practicabe bV
the dawn OF the twentieth century dsband all armies
ana naves over the whole earth The deaire OF
some OF tho countries in South for
from the United states, after being desoated by wa
makes this undertaking at the present time very i'm
portant one IL Is hoped that arbitration leagues WIN be
commenced IN every county IN tho United STAKES well
as IN al other countries go that it will be extremely
YOpular Tor thcse in power to expend millions
Tor war purposes, when education every where al
much demanded. 81 NJ RArnwM
Washington, ID. O., July %, 1881.
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FAREWELL, LARDl WELCOME. OIL,

u voc OF IAe Trt0Nno.
SIR: The eating world will have occasion to
throw up ts II the discovery lately announced that
cottonseed oil Is most satisfactory substitute for
lard DO confirmed. hope IL is true the sake es-
peciay OF the many hosekeepoxs who sorey trod
IN their cooking by that product Of the swine which, like
butter. varies In tho quality and whose odur when sz
cling In the frying pan, awakens In the Imaginative
Kitchen goddess visions OF pentup, garbasefed and
Shiny porkers, and payhap notion OF trfchna
snugy ensconced In the vescles No afraid
Oh good vegetable oil is impressions hssorio and
cool and agreeable. 1t whispers OF dewy meadows re-
freshing breezes sweet aromas and But lard
Everything IL suggests is heating aud oxasDerating
However. moro to the point: Colonel o. O. Eolson of
Huntsville Ala says he has repeatedly seed
oil at his house. and finds equal to the beat article OF
lard. hotel keeper at Memphis publishes slstenent
to tho same effect has been tried by oiyiscns
OF Iuscnbt, Ala, who SOY lind no differ
ence between the oil and lard article for cooking
INC best thing about It, economical
Will Is the cost that being more shan half
the price or the pork extract And should this discovery
turn out fact undeniable what revolution II will pro
dlce IN the pork tracel Aud what impulse 4. will
give TO the cotton interest coming Just in time speed
the revival or industry and entorIrise 10 the SOUTH
Everybody must grease the paItbe hygienist for HIS
roll, the beeeater for his steak-and all will heartily
welcome the sweet, translucent stiation OF nature
Aetc YORK, July %, 1881. RS ID.
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CROWDS AT SARATOGA SPRINGS

SARATOGA SPRINGS, July 30.--SummCr rLeats
arc pouring int" Saratoga thick and fast tho hotel
and clearinghouse managers have been kept busy To-
day greeting visitors and assigning them Quarters
The local pupits tomorrow will be principally snpn,cd
by olorgyIneh from out OF town. including Dr. Murphy
OF Now York. Dr. Eddy, Of Detroit, the Rev Cbarles
Oock, OF London, England, the Rev. w. b. Derrick of
Albany, tho Rev. W. v. V. Mahon, OF Woohavkop N J.
tho Rev. ID. I. Carnshan, OF Oil City, Pom, the Rev
Charles H. Morton, of Chicago the Rev. James Robert,
OF Coatesville Ponn tho Rov. Dr. J. j. Hough OF Jack
son, Mob the Rev. DE-. Humphreys, OF India tho Rev
Dr.. a. Taylor, Of Detroit, Mich, the Row. Dr. Win. O.
Roberts, OF Elizabeth, N. j., and the Rsv. Henry T.
Miles Of Chicago.
Open air religious exercises viii be held in tho Indian
Epcsmpment tomorrow afternoon and will DO con-
Quoted by the Rev. Charles Cook, Of London the Enaish
Evangelist
Coaching club parties have become popular hore
Yesterday number Of ladies from tho United stata
Hcsel enjoyed trip 70 Bauston Spa distance OF about
scven miles, and return.
Coaching Club party from tina Clarendon drove 70
snrstoga Lake yesterday afternoon.
The Rev DIR. Humphreys OF India At Dr trar,,,or,.
this evening descriptive lecture ON Hindoo
ners ana customs He was followed by MIA Mary G
Whnson, who made . short address on scepes a,,ora
the upper and lower classes in English home life
hiss Bclie Cole and Mrs Emma Randall D,obl or Nav
York. will take part In sacred concert In the Putnam
Union Hall tomorrow evening.
Senator Warner Miller and Mrs. Miller left to-day for
Washington They viii visit the Thousand rslanos
week.
Hops place a, the United States ond Grand Union
tonight.
Mrs. Juliet Henderson Floyd soprano, OF Boston I'm
Congress Spring Park this evening sang ARIA de sor
mo-" from HAfricana Cheyerbeer), and My Dearest
Heart" suivan She win sing again at tho fourth ga
cred concert tn DO given in tho Park Sunday evening
Europe. - va
The Rev 7; W. Jones and family have gone to Asbury
Park on brief visit.
The piazza concerto continue BIO one Of tho most At
yJni
sis morning Leverett executed the comic solo Ye
nerry bids tCumbertl On the Congress piazza this
orsnoon jona Kreyer the cornet soioist brought
WIN excellent effect the "Arm0r Polka N1esender
anu at the Clarendon William H. Cox rendered another
oornet SOLO, " Come Back to Erin"
Wrigbts. ~ ~ 1855
the Medical Institute - 49, "
Miss Georgia Trenod, of New York and Miss Florence
4qouIin OF New-Oreans are glests OF Mrs VIM Leland
~. y. warner and Mrs. Flora t. Lands, of Newly ork
M9 vsltifg the family OF II. j. Horn, OF Park-plac
r.. w; sherbuine and John Bolton, OF Barre, w.t.
return via Boston. S' wa"
Dr. D. T. Gall Of Albany, and J. II. Shoemaker of Al
bany, are at the Columbian Hotel - -
MI and Mrs. b. 8. Chase OF Providence are pneats M
emory Potter at Eimwood Hall
b. ID. Mumford and the Misses Mumford Of Savannah
are ut the Drs strong's.
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SMALLPOX AND CHARITY.

William Echert, laborer. Of No. 211 Delaney
st., arrested yesterday the charge Of conceal
ing from the Health officers tho fact that his wife
had the smallpox He held in defauft of $500 bail
in the Essex Market Police Court and Mrs Echert
sent to the Riverside Hospital. Their two chill
dren, ton years and another eighteen months DID,
both more than half-starved. were turned adrift ;
Society for tho prevention Of Cruelty to Children
would accept them. Quarters were offered them at
length by the health officers in the Smallpox Hospi-
tai with their mother but the neighbors nterfered
and kept the children over night. They were fed in
the Eldridge Street Police Station and made COM
Portable till morning.
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UIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT.
GOVERNMENT INDICATIONS
Sy,lopsis Ioy. Tia sasf o. ho.,,.s


WASHINGTON. July 81, q. m.--The barome-
ter ia highest In Nova Scotia and on tho Now Enxand
coast, and lowest In the extrcmc Northwest The ten
peraturo has remained stationary in the West Gnf
STATES and In districts east n tho Mississippi North
easery winds continue tho Now England coast the
Middle and South Atlantic States and cassrly winds In
tAc Gun states elsewhere the winds variable.
chi rams are reported from New Delend the Lower
Lake region, the middle and western portion tho
south Atlantic states. Reports generally missnR
RON rom the Upper Lake region and Northwest.
Inc following temperatures reported stations
on tho northern frontier: Eastport 81 - Buriipson
1885, Quebec, no; Montreal, 72o, Alpena 10.
Indications for to-day
For Now England generally fair weather except local
~ inc southern portion, winds shifting souhery
lower barometer stationary or higher temp.rature.
For the Middle Atlantic states partly cloudy wsather
ana local rains, easery winds stationary or lower
oneter nearly stationary temperature.
Indications fer to-raol3ou
The indications that fair weather will prevail In the
upper Lake region Tennessee, the Upper Mississippi
ana ohio Valleys to-day and tomorrow.
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NEWPORT NOTES.

NEWPORT, X. L., July 3O.-The hotels are
filling up but as yet they not CROWDED"
Major Sanger United States Army has returned 10 his
duties at Fort Adams.
Mrs. Howard Townsend Of Albany Is at tn, App,etoo
cottage in Cstharne-st.
party of gypsies are Ia camp sbout two miles from
Tho city Tho men have horses sell, while the women
visit the cottages with fancy baskets other wares
and some OF them make practice of telling fortunes
Mr. Mallory, Of New-York, has arrived here In bia
schooner aoht, tho WatS Witch.
Isaac Townsend, Of New York. is at tho Ocean House.
Bishop Huntington, OF Central New York win o,oiate
at All Saints Chapel tomorrow, and the Rev. Mr. Mo-
ran. OF York. will b at Zion tEpseopab Church
Dinner parties were given to-day b. F. s. G. De Haute-
viile and G. Mead Tookep, OF New-York
The Westohcster Polo Club formally opened tho sea-
son ths afternoon before Large and fashionable assem-
blage. Tho games were called at five o'clock. Tho
names OF the players wero As follows: Lloyd s. Bnce
jr, Samuel 3. Rowland and DR.. Fred o. Beach, who
wore blue, end who played against August Belmont IT,
Francis r. Appleton, A Ladenburg and II. l.. Herbert
Eight spirited games were played, each side winning
four. banG OF music was on the ground.
Among the hotel arrivals arc the following:
Mss eG e ElaSS W. MAsT rsS1 DR. y wesma.
!udsoH and wife Rochester, N Y. Alexander L. Hayes
blouse ys a sHS T Tssau Il r.
\ sne asas' and w Warn y nSarn HARRY
X Storms and wifew. Storms Cincinnati; s. h. Burrowe
~ Mckinney and vie, A. " Mckinney, IT.. Now York;
j.; j. Emery, Cincinnati Il. husy and wife, Ph,atel-
phia Mrs g. r. Dlniiok, England j. G. Bell and famil,
Ma. Thomas J; w. Boil. j. G. Bell, Jr., Maryland; Il.
epEo1k Columbus, Ga; MIS- X. Ii. French, Miss S.
Cary H. IS. Shepard and wife, Foxboro Mass; ChnrIes
Gary phllsdelph,ai Charles L. Long and wife, spring
Chapln, H. NJ. Bell, Buffalo; w. j. Thomson New-Or.
leans j. Ellis and wife, l. ID, Stillman, Fan Francisco
Juins Nathan and wife, Dobbs Ferry Ferdinand Ward
aud famils George NJ Stetson, G.. 3. Clark, John H.
Piummer and family Now York.
Hote! NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. H. Botz Henry Dochery
brVo&lyn; j. d. Cohen Al. G. Cook, W. s. Read Boston
W. Ii. Niles, Cambridge; W. Il. Wright, u. s. N: r. M
Allen aud wife, Kansas CITY, III. r. Butler W. A. Butlos
Jr., fcnkers, n "; Il. j. Carr, Gardner, Mass: A. Isl
Heyenor, j. Grouse Rod Hook, N j.; Robert r. burton
aud wife, j. Jybnrne ad wife, Baltimore; ii. j. Neger
H. e. Homer, Chicago; Mr. III. Rowland, Chicago; Com
mander X. IL. Evans, U. b. N. ~
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THE MOVEMENTS OF srRaMRRs
EOHErn,r nnn.na

QUEENSTOWN, July 30-Arrfyed stoanera fe,ssc m.
Dodge from oae on TO MverPoo PennSyysfas
1rn Ak sny so-sailed steamers HiDernlau baltimore
AMERICAN PORTS
delphia. ~-"iaaSoctSs IRON Pnlln-
Said steamers worcester for Halifax, WIN craro a.,
York. - @''sf stor new
from Boston - N-'oi' noh<
Cleared steamers oardsna fcr Now York; Nevnna fog
from Now York '"g' oa'iss
Cleared steamers cOrOnia for NewyOrl Commonwealth
Sailed steamers British Crown ana caacaster
for New-York. - - ~--A' t'~'-s
sAyAskAH July 90-sailed. City OF Savannah
phia. - S"~'3' A"A NDAAs~n-
water, - 'S' ~'ao"A~
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OBITUARY
GEORGE BORROW.

LONDON, July 30.--The death is announced
OF George Borrow author of THE Bible Span" aud
VOL known for his associations with gypsies in Spain
and elsewhere.
George Borrow was born in Last Dereham Norfolk, In
loo3' HIST ather was an officer in the army. He re-
ceived good cdncntion and articed solicitor
Norwich, but he soon abandoned the law engage
literary pursuits. Then he went abroad and for
Der of years led life OF wandering adventure From
1888 to 1899 he was In the service of the British Foreign
Bible Society In Russia and Spain whore he twice
imprisoned for endeavorng circulate tho Scriptures
During this part of his he edited the New Tesla
ent in the ChineseTartar language and Translated the
same work Into the language OF the Spanish eypsies
IN early HE Mr. Borrow became acquainted with
bands OF gypsies who caInpcd near Norwich. He
tered their language ana aerward found that the
tongue was spoken by their in Spain His account
OF the Spanish gypses published in 1sA1 created much
interest IN the subject In 1874 he increased his know
edge OF that singular people by wandering among the
gypsies OF Hungary, Waachia and Turkey. In 1915 he
pnnished y" Tho Bible in Spain," which was warmly
praised by Sir Robert Peel in the House Commons.
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General ability, character merits and standing of
appicants than could single board in Washington.
for the plan described or one SINH
Limo a1r 90 ~ several members Of the Cabinet in
bncant for examination shall be designated by the
from his district by one of the Sem
from ms state In order further to increase the
SSipeiiehcy o, tho service, several members of the
Cabinet at least favor the plan of restricting all
new appointments In the Department t. the lower
iadeS Oh cierkships and to a considerable extent
lhls pan mas already been put in Operation.
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failure. So far as can be told from the various
copied after Wagner but displays none of Wagner's
genius Rubinstens opera, on the other hand, was
greatly admired. The book was not good one and
at certain points the opera failed of being eectiYc
but the music is warmly spoken Of on, all sides
though it is said 10 be better fitted for tho concert
room than the stage 1t appears TO be IN liubin,
STEMS best and most characteristics style to be fui
of that local color in which he delights, and to con
tain many passages of exceeding beauty.