The Republican journal., 1881-01-27
Editorial Notes

The English critics are unmerciful ON
Beaconstield's novel, Endymion. His per
sonalities and plag iarisms are alike held
up to censure Of the most sweeping kind.
But with $4,000 in his pocket as the
proceeds Of his work, B. can afford to put
up with good deal of abuse. At least,
we think we could.
Mr. Henry Giles, almost forgotten by the
public that admired his lectures and essays forty
years ago, lives in seclusion 10 Hyde Park Mass
For the past ten years he has been patient suf-
ferer from paralysis The Boston Herald SAYS
MIR. Giles declining ears are being made easy
by the nltarian Association and also by relative
of Mr. Giles at Bucksport, Me. He is cared for by
Mrs. Mahoney, who a nurse in his own and his
wifes family for many years" The Herald is,
we believe, mistaken in one particular Mr..
Giles married a Bucksport lady, and we do not
think he has any relatives in that place. He is a
native OF Ireland and was born in 1909 AS a
lecturer and author he was well known in this
State
A writer in an English Magazine estimates that
the custom Of horse shoeing costs the English ma
ton every year on an average nearly SIS. coo O00
every penny of which might be saved ifthe horses
were allowed TO GO nnshod, good deal has been
written from time to time in favor of leaving
horses unshod but although this might answer
in some places and under certain circumstances
the practice can never become universal When
horses have been accustomed to shoes and their
hoofs have been fitted for them it of course would
not do to dispense with them altogether 1t is
probable this agitation may result however, in an
improved method of shoeing, less injurious to the
hoof, than that now in vogue
The New England Commercial Travellers Asso-
citation had heir annual dinner at Young's Hotel
Boston, on Friday January 18th. About 200 sat
down, and the occasion was very enjoyable
The President, NJ. B. Cole, stated that the associa
ton has increased from 27S members at the start
to present membership of 9l5 The amount of
benefits paid on account of eleven deaths has been
4l6,o54. The assessment Of s. per member on
each death has realized 81 0S2 in the first case and
with the present membership would pay 81 $50 IN
case of death. The annual expenses per member
has averaged s. h called attention to the ann
of the association to be not only mutual benefit of
members, but to dignity the calling of the com
mercial traveller and represent the true interests
of mercantile life and of upright manhood
1t is pretty rough, just as we were
about to take out a patent for an inter
oceanic canal, and warn all foreigners to
keep off the Isthmus, to be told that
in 1928 a Portuguese navigator, Antonio
Galvao, proposed to Charles V. to make
an interoceanic communication And
there were others in the field later. In
1880 Nelson proposed a canal through
Nicaragua, and Won Humboldt took the
project up in 1904. In 1S4l Remy de
Puydt took a colony to Honduras to dig
canal there. Later, two men sent out
by Guizot pronounced against the feast
bility of the project, and as late. as in the
'4O's Louis Napoleon interested himself
ina Ncaraguan canal scheme which came
to naught. But the canal will be built
at no distant day, and this country will
build it and control it.