New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-13

with European troops. he possibly thinks that they
may be terrified in advance by u jndicous as'ort'
ment of duly ferocious epIthets.
Lady John Manners impeaches modern luxury in
The National Reriec. The account she gives of the
life of the aristocracy in England is certainly not
little surprising, for she represents them as doing
little else than eating drinking and dressing, and
the number and completely of their meals suggest
the idea of perennial gorge, necessarily resulting
in apoplectic safety and mental stupor. Not salts
fed with this continual feeding however, the men
appear to smoke like lime-kilns, and Lady Manners
declares that in few instances the expenditure
in cigars amounts to f5 day" Who are the
amazing people who consume $50 worth OF cigars
every dayf Even at five shillings apiece man
would have to smoke twenty to make up the taie'
We are afraid Lady Manners has been heartlessiy
deceived on this head by some wicked young
smoker but when she speaks of domestic matters
she is probably a good authority In such state
of society materialism is the natural tendency 80
gross node of life must disqualify for any higher
view of existence.
More trouble. NJ. Pasteur is fully satisfied that
he has discovered practicable method OF lnocdIat-
ing dogs so rs to render them proof against hydro
phoba. Now we shall have the British Parliament
providing by law for the compulsory incubation OF
all dogs in the kingdom; then Anti-Compulsory-
Characterization Society will be formed,
and after that the deluge-Of letters to
the Editor, tracts. pamphlets, etc. All
bristling with statistics pro and con. Bet
ter let the dogs go mad than drive all humanity
mad, NJ. Pasteur.
We confess TO being considerably startled not to
say broke up," by the awful disclosures in
Tennessee paper, The NOTiSto,rn Gazette regarding
the way Southern prisoners are treated IN Northerh
prisons to-day. These disclosures are intended as
an offset to the treatment of Northern prisoners In
Southern prisons during the We don't know
what would have become Of us If the author OF
the article had signed his name to it, and had been
a little more definite in his facts, But 1t Is bad
enough as it is He says that the officers ana con
tractors in Northern prisons are "all Republicans
and that the Southern men are treated almost
like brutes." Their food Is not good, and half the
time there is not enough of it. Their bankers are
not changed "once in eighteen months" and the
prisoners have to work eleven hours day or suffer
brutal Dunishments. The mysterious writer says
that 1.-The enlightened and truthful society OF
Buffalo" will testify to the correctness OF his state
mpnts. Here is chance now for the enterprSlng
newspapers of that city to collect some buffalo
news 1t must be humiliatIng to be beaten by The
Gazette, of Mouistowu, Tennessee!
Herbert Spencer is probably right in declining to
enter Parliament. Even if he could obtain from a
constituency consent to act always upon his private
Judgment land this has been done more than once
IN English history, it is not likely that he would
find himself at home in the role OF politician
Philosophers have made their mark IN the House OF
Commons occasionally, as for instance Mill ana
Grotc in recent times; but their Parliamentary
influence has never been. proportionate to their
external reputation and so no doubt it would be
could my nan Of
hone for a political career, while his cultivated
ndependence would revolt against the submissions
and compromises inscparable from party discipline
and practice and he would often find himself IN
| helpless minority where his sympathies and con-
victions were most closely engaged.
DR.. Bowdtch. of Boston, says that the statistics
! from California show that the use OF light wines
has not tended to promote temperance there. Inc
experience of California in this regard however Is
not mich in point for light wines have never yet
been generally adopted there and also because Tor
many wears the native wines were anything but
light The fact IS that the first effect of wine
making in California was to promote intemperance.
The early wines were strongly alcoholic, and scores
of families have been ruined by acquiring taste ior
these heavy and nwhoiesome yintages. 1t Is only
within the past few years that really Light wines
have been made in that State, and these have but
very recently begun 10 be consumed at home Even
now this consumption is almost confined to the re-
staurants. where California table claret commonly
served as q substitute for French rim ordpd0e. The
saloons, however, use very little California wIne'
though it is certain that much less whiskey drunk
on the Pacific Coast since the general introduction
of lager beer And it is probable that the increased
Use of beer instead of whskey both there and else
where has decided tendency to facilitate legsla-
ton looking to the suppression of the manufacture
and sale OF purely alcoholic liquors.