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THERE are now 500, 900 miles Of tele.

THERE are now 500, 900 miles Of tele.
graphic wires in the United States !;
Great Britain uses ia, 900 miles of lines;
Germany has 10000 miles and more
than 5000 miles of underground cable |;
British India has 1000 miles; FIR ance
10000; Belgium, $4,000; Spain, 25, 900;
Denmark, $1,000, and Norway 10000,
which are used chiefly in the manage
ment of her fisheries. The Emperor Of
China has allowed 1870 miles to be
built during the past year. Persia has
5000 miles and Egypt 5000. Russia has
100, 900 miles in use. Australia has 1S,.
600 and New Zealand 10000. South
America, with the exception Of trans
continental line from Valparaiso to
Buenos Ayres and short line between
Aspinwall and Panama, has no land
lines.
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her foot and her witness could leadi-
ly swear that she was over
"cightcen."
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Betting on a Sure Thing.

ado you see that man ahead of us?''
inquired a gentleman of reporter as
the two walked together ON Dearborn
Street. He pointed to a handsomely
dressed old man with an attractive face,
keen, black eyes, and closely cropped
gray whiskers, who came toward them.
"Yes," see him.
"Well, that man is over fifty years
DID,"
s'What of it?"
"Nothing, except that l viii bet you
that he is not fifty, and will win the
bet"
'How can you win if you take the
wrong side, according to your own
statement" m 81
..But l do not take the wrong side.
He is not fifty, he is sixty-five."
'That is a very childish joke" re-
marked the reporter.
II agree with you there" said his
companion, laughing. s.But that hand
some old man and an equally attractive
accomplish of half his age rake in at
least a hundred dollars in bets every
week by means of that silly trick. They
travel through the country to work their
little game. They pretend to be total
strangers. but they keep near each
other, and the accomplish manages to
get foolish young men to bet on the age
of the old fellow in the way have ex-
planned to you. Some people will bet
on anything, you know"
'How do they make the dupes give
up the money!"
at is always agreed that the old man
shall decide the bet and hold the stakes.
He always decides one way. Then both
the swindlers laugh SO heartily over the
pretended joke that the other fellow is
ashamed to kick. - Chicago Nes1s.
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In Articulo Mortis.

The approaching National Conven-
ton of the Republican party promises to
be distinguished by low intrigues and
tricky combinations such as would be q
disgrace to an ordinary ward caucus.
Nothing better is to be expected, how
ever, from a party which is now held
together merely by the desire of its
members to continue in the enjoyment
of the spoils of Office. When q political
organization has outlived the purpose
for which it came into existence and
finds no further occasion for the asser-
ton of its principles, it naturally falls
into the decay which for sometime has
been visibly the condition OF the Repub-
lican party. An inevitable consequence
of this State of political putrefaction is
the evolution of candidates for Office
devoid alike of principle and fitness.
They are as natural 10 that condition of
party as maggots to-a rotten carcass.
Arthur, Logan and Sherman, the three
prominent Republican candidates for the
Presidency. are the normal products of
the present putrescent and fy-blown
condition of the Republican organize
ton. They are all mere spoilsmen.
Neither of them ever attained public
position because either represented
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"No; buttons eyes twinkled-
81 told Sam PIummer. Squire Plum
mer's boy, what I'd seen, and where
I'd seen it, and he went after it with
his gun, and finished what the ammonia
had left; and Tom said twas no more'n
fair should have share of it, so he
gave me the skin, and ] sold it for
twelve dollars. So it paid better'n if
it had been Old Blacky, you see."
"Would you do it over again for as
much, if you had chance?"
"N-n-or" shaking his head. don't
believe / would, if / could help my
self. "-Sydney Dayre, in Golden Days
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Won't Suit the .sGrani Old Party. /"


No doubt considerable interest wifi
attach at this time to Mr.. MacVeagh' s
attempt in the Century to sketch the
ideal President 1.-THE President who
shall be nominated and elected this
year, but who probably will not be.
The article does not amount to much SO
far as original suggestions are con-
cerned. He simply outlines the duties
of the Presidential Office and the Cabi-
net positions, and the ideal President is
one who will discharge those duties to
the letter aud select Cabinet that will
look after everything within its province
with fidelity and efficiency equal to his
own. There is hardly a political job
Der in the country who would not claim
that he was working to bring about the
election of just such a man, though he
might have occasion 10 vince more
than once were he to follow the line of
discussion which Mr.. MacVeagh
adopts to lead up to his conclu-
sions. The paper is chiefly valuable as
an analysis of the condition of politics
and parties at the present time and a
kind of ethical review of the transitions
in political methods since the war. Here
he places himself on strictly independ-
ent ground and cuts both ways, but in
asmuch as the Republican party is, and
for long time has been in power, thus
furnishing the moro aggravated in
stances of corruption and deviation
from constitutional standards, that or
ganization quite naturally gets the
worst of it. HIS contempt for the pres
emf Administration from top to bottom
and indeed, for almost every National
Administration from the ASSASSINATION
of Lincoln to the pre- ent-except per-
haps that of which he was q factor-is
but thinly yelled and his specifications
of the qualifications and motives that
the President and his advisers Shout,
possess are so framed as to emphasize
the conspicuous lack of them
at present. We hardly think
Mr.. MacVeagh's review of the
situation or his high standard for the
ideal President will endear him espe-
c ally to the party with which he has
been so closely identified. Like Gen
eral Woodford ut fremont Temple, Mr..
MacVeagh has struck vein OF ener-
getic frankness, and we are glad that
he was able to evolve so much truth
with it, for the edification of the public,
ifnot of his immediate party assoc ates.
On his briefest summing up, the idea
President must conform to these re-
Governments: ''In the present state Of
affairs at Washington, he must not only
be an honest man, but he must be a cause
of honesty in others. He must really
hate every form of thievery, and must be
able to dedicate himself to the solemn
work of reforming not only the admin
istrative service of the National Govern.
ment, but the very atmosphere itself Of
the National capital. Four years Of
administration Of the National Govern
ment by such man would transform
the public life of America. "-BosIor
Post.
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1.-The story of Henry Meiggs," said
one OF his old acquaintance the other
day, 'sis almost pathetic in that part of
it where in his old age he sought to re-
pair the errors of his youth, especially
in reference to financial obligations.
One day young Long Islander, the son
of wealthy parents, was buying a
Christmas present for his mother at
Tiffany's, when he saw superb silver
set, the pieces of which bore the mono
gram H. M He learned that it had
been made at great cost for the Peru
Wan railroad contractor. He told at
home of the magnificence of the silver
set, and, as he presented his mother
with the single piece of silver which he
had purchased, said that he hoped to be
able some day to buy her as fine set
as that ordered by Henry Meiggs. 60
g IF Meiggs will pay me what he
owes me- said the father, you could
do it. I hold 81, 800 of his notes dated
in 1882. L bought quantity of lumber
for him down the Hudson River, and he
failed to pay me except in these notes,
and they proved worthless. We were
intimate friends until this transaction.
/ never told any one of the notes, be-
cause l did not want to further expose
one who had been nay friend
1.-The young man, without his fathers
knowledge. got hold of the notes and
wrote letter calculated to appeal to
Henry Meiggs in its references to the
friendship of his early life. Then he
sent the letter, with the notes enclosed,
through Duncan, Sherman & Co. to
Meiggs. In response there came from
the contractor a manly and affectionate
letter, enclosing draft for SIS, 200, be-
ing the principal and interest of the
debt.
'The father bought for his wife with
the money duplicate of Henry
Meiggs' silver service, and every Sun
day night this is used in memory of the
railroad king. The father and his son
sent a joint letter to Meiggs, relating
how they had disposed of the money,
and he wrote back asking for leave to
reimburse them for the present, but this
was declined.
"Whcn his son came to America he
was instructed by his father to look up
the Long Island acquaintances. and a
warm friendship followed between the
sons of the contractor and his old time
friend, whose loan had been repaid
after forty wears
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With an Eye to Economy.

A tinware peddler called at q house
on Fourth Avenue the other day to ex-
change some of his goods for paper
rags. The woman brought out sack
weighing ten or fifteen pounds and the
peddler held it up on bis spring scales
and announced:
"Dere vhas shust six pounds, SO help
me gracious"
Her husband came out at that moment
and replied that he would not accept
any such weight. He knew there were
at least ten pounds in the sack and he
didn't propose to be swindled.
my frendt, do You pellet / sheat
you?" asked the peddler.
"You would if you got the chance. "
1t was agreed that the man should
take the sack across TO the grocery and
weigh it for himself, but he was no
sooner out of sight than the peddler
drove off and did not stop for five
blocks. In the afternoon the man met
him down town and asked:
"Ah! you rascal, why didn't you wait
for me?"
"vash dere more ash six pounds?"
Eyes, sir-ten of emf
"vhell, dots Why / didn't wait. II
you pellet my scales yhas too light und
l pellet der grocery scales wash toe
heavy, we shtand und jaw und call
names md lose time. So I move en-
und make half dollar on some lead
pipe. Detroit Free Press.
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The Virginia Riots.

There have been many useless ex-
penditures of public funds by the
United States Senate at various times
in the investigation Of alleged outrages,
but the Danville investigation now GO
ing on at the Capitol caps the climax
in this line of folly.
That there was no just ground for in
reference by Congress, or by either
House of Congress, in a local disturb
ance occurring in a peaceful. law-abid-
ing State was evident from the facts
that transpired at the time of the homi-
cides at Danville.
When Mr.. Sherman permitted him.
self to be used as sponsor for Malone
and his following he must have known
that there was no real justification fol
the allegations on which he based his
resOlution-must have known it as well
as he now knows that the Senate con-
dennis his financering by vote of z
TO AZ.
There was a riot at Danvihe, as
everybody knows, and men were killed.
The canse of the sad tragedy was
political excitement, for which those
Senator's who bargained with Malone
in 1881, and the Administration which
has since supported Malone, are main
ly responsible.
For the course of Malone in Virginia,
after his trade in the Senate and his
adoption by the Administration, was
Just such a course as was almost sure to
bring on bloody collisions.
A calm survey of the history of Vir.
ginia politics since 1880 excites surprise
that riots have not happened in many
places. Given the same conditions in
Ohio or in Massachusetts,, and blood
would be just as likely to be shed in
either of those States as it was in Vir.
ginia.
The testimony that has been present
ed before a Senate committee during
the past week has thrown no new light
on the subject. There is not q particle
of evidence going to show conspiracy
or anything else than sudden outbreak
of passion such as has happened in
many States both North and South.
The conclusion that this investigation
will justify is that the General Govern
ment has no more call to NEEDLE with
the Danville riot than it has with any
of the murders and lynchings that hap
pen in Ohio. Minnesota, Iowa and Kan.
sas, as-well as in other States. Wash
iuOt0z Post
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Mr.. Stephen. w. Dorsey, instead of
being in jail, where it is supposed Mr..
Attorney General Brewster was very
anxious to put him, is in luck and pro-
poses to make . full hand in the next
Presidential campaign. 1t is even re-
ported that SO conscious is President
Arthur of his power that he has sent the
Hon. Richard Crowley to visit and pla-
cate him. )
We can assure Candidate Arthur and
Candidate Logan that Mr.. Dorsey is a
mighty hard man to fool, and equally
difficult to drive. 1t is quite possible
for him to pull as tractably as ever UNI
til the load reaches the brink of the
precipice, and then he is very likely to
kick it over. =
Candidate Arthur, before he became
President, was asked by Mr.. Dorsey to
examine the charges against him and
give his opinion as to MS guilt or inno-
cence. (This was at the time James
and MacVeagh were prosecuting him. }
Mr.. Arthur is reported by Mr.. Dorsey
to have done to and to have declared
that there was not scintilla of evidence
against him. Notwithstanding this,
wien he succeeded TO the Presidency he
zealously continued the prosecution.
We hardly think, therefore, that Mr..
Dorsey can be depended on for Candi-
date Arthur.
At the time the National Republican
Committee met here-a year or SO ago
Mr.. Dorsey was still under Brewster 8
harrow and generally in bad odor Sem
ator Logan, st a session of the commit
tee, offered a resolution praising Assist
ant Secretary Hooker very highly for
his efficient services during the cam
paign, but never mentioning Secretary
Dorscy-the man who had not only
bought Indiana, but had collected q
good deal of the money with which it
was purchased.
If Senator Logan could have heard
Mr.. Dorsey's remarks about him at that
time he would be slow to count him
among his supporters now.
We warn both of these gentlemen,
Candidate Arthur and Candidate Logan,
that Mr.. Dorsey keeps all the letters
written to him, as well as diary. and
that to use very slang phrase, .'he ID
bad man and carries q razor. ~
Washington Post.
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Republican Presidential Can lidatcs.

The Chicago ,News il at some pains
to find out what was very plain to most
observant persons on the very surface
of public opinion. 1t addressed large
number OF letters to prominent men in
the Republican party in the different
States asking If General Logan was
the first or second choice of his party
for the Presidential nomination. The
responses show a concurrence Of opin-
ion in all sections that the Illinois Sena
tor is neither the first nor the second
choice of Republicans. These letters,
however, drew forth casual expressions
of preference which are much more
significant than those respecting Gen.
eral Logan. Three men are named by
two-thirds of the correspondents as the
choice of their States-President Ar
thur. ex-Secretary Blaine and Senator
Edmunds. These gentlemen are given
the relative prominence indicated in the
order in which they are mentioned.
The conclusion to be fairly drawn from
the facts Is that neither will have ma
jority in the convention. A combine
ton will therefore be necessary or a
new man will have to be taken. A
combination on Mr.. Blaine is rendered
impracticable on account Of his prom
inence and the established enmities ex-
isting toward him. The Grant Conk-
ling element OF the party would never
go to Mr.. Blaine. and its ds-
taste for him is so pronounced that
his defeat before the people would be
feared even by those who would like to
see him President There is much moro
probability of a union of the friends of
Messrs. Arthur and Edmunds. though
the way to this sort of an alliance is not
without distractions. They are both
Eastern men. Mr.. Arthur is machine
politician and has many embarrassing
complications in his own Stale. He is
likewise heartily disliked, if not dis
trusted, by the Garfield faction in Ohio
and Indiana. These are some of the
reasons why he would not be available.
Senator Edmunds has fewer positive
drawbacks to prevent his nomination
than either of the others, and at the
same time he has fewer positive Gle
mcnts of popularity. He comes from a
small State. whose political status is
fixed and is not to be affected by any
honor done to one of its sons. He is Of
a cold and distant nature, and has
placed few of the leaders of his party
under obligations to him. There would
be less of the ingredients of hurrah
campaign in ticket with the frigid
Vermonter at the head of it than there
has been In any ticket ever offered by
the Republican party. Nevertheless,
of the three most prominent Republic
ans to-day Mr.. Edmunds appears to
stand with at least equal chances to any.
A good estimator of chances, however,
would doubtless take the field against
any favoritc. st. Louis Republican.
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scHOOL AND CHURCH.

The wealth of Roman Catholic re-,
lioious orders in France increased In
the last thirty-five years from So'oVV'-
900 to $l42, 507, 200.
in 40 colleges of this country
there are $1,000 students. VI tnis
number 1900 are church members
1 400 having joined during the past
collegiate year.-Chicdgo Jo~rnd'.
Elder Roberts, who has charge OF
the headquarters of the Mormon
Church at Chattanooga, states that
there are over sixty-five Mormon elders
engaged in proselytingin AL sections Of
the South, and the force will be doupieo
in May.-N Y Sun.
If the proportion of church mem
bers to the population is the measuto
of religion in a community, then Is
Richmond, Va, one of the most pious
cities in the country, more than tnird
of its inhabitants being enrolled as COM
municants in the fifty-three evangeil-
cal churches Of the city.-N Y. Times
Mrs. Joseph Cooke, of Boston, al
dressing the Women's Board OF MIS-
sions OF the Congregational church.
recently, spoke of the lack OF weil-edu-
Gated female missionaries for India anu
the East. She found that the writings
of infidels are much read in some OF the
large cities of India, and the mission
aries have to exert themselves to coun-
teract their injurious tendencies.-
Boston Herald.
The ladies of Palermo, N. T., COM
menced last summer to make quilt 10
raise money to repair their church. The
quilt was composed of twenty wheels.i
twenty ladies had each wheel to get
subscriptions. Persons paying hfty
cents had their names on the hub. Fer
sons paying ten cents had their names
on the spokes. The ladies in this way
have raised over 800, and the quilt has
been put together with the names OF the
subscribers on it.-Bufalo Express.
Among the adherents of the Nor.
mon Church in Utah are $4,000 OF
Scandinavian and Lutheran stock. A
special effort is being made to restore
them to Christianity. The Presby-
terians are working through Norwegian
eyangelists. The Methodists have APP
pointed Norwegian missionary to Salt
Lake, where he has erected a church
edifice and opened a school. The
Swedish Lutherans have sent a min
lister, who has gathered congregation.
and Danish Lutheran clergyman will
will soon commence operations.-Dea-
yer Tribune.
One of the most interesting and
valuable features of the John Hopkins
University library is the newspaper
bureau. A trained editor and staff of
assistants read all the representative
dailies, make superior articles upon
economic, political. social, educational,
legal and historical subjects. These
are afterward clipped. arranged in
newspaper budgets, kept in large en-
velopes or oblong boxes which are
marked with labels. The list Of sub
jects includes everything of value that
finds its way into the columns Of the
press. Bulletin boards are covered
daily with the best clippings from the
latest papers, arranged under the lead
ing heads of current topics.-Philadel-
| phid Press.