New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-05

some OF tneSe Gays When carter udTTlSon HAS
leisure perhaps he will be good enough to tellu why
January Went by this year undecorated by one Of
the Iroquois Clubs banquets. Was the experience
of last year-but perhaps we have touched upon a
subject which Mr.. Harrison would prefer not to
talk about.
The commitment Of children by police justices to
charitable homes and institutions III this city is
subiect that ought to undergo thorough inquiry
Nearly ST. 300 900 is annually taken from the City
Treasury and the Excise Fund for the maintenance
of children committed in that way. In quite
number of cases investigated last year by the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 1T
was found that parents, to save expense to them
selves, have succeeded in getting their children
maintained in asylums at the cost of the city. One
man. Barnett Isaacs had his four children COM
mtted to institutions at yearly cost OF S44o TO
the city. and then he married again, and undertook
the support of a second wife. In another case aman
who had been only two months In this country had
his two children supported out of the City Treas
ury, and then married again. These cases merely
serve to illustrate the system. The Society for
tbe Prevention of Cruelty to Children has done a
good work in investigating of these cases. but
Il is clear that the necessity for this out
Law and the methods by which the money is in all
eases expended ought to be inquired into. Each
city authorities are required to pay over the money
without in any way being able to scrutinize or con-
troll its expenditure.
A letter of Roscoe Conkling's is being circulated
in which he quotes with unqualified approval this
remark of ZenOs: Tell your master that you saw
n gray-haired old man in Athens who knew enough
TO hold his tongue" We cannot now reoollect
when Zeno hourished. but it must have been after
the 9th of May, 1881.
During most of the day yesterday the stock mar
ket was strong with prices rather above those OF
Saturday, though at times there was such settings
s IN Indicate either free realIzations renewal
of the bearsh raids. The advance from the lowest
noint has now been nearly cents on the par value
averaging all active Stocks aud about per cent on
the market value, since January 81. On thatday,
the lowest prices of January were made, and forty
most active securities averaged $63 ~, against
S6s so at the close of last year for the same Stocks
On Saturday and again yesterday the average price
of the same stocks was about $40 rs. Itwas noted.
too, that there was unusual difficulty in buying
apv considerable amount of good railroad bonds,
and some close observers said it had not been as
hard to get bonds at any time for five years. This
if il remains at all the fact, would indicate ma
terial change In the prospect.
The grand old name of gentleman" has been
| "soiled with an ignoble use" once more. The
nrlze-6ghter Sullivan was Kissed at San Francisco
because he did not knock out" his opponent
| Whereupon he addressed the audience saying
| "Them that Kisses is oafers. / am a gentleman"
And he offered to slap the ear" of any loafer who
| vould be magnanimous enough to own that he had
| Kissed. We should like to have the views of Mr.
Matthew Arnold upon Mr. Sullivan's estimate Of
himself
We hone that the persons interested in the pass
ing of the international copyright bill will not
| make the mistake of accepting bad or an imper-
feet bill with the expectation OF amending 1t by
fresh legislation at some future time The great
est difficulty in the way of the reform Is to get the
attention of an Indifferent and unnstructed Con-
| qress, and whatever measure of relief the authors
obtain now they will have to put up with for long
time. If they go to Congress again with supple
| mentary bill they will be told that the National
! Legislature has already relieved them, and that
\ thev are unreasonable and Unsuitable. The Dor
| shemer bill contains, unless it has teen changed
| in committee. one highly Objectionable provision
| limiting foreign copyright TO the lifetime OF the
craptee,-a provision which, as we have shown,
| makes the measure absurd and useless. Unless
this fatal clause can he eliminated IT Ii better TO
let the bill fail, and to try again another day.
| On Monday the depletion of the gold reserve in
| the Treasury went on, but littemore rapidly than
| usual. The Treasury holding of lega-tenders de-
| creased Sll6132. which means of course, that IL
had nut out to be redeemed hereafter notes to that
| amount previously held In the Treasury. In like
manner &c put ont $i73,0i0 certificates more than
it took in, making increase OF $oS9,742 IN It's
Liabilities. But against this 1t increased Its STOCK