Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-04-19

one of the famous di~Appointments Of authors
WAS The lim!ted sale or Bentons 'Thrty Years
View" which the author expected would reach a
niiior copies. and go into every household as q
s1rt Of political bible. The work IS indeed Of stand
ard value and has had large sale. but the de-
Indnd never became universal. Mr.. Blaine'S pub
hsher now predicts sale Of million copies for
that gcItlemano work, the first volume of which
has now appeared. and the advance subscriptions
lend 9one c"-or 10 t claim If ii be true a. stated
that 2DufAb orders have been taken. This, OF
course, l. extraordinary circulation. hut never
thel@s Il does not eHttlc the book 20 rank IN pop
nlarltY with many other works published in our
tonE1'e, ~ III" enthusiastic publisher would have
Us believe Not to speak al the Bible there are
many books which far exceed circulation Of
1s's1, or Tor that matter. million copies The
great reading public Is made Up Of children
and Young people. and the works which find the
largest safes are those which appeal to them. Who
rlE tell, for instance, how many million copies
have been printed of "RolinS0n CrI>Oec7 For
grown peoples literature. Shakespeare no doubt
leads the aggregate sales The most popular polit
hal fctOn Is un4UeStOnably ~ ncle Toms cabin.
millions of copies Of which have been sold.
"Mother GooSc's Melodies have been Published in
COUNTLESS numbers, and 1t may he added that the
yearly edition OF that thrilling pubic document,
the Report 81 the Commissioner OF Agricuu ne, is
3i0oOO copies
Fierce competition has cut dow ocean passenger
far, t0 cost ar less than cost. and a, the can
''tr amps are ohi-ng The regular lines to take
freight af Tuinnssy cheap rates the Atlantic com
pani~, while doing large volume nj business, are
making little or no profit. Even the Cunard line
pass~1i d dividend lately. The companies have
opened the season this year with cut in Stecrace
yates VIII, must sim further reduce receipts An
enlirT1Ht can BOW buy Il ticket from Ireland 10 This
country iuT SIS. or by one line for S11- The saloon
fares are not yet touched hu they are already too
low for any proit except In the ease of a few
special ships which such f:tyorites that extra
prices can De charged for passage on them As the
cost ri The ocean passage may DE regarded as
tariff ON Immigrants, we thus find 10y the lowering
of the rate that '-hOrfzOntal reduction has gone
into operation already in one Important direction.
Ii must make the "Oldest Inh:,Oit ants rub their
ewes ami suspect their to learn that the board
OF directors OF the Washington monument are
actually making up the program for the exercises
ta M held on the completion of the work. II Is
1neee, almost Incredible; but here again truth IL
stranger than fiction.
Mr.. Walsh st-IuS To have procured, from the
property man OF some old English thcater. robe
foT te go Invisible" which The stage ghosts used to
Wear. He has the Saline facility with the mails,
however. that the mysterious NickerSOn and How
gate possess, and informs the President, through
this channel of communication, that he is willing
TO forward his documents, but prefers personally TO
stop away"
Two enineDtiy respectable solicitors Ia London.
who doubtless have sneered at loose American
III, rals In financial Matters have been found guilty
0i stealing s5'0n0 worth Of property belonging TO
their ar>tOcTair clients, In the shape real estate
title deeds which they pledged security for cash
loans They SIcculated with the money thus
obtained. and being uulUcky the crash came.
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Talnmany intends TO have something TO say
ebOur the democratic nomination, as may be gath
cred from the fact that four hundred rooms have
been engaged for the OF members of that society
during the democratic convention at Chicago.
The President held his own In the New York city
Primaries yesterday, securing almost unan-
NOUS delegation, though one or two of "the boys"
were defeated Through the state however. his
boom s,eIns 10 be waning. and his chance Of get