The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-08-09
MEN AND THINGS.

The mystery which has hitherto surrounded the
personality OF the author OF Underground Russia
Is at last removed by the statement, recently made
upon good authority, that the prominent Nihilist
who writes under the psendonym OF "Stepniak is
Michael Dragomanoif, prolific writer ON historical
and political subjects.
Burdette says that man passing the farm on
which Rev. joseph Cook Is working this summer
heard deep, sonorous voice cry out like the call OF
prophet, " Abandon the direct progression to the
straight thitherward and deyate by nclinatOry and
aberrant dexfrO-gyratlon into dextral incidence"
II was Ultimate America saying "gee to his oxen.
The Boston Saturday Gazette does not second the
Idea that college graduates make Inferior newspaper
men, and mentious number who are employed on
newspapers In that city, aud who do good work.
This 10 all well enough far Boston Is concerned
but II Ii very questionable whether any other city
could snow the same record 1t may be that more
IL expected from the cOege-bred man than from
others In newspaper orices, but certain II Is that
taking the newspapers all over the country, the
average OF success and merit Is not In favor OF ihe
young gentlemen OF Harvard Yale, etc.-IhHd
Progress
There ID no longer any talk about forminga Junior
Union Club, principally OF the applicants who are
unable TO get into the old organization by OF
limited membership and the number being fulI. 1t
Is not generally known that II Leonard Jerome
could have Induced the LOtOs Club TO remove 10 his
building now occupied by the University Club, he
would have taken the lease OF It's house oil It's hands
and at once organized the Junior Union Club Oppo.
site tue parent organization, which could therefore
maintain watchful eye over lts OifsprnR,--h H.
World.
Mgr. Cape and the Marquis Of QueensDerTy have
been engaged In what the Chicago Herald calls
"newspaper slugging match " In San Francisco on
the subject OF agnostcism. Monselgneur has evil
IDENTIFY not studied the rules Of the ring according
Qdeensberry, for he puts In some telling blows
gardless OF where he hits, and they are good Illus
uation OF agnosticisD. for they must be forcbiy
experienced and have relative bearing the
phenomena OF word power. The great divine may
NOT be agnostic In theory but he IL some 1t In
practice. The Marquis doesn't pose well az an In
tellectual slugaer.-Boston Home Jou'HaL
Ground mas been purchased for the erection OF
cremaiory In Cincinnati Anornate stone building
Gs feet long by 70 feet In width, appropriately pre-
pared and decorated for the use intended, will be
erected. The furnace u designed 10 produce q heat
more Intense than the Semens steel furnace reduc-
ing human body OF average weight 10 ashes In
thirty minutes The substitution OF burning for
dinary burial has much TO recommend IT, ana the OBJ
jectlons against II are more sentimental than serl
pns. In some cities the cemeteries are so To-
Gated as 70 endanger the purity Of our wafer supply
The lapse OF lime only adds TO The danger which be-
comes more aud more dinlcult 10 deal with every
year.
A London expert tells me that OF old the world re-
ceiyed each year new diamonds OF about i25O,Oo0 Ia
value on the average. scddenly from South Africa
comes new supply, exceeding s2O,O0OOOO worth
each year for ten years In consequence, The price
Of diamonds has steadily fallen from sl5 TO 1913
carat. OF course, 1t Ia known that when they 20
over comparatively insignificant number OF car
ats diamonds take a leap Into the Thousands. Bra
zlian diamonds are very nne stones, but no stones
found there, In the South African diamond fields,
are are an lusrous aud beautiful as the gems In the
gala decorations OF East Indian princes and those
which have been obtained In India during tue past
century by conquest aud purchase These came
mainly from the mines Of GOiconda. The ex-Kbe-
dive OF Egypt Isnae Pasha Is said 10 have the neai
collection OF damOndh, Iubles aud efneralds Ia the
world, aggregatiDg several hundred thousand dol
lars In value. Large rubes OF a lnrd, lusr0us red
without bcnish ere scarcer than blk diamonds, and
are consequently more yaluabe.-The Ctizen.