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Artificial Leather.

A still further addition 10 the numer.
GUS recent forms Of artificial leather Il
reported from Germany. Very finely
divided leather cuttings are mixed with
a solution OF glue and a certain quantity
Of tannic acid until a thick mass Il
formed, which is then pressed into any
required shape. To render it more i'm
pervious 70 damp, it is impregnatcd with
India rubber, glycerine and linseed oil,
and little sawdust l. added. The ma
terial becomes hard when dry, and il is
said 10 b. capable Of being used for
many purposes az a substitute for real
leather. The suppleness and Durability
Of the imitation. however, as compared
with the real article would APPEAR open
10 doubt.-New York Telegram
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A Story of Burton.

The following Is from Joseph Jeffer-
sons autobiography in The Century; II
have often thought that Mr.. Burton must
have had Irish blood in him, for he was
continually spreading the tail Of his coat
for a ight-I mean an intellectual fight,
as physically he was not pugnacious.
Quarrelsone persons who do not indulge
In pugilistic encounters are fond Of law
ruits; 1t is only another way Of having Il
out. and Burton must have spent for
tune in fees. His humor on the witness
stand was quite equal TO that Of Sam
Weller. On one occasion while the actor
was going through bankruptcy, an en-
inent lawyer in Philadelphia thought he
detected a desire on Burton's part 10
conceal some facts relative to q large
sum Of money that he had made during
The production Of the 'Naiad Queen
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became Of that money, sirY The coma
dian looked him straight In the face,
then riing in imitation Of an attorney,
be replied; The lawyers got H."
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cate under the statute for himself, and then
take some Of his scholars with him on his
bird-hunting and egg-hunting expeditions.
The Poem of a Young Mayor.

Young Mayor MANNING of the Albany
Argus is justly proud Of the distinction
which his journal enjoys as the dullest
newspaper published anywhere on earth. 1t
is a fine thing to be prominent, even in
dulness, and the general recognition OF the
ArgIs's supremacy in that respect must be
very gratifying to young Mr.. MANNING.
We now observe with pleasure that the
consciousness OF true merit and undisputed
position has inspired the editor of the Argus
to dlsport himself in poetry. He has COM
posed beautiful poem upon the subject OF
the Argus dulness, and heprints the verses
in large letters in the most conspicuous part
Of his newspaper, namely, in the blank space
at the northeast corner OF the first page,
alongside of tho principal headline:
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COL. BAIRD DECLINES.
And Brooklyn Republican Statesmen ne
new the Fight for tho PostmnstershIp.

And Brooklyn Republican Statesmen Re
new the Fight for tho PostmnstershIp.
Col. Andrew D. Baird has formally declined
his appointment as Postmaster OF Brooklyn.
and the long sluabbe over tho office among
the Republican statesmen OF that city will be
renewed with increased viGor. This is the let
ter OF declination which Col. Baird forwarded
to the President on Monday:
40 HkwES STRICT, BRooKLrN Juno H. 1880
The Tresfd,nt
Sir: have the honor cline the Office Of Post.
master Of the city of Brooklyn which have been
nominated By you and confirmed by the Senate.
believing 1t to be sincerely desired by those power
that should accept this place. | have endeayored
against my own inclination to so arrange my affairs
that could perform the duties OF the oce in manner
"HS nd I SSt s sTe@
such to be made H permit
Tue Posi- .iee Of ms great city is an importan.
vii Ing and able to devote to its duties his whole
Among the candidates already presented to your
business qpalncations any ono Of whom might Se So
81 ere seye nd
ponee should be chosen from tho eastern portion Of
Returning my thanks for the very high honor
fully yours upon me- AS S Wy b 51sRSo'
Col. ,Bard's action it is understood, has
ington, and especially to Secretary Tracy. who
Is credited with bringing about the appoint
ment- From first TO last Col. Baird has urged
the appointment OF William }. Taylor, his
close personal and political friend, and has
never sought the office for himself. He was
much chaRrined when he found that Mr. Tay-
lor's pull was not strong enough TO make him
Mr.. HendriX'S successor. and even his own ap-
pointment failed to reconcile him to the sirua-
ton. His big stone cutting business stood In the
be visited the Gilsey House on Monday he told
Secretary Tracy that he would have to de-
cline. Finally; however. through the persna-
sions o: the Secretary. he agreed to accept
on condition that his appointment OF one
OF two men as his deputy would be satisfactory
to the department. Secretary Tracy told him
that here would he no difficulty in the matter
and started for " Washington. fully assured that
Col Baird would accept Col. Baird soon found
that neither OF the men whom he referred to-
one OF whom was eX-Assemblyman Frank
Sperry, Collector .Erhardt's private secretary,
solved to decline
The other candidates are now hustling
around for the $4,000 year oflice. but It is
named,, MIR, Taylor will be supported by the
Republican Executive Committee. the Young
Republican Club will renew its fight for James
3. Case. who. 1t Is understood is Mr. Wanna
makers choice and Gen. James Jourdan and
Silas Is. butcher will support Henry BristoW
Frank Sperry has also many Influential friends
who think he would make an excellent sue.
cessor to Mr. Hendrix.
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THE BALTIMORE A HUMMER.
Return OF tho North Atlantic TeJaua dYou
I'm Route for Portland, Ne,

Return of tho North Atlantic TG5aua dvou.
En- Route for Portland. Nc.
The North Atlantic Squadron consisting OF
the steamers Baltimore Kearsarge. Dolphin,
and Galena' arrived yesterday from the South.
and anchored In the North River. between
Twenty-third and Forty-second Streets The
squadron left Key West on May 25. Tho DOL
phn will go into dry dock at the navy yard
The squadron will leave this port the latter
part Of this month to participate in the Fourth
OF July celebration at Portland. Ne. Tho Bal
timore will first 40 to Norfolk to complete her
battery by the addition OF two elRht-inch eupa
Rear Admiral Gherardl commando the
Schleyl Is, the flagship. Capt .schley is de-
lighted with the new cruiser. He thinks she
could keep up with the City Of Paris L she
were pushed. She made the run from Balu-
l9"re to Key Vest in four days. burning only
sixty tons OF coal Il day and making over six
teen knots will only two OF nor four boilers in
service, She Is capable OF logging twenty
tons and all her fires are burning
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ever. But as seal rookeries they formed a
very large part OF the estimated value OF
Alaska when that Territory was purchased
bv our Government It was then urged and
II proved to BIO true that by purchasing the
rights over these Pribylov Islands and the
Pribylov seal herd, the Government could
lease the islands and the right oil taking
the annual increase OF tho seals for money
enough to represent fair interest on the
price paid for Alaska. But the Islands with
out the seals would become absolutely
worthless; ard yet the testimony OF experts
Ia that II puachers are permitted to attack
the seals with firearms as they annually go
to and from the islands, the herd Will
either be externinated or will be driven
away, and probably TO islands which do not
belong TO the United States. The only other
existing resort of the fur eenl in Behring
Sea Is one Of much less Importance, group
OF islands owned by Russia, and leased to a
company and protected by her.
This is the American position. The Gov
eminent protects property which 1t mas
bought Mt large price, from such mo!esta-
ton by those who have paid nothing as
would not only render that property COM
mon spoils, but soon destroy it altogether
1t happens that this view is greatly strength
ened by considerations Of the common in
tercst OF all nations. The history OF seal
hunting shows that indiscriminate slaughter
OF the animals has always been followed by
their practical determination, even where
they have been as numerous as they now
are around the Pribylov Islands. Such re-
suit Is against the interests OF mankind. and
even particularly against the interest OF
Great Britain, because she derives large
income from these very Alaska furs, which
are sent to London for preparation and SALE
But II protection Is thus absolutely neces-
sary, the pecuniary fruits OF 1t are surely
due to the country which originally paid for
the seal rookeries, and which incurs large
annual expense in maintaining them. The
proposal that during the months while the
great seal herd is on the islands which 1t fire.
quents, or on the approaches to those islands
from the Aleutian chain, 1t shall be exempt
from attack In coming and going by private
vessels, with their wasteful shooting In the
open sea, is In the common interest.
1t sets up American Jurisdiction not
over the sea, but over the SEALS
and this. too, for the double reason that they
frequent islands belonging to our Govern
ment, and that this course is necessary to
preserve them for mankind. That British
vessels have no special grievance
Is clear from the fact that this policy OF pro-
lection has always been enforced by our
Government In favor OF It's lessees against
The great body OF our own citizens.
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OF the City of Rome, which ran aR ainst a
rock while slowly and carefully feeling her
way along Irish soundings. our esteemed con-
temporary, the Boston Journal. says:
THE disaster to the City OF be regarded
otherwise than as another warning to Captains and
companies to atop the perilouS sport OF racing
It will be doult to persuade tho public that tho Rome
would have been of her that fog II the Aura
mia had net Just passed her"
The next time that some careless chap OPENS
a steamers sea cock and sinks her at her pier
we may expect solemn chorus OF warnings
against the exemplifled danger OF ocean rae
ing. Yet We are confident that among them
the Boston Journals voice will NOT be heard
BY that time our usually Intelligent contempo-
rary will have recovered its natural eauilib-
rum and again talk sense.
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Help Out Chicagoi

Il appears that Chicago 10 very far from
being provided with the money required for
the Worlds Fair. Instead OF fifteen mill
lions, they have only got five millions, and
they are now actually asking Governor
FrFER TO call an extra session OF the Legis
lature to empower the inter-ooeanio mo
tropolis TO borrow five millions morel 1t is
not an encouraging outlook by any means.
In this moment Of distress, We appeal to
the Republican party to come forward and
help Chicago out New York was not allow
ed to have tho Fair, though we had the If
teen millions ready. simply because this Is a
Democratic State which the Republicans are
trying to get possession OF, and the ex-
penditure OF 80 much money here. and
the excitement that would be caused
by 80 great an event, might have raised the
public spirit to such point that the Demo-
cratic majority would have been unprece-
dented and the Democratic candidate would
have been fairly sure OF being elected. This
the Republicans were bound to prevent;
and that Is their motive for not letting New
York have the Fair.
On the other hand, they took 1t to Chicago
because Illinois Is Republican State, and
the expenditures and excitement connected
with Worlds Fair could be manipulated so
as to render the Republican majority In the
State overwhelming. Herein was the neoes-
sity which gave to Chicago what would
have been given to New York had the ordi-
nary principles o' business boon regarded.
Now. rs this is Republican Worlds Fair,
an as the most eminent Republican In the
country In the person Of CHAUNoBX NJ. De-
PEW has been taken out thore to glortfy the
opening Of Its can1"'i;l and to give
an intellectual splendor to these early
efforts OF Chicago in an enterprise
for which that city is so sadly I'M
prepared. why we say that the expenses
and the effort Of carrying through the I'M
dertaking should be borne by the Republic
cans. Let them come forward and put up
the additional millions that are needful.
There Is no reason why the LeRisla-
ture OF Illinois should be convened to
authorize Chicago to run deeper In
debt. There ought not to be any
loan In the case. Let the Republican
mlllionalres chip in handsomely and make
this Republican Worlds Fair bowling sue
cess. Then let them elect CHAUNoEY DEPEw
to the Presidency In 1884, and no patriotic |
American no matter what his politics, will |
shed one bitter tear over that result.
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The Argus IL n thing of beauty,
Aud a 10y forever ms went
IT'S really y quite solemn DUTY
To read IL Nhere'er you dwell

So far as we know, this Is first effort, but
it Is very credtable. 1t would be oreditable
even to al ordinarily dull young man. The
verses hitch little and the English is not Of
the best, but the main proposition is stated
with remarkable poetic force.
1t is, indeed solemn duty to read the
Albany Argus. Most people in Albany shirk
that duty. we regret to say. Those who
face it like men and plunge bravely into the
unfathomable duness that distinguishes
young Mr.. MANNINa's newspaper, find their
reward In an entirely new conception OF the
possibilities Of American journalism.
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tits positively restricted by Congress ITSELF or BY ne
states in particular by the EXPIRE" permnsfoH OF
| COnoresG"
Again, after reciting the powers OF the State
over the liquor trafflc. 1t says:
1T cannot Uthom the consent NJ con0res' expressed
or implied, regulate between its people ana
those o. the other States Union in order TO eject
Its end, however desirable such regulation might pe
In the latest decision, Leisy VS.. Hardin, the
Court says, upon the authority OF Tour prior
decisions cited: "A subject matter which has
been conllded exclusively to Congress 10y the
Constitution is not within the jurisdiction OF
the police rower OF tho state, unless placed
there ~ congressional action"
In the same case the Court says:
THAT ardent spirits distilled liquors ale and beerare
subjects OF exchange barter and trho like any other
commodity in which RICH: OF trRfc eNts'A ana are 20
recognized by the usagos of the commercial world the
laws OF Congress- and the decisions OF the courts Ia
not denied Being thus articles OF commerce, can a
state, IN The absence orteOsdon on the part n Congress-
prohibit their importation from abroad or from sister
State''
And again:
Tho conclusion follows that as the grant OF the
power TO regulate commerce among the States 20 far
as one Is required is exclusive the State
exercise that power Duhout the assent Qr COngreEt"
In the same opinion is the following:
NotWithstAnung II 10 not vested with supervisory
powers matters OF local administration tho re.
Spo'Sbty Is upon Congress- lar as tho regulation Of
inter state commerce is concerned 10 rCmOps The re
Strcto'S upon e STATE in de ang with imported articles
OF trade within the limits which have been mingled
with the common OF property therein II In It's
judgment tho end to be secured usihes and requires
such action"
And, finally. the Court said:
Under our decision in Bowman va O. and N. W
II r. Company. they CHE plainrs had tho right to i'm
port this boor into that State and in the Wow which
have expressed they had the right sell It, by which
act alone 1t would become mingled in tho common
or property within the State Up to that time hold
that In me dotence q Congregational pernSston TO do
so tho State had no power to interfere by seizure or
any action, in prohibition of importation and sale by
the foreign or nonresident importer : To con
code to astate the power to exclude directly ind
rectly articles so situated, WITHOUT Congregational
mission Ia to concede to a majority of the people of
state represented in the Legislature the power reg
ulate commerce between the StateS"
From all Of these utterances It is obvious
mat the supreme Court means to inform Con-
gress that 1t will sustain a grand National
State Option law. by which the prohibitory act
OF a State may be allowed to operate against
LIQUORS brought into the State as we'll as
against those manufactured at home The
question bids fair to become national one. and
to enter into the approaching elections for SEN
ators and Representatives in Congress.
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For many years DU CHAILLU's stories of
his travels In Africa were discredited. to large
extent. because he reported remarkable things
about gorilas and dwarfs. which many learned
men declined to believe. A few months ago
dwarfs like those he described were discovered
just north OF the region he visited. and other
recent explorations have completely relieved
DU CHAILLU from the undeserved stigma OF
drawing the long bow In his descriptions of
life In the African forests. Probably no IA
nous traveller Of recent times has suffered
moro than he from the illfounded incredulity
OF intelligent readers. and It must be partlcu-
larly gratifying TO him to SEQ that important
journals which had called him unreliable are
now admitting that the progress of knowledge
has justified his descriptions.
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The performance Of Mr.. BELMoNT's ami
NAL. Prince Royal, on the race track day be-
fore yesterday, shows what a substantial
justification there was for THE SUNS recent
movement toward getting the present
mile record wiped out The mile is
the actual yardstick for measuring the
running horse. whose development OF late
years has been such as to demand that
he should again be put under the standard.
that we may know conclusively how good
he has grown to be.
The last mile, in mile and a sixteenth race
on Wednesday, was covered by Prince Royal
In record time, 1893, with sufficient ease to
suggest that II he had been sent for the course
minus the sixteenth. he could have finished
close to level :39. In that case Ten Brock,
who still defies the world from the stable,
would have had to confess that there has
been progress in horsehesh since his day,
even though he ran in circle. There was
more than enough weight between his load
and Prince Royals to make their tests equal.
Let us have fair and direct trial at the
mile again, with strong enough induce
ments to bring out the most likely candi-
dates for success, and mako them stretch
themselves fully for the task. For pure in
terest in horsehesh there can be nothing
so attractive.