The herald., 1896-12-29
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

When Captain Evans was at Vaipa-
| raiso some years ago, during the Bal
! maceda affair. he brought the bump
| tlous Chilian commandante of that place
to time by informing him that hell will
| smell of garlic tomorrow morning unless
| you do as I say"
| Mr.. Cleveland purchased lot in Buff
falo the other day. which he didn't want
| by way of helping out the seller, a Door
! woman with whom the president once
boarded. But Buffalo is growing and
MI. Cleveland has generally been lucky
in his real estate deals.
Rev. Dr. r. S. Macarthur If New
iork, VINO has had so much attention
from the newspapers, will give an ad-
oress on The Ideal Newspaper at con-
Ventlon or clergymen called to study the
subject next Monday at the Fourth ave-
nue. Presbyterial church. New York.
M. Loubet, president of the French
senate, is chairman Of the committee
which has charge of the erection of a
monument to the late Jules Simon
He reports that since the subscription
was opened last July 10000 francs has
oeen received. 1t is now the intention
OF the committee to open subscriptions
throughout the provinces
Herbert Spencer has at length COM
pleted the great work on which he has
been engaged for thirty-six years-a
system of synthetic philosophy. This
result is attained with the publication
ol the tnird volume of his Principles of
Sociology, which has just appeared. Bad
health has often delayed him, but a de-
termlned will, with incessant industry
mas at length enabled him to cover the
vast field of speculative thought.
Inc prosperity of Belgium under the
reign OF the by no means popular King
Leopold has been remarka BILE. In the
great mining and industrial belt of
which Liege is the center the values of
plant and output have been quadrupled
since he assembled the throne while the
commerce and trade of the great seaport
of Antwarp have been augmented more
than tenfold. And this is said to be di-
rectly due to the personal efforts of the
farsighted Belgium monarch.
Whistler, the painter, was once a
cadet at West Point. His old drawing
instructor. NV a well-known artist, was
asked not long ago If he could recall the
ability Of his pupils, the cadets, and par
ticularly If he remembered Whistler
Whistler" said he. lat once showed his
prediction for art. He had to be a
painter. Mr.. Grant-General Grant,
why, sir, he was the very poorest
draughtsman in the class"
Colonel d. w Hughes is a queer genius
who lives in Audrain county, Mo- He
has invented many contrivances of one
sort or another during the course of
his wandering career, the most import
ant of which is a orn-planting ma
chine Out of this ne made considerable
money, but his hopes of fortune are
now founded on an instrument which,
by means of X-rays, perhaps, will not
only reveal the culinary value of eggs,
but also the gender of their embryotic
occupants.
The London Times. with it's usual
accuracy about American affairs re-
Gently remarked: "It is not generally
known that the talented wife Of Will
lam Mckinley was called to the Amer
ican bar in 1898. and that she for q long
While enjoyed the distinction of being
the only lady of the legal profession who
pleaded on behalf of clients before her
own husband. who was the Judge of the
circuit court in which she practices"
The Times has mixed Mrs. Mckinley
with Mrs. Bryan.