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Tho Hon. jon BAILEY Of Texas shone
over Pittsburs the othor day. and tho Dispatch
Of that town Imprisoned . ray or two Of his
briRhtness:
"He was faultlessly attired In semi evening dress-
OF course. O full dress would be out OF the question
with him. His vest was q compromise between an
ultra full dress pattern and an ordinary dssign. Ho
wore . Prince Albert coat"
"Semi-evcning dress" is excellent good.
Tho reporter saw the Hon. JOE ALLEYS daz.
cling savanna Of shirt bosom and thought Of
evening. Then he remembered that in the
bright lexicon Of tho Hon. JOE BAILEY there Is
no such word as evening, and he compromised
on semi-evening. That shirt bosom 10 4 feet IL
inches by 8 foot 8 inches, and is built to order.
There isn't another like 1t in oil Gainesville
says tho owner proudly; and yet Texas Is full Of
immense tracts OF shirtfront.
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Tho Next Legislature.

The one hundred and twenty-hrst session
Of the New York Legislature is about to
begin at Albany. The Assembly, Re.
publican by a majority of O, a major.
ity sufficient for the purposes of or.
ganization and control. will be asso-
clated as a law-making body with a Senate
overwhelmingly Republican, having, in
deed, a two.thirds majority. The Senate
will be made up of SO Republicans N IA
Democrats, whereas the Assembly will
consist of 70 organization Republicans and
Of 70 Democrats and malcontent Repub-
licans or Cts.
Heretofore, Senators rave been elected In
alternate years, and the members of the
upper branch Of the State Legislature have,
therefore, been elected either coincidently
with the Assemblymen with whom they
serve, or in the year preceding. The next
Legislature, however, will be made up OF
SO Senators chosen In 1898, and 100 As.
semblymcn chosen In 1897.
The insuflclency of the Republican ma.
jority in the Assembly, IL it may be so re.
garded in comparison with the unusual
and indeed abnormal Republican majority
in the Senate, is important In a political
sense on account of that part of the State
Constitution, Article XII, section Q, which
provides for the acceptance or rejection OF
local measures in cities of the first class by
the Mayor thereof.
After a there will be only two cities
OF the first class in the State, namely, New
York and Buffalo; and probably there will
be much supplemental legislation, wholly
applicable to New York, the acceptance OF
rejection of which, in the arst place, will
devolve upon the Mayor Of this town, an
organization Democrat, succeeding in office
an anti-organization Republican. The
Constitution provides that where. for any
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The Boston Globe, which took a broad,
general, and silent attitude In regard to tho
Boston municipal election until the votes were
counted. puts forward an original and q some
what surprising theory to account for the sue
cess of JOSIAH QUINCY:
boston is both Intellectual and sentimental. She
likes to see these qualities illustrated in the papers
and speeches OF her Chief Magistrate. and always
has given her preference TO ths candidate for tho
hayoraity best lifted to realize this ideal. It IL q
generous emotion. honoring the people who possess
It ami any public man who may arouse it,"
Boston is sentimental and JOSIAH QUINCY Is
Intellectual. but what arc tho sentimental
s'rcnks and passages In the temperament or tho
writings and speeches OF JOSIAH QUINoYi We
never heard that that remarkably calm young
man was in the habit of nursing gaZelles. He
would be able to control his emotions oven II
TON RILEY should send him a slip OF the Riley
set OF curls. No; Boston loves JOSIAH because
his nature Is the reverse Of her own. For him
no pomp OF pedantry. no easy weeping. no
yearnine for the moon or s~poutinS poetry before
a cheval glass. He is an unexoited and unex-
citable fact.
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Some Tricks or tho Typos.
From Costa Typographical.

FROM Gesfd Typographical.
"What is this T. exclaimed a compositor whO
was expecting to be promoted to a proofreader-
ship shortly. sermons in stones. books in tho
running brooks!' Impossible! He means. of
course, Sermons In books md stones In tho
running brooks" And a new reading of
Shakespeare appeared next morning.
A sporting compositor thought Cricket ON
the Hearth" must be a slip of tho pen. lie made
it +" Cricket on tho Heath"
A writer on angling had the JOY Of seeing his
sentence, The young salmon arc beginning to
to SWIM" another thoughtful composition hav-
ing been Mt work.
Happier was tho transformation of the SON
tencc; Bring mo my togt" into Bring mo my
There is a less subtle vein of humor in the
story Of the editor who wrote during nm election.
The battle Is now opened" The eompositor
side said, Of course. that they had suspected 10
from the first.
1t was by a similar mistake that the late Ba.
ker Pnsha. who might fairly be described as G
"battle.bcarred veteran" was called a battle
scared, veteran" the libel being by no meano
officer n " bottle-scarrcd veteran"
Owing to an error in printing tho announce.
ment, - sailor, going 10 sea. HIS wife desires
the prayers of the congregation became "A
sailor going to see his wife deserves :he prayers
o fthc congregation"
The statement. "Messrs. IS preserves cam
not be beaten" was rather Initiated as an I'D.
word.
Innocently gay was the newspaper report
which said that the London express had knocked
down a cow and cut it into calves"
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house on Broadway. He might have given
out that he had tramped through the
Armenian country In the disguise Of q deaf
and dumb Karaoeur. II Immediately on
his return he had published q circum-
stantial and detailed account of what hap.
pened In particular localities, with tho
necessary padding from authentic writings,
compiled in the MISUNDERSTANDING air
of the Michigan pine woods, the Sultan
would have trembled and perhaps shown
signs OF contrition and repentance.
Every one, Of course, will be pleased to
hear that the worthy and reverend Doctor
has once more emerged from darkest Arme.
MIA whole In body and with q digestion only
redoubtable MoUssA Bey, who had a way
Of cutting of m~issionaries' ears and roast
ing Armenians that earned him n world
wide reputation, long g left Bitlis for
exile at Taft, in Arabia, or for the bottom
OF the Sea OF Marmora, It Is not precisely
known which. So there is reasonable GER.
tainty that we shall see the intrepid Doctor
once more and read his sermons again, IL
30 disposed. II there has been too great a
strain on his stomach, caused by the end
less courses OF successive Turkish banquets,
where the object Of the entertainer is to
surprise his honored guest by dishes fol-
lowing each other, startling In their con.
tents and contrasts, sweets and sours, pud-
dings and soups, roasts, boiled and baked
meats, according to the caprice Of the cook,
there are many well-known restoratives by
the use Of which he may recover his pris-
tine American appetite.
In all seriousness, IL Is difficult to see
what the particular object is that 1t was
intended to promote by sending DR.. HEP
oRT to Armenia, unless 1t was to throw
dust in the eyes Of somebody while securing
an advertisement for somebody else. 1t
will be fortunate for the Armenian people
II fresh trouble does not arise for them out
character of the report" made, the Turks
will be assured that It has been favorable
to them, and they will derive a satisfaction
from 1t that may react on the unfortunate
Armenians.
If the object Of sending DR.. HEPwoRTH
to Armenia was to convince the world that
the American missionaries had nothing to
do with the tactics Of the Armenian revo-
lutionists, and disapproved of them, it was
entirely unnecessary. It was equally use.
less and somewhat srotesque to send a man
all that distance from his flreside home in
America that he might indite O letter on
the immortality Of killing tens Of thousands
Of innocent persons because q handful of
desperate Anarchists had preached rebellion
against the Sultan.
Nothing new has been added to what 10
already known, and IL any evidence was
needed to fix the responsibility for the
atrocious crimes Of two years ago in Asia
Minor. it was not among the snow.clad
mountains of Armenia that 1t had to be
looked for, but inside the bl~ood.stained
portals Of the Yildiz Kiosk.
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Tho ..Encors, and vo, v,.us.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE suS-sir: THE Sun has done
80 much to chock the "cncore" abuse at the Sunday
night concerts at the Metropolitan Opera House that
thousands will rise up and call you blessed n you
will mulZle thos" idiots in all parta OF the house who
insist upon breaking in on the nnal high note Of the
sopranos to clap hands or yell bravo" These
idiots ara in their glory when Melba sings Handel's
nightingale song Or sembrich gives al voce di
PrimAvera.' In each case the singer builds her way
up gIoriously to tho last note. and we wait for that
exquisite sensation that comes from feeling an i'm.
monse auditorium nlled with her voice. But We
wait In vain.
Looking over my old programmes. md Ihaye
hsard M+lba sing her song eight times. and sembrich
here on four DC asions. and never yet has thu last not~
failed OF destruction by the III tined applause OF tho
Ignorant or incon'idsrate. Is there no rsm dy for
TINS snort OF carrying a gun and bringing down these
too preyinus' idiots. who are undoubtedly own
cou. ms OF tn encore hends? In PBris, London, Rer.
lin, Vienna, and Milan such premature pIaudits ars
never heard. Why must New York be peculiar in this
display OF bad manners WFH
NEW York. Dec. FL, 1877.
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Jocostty.

The reports Of some of the speeches at the
New England dinner on Wednesday, and
more especially that of the opening speech
by Mr.. BEAMAN, the President ofthe society,
awaken in the reader o feeling Of sympathy
for the orators because of the hardship to
which they are subjected In the publication
of their persiflage and somewhat forced
attempts at wit and humor. Such oratori-
cal syllabub is apt to become rather fat
when 1t Is printed in cold type the next
morning for the information of people who
were not In the exhilarated company to
which 1t was addressed.
Undoubtedly, the prime requisite In an
after.dinner speech 10 that 1t shall not be
dull. First Of all, the speaker must not be
a bore, and, other things being equal, his
remarks, accordingly, must not be prolix.
More especially is this the case when he
soul Of wit. Nor does the humor beft the
dignity Of IN important anniversary din
ner like that with which the New England
Society commemorate the landing Of the
Pilgrims, unless, as SIDNEY SMITH required,
1t is manffestly the play OF a rich and seri.
Gus mind; Tor, as HORNE expressed 1t, "wit
without wisdom is salt without meat"
OF late years, however, there has devel.
oped a variety of after-dinner speakers
whose special function is to be funny
solely for the sake Of the fun, clowns pure
and simple, and they have imitators in men
whose deficiency in the sense of humor 10
painfully apparent. Their end is served II
they provoke laughter, and 1t is easily &C.
cononlichad t,naar tha rN,,p,etapo ~
conviviality. For this reason, the reader
Of the reports of such speeches in the next
mornings paper Is sometimes puzzled to
account for the daughter" and "immod.
crate laughter" parenthetically recorded.
He has not tho help Of champagne to en-.
able him to see the reason for 1t.
Is it not questionable II the chatting,
~Jocular, and perfunctorily funny after-din-
ner speech has not gradually been carried
to an extreme which would make its abate-
ment grateful to the diners themselves
Mr.. JOSEPH II. CHoATE may be described as
it's originator, and he wa wonderfully
clever at 1t, but initiation has tended to de.
prive it of the grace which alone gives it It's
charm, so that the ordeal of the funny speech
sometimes becomes painful both for the
man who has to make it and those who have
to listen to it with polite appreciation. Nor
does the attempt to be funny or smart
always comport with the dignity accredited
to the speaker by the public imagination
or belonging to his official consequence.
He may get down too near to the clown in
his eagerness to provoke laughter. II, then,
a spice of low comedy is requisite to the
completeness Of the entertainment as a foil
to serious oratory, why would it not be
better to employ professional testers to
supply the a~rticle3 They can beat the
amateur comedians, the Bishops, Judges,
lawyers, and bank Presidents, and give
them odds besides.
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The Explorer OF Armenia.

Since the days when MARCO Polo and
Sir JOHN Vaudeville gave to q delighted
world the account of their travels and ad.
ventures in strange lands and among un.
couth people, there has been nothing to
compare with the letters of the Rev. DR.. TAR.
TARIN HEPwoRTH, now rapidly careering
through Asia Minor OF an inquiry into the
two-year-old Armenian massacres. and per.
sonally conducted by a Levantine drag.
oman and some f~unctionaries of the Palace
at Constantinople.
There Is in the worthy gentleman's writ
ings the rapturous nalvete of youth, with
the touch here and there of l%naccuracy that,
like the crooked lines in the Parthenon,
enhances rather han dctracts from tho
general charm of the ensemble. It is a
mere error in detail to say that Erzeroum
Is on the highway Of travel between Bag
dad and Co~nstantinople, which 1t is not
and 1t was an egotistical blunder that may
be pardoned the Doctor when he repre-.
sented himself as the first European or
American who had ever penetrated to
those savage regions.
The fact that a French traveller. Prof.
CHANTRE, and his wife, to mention only
those two, visited Bitlis and passed over
the route from Aleppo on their way to
Mount Ararat, in the Russian Transcau-
casus, in 1891, the same route that DR..
HEPwoRTH is taking from Bitlis on his
way back to civilization, appears to have
been unknown to him as also the fact that
Prof. CHANTRE wrote a very interesting
book on his travels, with excellent ~illustra.
tions. Hat DR.. HEPwoRTH consulted this
work in connection with a good map of the
region, and had he spent a few hours in
studying the Blue Books on Armenia,
issued by the British Government at tho
time OF the massacres, he would have OBJ.
tanned q far more accurate idea OF what
happened than he can derive now with such
an escort as accompanies him.
The reverend Doctor had only to take
his materials with him and disappear for
two months, say, In the pine forests OF
Michigan, and he might nave returned
with some Oriental costumes and a yata.
CHAN and tchibouk, and a pound or two Of
Persian tumbeki, such as composes the
bulk of the merchandise that passes on
camels' backs between Tsbris and Trebi.
zonde, via ErEeroum, all of which might
have been purchased In any Oriental ware
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form upon which Mr.. JOHN e. RED.
MoND stands. and there IL, therefore,
no longer any reason why the schism
in tho Nationalist party should not
be healed. There is nj reason to sup
pose that Mr.. 7. HEALY, who, for some
time, has been regarded as the leader Of a
third faction, would offer the slightest op.
position to q constitution Of the Nation
alist party In accordance with Mr.. PAR
NELL's views. We do not assert that per-
sonal rivalries will, all at once, become ex.
tinct, but we do say that no movable pre-
text for discord remains, and, therefore,
We look upon Nationalist reunion az tho
inevitable outcome OF the near future.
II tho Nationalist, at the next general
election, shall once moro constitute q
solid column, comprising eighty-six mem.
hers of Parliament, they will again be able,
In all likelihood, to dictate terms to one Of
the political parties In Great Britain. The
enormous preponderance acquired by the
Unionists in 1886, and again in 1895, is
political phenomenon never before wit
messed in the United Kingdom since the
first Reform Parliament met In 1888, and
not likely to occur again with the present
generation. It will be extraordinary II,
for the third time, q House Of Commons
shall be elected In which eighty-six Irish
Nationalist would not command the bal
ance Of power. All they need. In order to
become a decisive factor, 10 reunion. and
this seems near at hand, In view Of tho Of
fensive action taken by the Liberal caucus,
and Of Mr.. DILLoN's rosentful declaration.
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The Acquiescenoe OF Japan.

Almost at the eleventh hour, yet not too
late to set herself right on the record. and
to be rewarded by the good will of our
Washington, abandons any further protest
against the annexation of Hawaii to the
United, States.
The Mikado's Government is wise In thus
bowling gracefully to the inevitable. It
would have been strange II, when even
land-grabbing nations like England,
France, and Germany, countries that have
vast commercial interests in the Pacific,
made no objection to our admission of Ha-
wall, Japan had remained to the end in a
false position. 1t has been clear from the
first that her protest did not weaken by a
solitary vote the chances of the annexation
measure In Congress, and that, in fact, 1t
only suggested the dangers that Hawaii
might u from immigration and other
disputes with Japan, so long as she re-
manned out Of the Union.
Minister ToRU HosHI would like to have,
as a sequence of his country's change of at
titude, assurances that Japan's rights in
Hawaii will be protected after annexation.
But, in the nature of the case, that cannot
be made an element of the annexation meas.
ure. Assurances of a general character were
promptly given by Secretary SHERMAN, and
President MCKINLEY repeated and empha-
sized them. While Hawaii's treaties with
Japan must inevitably lapse by the extinc.
ton of her sovereignty, and while any new
treaties with Japan relating to her subjects
in Hawaii must be based on the policy OF
the United States as a whole, yet it is Ger.
tain that vested rights will be protected.
Our Arst business, however, is to annex
Hawaii, and in the fundamental act of an
nexation no affairs of q third party can be
introduced.
We think, however, that Japan's courte.
GUS and friendly course, just taken, will in.
crease the disposition of Congress to deal
fairly with her in her Hawaiian relations.
At all events, she has put herself right on
the record, and Hawaii will come In with.
out a protest from any nation In the world.
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BRITISH COERCION IN CANADA.
a Censorship Established In tho Dominion Post
once for ..seditiousn Matter.

a Censorship EstabIishea In the Dominion Post
Onlco for .'seditious" Matter.
MONTREAL, Dec. 22.-Instructions have been
issued to Postmastcrs In the Dominion by tho
Government of which Sir Wilfrid Laurier is
Premier. notifying them that "seditious'' mat.
ter, or matter tending to excite resistance to
lawful authority and established Government,
is from this time forward prohibited circulation
in Canada. and they are told that where any
doubt exists In their minds as to tho character
or degree of sedition in any document or paper
passing through their hands they are to submit
the matter to the Postmaster.G General at Ottawa.
According to this edict Of monarchical rule in
Canada. no one may discuss or circulate in print
or writing opinions as to whether annexation to
this country or independence is tho better policy
for the Canadian people in their own interests.
It will come under the head Of seditious matter
that 10 to be conflscated; and the writer or
sender or receiver may. under the law passed
during tho time of the late Sir John A. Mac
donald. be arrested, tried. and mado to suffer
Imprisonment.
1t would seem from private information on
the subject that this application Of the English
law Of sedition that is being 40 vigorously ad.
ministered In British India Is made in Canada
In consequence Of the effects produced by some
circulars published by n republican committee
In Canada, some of which found their way to
India and were said to have stimulated tho
feelings of disaffection toward the British Gov
eminent that already existed there. The British
Government, it would appear, has requested the
Canadian Government to take steps to suppress
public discussion in any way Of such seditious
subjects rs annexation, independence. or COM
mercial union with this country. as tending to
disturb and create discomfort in other British
colonies and dependencies. The present Cana
dian Government and its Premier being, as tho
latter has said with emphasis, British to the
core" they have fastened to comply with the
request of the suZerain power.
1t results from this that we may expect at any
time to see coercion brought into play in Can
ada for the suppression OF political opinions. and
possible disturbances arising out of 1t, il Cana
dams in any numbers should be of tho opinion
that 1t is the interest of themselves and the
country to sever political connections with a
State on tho other side of tho Atlantic. There
seems. after all, but a slight difference between
British rule and tho practice In dcspotically
governed countries where the Governments do
the political thinking for the people.
The next thing in order will be the confsca-
ton Of THE SUN in the Canadian Post Offices,
for suggesting to the Canadian people that they
can better their condition by linking their
fortunes with those Of the republic, and in be-
coming integrally an American people.
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They Dent waut the East Rivsr Park Trnns
rsrr,ea nnts n G-yunnasium.

A written protest, Of which tho following IL .
copy, has boon sent to Mayor Strong:
"SIR: At q meeting of the Executive Commit
teo OF tho House and Real Estate Owners Assoc
citation OF the Twelfth and Nineteenth wards in
the city OF New York, held last evening, It was
unanimously resolved that an emphatic public
protest be made by said association against the
conversion Of tho East River Park or any sub
~stantiai portion thereof Into q public gymnasium,
a. contemplated by the Park Board. according
to reports contained In the public press.
"onc.half OF the cost Of acquiring and laying
out this park, about S34l. 900. was ASSESSED
directly upon property in the immediate vicin-
ity oft. During their last session both branches
Of Oro ,hs LeF sSa, ,SC s of sh,s Of si ri, p psssssm an f e
il tho InstSnse Of every small psrik but this e
B@GcSSssSS'tss p 81 tho sso p SRls i PSissi'i prInsipsslly to The
This being the only small park discriminated
against, the interests, OF those who paid Tor II
'" %Tsi ID park % i' should Be- used only for tho pur-
poses for which IL was Intended, namely. ass
public park. to DO snioysd BY, BY 4; Al ~ who ,o care :s e
usually crowded 70 its Utmost capacity. II the
pproSSSbiii,iResss arc III Il would al at the same time
become the rendezvous OF . very updssirabiS
would DO essentially changed and .another
breathing spot would be lost to those who need
II most, especially in this particularly thickly
populated portion Of the city.
Again. the. cost Of maintaining suoh . gym-
nasium would bo considerable, for, besides the
salaries OF directors. attendants and caretakers,
and the cost of replacing apparatus destroyed
BY exposure to the elements, must be considered
probably be subjected by reason Of personal In
5uries sustained through defective apparatus
and negligence OF employees. All this must
necessarily be borne by the taxpayers. and the
burdene Of owning property. which are now al
most iutolorable, would become still greater.
Sufficient athletic grounds and RymnasiumD
now exist In tho city. The East River Park, 40
all events. should not be despoiled Of Its useful
ness. Yours respectfully. +
"CoNRAp HARRIs, President.e