Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-07
OF CURRENT INTEREST.

At the opening of the new congress the
largest number of new faces will be seen
in the senate that has been seen at any one
time in the history of that body. The terms
of eighteen senators who have not been
reelected expire on March 5. The terms
of two others in the same position expire at
the same time ana the legislatures of their
states are now trying to choose their sue
cessOrs. The eighteen senators who end
their senatorial careers March ; are
| Messrs. Blackburn, blanchard, Brice.
Brown, Call Cameron. Dubois Gibson. Hill.
Irby. Palmer. PETER. Pugh, Sherman.
| Squire, Villas and VOORHEES,. New men have
! been chosen as successors to fifteen of
l them. Senator Sherman goes into the Cabi-
| net; the Florida legislature does not elect
| Il successor to Senator Call until April the
| Kentucky legislature is yet TO name the
| man who will follow Senator Blackburn
and Senators Mitchell of Oregon. and Kyle.
| of South Dakota, are in doubt, but they
may succeed themselves. The senate OF
March 1. 1881. up to this time, has held the
| record for new faces. That year fourteen
new senators were sworn in.
Senator Elkns. of West Virginia. tells a
| story of Judge Nathan Goff whom Mr..
| Mckinley desires TO make his attorney gen.
eral which is illustrative of the mans
| character. Judge Gof served in the civil
war and was incarcerated in Libby prison
| for four months. At the same time Con-
| federate spy named Armsey. caught within
the Union lines. was condemned to be shot.
The Confederates sent word to the Fed
| erals that if the spy Was executed iioffs
life would be taken in retaliation. Goff was
| informed that this would be done ana I'M
| medal ely wrote n letter TO President Lin
! coin, which is now on file in the war de-
partment. In it were these words: III
Armsey is guilty, he should be executed re-
gardless of the consequences TO me. The
life of single soldier should not stand in
the way of adherence to the great prin-
ciple"
The new British earl of Kinnoull. who by
the death of his blind Octogenarian father
has just been elevated to the house OF
lords. has behind him antecedents of so
questionable q character, not only in
Europe and in Egypt, buS also in the
United States, that he deserves TO be
classed among the very black sheep of the
| English aristOcraCy- In America he was
known as Colonel Archie Fitzroy Hay.
and spent considerable time at New
York. Newport and Lenox with blonde
woman whom he passed of as his wife. and
who introduced everywhere and cx-
tensively entertained as such. His social
career in the United States was brought to
, a sudden termination by the discovery that
his companion was the wife of one of his
, resimental comrades, Il Captain Hope, OF
, the BLACK Watch"
T. jefferson Coolidge, who 1t is said, has
been slated by Major Mckinley for a snug
berth abroad, has certain claims for con-
sideration which other candidates for dipIo-
matte preferment do not possess. As min
! lister TO France under the Harrison regime
l Mr.. Coolidge achieved the only distinctive
diplomatic triumph of that embassy in re-
cent years. He it was, Frank Pixley says,
l who rounded out Il diplomatic career of sin
: gular quietude by giving official dinner
4 which charmed even the blase Parisians.
: | and introduced to the world Loie Fuller. Il
i comely young woman, whoc in the staIs
r and stripes, gave such an exhibition of sal
e tatory high art as to set all Paris to talk
Y | ing.
G Word has been received in Washington
y from Senator Quay, who is at San Lucio.
| Fla. that he has undergone an operation
r to relieve the paralysis of the upper left
4 | eyelid, the dropping OF which has become
, | gradually more and more marked of late
q years. n Philadelphia surgeon went down
a to Florida to perform the operation. From
the dropping lid almond shaped section
: was cut and the edges of the wound were
a then brought together and sewed with silk
thread. If the operation has been success
q full the eye will present perfectly normal
General Roy Stone. chief of the road de-
e partment of Washington, makes the in
Il genious suggestion that schoolhoys be used
: to keep country roads in repair. He points
d out that as the chief roads of each county
l. are patrolled twice q day by schoolboys old
z enough to perform some labor upon them.
the experiment be made of keeping a few
IT tools at the schoolhouses, and instructinS
u the lads in removing stones, iillinG up ruts
q and holes. He recommends the organization
" of schoolboy road leagues and the award
It ing of small prizes for the best kept thor
: oughfares in each county.
st Mrs. Cleveland is taking much interest in
a having the White House in proper order
II for its new mistress which that lady will
10 view for the first time in her exalted sta
III tion on the eve of inauguration day. when
h. | she and President-elect Mckinley will be
If entertained at dinner by the President and
e. Mrs. Cleveland. There will be no luncheon
,e entertainment given by Mr.. Cleveland to
n | his successors on March 4. That function
v will give way TO the necessity of an early
a forming of the grand parade at the con-
h clusion of the official ceremonies at the
n capitol.
One generous, wise giver in Chicago. Day
X. Pearson, has placed six great institu-
tions of learning west of the Mississippi
upon their feet and assured their future by
creating permanent endowments of about
81 100 900. 4 few are yet incomplete, but the
spirit is abroad that insures them He
makes no EFFORT to do the entire work him.
self. but leads. and induces others TO enter
the same field.
During that row over the posting oi
pictures of Colonel Ingerson in d
New York church where revival
services were going on the angry
colonel dropped u term that promises
to stick among the ungodly. 1t seems that
" he was to lecture there the next night, but
the elders tore down his posters. The
colonel got even, though, for in several in
/ teryiews he was very careful to refer tc
the revival services as church vaude'
VILE"
Johann Strauss has written new
operetta called THE Goddess of Reason
the book by wilmer and Buchbnder. 1t Is
to be produced about the middle of Feb
ruary in Vienna, at the Theater an de-
Wien The title role represents the
Partisan woman who, at the time OF the
revolution. was carried through the streets
TO represent the Goddess of Reason.
The efficiency of the postal service wa!
exempIifed recently in a unique way. 4
gentleman living in New York addressed I
letter to Mark Twain. God Knows