Year: 1879

Ill tne Onlnese prOnlp1Iory DAlA Ds- comes law it will have 8 serious effect on the Pacific Mail Steamship Compan- ies. Receiving no subsidy, and their freight rates being low, they depend up on the carrying of Chinamen to and from China for their existence. A Chinese laborer who has laid up little sum of money after three or four years of hard work in America, is exceedingly apt to spend part of it in making visit to his former home. This is particular ly noticeable short time previous to the Chinese New Year, for the steamers are then crowded, @ single vessel carrying sometimes 1,200 or more of these re- turning immigrants, who, after brief stay, usually come back again to this country. The cost of feeding Chinese passengers is very small they are packed in quarters between decks with little regard to comfort, and hence a large per cent. of the passage money is clear profit. But take this source of revenue away, and ships will have serious trouble in earning money enough to pay their running expenses.

 The people of Rouen are talking about an amusing case of attempted murder, which is to be tried by the tribunal in short time. At the end of last summer young married lady of good Norman society, while at the sea- side, was insulted by a young man whose assiduties she had repelled. She said nothing to her husband, but determined to take her revenge herself. Being a good swimmer, she waited one morning till the young man took his bath, when she swan up to him and gave him such a ducking that he was within an ace of drowning. The young man has now brought charge of attempt to murder against the lady, and the court will no doubt decide that he only got what he deserved.

 One of the most deplorable features of the business of those who engage in the circulation of vicious and obscene literature is the fact that they find their patrons among the youth of the coun- try. If 8 seminary issues a list of its pupils, the list is very soon in the hands of these wicked men and the parties whose names are given are soon supplied with circulars. In other cases they ad- vertise that any boy or girl who will send them the names of ten, fifteen or twenty of their young school compan- ions will have sent 8 pack of visiting cards with the address upon them. In this way thousands of names are fur nished and circulars sent. Institutions of learning have been warned not to print the names of their students, but they still continue to do it, and thus furnish the means to aid these harpies upon society. Few parents would be- .lieve that their sons and daughters were in possession of such literature, l" but the Society for the Suppression of Vice state that in one public school of g country village it was found that one- third of the girl pupils under fourteen years of age had obscene matter in their possession, and the contamination had been disseminated by them to the girls of two other public schools. In one block of the city of Boston, where four brown stone houses, occupied by five families, stood in row, it was found that the children of four families in three of the houses had similar matter in their possession. In twenty-three institutions of learning the foulest kind of books and pictures were found in possession of the students. And in every instance the parents and teachers were unaware of what was happening under their eyes. Whata terrible pic ture is here presented, and how careful every parent ought to be that their chil- dren are free from the influence of this terrible plague. No sentence, however severe, is too great punishment for those who engage in this terrible busi- ness.

 There is in Cheyenne woman who

 has had most eventful career. She was at one time noted belle of Kansas

 City, Mo-, and daughter of one of it's wealthiest families. The southern por- tion of the city bears the name of her uncle, now dead, while three of her uncles are to-day leading citizens in Jackson county, Mo. She was at one time one of the reigning bellies of Mis- souri, shining alternately at the State Capital at Jefferson City, St. Louis and Kansas City. Her love was won by a Surgeon in the army, and with her hus- band she studied surgery until she be- came proficient in the art. Her husband died, aud we next find her at the Red Cloud Agency, tutor among the Sioux Indians. Then as reigning queen of

 fashionable gambling palace in iron. tier town, where she sat behind hel

 table dealing what is familiarly known

 in English as " twenty-one. Again she

 appears as favorite serio-comic singer

 in well-known variety theatre. and

 lastly in the character she now has, ae

 the doctress of the secret organization

 known as the Black Hill Road Agents

 or highway robbers. As the gang has

 been broken up her occupation is gone