about wrongs and sighing over them never mended If Harper's Bazar had been a Prohibition EMINENT ADVOCATES IN ENGLAND. Chicago Inter-Ocean, Oct. 30.-The presence of Lady Somerset, who is the heiress of a line of earls and the mother of one of England's future dukes, will remind the people that the very best people are associated with the cause of temperance in Great Britain. The example of the rich and great thus busying themselves with the rescue of the nation from the evils of strong drink is, however, only set by the most thoughtful, unselfish, and humane-and consequently by the most estimable-members of the British aristocracy. It is well-known that the liquor interests receive the indorsement, and not a little of the patronage, of what may be termed the bucolic and fox-hunting peers; but the more intelligent and refined element among them have always advocated the cause of temperance, and have been also among the most active workers in the ranks. The late Earl Stanhope was one of the patrons of the British and Foreign Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, and Sir Henry Holland, Sir Walter Trevelyan, Mr. Samuel Gurney, M. P., Sir Thomas Bazley, Sir James Clark, Dr. Richardson, and Dr. Carpenter were among the founders of its offshoot, the new British and Foreign Temperance Society. In our own day Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Cardinal Manning, and the Bishops of London and of Cork have all been uncompromising opponents of the liquor interests. has descended to the actual championship of | modations at rates to suit individual purses, RUMSELLING CANDIDATES IN NEW YORK.The New York Evening Post (Oct 29), analyzing the nominations for the Legislature and the Board of Aldermen in New York City, found that, of the Assembly nominees, six were liquor-dealers and six had no occupation but politics, fourteen were lawyers, and three were clerks other occupations being represented by only one or two men each; and of the candidates for the Board of Aldermen fourteen were liquor-dealers, while no other occupation was represented by more than three individuals. MISCELLANEOUS. THE GIFT TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITU BANK EXAMINATIONS. . Chicago Tribune, Oct. 31.-The question has been asked before to-day, "Do Bank TION.-The munificent gift of $200,000 to the Examiners examine ?" The recent bank Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Thomas G. defalcation in New Orleans furnishes Hodgkins, of Setauket, N. Y., attests the strong ground for believing that some practical wisdom of that gentleman, who has of them do not. The defaulter, Garcia, not waited until his death-bed to disburse his says that during more than fifteen years beneficence, but has the satisfaction of seeing past the Louisiana National Bank held less his wealth applied in accordance with his money in its vaults than appeared on the books. wishes, without any legal or other questionThere was no manipulation of accounts, ing. In itself considered, it is one of the but simply an abstraction of bills. Several broadest-minded contributions to the cause of packages kept in the vaults were each made up science which the world has known. One-half of two bills of large denomination on the out- of the amount is "for the increase and difside, as facers, denominations on the inside, the amount be- of the other half is to be applied to the inand a lot of bills of small fusion of knowledge among men." The income ing marked as if all of them were large. The crease and diffusion of more exact knowledge sum by which the money in the vaults was in regard to the properties of atmospheric air thus" short " grew from $5,000 to $190,000 and its relation to the physical and intellectual LAW ENFORCEMENT: BEAUTIFUL SENTI- in the time mentioned. During all that while welfare of mankind. The whole human race MENTS FROM A RUM SHEET.-Oue of the sad the Bank Examiner had ostensibly been watch- is thus made a sharer in whatsoever benefits dest testimonies to the weakness of the law ing the bank, and every now and then looking may be developed in the science of pneuand to the prevalence of contempt for the into its affairs for the purpose of ascertaining matics, and in the consequential benefits that regular tribunals through which it operates, is if it was entitled to continue to do business and follow every advancement in physical knowlthe existance in any community of any organi- command the public confidence. It is fair to edge.—Philadelphia Record. zation of citizens, whether they dub themselves presume that not once in all that term did he Law and Order Leagues, Citizens' Associa-actually examine the contents of the bank THE FIRST GENERAL BOULANGER.-The tions, White Caps, or Vigilance Committees, vaults. He may have casually looked at the suicide of Boulanger at Brussels has recalled having for their object the enforcement of laws figures on the outside of the money packages, another General Boulanger, between whose by means outside the regular legal machinery but could hardly have done more than that, career and that of the General who died so for the suppression of disorder and the main- and when the discovery of fraud was made it recently there are points of similarity. The tenance of civil order in society. Lynch law was by an officer of the bank, not by the official first General Boulanger was born in Belgium; is one of the greatest demoraiizers that can examiner whose duty it is supposed to be to the second died there. Politics killed the first ever be inflicted on a community, Instead of ascertain at not very long intervals the finan- as well as the second. Both generals were of one hangman, there are hundreds, and famili- cial status of the institution and report thereon light complexion, and had c'ear blue eyes. arity with lawlessness breeds its usual conto his superiors at Washington. If such a Both displayed physical courage at the time of tempt for the slower but more exact and just barefaced fraud could for so long a time death-one in the cemetery of Ixelles, the other operations of constituted authority. Let all escape official detection, what security had the on the scaffold. Connected with events in the law be enforced through the regular channels, public against more ingenious deceptions in life of the first General were people who bore the and if any officer is recreant to his duties let the district the banks of which were ex- names of Bonnemain, Carnot, Ferry, Brisson, the citizens, in a constitutional manner, impeach amined" by this official? And are there in the Bourgeois, Borie, Cavaignac, Guyot, Lacroix, him or supplant him by a worthier man; but United States any more like him? If so, how Lafon, Saint-Martin, Martineau, all deputies it is never right to take the law into one's own much is a Government supervision worth as a to the Convention. It is hardly necessary to hands, or to form bands of citizens outside of guarantee against long-continued deliberate point out that persons bearing the same names the law to usurp the functions of the law. fraud? These are awkward questions, but perti- have been mixed up with events in the life of Happy and safe is that community that is free nent. If the Government had no more conscien- the second General, If the first General Boufrom this incubus upon order and sure incen- tious Bank Examiners than the one at New Or- langer (Servais-Baudouin) was not Minister of tive to outbursts of violence.-Midas Criterion leans it would be better to dispense with their War like the second, he was at least popular (Chicago), Oct. 31. services altogether, save to the taxpayers the enough in the capital to be named commandsums now paid to them in salaries, and leave ing-general of the armed force at Paris. IOWA'S GOVERNOR.-There are honest, con- the people to understand it is their own look- predecessors were Lafayette and Sauterre; his scientious Democrats who are very much dis-out if the bank proves rotten while thev con- successors Hanriot and Barras. In 1794, Sersatisfied with the attitude of their party in this tinue to confide in it as a sound one. Should vais Boulanger, with thirty-four others, was State on the liquor question. This class of not the Bank Examiners and their methods of accused in the Convention of conspiring against Democrats may not be in sympathy with the doing business be examined a little more close- the country. He was tried, convicted, and Republicans on the tariff and other questions ly than heretofore? condemned to be beheaded on the same day. of National policy, and it is quite likely they When he mounted the scaffold, the executioner will vote the Democratic Presidential ticket AGAINST EXTORTION AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. wished to take away the pipe which Boulanger next year; but they are not in sympathy with-Reputable hotel men and railroad officials was holding in his mouth. He refused to Governor Boies's course toward the saloon or have been holding cenferences in Chicago with part with his pipe and died while smoking, his unfortunate remarks in New York deroga- a view to preventing possible extortion in the without his face showing the slightest sign of tory of his State. He has not set a good exfear. He was only thirty-eight at his death ample as a citizen or as an executive. In his and left one child, a daughter, who married but ambitious desire to capture the liquor vote he died childless.-Le Petit Journal (Paris), Oct. 6. case of the World's Fair visitors. It is pro- His Index to Periodical Literature. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. BIOGRAPHICAL. Beecher (Mr.) As I Knew Him. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher. Second Paper. Bersier (Eugene). Prof. William C. Wilkinson. Homiletic Review, New York, Jackson (Stonewall). The Rev. Henry M. Field, D.D. Harper's, Nov., 11 pp. Lowell (James Russell). Lyceum, Dublin, Oct., 2 pp. Sketch of his life and notice of his writings. Marlowe (Christopher). Lyceum, Dublin, Oct., 2 pp. A general estimate of Max O'Rell," The Wife of.-Unknown Wives of Well-Known Men. Frederick Dolman. Ladies' Home Jour., Nov. With portrait. Menzel (Adolf).-A Great German Artist. With Illustrations of His Work. Carl Marr. Century, Nov., 9 pp. Illus. Michelangelo Buonarotti. (1474 1564). Italian Old Masters. W. J. Stillman. Century, Nov., 3 pp. Illus. Sketch of his life. Sherman (Rachel Ewing).-Clever Daughters of Clever Men. Alice Graham Lanigan. Ladies' Home Jour., Nov. With portrait. Trollope (Anthony). Louise Hamilton Murdock. Chaperone, Oct., 6 pp. With portrait. A favorable estimate of Trollope's work. EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AND ART. Art, What Are Americans Doing In? Francis D. Millet, Vice-Pres. of the Dickens (Charles), Letters of, to Wilkie Collins. Edited by Laurence Hutton. A Thanksgiving-Day Story. Hezekiah Butterworth. Harper's. Nov., 15 pp. Illus. Africa and the European Powers. Arthur Silva White, F.R.S.E., Sec'y to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Harper's, Nov., 7 pp. With map showing comparative value of African lands. Europe, Dangers to the Peace of. Prof. Edward A. Freeman. Forum, Nov., 15 pp. Points out what these dangers are. Farmers' Alliance (the), The Danger of. Senator John T. Morgan. Forum, Nov., 11 pp. Argues that the danger is the farmers' position on the silver question. Lobby (the) in Massachusetts, Regulation of. Josiah Quincy. Forum, Nov., 12 pp. Pennsylvania Politics, The Degradation of. Herbert Welsh. Forum, Nov., 16 PP. Prohibition and Labor, The True Politics for. Edwin C. Pierce. Arena, Nov., 7 pp. The point urged is that neither Prohibition nor Labor can win alone, Protection or Free Trade-Which? The Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. Arena, Nov., 18 pp. A general statement and discussion of the question from a Repub lican point of view. Truce (The Armed) of the Powers. William R. Thayer. Forum, Nov., 18 pp. A condemnation of Europe's military system. RELIGIOUS. "Actus Charitatis Pro Defunctis" (the), Pastors and. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Nov., 5 pp. Defines the Actus Heroicus Charatatis," and the privileges attached to this devotion. Death, The Law of. The Rev. F. P. Siegfried. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Nov., 13 PD. Treats of death as a universal phenomenon and law of nature. Dogmatists (the), The Doubters and. Prof. James T. Bixby, Ph.D. Arena, Nov., A paper on the present religious controversies. 12 pp. Future Life (A). Prof. Henry A. Mott, L.L.D. Menorah, Nov., 9 pp. The object of this article is to demonstrate that the present teachings of science are absolutely inconsistent with a belief in a future existence. Genesis, The Book of, Is it Authentic? The Rev. J. J Quinn. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Ministry (The), and Popular Education. Bishop John H. Vincent. Homiletic New Testament Symbolisms. Prof. S. P. Wait. Arenas Nov., 9 pp. Preaching (Serial). Prof. . O. Murray, D.D. Homiletic Review, New York, Nov. 6 pp. Desirable in moderation. "Rocks Ahead!" The Rev. Dr. Kohler. Menorah, Nov, 9 pp. A rejoiz.der to Eugene Cohn's Answer. America (South). A Sketch of the Geology of. Gustav Stemmann. American Bacteria, Cultivation of. Inoculations of Cultures. 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Mag., Nov., With detailed hydrographic chart of the ultimate source of the Mississippi River. 4 PP. North Pole (the), A New Plan for Reaching. Goldthwaite's Geograph. Mag., Peary's Expedition to North Greenland. Goldthwaite's Geograph. Mag., Nov., 4 PP. Illus. Tells what has been accomplished up to the time of Peary's accident. "Porro-Operation (the), The Morality of. The Rev. F. P. Dissez, S.S., D.D. Amer. Eccles. Rev., Nov., 9 pp. ration. Russell's Visit to St. Elias. Ralph S. Tarr. Goldthwaite's Geograph. Mag., Nov., 3 pp. States a few of the important facts brought out by Mr. Russell's exploScience, American Association for the Advancement of Section Anthropology. American Naturalist. Philadelphia, Oct., 7 pp. Spectroscopes for Astronomical Purposes, the Efficiency of, Elementary Principles Governing. Prof. James E. Keeler. Sidereal Messenger, Nov., 20 pp. Star-Distribution, A Further Note on. W. H. S. Monck. Sidereal Messenger, Nov.. 4 PP. Uterus (the), Backward Displacements of, Shall We Use the Uterine Sound to Correct? Clinton Cushing. Buffalo Med, and Surg. Jour., Nov., 3 pp. Vivisection. Frederick Gaertner. American Naturalist, Philadelphia, Oct., pp. Should be sanctioned under suitable regulations in the interests of humanity. SOCIOLOGICAL. Agriculture (A_Future). Le Roy Phillips. New England Magazine, Boston, Nov., 6 pp. Describes the state of Agriculture in A. D. 2000 as in its infancy, in spite of a century of progress. Divorce Colony (The Sioux Falls) and Some Noted Colonists. James Realf, Jr. Arena, Nov., 10 pp. With portraits. Food-Supply (The) of the Future. W. O. Atwater. Century, Nov., 11 pp. The writer prophesi sa reign of plenty. Gamblers, A Paradise of. Edgar Fawcett. Arena, Nov., 11 pp. A study of gambling in Wall Street. Hirsch Fund (The). The Hon. Myer S. Isaacs. Menorah, Nov., 5 pp. The policy and methods for the distribution of the fund. Oliphant (Laurence) and the Colonization of Palestine. M. 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The Chilian Government replies pertly and arrogantly to Minister Egan Upwards of 300 persons are killed, and great damage done, by an earthquake in Japan...... Another mutinous demonstration is made by the Third Battalion Grenadier Guards in barracks at Windsor......John Dillon is attacked with stones in the streets of Cork; measures are taken to quell possible election disturbances in that city. Thursday, October 29. Senator Quay enters suit for libel against the Pittsburgh Post, laying damages at $100.000, also criminal suits against editor and proprietor......The steamer Oliver Bierne is burned on the Mississippi; twenty lives reported lost...... The State Department receives from Minister Egan the reply of the Chilian Junta. The French passes the Bill imposing a duty on salted meats; the prohibition against American Pork is removed..... There is vicious fighting in Cork between the Parnellites and McCarthyites...... 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The instructions issued last March to the American naval squadron in Chilian waters are made public......Upwards of 200 more convicts are released by the miners in East Tennessee...... The President and Directors of the Maverick National Bank, Boston, are arrested on a criminal charge; Thomas P. Beal, President of the Second National Bank of Boston, is appointed receiver of the wrecked bank...... The Exposition at Augusta, Ga., is formally opened.....Senato. Quay enters a suit in trespass "(understood to be for damages fo. libel, against James Kerr, Chairman of the Democratic Campaign Committee in Pennsylvania......In New York City Dr. Mac. Cracken makes his first report as Chancellor of the City University......Senor Montt, the Chilian representative, leaves Washington for New Orleans. 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