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5p. TEE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE SUNDAY, NQVtiftBfiR 18, 1883. 6 SALAD FOR SUNDAY. Russia, suppose ha ahould coins limping In with som friend, and say, 'Hi, Johiiovitch, put the moujik on ice and let the bill stand over till you wouldn't wait to coma around from behind, but you'd waltz right over the bar, wouldn't you?" "I don't know," replied the barkeeper, cautiously. "How Is he fixed 7" "He owes 2,000 millions," anBwered the tramp.

"Do thom people all ow it for bar bills 7" inquired) tho barkoepor with a shnddef. Most of it," responded the tramp. But I don't owe any man on earth a cent and yet I don't suppose you would trust me for a glass of beer to save my life, would you 7" "No, sir!" shonted tho barkeeper. "1 wouldn't trust you for another free pickle. We liquor dealer are already out nearly millions on the crowned heads, and I ain't going five cents more on a man that hasn't got even a brim to hia hat.

Put that pickle baok iu the bowl or 111 slop up the rat holes with you 1" And tho tramp went off to work the racket somewhere else, whllo the barkeeper figured up his share of tho losses on the crowned heads and tucked something on to tho bills of hia known to be paying debtors. involved Mr. Kenna would not be justified in taking advantage of the technicality raised in his favor. But tho Seventeenth Ward returns say the least, suspiciously singular on their face, and if a recount of the ballots can be legally obtained, it will not be easy to show that Mr. Kenna is not justified in standing upon even a legal technicality which will insure ii.

It would be singular if Mr. Rhinehart should be shown to have run 200 votes behind his ticket in one district of the Twentieth Ward, but it would not be as remarkable as the returns which make it appear that Mr. Kenna runs behind his ticket 1,700 votes in the Seventeenth Ward. However, the contest is decided, probably, both Kenna and Rhinehart will each contend to the day of his death that he was fairly elected, by receiving the votes of a majority of the electors. children should prove destructive, teachers indifferent and parents ooreless, they would revel in that delicious retort of small minds, I told you bo," It was made quite clear that when a majority of the Board voted to aak the Board of Estimate for the free book appropriation they did bo without the slightest expectation that it would be granted, and only out of deference to public sentiment.

The speotacle was presented of the president of the Board ridiouling in an imbecile way the application for the appropriation, after his associates had voted for it, and the opposition waa fostered by men like Edward Rowe. It is also a fact that the Mayor, instead of favoring tho proposition, gave it but a reluctant consent, though in the recent campaign he deemed it a popular card, and the record shows that his opponent, Mr. Hendrix, who is still member of the Board, voted against free books. Under these circumstances it does not seem at all improbable to the Eagle that the new system instead of being encouraged by the Board, will be stabbed in the back, though we have no hesitation in saying that the men who do bo will regret their treacherous zeal if they ever come before the people of Brooklyn as candidates for an office. There is that in the situation whieh requires open and vigorous action at the hands of the Mayor.

Whatever he may have thought to begin with it is his duty now to make it plain that tho influence of his administration is decidedly on the side of the children whose wants the free book system will provide for. This our readers know is a favorite "reform of the Eagle's, and they may depend upon it wo shall not look with indifference upon an attempt to strangle it in its birth. The Mayor cannot use the powers of his office to a more gracious end than that of forwarding this work. It will be a great honor to him if, when ho retires from office two years hence, he shall be able to point to free books firmly established in every ono of our public schools, as areBttlt wrought out under his administration. LIGHT UPON THE STANDARD OIL METHODS.

supposes that by so doing he escapes the blackmail levied by the Standard Company, fondly imagining himself independent except in the way of indirect taxation, Mr. Rice's discussion of the gas question will be novel and interesting. He explains first how the Standard Oil people operate to control the gas companies generally and produces documentary evidenoe to support his charges as to the way in which the Brooklyn companies have been forced to submit. By the water naphtha method gas of a very inferior quality, to be sure, and dangerous to life can be manufactured and sold at a profit for twenty five cents or thereabouts a thousand feet. The Standard Oil Company is the naphtha gas interest in fact, no matter who represents it.

They have, by cutting down rates, brought about a gas war which has compelled all but three of the Brooklyn gas companies to abandon coal gas. By means of threats of ruin they have forced their way into the established companies; they own, according to Mr. Rice, forty per cent, of the WilliamBburgh, twenty per fient. of the Brooklyn, and the oontrol of all the rest except the Nassau. They have literally blackmailed these companies into giving them a share under the threat that by their process they can Bupply the city at aratewhioh means ruin to the coal gas companies.

Peace having been restored by a surrender of their profits on the part of the old companies, prices have beenrestoredalso.and the public is the sufferer. So long as this relation' is oontinued the Standard Oil monopoly, under the guise of a local gas company, will content itself with supplying heating gas at a high cost, which it can make cheaper than the illuminating gas, for obvious reasons. As regards the tricks by which competition is killed off and testimony is suppressed, the investigation by the Pennsylvania committee tells its own story. Mr. Archbold is accused of having bought off a witness in a suit ftr $3,000, 000, brought by the State against the Standard Oil Company for taxes.

It was charged that, to suppress the evidence collected by a man named Patterson, employed by the Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Mr. Archbold paid him $20,000 in cash and secured him a position worth $5,000 for one year. When questioned on the subject Mr. Archbold makes a candid confession and justifies his conduct upon the ground that the company did not care to have so active an aggressor in tho field." It is by such sinuous methods that the company has grown to its present strength and dimensions, and has even brought the railroad companies to its feet. OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND MARTIN LUTHER.

this decision was is any sense an expression of theologioal opinion. The reasons alleged by Convocation for voting down' and ruling out the proposition seem sufficient. It waa unwilling to commit the University to an affair with which it had no concern and thought that such an address to the head of a foreign nation would set an awkward precedent. Twenty five years ago this action of the Oxford Convocation might have had some religious significance, and forty years ago it would have been impossible for such a proposition to be made in convocation without arousing the party spirit of the odium theologicum. Then, every member of the University had to sign the Thirty nine Artioles at his matriculav.on as well as on taking his degree.

Professors, Fellows, Scholars and all other members had to belong to the State Church of England. But the two Oxford University Commissions, one under Lord Palmerston's Premiership, which threw open many of the "olose" Fellowships at the colleges, and the other of ten years ago, of whioh the present Lord Chief Justice of England was the moving spirit, and which completely revolutionized the University, have done away with the religions tests, so that Dissenters are placed on the same academical footing as churchmen. As "the Scribes and Pharisees sat in Moses' seat," so "Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics" may now enjoy the full privileges of the University of Oxford. Those who are interested in these changes will find a churchman's lament over the transformation of Oxford in Dean Burgon's sketch in the Ootober Quarterly of "Edward Hawkins, Pro vost of Oriel." He was "the last Provost," groans Dean Burgon," who before he was made Dean of Chichester was a Fellow of Oriel and vicar of St. Mary's.

The new Provost, Mr. Monro, is a layman, the Canonry of Rochester and the Reotory of Parleigh, Essex, having been severed from the Provostship by act of Parliament. The Oriel Fellowships aro now held by such liberals as Professor Bryce, M. P. for the Tower Hamlets, and other laymen of anti State Church sympathies, with a small minority of clergymen.

Before the Government Commissions, all the Fellows had to be churchmen, and twelve out of eighteen had to take Holy Orders in a given time or vacate their fellowships. When the Oxford movement began, Newman, Keble, Richard Hurrell Froudo and Pusey were Fellows of Oriel. The college was founded in 1326 by King Edward the Second, and Adam de Brome, his chancellor, was the first Provost. When CopleBton waa Provost, one of the Fellows, called upon bim and found him busy with accounts. "To day," said the witty Provost, "the college is fifty years "oldand I am fivehundred 1" At the recent festival at Onel, the Church with which the college for so many centuries was identified was only represented by one Bishop, Fraser of Manchester, and one Dean, Church of St.

Paul's. Cardinal Newman could not come, though no Oriel man meets with a kinder reception at Oxford. One other Roman convert, Father Albany J. Christie, wrote a witty note regretting his inability, for, said he, "I am thoroughly "in accord with the principles of the Catholic "founder, King Edward the Second, and of "Adam de Brome, the first Provost; and I "would that all who attend the banquet were "altogether such as I am, except this lumbago." What has happened to Oriel has happened in more or less degree to all the colleges. They and the university of which they are component parts have been mercilessly secularized and unchurched, in spite of founders' wills and the directions they left for the application of their bequests.

The refusal, therefore, of the Oxford Convocation to send a congratulatory address to the Emperor William on the quater centennial of Luther's birthday was merely the act of a national English university which, as auniversity, has no part or lot in the life work of Martin Luther. THE DISPUTED JUSTICESHIP. It eeems not to be clear whether Justice Kenna has been re elected or whether his opponent, Mr. Rhinehart, is to take his place. Mr.

Kenna was one of the most capable and intelligent publio officials who was before the people for an indorsement this Fall, and on tho imperfect returns whioh came in the night and morning after the election it was supposed that he was re elected by a handsome majority. Both of his party associates oh the local judiciary ticket succeeded easily. Under all the circumstances, the announcement made, after a more careful computation of the returns, that Mr. Rhine hart was elected, was a good deal of a surprise. The contest between Mr.

Kenna and Mr. Rhinehart is admitted to be exceedingly close. The latest returns in the Eagle office give Rhinehart a majority of thirty threo votes in a poll in excess of ninety five thousand. But the official returns on their face seem again to change this result and to elect Mr. Kenna.

In the Sixth District in the Twentieth Ward, Mr. Rhinehart was credited with 326 votes as against 139 for Mr. Kenna. The returns as made out by the canvassers, it seems, credit Mr. Rhino hart with but 163 votes.

This is the official declaration but it is at variance with the count of the ballots as enumerated by the canvassers themselves and as remembered by them. If the face of the returns are to be accepted as final, and if it is not within the power of the Board of City Canvassers to go behind them, or to permit a change or a correction to be made in them, Mr. Kenna will be given the certificate. As to the legal power of the Board of Canvassers to ssnd the returns back, there is a difference of opinion between lawyers, and indeed between judges who havw passed judgment on this point. What may be termed the corroborative testimony, as to the main point, favors Mr.

Rhinehart. The Sixth District of the Twentieth Word is Republican, and if Mr. Rhinehart be credited with 32G votes it would be about the vote likely to be cast for him, as the Republican candidate in that district. But if corroborative testimony of this sort ie admissible it would tell against Mr. Rhinehart in other directions.

For instance, in the Seventeenth Ward Mr. Rhinehart is credited with receiving the amazing majority of 1,465. The Seventeenth Ward is largely Democratic, and beyond the fact that Mr. Rhinehart resides there, there is nothing to account for the extraordinary revolution in publio sentiment the vote of the word shows in Mr. Rhinehart's case.

Mr. Courtney, for instance, who ran upon the same ticket with Mr. Kenna, and for a like position, carried the ward by a majority of 304. On the face of the returns Mr. Rhinehart is credited with running ahead of his ticket in excess of 1,700 votes in a single ward.

Of course, in this case Mr. Kenna's friends desire to go behind the returns, but except the contest should get into the courts, there is no legal way of doing it. All the surrounding circumstances go to show that the claim made for Mr. Rhinehart in the Sixth District of the Twentieth Ward is correct, ond as between man and man, asd apart from the mere legal point A NOVEL EXPORT. "DIiI yon tea this item In one of tha papers about tho exportation ol wrought iron ana braas god3 from England for tho use of tha heathen 7" demanded the managing editor, as tho religlou odltor strolled in to Bee.

if ho oould collect tho hat he bet with tho managing editor on the election. "What about it anted the religious editor. "It said that the intrinsic value of the gods was mors than tho amount spent in Bibles and hymn books for tho same purpose. We ought to luxe something about that." "What do you want about If?" Inquired the religious editor. "The more gods thojr send out, tho more work it makes for tho missionaries and it will bo timo for us to kick when yon hear that the Bible societies begin to object.

Can I get that hat to day "But what is tho good of missionaries if their work i to be rendered inoperative by the exportation of those unregenerate manufacturers of gods asked tho managing editor, warmly. "It eeems to me as though the missionary societios had better begin their work nearer home." "You try to make them believe that and bob what a mare's nost you drop into," retorted tho religious editor, with contempt, "I know Bornetbing about that business and I know that tho peoplo having the heathen in charge will not thank you nor me for interfering with their rights in the matter. When tho heathen give out tharo (s an end to all superannuated cloruy men and tho old maids of all denominations, and those British manufacturers ot spurious gods aro standing in with the Christians. So you let things alone and come ont and buy ice my hat." "Do you moan to say that the Biblo societies are set ting up tho job to have the tin and iron gods Bent out to the heathen, in order to keep back the cause of salvation exclaimed the managing editor, in astonishment. "Not directly," replied the religious editor, with a quiet laugh.

'But I do mean to say this, that the big ond of tho Christian religion is gone as soon as the heathen are converted, and the missionary bodies are not going to encourage anything that will tend to break down their business. What have we got to do with It, anyway 7 If the Biblo can't teach these heathen the difference between the spurious god and tho genu ino article, why should you and I worry ourselvas about it 1 Those manufacturers know what they are doing and how far they can go, aud there Isn't any quo to thank you and me for sticking our oar in until our interference has been solicited, clow, let's talk about that hat." "Can't wo com out and denounce the British manufacturers of spurious goda for backcapping the missionary societies in their excellent work among tho heathen, and in that way get the friendship of all the people in the heathen business asked the managing editor. "It strike that la the popular Bide to take. I don't think the churche3will sustain these manufacturers in any such business as that." Perhaps not," coucoded the religious editor. If you put it right at 'em in that way, they will tell you that the British Government is all wrong from the start and will Bido with you in all you say.

But do you suppose they would do anything to break up the business? Tldnk the ohurcbe are going to lot go of the best hold they have and ruin their trade Just for a sentiment You bet thoy wont I Just as long as heathen gods are sent to the heathen, Just eo long there is going to be a chance for the missionaries and tho collection of missionary money and the church will hold ou to it like death. If you are in the conversion business, Just you come out aud convert this old tile into a new one. That will be as much as ought to be expected of you." Look here exclaimed the managing editor this is all humbug, and you are trying to got ont of doing your work. Now yon don't get any hat until an article Is written that will break up the wrought iron god trad and put the hoatben on his feet again in the eyes of the community, You can't make me or anyone elas beliove that these Bibl societies are not honostin their protestations, and you can't convince anybody that the missionaries are standing in with the idol makers, l'ou writo that article or I'll get some one that will I wan only fooling," said tho religious editor, with a sickly smile. The fact is, I want to go to Greenwood and plant groona on my mother in law's grave.

Haven't you got any respect for the feelings of an orphan in law 7 Haven't tho more tender sentiment of a man's nature any claim on you 1 Aro you thoroughly hardened 1" That's different," sighed the managing editor, of toned by tho man's grief. If you had said that in the start I would have glvon you a day off. Don't you want something to keep the cold out 7 It'a pratty chilly traveling," and tho managing editor drew the demijohn from the closet and handed the glass to.the religious editor. Don't bo afraid, it's good." "Now, I must go," said the religious editor, as he saw the demijohn put away with a sigh of regrt. "I make it a point to plaut June rooes on the old lady's grave about this time every year," and the religious editor left the office with a heavy stp and suffused eyes." Plant greens 1" he muttered, as soon as he was out of the managing editor's bearing.

Plant greens If I don't get into a game of shuffle board between now aud ton minutes from now ho can have what's left of this week's salary, and that's more than I can got for all the greens I can plant between now and the time the missionaries go into tho tin god business for themselves." "It is well he should have a day off one In while." grinned tho managing editor. "Otftrwiae I ahould have had to buy him a hat." "Don't tho applejack make him rather frisky for the business in hand asked the city editor, to whom the. last remark was addressed. "I reckon not," replied the managing editor. "I don't think it wUl hurt him.

I put in two thirds water before he camo in, and I don't believe it will interfere with his religious dovotlonB where ho iB going. Won't you have a snifter I have some in the other jug that has not been watered. Try it, but don't say anything to him about it, or we wouldn't have any religion In this paper for a month." Aud the managing editor and the city editor drank deeply to the health of tho religious editor, who had already sold an order for the hat on the managing editor, and was fourteen ahead in the game of shuffle board. ECONOMY IS WEALTH. How much do you charge for the pants, anyway?" asked the rural customer.

Dot makes some difference ofl you vants dem vor Suntay or efery tay," replied the vender, studying his subject carefully. If you vants a Bheap balr vor efery tay, dot hair vlll pe two tollar, but if yon vonts dem bants vor Suntay, dey vlll po fife tollar und a helluf. Subuos you dakes urn vor Suntay, und ran dey vos a little voru, you Years dem vor efery tay. By dot you safe two tollar on a fife tollar balr of bauts Against whioh argument the countryman had nothing to offer, and the transactiou waa closed. TUB PARSON'S PEBFUSfK.

"Do you driuk spirits, Fannie demanded a Brooklyn boarding house landlady of her servant, the other morning, as she thought she detected the smell of rum in the room. "No, ma'am," replied Fannio, demurely. "Then what is It that smells so 7" asked her mistress, sniffing around. "I I don't know, ma'am," stammered Fannie, "unless it is tho nianister's perfume I put on my nook this morning," tnd tho girl drew closer, exuding au unmistakable nroiua of Applejack. "It was labslod Florida Water, and I took some, but ploase, ma'am, I'll never do it again, It certainly do smell ill 1" CREDIT NOT OOOD.

"I suppose," remarked tho tramp, as he helped himself to pickle at the lunch table, "I suppose if President Arthur came in hore and said: 'Johnny, let's have a glasB of beor and hang it ou the slate till pay day, like a guod you would let him have the stuff, wouldn't you "Of course I would," replied tho barkeeper, with a wide amilo. "Why wouldn't "And yot President Arthur is nearly 2,000 million dollars in dubt," contiuued the tramp. "At least the Government is, and yon would have to wait until that was paid before you could got your nlckla." "I that so 7" asked tho barkeeper, rather staggered by tbo ngures. "You but And I suppose if Qnoen Victoria walked in and said Ho, Johnny, lot's have a gloss o' 'arf un' 'art, baud Hi'll tell mo Lud o' tho huttoubag to settle when 'o gets the you'd spunk tho wine up with your own fair band, wouldn't you 7" I surely would," returned the barkeeper. And yet Queen Victoria is in debt ueirly three thousand millions or her government ie, and you would get that ten cents about tho middle of tho next century." As much as that 7" demanded the barkooper, in as.

tonialimeut. Then there's the Emperor of Germany, if he should alight from his special horse car in front of your door, and say, 'Mien Gott, Chonny, giTO me schoppen of achnapps, und I vlll bay for dot ven i solt mien you wouldn't hesitato a minute, would yon 7" I suppose not," said the barkeeper rather startled by the Information concerning the other potentates. Aud yet that same Emperor is in debt ovor one hundred and tea millions," continued the tramp, ol. emnly. "I don't believ it," exclaimed the barkeeper.

1 "It'a a fact," persisted tho tramp. "And tho Czar of TWELVE PAGES. SUNDAY ilORNDJO, NOVEHBER 18, 1883. Tlie Sunday Morning Edition of the Eagle Juts a Large and Growing Circulation Througliout the United Statu. It is the Best Advertising Medium for Thou (oho Desire to Reach all Classes of Newspaper Readers in Brooklyn and on Long Island.

The Daily Evening) Eagle is now in its Forty fourth Year. Its Circulation is Larger Than That of any Other Paper oj its Class in tlie United States, and it is Steadily Increasing Keeping Pace with the Growth of the Great City of which the Eagle is Admittedly the Journalistic Representative. IS THE FREE BOOK SYSTEM IN DANGER? The Board of Estimates has put $75,000 in the budget for the coming year to supply books free to the publio school children of this city. At present the rule is to charge for the books except to children whose parents or guardians make a confession of poverty, with the effect, of course, of drawing an odious line between the children of those who are prosperous and the little oneB of less fortunate people. The arguments against the system now in operation are bo obvious and weighty that its survival may be pointed to as an illustration of the vitality of what is wholly indefensible in the face of common sense.

If there is one purpose more than another which the Bchools are designed to serve, it is the promotion of the spirit of human equality. It wag argued, and in our judgment arguedright ly, by the founders of the schools that boys and girls who had sat together on the same benches, amused themselves on the Bame playgrounds, and been instructed by the same teachers would not be likely in after life to indulge the caste feeling against each other. On the theory that as the twig is bent the. tree is inclined, it was expected that with a strong bias given in youth toward Democracy the necessities of later fortune would not materially bend the character in an opposite direction. How utterly opposed to all this reasoning the book system is which distinguishes between the poor and the prosperous even in the A 0 class must be manifest to every person who can reason at oil.

The children, it may be said, are not likely to notico the distinctions drawn by the school teachers. Thoso who think so, however, must know little of anything if they know less than they do about young people. There is perhaps no place in the world whore, if the slightest encouragement be given, vanity and the notion of social superiority will grow more ranldy than in a sohoolroom. There is not an experienced teacher in the world who will not bear testimony that there is no lesson more difficult to impart than that of the equality which lies deeper than money or dress. Another, though by no means so grave, an objection to the mongrel system under consideration is its extravagance and liability to abuse.

It requires us to make book agents of the principals, and they cannot become so without having their judgments warped by the influence of the publishing houses. "With every principal left to decide for himself what books he shall use and hence sell, nothing is more certain than that the establishments in question will exert themselves to make it worth his while to give them a preference. Moreover, the door is thrown wide open for downright fraud. Who is to check the principal when be records so many books sold and so many given away Clerks cannot be placed in every school, and if this were done itwould still be necessary to hire watchers to watch the watchers. The thefts committed by Stuart had their root in this arrangement.

To be sure, he got beyond the school fund in time, but he began with it, and found in its moneys the most convenient means, when hard pressed, of covering up his other rascalities. The extravagance of the system is written on its face. Under the free book rule the books would pass from hand to hand. With the volumes made no more personal property than vne desks, blackboards and maps are, each volume would serve the purposes of several pupils. There is not a house in Brooklyn from which children have gone to the public schools in which there is not a shelf lumbered up with school books.

Had the free system prevailed these volumes would have remained in ubo until tire binder could no longer make them stick together and the result would have been a saving to the parents decidedly larger than their proportion of the general tax for free books need be under proper management. In other wordB, the Eaoli contends, and has always contended, that to make an end of the purchase system, and put the other in its place, is not only to make the schools free and equal in fact, as in name, but to effect a positive saving of money to the people in general. Against this it may be urged that there are some people who have no children and others who choose to send their children to private schools. As to the childless, they are exceptional and need not be considered where a general principlo is being laid down, while as to those who do not avail themselvesof the public schools the sufficient answer is that the fault is their own if they do not avail themselves of privileges which are open to all. It is rather too much to ask that the schools shall not be put on a Democratic basis because, for reasons of their own, a comparatively few persons choose to look to private establishments for the education of their sons and daughters.

Now, however, that the necessary appropriation has been made, tho question recurs, Will it be used in good faith Will the present Board of Education endeavor to carry the system into successful operation, or will a majority of the members follow the example of their predecessors, some twelve years ago, and endeavor to bring it to naught This to the reader may seem like an idle inquiry. He may not be able to conceive how gentlemen could possibly reconcile it to their own senso of respect to encourage the squandering of publio money in a relation of this kind, but we may beg the gentle reader to remember that prejudice is sometimes stronger than the senso of duty, that pig headed opposition to an idea is not infrequently quite competent to the work of marring most excellent plans, and of this Brooklyn has had one experience. Seriously, the Eagle believes that a majority of the members of the present Board would be very glad to see the free book system fail. They would regard this as a vindication of their own wisdom. If FOLLY SHOTS.

A Boston lad had a quarrel with a play fellow, knooked bis backbone out of adjustment and then ran iuto the victim's house and tuld his mother that she'd better hurry out and look after her son, aa he guossed the boy was imfforing from spinal menln gltl. Tho information that Jay Gould is Bimplo in his tastes, that ho doesn't like his beefstoak brought to the table trimmed up with ostrich feathorafrnd point lace, is important. The raoro wo know about Jay Gould tho more wo want to know. If wa were poor and one of his heirs, and wanted money very badly, and had started out of bed at night to tight burglar, Jay Gould is just the sort of man wo ahould like to go ahead of us and hold the candle. Ono of tho pupils of a Brooklyn publio school was asked by a grocer with whom his parent traded why white potatoes were called Irish potatoes.

I suppose," answered the lad, It's because the best of them are Murphies." Answer to Inquirer "No; young ladies should never mcddlo with Greek. It's useless wasto of time. When a girl is thrown out upon tho world to wrestle with a sewing machine or to enemmtbr tho cold charity of a corset manufactory, sho cannot move too Btony hoarts of her omployera by chanting passage from F.schylus or Euripides. As to the second brauch. of the question, it Is sufficient to say that the expression 'J Home Ilnlu" was not dorived from Homer.

Two glasses of lager, it is said, is enough tot make a Chicago girl go to bed with hor boots on. Tho falsity of this statement is manifest from the fact that Chicago beds arc not any larger than beds elsewhere. The news' comes all tho wny from Atlanta, that Patti is fair and fat. If Georgia had been properly reconstructed such a misrepresentation as thlft would have been detected and stamped out at once. Everybody who has sen Patti knows very well that tho could fall through a coal hole without oramplng her shoulders or injuring her complexion.

There are some men with so nice a souse of pride that they would sooner die than carry a market basket through the atreots. Daniel Webster used to do it, so did Cardinal Wolsny, so did Luther aud so did Alfred the Great, but. that Is no reason why any other man should. Each crbo is to be decided upon ita own merits. But the facts of common obiervation warrant the formulation of the following general rule, to wit': That no man ought to carry a market basket through the publio Btroet who haa a wife strung enough to carry it for Mm, A Pike County man, hearing that a neigh bor hard come into possession of a strayed horse, claim to it as hia own.

The noighbor refused to deliver the nlmal ap, and the case was tried beore a justice of the peace. The Court roqnired tho plaintiff to identify the proporty, and after several ineffectual attempt to obtain a description from him Anally asked, whether it was a black, a gray, a roan or a chestnut horse. It waa chostnut," said the plaintiff. "What do you understand by a ohostnut tinned the Court. A horse with burr in itB tail," wa the anawer, whereupon tho Court reudured a verdict for the dofsu.

dint. CONTEMPORARY I1UMOR. Heard in the horse oars 1 wonder why thoso old style scoop bonnets are coming in voguo again 7" "Oh, I aupixisa it's because the milllnaM want to scoop in the dollars." Philadelphia Call. American tourist in gallery of art "I say, Johu, we haven't got hut twenty minutes to go through this thiuu before the train starts. You take ono sid and I'll takt the other, and we'll do it up in good style." Burlington Fnt Pren.

A graceful writer one day wrote a beautiful and sublime article to show how eaBy 'was to die. But when the cholora morbus struck him that night, he had four doctors called in, and tho druggist on the corner took bis family to an excumion with money paid for th beautiful article. The Judge. It is true, you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, put, blenB your eyes, this Isn't the dog's fault. It iB because there is nothing new to teach htm.

Yea. lndecdy, the old dog knows 'em all, and it raakea him laugh to seo the young dog learning and Hiring the old tricks of hi youth aa omethiug new. Burlington Jlawkeye. In answer to his remark that she had ventured away from home on a bad day, she said "It doe look like rain, but I brought my gossipper with me, and I ordered John to moot me at tho station with the phautom. By the way, have you seen my sllyar mountain harnosa that I bought last week Chicaga Inter Ocean.

There are fifteen thousand Masons in Georgia. Now, isn't it just possible that tho startling spectsola of a column of mon iu high hats and embroidorod bib, marching down street in broad daylight, carrying clothes props and map rollers, has given rise to th rumors of a revival of Kuklux organization. Burlington liawkeyi. Tlie various phases of tho tender passion have thus been exemplified A ship ia foolishly iu lova when she iB attached to a buoy Bhe is prudently In love when she leaves the buoy for the pier she places her affection beneath her when sho is 'ancoiing af tar a heavy swell, aud sho is desperately in lovo whon sho 1 tonder to a man of war. The Jutlpe.

"Look a heah, Bah," indignontly exclaimed a oolored gentleman, "does yer moan to call ma a thiof?" "Dat's what I meanB." "An' why, sah? 'Sulaln yerso'f ur tako de rough consequence." "Caao I Beed yer whou yer stole a coat." "Wall, dat' alt right, but ef yer hadn't er seed me I'd er wupped yer, Better be pertie'lar how yer fools wld mo, man, 'case I comes from a proud fam'ly." Arkansav) TrauU Ur. An observer says: "Always stand a wet umbrella with tha handlo down ono trial will convlnoe you of the rapidity with which It will drain, and your umbrolla will last longer if dried quickly." tried that oneo: tried it iu a barbershop. We are fuUy convinced of the rapidity with which it will drain, and if the present possessor will kindly advise us how It i lasting wo will Bpeak at mor length of the teat Tht Judge. The theory haa been advanced that a cross dog will not attack a man who lifts his hat to the animal, "as it presents to the dog' mind tho apparition of living creauro taking himself part." A Norristown man met a savage dog yesterday and gave the theory practical test. It was not a gratifying success.

It took a dollar's worth of court pljster to stick the man to gether." Some of him came opart in reality, but the dog didn't eem to care a particle. A'orritUnm Htrald, An 'editor in Kankakee Once falling in a burning passion With a vexatious rival, he Wrote him a letter in this fashion "You are an ass, uncouth and rude, And will bo one eternally" Then, in an absent minded mood, Ho signed it "Yours, fraternally." Chicago Kent. "Now what I want you to do, Miranda," said a white woman to the new colored "help," "1 to get up early, make two fires, get breakfast, take care of the children while I am eating then, after breakfast, sweep the rooms, mako up tha beds and do anything else that comes handy." "What's yeree'f gwine tar bo doin' all lat timo 7" "Why, IU bt attending to my own affairs, of course." "An'seein' me workln' like a slabs 7 Lady, I doan reckin we kin trade. I lef de In' placa case de 'oinan ob de house got so proud dat ahe didn't want mo ter Bet in do rockin' cheer, au' da way yerse'f startln' out Ise sfeerd dat yer wouldn't reconnizs me a a member ob 'ciety. Like tor.

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Uineral agent for tha Usitod Stat AN AVERAGE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDA TE. Justice Courtney, who has just been reelected, may be classed as an average Democrat, and, Ob a candidate, the kind of man who will poll about his party vote, and no more. His opponent, Mr. Winslow, may ba classed as an average Republican candidate one who can rely on being as strong on election day as his party, and no stronger. Few Democrats will be disposed to believe that, if Mr.

Courtney had been nominated for Mayor, he oould have been elected, and yot 50,437 votea were cost for Mr. Courtney on tho 6th inst, while Mr. Low, who was elected by over 1,800 majority, received but 49,934 votes. Mr. Courtney leads the candidate of his party for Mayor in nearly every ward in the city.

If Mr. Hendrix had reoeived as many votes as Mr. Courtney, he would have been Mayor elect now. But, then, Mr. Low got a good many Democratic votes, while it is certain Mr.

Winslow did not. Mr. Hendrix got a good many Republican votes, but more Democrats voted for Mayor Low than Republicans for Mr. Hendrix. Mr.

Courtney's majority was a little over 5,000, whioh may be held to be the Democratic majority in Brooklyn this year and it was not a good year for Demoorats, either. STANDARD TIME TO DAY. Such of our readers as make a point of comparing the rising and setting of the sun and moon and the ebbing and flowing of tho tideB, with the dates kindly fixed for the appearance of these familiar phenomena by the almanacs, will this morning or at latest tomorrow morning, be startled by a discovery. The uprising of the day Btar was fixed for nine minutes of seven o'clock on Monday, and the setting of the same was ordered to take place at eighteen minutes of five in the afternoon. It has gradually been ascending later and vanishing earlier since the end of June, but on Monday it will rise several minuteB behind time and go to bed in the same lagging and reluctant manner.

This will be the phenomenon in Brooklyn. In Buffalo it will be very much behindhand. The clock that recorded on the previous day the fact that the sun rose at 6:50 will now make it appear to rise at ten minutes past seven, or thereabout, owing to the fact that the standard time for Buffalo will be about that much ahead of the actual time! The Eagle has already explained the advantages that aro to be gained by the establishment of fixed time for definite districts and the apparent reversal of the old order. Instead of sunrise occurring at the same time at each successive westerly point, the apparent time of rising will yary up to an hour within every fifteen degrees of longitude, or, roughly speaking, about every one thousand miles. Thus the time tables between New York, and Chicago will be uniform and will agree with the clocks and watches of people resident between those points.

The same will bo true for the interval between Chicago and Denver, between Denver and California and westward to the Pacific Coast, each section west being just an hour behind its predecessor. A conductor can set his watch at any station on the line between these standard meridians, and eaoh station clock ought to correspond with the rest. There need then be no difficulty in setting these clocks instantly by electricity or of adjusting watches also. When one prepares to take a train for Baltimore, Pittsburg or Buffalo it will not be necessary to calculate the difference of the various local times in making preparations to avoid being left. The hour fixed for the change is noon to day, Washington time.

It ia a matter of regret that in a State, the Legislature of which is Democratic on joint ballot ond which contains within its borders a statesman like Allan G. Thurman, there should be any contest over the choice of a candidate for the United States Senate. The next Senate of this State will have about an equal number of Half Breeds and Stalwarts. The recently elected members are new men, and it is claimed that the old factional differences will not affect them. It seems to ns that that will depend upon tho sort of test applied.

If Mr. Conkling should happen to be a candidate, the hopes of those who think that the old feud is incapable of revival might be suddenly extinguished. Mr. Thomas B. Atterbury, a prominent glass manufacturer of Pittsburg, has ventured to give expression to some very heretical ideas.

He says he has come to the conclusion that protection does not protect and that there will be no improvement the glass and iron trade until all tariff restrictions are removed. Mr. Atterbury belougs to a class of men who, within the past two or three years, have been compelled to regard the logic of facts as a very convincing method of reasoning. They have found it fatal to the "Pennsylvania idea," but all of them have not, like Mr. Atterbury, had the courage to say so.

His example will doubtless give them heart eventually to speak out. But if lifelong protectionists are gradually abandoning their hobby, it is hardly reasonable for Mr. Randall to ask the Democratic party to imitate him in his attempts to straddle it. No intelligent man who dispassionately weighs the results of the November elections this year will reach the conclusion that the Presidential contest is to be a walk over" for either party. It is to be won, and only won by sagacious counsel, prudent management, hard work ond wise nominations.

There never has been an era in our history when the people felt more disposed to cast aside the trammels of party for the sake of rebuking corruptionists and nincompoops. Independence is the voters' watchword. The machine must be dismantled and the caucus must express the popular will or go forth into outer darkness. Bad or weak nominations are certainly doomed. This is all bo clear that he who runs may read.

The Democracy can win the Presidential fight, but they cannot do it by vapid shibboleths and deceitful professions. It is becoming more evident every day that unless tho people begin to move against the monopolies earnestly and systematically and that, too before very long, it will be found impossible to deal with them at all. They have entrenched themselves in power behind the millions of capital they have combined and confederated to extort from the public by sheer robbery, and now secure in their methods of resisting attack they lie back in calm defiance of the popular outcry, prepared to defend themselves against any assault whatever. An organization, whose name is familiar to the publio, has been formed with the express object in view of waging war upon these monopolies and has rendered their methods familiar in general to the public. The railroads, which have been the principal offenders, have Btill sustained themselves without difficulty by combination, realize that the people have combined seriously.

They are willing to make terms if they can, in view of the obvious determination of the people to control them. They have, however, among other grave offenses, brought into being other monopolies which they can no longer control, and which inolude them in the general plan of contribution. At least, one of these concerns has managed to evade legislative action by various devices, and has so far succeeded in concealing its own proportions and even its outlines from the public eyo. It Was not until a few months ago that the people of the country were enabled to form a conception of the giant monopoly of the age, which like a vague and blighting shadow hangs over the country and is spoken of terms almost of owe as the Standard Oil Trust. This is tho monster that has attached to itself the oppressive and flagitious blackmailer, the Standard Oil Company, and is now preparing to grapple with another Continent after having secured its hold upon this one.

What this corporation is composed of, the Eagle is in a position to tell its readers, and has secured for their benefit an interview with a gentleman who stands at tho head of the organized opposition to the Standard Trust and Oil Company, and is therefore well qualified to speak of the matter authoritatively. 0 What Mr. Kice, of Connecticut, has to say at length upon thissubjectreaderB of the Sunday Eagle will be able to see for themselves. In view of certain developments made on Friday in New York before a committee of the Pennsylvania Legislature, sent hither to inquire into charges of bribery made against officers of the company, the interview is timely. Some months ago, when a committee of our own State Legislature put Mr.

William Eockafeller on the stand, he refused to say anything in reply to several very pertinent questions put to him. Ho called himself the secretary of the Standard Oil Trust, but as to its capital, organization or anything else he refused to give testimony. The oil company, Mr. Rico tells ns, has for its president and vice president the brothers John D. and William Rockafeller, the discovers of the system which has made the company dangerously powerful Mr.

Flagler, sec rotary, and a board of directors of whom one, Mr. J. D. Archbold, of New York, isamember. It was Btarted in 1872 upon the ruins of the notorious South Improvement Company, of Pennsylvania, which collapsed upon the discovery ef a secret contract with the railroads, by which it received a rebate of $1 a barrel on crude oil and more on the refined article.

The Standard company Btarted with a capital of $1,000,000. By a system of rebates from railroads, which constituted a series of special rates, the profits on which were secretly divided between the company and the railroad officials the stockholders, of course, knowing nothing of the matter this capital has since swollen to a figure variously stated at from $50,000,000 to $70,000,000. The exact figure in such a case is not significant. It is a close corporation, owns but a fraction of the oil producing power of the country, but controls four trunk lines of railroad, all the railroad tanks for transportation and two pipe lines to the seaboard, beside controlling in various ways railroad transportation on the roads running North and South. It compels railroad companies to advance rates for rival companies it deals in grades of oil forbidden by law it manipulates legislatures in such a way as to kill water transportation of oil and so to make submission to it compulsory in many States it ha3 stifled investigation by bribery and has a reserve fund for buying off witnesses and, where that is possible, prosecuting officers also, an instance of which, laid before the people to day, will be referred to presently.

Mr. Rice proceeds to explain the methods by which theBe ends are accomplished in detail and with illustrations. To the average leader who burns gas and The Convocation of the University of Oxford is composed of the Vice Ch ancellor, the Heads of the several colleges and the resident Professors, Tutors and Fellows. It is a legislative and advisory body, but with no power to alter the statutes of the University or ot any of tho twenty seven colleges of which the University is composed, each of which is a separate foundation and society and all of which together form the corporation known as the University of Oxford. Cambridge University is a similar organization, but with nineteen colleges instead of twenty seven.

The Convocation is there called tho Senate. Those who are not familiar with the English universities are naturally confused at the distinction between the university and the colleges. Hence it is that we so often hear or read of Oxford College and Cambridge Col lego, when the University is meant. There is no Oxford College or Cambridge College at Oxford or Cambridge. We remember the poet Longfellow, whom Oxford made subsequently an honorary D.C.L., expressing surprise when a letter of introduction was handed him ad dressedfrom "University College, Oxford." He was aware that the colleges were many and the University one; that the colleges were 'houses," and the University a legal abstraction, not an edifice; but he did not remember that one of the most ancient of the Oxford colleges is University College, on the High street, opposite Queens, and said to have been founded by Alfred the Great.

Similarly, University College, in Gower street, London, is not the abstract corporation known as London University, though it is affiliated with it ond is included in it. So, at Durham, University College is not the University of Durham, there beinf? two others Bishop Hatfield's Hall and Cosins' Hall and the three colleges, united under ono charter, yet being different hostelries of students, make up the University. At Dublin, on the contrary, the University of Dublin and Trinity College are tho same thing, because there is but the one college, which is, therefore, coextensive with and equal to the whole University. The latter is the legal and abstract title; the former is the material and visible house which contains it. Physically, Trinity College contains tlie University of Dublin metaphysically, the University of Dublin contains Trinity College.

Those who sneer at the subtle distinctions of tho Schoolmen when they debated such questions as how many angels could perch upon the point of a needle and who call the Athunasian creed an unintelligible jargon, may modify their contempt for tho Nominalists and the Realists when they como to define a college and a university logically, so as to distinguish the one from the other. There are senses in which tho part contains the whole, though it is true mathematically that the whole is greater than the part. The Oxford Convocation is tho legislative body which deprived tho late William George Ward, when a Fellow of Balliol College, of his Master's degree for writing the "Ideal of a "Christian Church," in which he contrasted the Church of England in a very depreciatory way with the Church of Rome, which he afterward joined. It also condemned "Tract of the "Tracts for the Times," and would have deprived or suspended its author, the present Cardinal Newman, then a Fellow of Oriel, but for the veto of the two Proctors, of whom the present Dean of St. Paul's, Dr.

Richard William Church, also a Fellow of Oriel, was the Senior for that year. Newman has gratefully remembered and referred to his friendly act of intervention, in dedicating the reissue of his "Parochial Sermons" to "My "dear Church." Convocation also, most unfairly as waa afterward admitted, suspended Dr. Pusey from preaching before the University for two years on account of the doctrine contained in his sermon on "The Real Presence." This same Convocation of the University of Oxford, which, it must be understood, is not an ecclesiastical but an academical senate, whose members are not necessarily clergymen, recently rejected the proposition to send an address to the Emperor of Germany on the occasion of the celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther. It would be unfair to suppose that.