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77 TWENTY PACiES. 6 TELE BMJOJl.L.SrSr DAILY EAGLE SUTOAY, MAKC1I 22, 1891. OLD POINT COMFORT NOTES. ways excellent, may taper to effominaey, unless strongly attached to the spinal cord of virility. SUNDAY aOUXirfG, AltOII 23, 18D1.

vided by graduates of Mount Holyoko seminary of Mrs. M. A. P. New, tho occupant this week of the of local literary women of tho Rev.Dr.

William V. Kelley, pastor of St. John's Methodist Episcopal church of Mr. and Mrs. Rollins, who have reached tho tiino of their golden wedding; of Colonel John G.

Eddy of tho Forty seventh regiment of Mortimer Remington, a runner of renown. Then there is the cartoon in which Rambler directs attention to the Second avonue job, beside the embellishment of the Parker poem. EAGLETS. A MISS UNDEnsrANDCijQ. Typewriter Salesman Your typewriter is rather old; can't I make a deal with yha for on ex chance? Mcrohant No, iree; my time is too valuablo to allow me to spend the day in Hwearinc I've tried the yonnc nd giddy blonde vaijiotr, and although it gives me a pain to look at the old crow's face, still the relief to my nervona aygteni move than repays mo.

A I A man out Wegt without pedal extrorjnitien has eono on the Btago. Thank heaven theye will be one actor on the Rialto next summer Svho won't bo able to tell how ho cot thero "(with both feot." A TWO SIDEH? Now Fanny dechvrea that Egypt's kjuoen justice beget mental conditions which aro hostile to the intrusion of all foreign or irrelevant considerations. Tho judge who has no favors to ask and no apprehensions for his tenure of office abandons himself to the fascinations of his judicial vocation. His trained intellect finds a peculiar charm in threading the labyrinths of professional controversy. Ho delights in the conflicts of the bar.

The keener his faculties become from tho instruction and discipline they afforded the keener is his sense of onjoymont and the more jealous he is to preserve the symmetrical proportions of the stately edifice of oui jurisprudence. Tho Republican lawyers whom President Harrison might appoint would prove no exception to this rule. They would do as other judges have done whoso commissions run for life. ternational bank of Guatemala. Barrundia visited Mr.

Martin, tho manager of the bank, and requested him to hand them over. Rathor than have the vaults sacked Mr. Martin complied. But on the 1st of April Barrios was killed at the battle of Chalehuapa. The situation looked gloomy and Barrundia fled to Europe, taking with him several hundred thousand dollars of tho amount of which he had plundered the bank.

He was proclaimed a thief and a fugitive from justice. Notwithstanding these factshe thoughthe could safely venture within tho jurisdiction of Guatemala under cover of the American flag. He was mistaken. Rather than submit to arrest ho determined to die fighting, and he died. A claim by his widow for damages is now on file at the department of state.

It may come handy some day to kindle fires with. It is good for nothing else. fho Ctrooklyn lrelciraiion largely Au(T Hiontcd Sneoinl to the Eagle.l Old Point Comfort, March 21. One moots all sorts of American types at Old Point. It seems as though every city and overjr state ware represented in the thousand or more who sit and sloeo and eniov life generally bonoith the Hygoia's roof.

It is worth tho trip to simply study them all, to watch tho faces, to listen to the tan; aud ouBcrre tho widely diffonne manner isms. Then, too, Old Point has its own local interest! more substantial than theo folks bring hero ii.u uiuiu. is tno exact dividing point between torth and South. Nui Rnuariw tu f.t u.a brought it into ovoiTpromineuco in time of war and peace xlike. Fortress Monroe is iu itnelf a thing of world wido interest.

It is just as au old darkey remarked the otlnr nav Mo rtl fn.l sho uev'r Are a shot in anger Bah," but ullY ueen angry Bbots enough, nevertheless. Across the "roads" at Sowell'B point, tho Monitor and Merrimao fought and along tho ahoro aro pointod ont tho Bpota where the Songrtss and the Cumberland went down. Over at Norfolk, the confederate naval stronghold, are the ashos of burned yarda and ships. There aro baitlufioids all about. City point, where Butler turned the river around to pass the rebel forts, in a few miles away.

York town, with its memories of the first war and the last, is near by. There are monuments of history everywhere, and out in the channel there are the rip raps" unfinished a grim testimonial of the fact that the day of wars ia over. But tho interesting things of the present are outgrowtliB of the troublous past. Tho fort, with its great batteries and oolumbiads, its mile of parapet aud forty acres of interior, is rich in interest. It was tho priBon of Jefferson Davis.

It still swarms with troops. Over at Hampton are throe thousand of the soldiers who fought hero and elsewhere in tho National home. Near by are ton thousand othora in miraborcd graves. At Hampton, too, ib General Armstrong educating tho children of the freodmen, making teachers and artisans by tho hundred to toaoh in turn their brothers through the South. Even the Hygeia is au outgrowth of the hotel built for Butler's officers and tho Old Dominion Bteamships which conneot Hampton roads with the rest of tho world aro the successors of ships taken from a Havre line for use as federal transports.

One who is ouri ous enough to look about finds interest enough in Old Point and its neighbors. Tho chief intorest at present, howevor, iB the social part of Old Point life. Thero nevor was a gayer season. Saturday revening a corman was given in which Bociety danced. There were five favor figures, each a brilliant success.

Scott Carring ton of Richmond led tho cotillion and Miss Schwartzwaeldor of Brooklyn managed tho preparatory matters. Tho chaporonos wore Mrs. Goneral Loddle, Mrs. Govornor Bedle, Mrs. Schwarzwaelder, Mrs.

Holbrook and Mrs. Lyall. The Brooklyn contingent of guests is mcroased every day. District Attorney Ili lgway registered Tuesday. Ho i generally to be found on the boach with General Roger A.

Pryor. Congressman Felix Campbell ib horo with hiB family. Judge Teuney is expected down shortly to join his wifo and daughter. Prominent among the other Brooklyn folks registered during tho week arc Mr. and MrB.

H. D. Polliemus, R. H. Laimbeer, Mr.

and Mrs. A. B. Couch, Mrs. R.

T. Bush, W. T. Bush, Mr. and Mrs.

R. N. Vermilyca, Mr. and Mrs. Charlel A.

Schiorson and tho Misbob Schierson, Mrs. Emily Tines, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Lindsay, Miss Edna Lindsay, Miss Fannie Glenn, Mr.

and Mrs. George H. Richardson, Mr. i.nd Mrs. JoBoph Illness, Mr.

and Mrs. A. K. Sloan, Mr. and Mrs.

John H. Sangerer, Miss Bello Sangerer, Guorgo Brewster, Walter S. Brewster, Mr. and Mrs. H.

N. Carpenter, Miss Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Romson, Miss Lovegrove and H. N.

Houghton. Mrs. Robert 8. Bow no and MissBowne of Flushing arrived a few days ago. On Wednesday tho members of the Yale banjo and gloo club, forty strong, will bo hero.

People at tho point anticipate a lively weok of it while tho Yale colors are lloatiug. Another brilliant german will bo given while tho college men aro here, and thero are enough other gayotieB under way to make tho rost of the spring tho lireliest bit of season tho point ever known. A LITTLK OF ALL SORTS. Napoleon III never had the reputation of a wit, but he said one sharp thing after he had made himsolf master of tho destinies of France. It was at tho expense of his princely cousin Plon Plon, who said to him one day: "You have nothing of your uncle about you." "Yes," he replied, "hia family." Exchange.

Wioknii I tell you, Yabby, my boy, there is nothing Jiko a baby to brighten a man's home. Yabsey I havo noticod that tho gas seems to be at full height in your house at almost any hour of night. ndianiipoifs Journal. "So the panic hit you hard?" "Yes, everything is gono except my honor," "Sorry. I had no idea you were such a total wreck." iVeto York Recorder.

GueBt Ciirioua old rattletrap, this hotel. Sarcastic owner Yes, 'tis ruther bad, ain't it? Ef yer'd ha' sout word ycuso gointer como an' storp er night or tew wuth us we'd ha' had ot all repaired fer yer Arlzansaw Traveler. lie boasts of old "ancestral halls" Iu such a lofty way I Yet those who knew his parents well Are not entangled by his (Tho old man drove a dray.) Iiullanaimlls Journal. Mrs. Blifkins (time, midnight) Horrors 1 Husband! Husband 1 I hear some ono burrowing through tho wall.

Mr. Blifkins Well, well I It must be that book agent. I know we'd all bo in bed by 11 o'clock and I told him to call at half past. Street it Smith's Good Actus. A RECEPTION AT THIi JIASCOTTE CLUB.

The members of the Mascotto club gave a reception to their friends last Thursday evening at their handsomely appointed clubhouse, on Bush wick avonuo and Prospect street. Ferns and potted plants, arranged in tropical confusion, added to tho beauty of tho place aud set o'ff gracefully the handsome costumes of the women. Dincing was indulged iu until midnight, when supper was Hervod, The pleasures of the evening wore diversified by necromancies, banjo selections by S. F. Herbert and J.

D. Parker, tambourine by W. A. Herbert, bones by R. R.

Keeler. Professor C. Far rington rendered some fine violin selections and T. H. Avery presided artistically at tho piano.

Among tho many present wero Mr. and Mrs. Charles Farrington, Miss Grace Farring tou, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Spatz, Miss Mauiio Sputz, Mr.

and Mrs. Ernst Ochs, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Roemmle, John Koemnile, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Seif jrt, Charles Vogt, Arthur Vogt, Frank Charles Meade, Mr. and Mrs. W. Van do Wattr, Mr. Oilman, Mr.

Mrs. John Gordon. George Gil, Miss A.Gill, A. L. Murphy, Mr.

and Mrs. John Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles lltrr. Clarence Martin.

no Slot a. or Sore I'ltroat Bnow.v'.s Troolto arl'orJ immeilPlLo uliof. 1 i lj a N. ANNOUNCEMENT. A NEW DEPARTURE.

haTQ just oponod a now salesroom (containing about two thousand sinmro feat) dovutorl to rich cut (ilusiwaro. Porcelains, lino Silver Plater! "Ware, andSidu Pieces, Ladies' Inlaid Writing Desks and Ta'olo. a largo lino of lino Musical lioxoj and many imported novelties. In our Jewelry Department many nnv desipnr an ahown. Only soUd 11.

kr.rat and LK karat jo.velry otTored. While keeping up tuo standard of both ijualityauu nniab wo HAVE BEDUCED PRICJEH TO THE MINIMUM. Compariuena soiicitol. (ioods marked iu plain figures. It shall 1)0 our constant aim to furniaa the BEST for tho LEAST POSSIBLE PRIUK.

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ESTABLISHED 1S35. HIGHEST GKAD13 IMPORTED. INDIA PALE ALEJ DRAWN THE ffOJD, CAN BE HAD AT ALL FIRST CLASS PLACES) GET THE EAGLE KVKBY DAY IK THE WEES. Dupewr oh tho lecture Platform. Chauneey M.

Depew talks more and is talked more about than any other American. He not only talks more frequently, but more variedly, and he talks uncommonly well. Best known as a humorist, iu the sense in which best indicates tho degree of knowledge concerning him, he is not known "best" in that character, in the sense in which the word signifies a denotement of himself. Ho is only incidentally a humorist, whilo principally ho is an orator, a thinker, a man of wide culture, of constant and extensive reading, of wonderful capacity for description, generalization, comparison, contrast and for logical as well as emotional appeal. His occasional addresses have been among the fineBt delivered iu America.

His orations on Washington, in Chicago, on the constitutional centennial, in New York, and on Morgan, Fenton and other characters, before the state legislature, with his address on the nnvailing of the Bartholdi statue, the gift of France to the United States, rank as high in the annals of scholarly thought and meditative eloquence as any words spoken in these teeming times on this side of the sea. He has been heard in Brooklyn post pran dially and politically, but never seriously on subjects uniting instead of dividing the opinion and enlisting the sympathies of all men and women of sensibilitv. Such an oppor tunity to hear him will shortly be' He will lecture in our Academy of Music oja the night of Monday, April 6, for the benefit of tho Homeopathic hospital on Cumberland street, and his subject is both enticingly and piquingly announced as Contrasts." He will come to Brooklyn to deliver this ltecture for this representative institution, without further reward to himself than the gratitude of the sick nnd the suffering and the thanks of those who have arranged the cedking event to enable him to be of service to institu tion which they unselfishly nt. The lecture is one of the addresses ever prepared by this master assemblies. It is repleto with sentime: description, thought, appeal, earnestness not devoid of the matchless and magne1 humor of the man.

The cause is as sa is, indeed, tho cause of as religion. It gospel of hope and of health on tho will not onlv afford our The time sot an opportunity to be charmed by great orators of the age but, whilo under his spell, to realize that they ng an institution countenance, in entitled to their every project puts forth for those the wards placod by whom it providence and for the to Mr. Do with tho fa j. For the cause invokes a welcome dyn commensurate olie, with tho merit of the other benign an the heartfulness of this utiful city. Where ccfoii In Heeded.

According to our uevs reports official lists of tho civil employes it the Brooklyn navy yard are being ibompildd by the commandant. One of these IrAts, it staled, is made out "for the satisfaction of the new chairman of the Republican general committee of Kings count, Mr. T. W. Goodrich." What Mr.

Goodrich intijids to do with tho pa. per, after reaehc him, is not explained, The inference is tlat he purposes to keep it as a sort at voucher tor tho prosperity which the adheffents of ti Republican "machine" aro enjoSing in thse piping times of restored Republfcan 'aseerilency. Perhaps, however. the chairman of tie committee contemplates devoting to morn useful purposes the infor matioiA he is supposed to be seeking. It may serve (as an argument for the promotion of a genuine reform.

Thjere is now, before the executive commit, toe pt the Republican general committee a ion fronijthe Brooklyn civil service re foruu association. It asks that the central botty approve a proposition to placo appoin tecs at tho yard within operation of tho merit stem. Of 'course the reformers do not in ude tho uniformed force. Thov annlv to the Wgo number of clerks, copyists aud othersub ordinates who would legitimately and properly come under the civil service rules. The pe tition is htraightforward and sincere.

It bears the names of many excellent citizens. Among the signers are a large number of influential Republicans, who enjoy the confidencK of the party and whose services in its behalf entitle them to address to its representatives a respectful appeal. Notwithstanding the unfavorable reception nccorded to the petition on the floor of tho general committeo the leaders of tho Repub lican party would consult their own welfare, not less than the public interest, by reconsid ering their refusal to adopt it. Than their attitudp of antagonism toward it, viewed in connection with their pretended desire for municipal reform, nothing could be more inconsistent. To run with the non parti san haro in the neighborhood of tho city hall and hunt with the spoils hounds in the vicinity of the navy yard may strike tho political workers as practicable, but it is a performance, which, if undertaken, will deceive no citizen eapablo of discharging intelligently his duty to himself and the com munity.

When Mr. Fischer denounced civil s(i vice reform and said the "boys" proposed to havo the "spoils," he did his party more harm than he can undo by pulling wires from now until the November returns aro in. Tho misuse of navy yard patronage for party purposes has long been a crying scandal. For perpetuation of the evil both parties are equally responsible. That Democrats and Republicans alike have erred in upholding it is no reason why the abuse should not be wiped out.

Their joint offending furnishes on the con trary an unanswerable argument in favor of tho contemplated reform. Extension of the rules would ultimately be helpful for all concerned It would improve tho service by bringing into it men better qualified than those who can be obtained under the "spoils" system. It would make easier the lot of the employes by insuring, during good behavior, their tenure of office. To the politicians themselves, if they could recognize the truth, it would bring inestimable relief from the importunity of "heelers" and the recommendations of bosses. A better time than the present for effecting the reform could hardly be chosen.

Sooner or later it is bound to come. The politicians who do not believe that it will inevitably displace the "spoils" system will make a serious mistake and suffer accord "igb" Section 10 of article 6 of the constitution is in these words "The judges of the court of appeals and tho justice: of tho supremo court shall not hold any other office or public trust. All votes for any of them for any other than judicial office given by the legislature or the people shall be void." The Eagle is of tho opinioii that after this the Albany Frees and Knickerbocker will uot talk any more about Justice Alton B. Parker of the supreme court as a candidato or nomiueo for governor. Tlio Sunday Morning Edition of tlia Eagle has a Large ar.d Growing Circulation Throughout the United States.

It it the Best Advertising Medium for Thou wlw Desire to Heath aU Glasses of Newspaper Headers in Brooklyn and on Long Island. The Iaily (Erening Eagle now in its Fifty first year. lit Circulation is Larger Than That of any Other Paper of its Class in the 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. Eairl Branch Otllcon norlford Avcnur, IVoar FnltoM Street, '133 Fifth Avenue. Near Ninth Streot.

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Communications unless accompanied with stamped envelopes will not be returned. The forbearance of Connecticut criminals to commit murder and run to New York state continues and should receive grateful recognition. The Republican papers seem to insist not only that Governor Hill got Mr. Watterson's letter but that he got it right in the neck. Malice could no further go.

The advent of spring might naturally be expected to give a sharp stimulant to architectural activities, but the list of building permits betrays no sign of anything of the sort as yet. A daughter of Secretary Bayard is going to marry a Swedish mechanic, architect and engineer. He happens also to be a count, but inasmuch its he knows how to build ships and develop mines he is not a count of no account. The local cranks who are denouncing the Eagle's condemnation of the Now Orleans mob forget that that mob did not have the excuse or palliation which tho elimination of such inconsidernto nuisances as tho cranks themselves would unquestionably have supplied. Tho theatrical exit of Actor Aveling is not a matter about which to grievo.

The man, whether an actor or not. who brutalizes himself with liquor and precedes suicide by an insulting letter concerning his wife is not much of a subject for sympathy. An onion holds all the tears that should bo extorted by his demise. The Harlem Reporter announces that Ros well P. Flower will bo the next governor of New York.

Mr. Flower is a Democrat. Tho Harlem Reporter is edited by John A. Mason, till rf cently a deputy collector of the port of New then and sinceaCleveland'man. The indication is, therefore, that the Cleveland men are for Flower for governor.

If the Hill men will now support Jones a conflict of the most interesting character will bo insured. A Democratic, mayor out in Elrnira has been conducting himself in a Thomas B. Heed manner as tho presiding officer of tho common council, and the Republican organ, tlio Elmira Advertiser, very properly protests. It makes a good deal of difference whose ox is gored. The Eaole thinks, however, that any presiding officer, whether Republican or Democratic, who conducts himself in a Thomas B.

Heed manner ought to be bounced. It appears from the Boston newspapers that Dr. Storrs of the Church of the Pilgrims, in this city, made a strong impression on Thursday night in Park street ehureh, in the Puritan capital. His subject, foreign missions, is a favorite ono of bis, but this time was considered from a somewhat unfamiliar point of view that of tho "relative modern decline it; the intensity of zeal" for tho work. The fact was not denied, and various explanations of it were suggested.

A quarter of a length is not much in a three mile course, but it served the purpose of the Oxford crew, who yesterday defeated the Cambridge oarsmen. Notwithstanding unfavorable weather and other drawbacks tho contest is described as "the grandest race rowed on the River Thames in many years." This annual trial of strength and endurance and skill between the leading English universities remains the foremost affair in the world of sport, for the number of spectators it gathers and for tho universal confidenco it compels as a fair and perfect examplo of the inspiring legend, "May the best man win." The Republican Btato organs are doing their best to prove that Democracy is synonymous with depravity whilo the Democratic state organs are doing their best to provo that Republicanism is interconvertible with rottenness. That neither of those sets of organs could succeed in establishing their propositions without tho degradation of the people among whom and of the state in which they live, does not seem to have occurred to them at all. Most lamentable of all is the fact that the mainspring of this rhetorical rivalry in defamation is but the desire for rural post offices, county printing aud such plunder. The approach of Easter gives timeliness to men's as well a3 women's fashions.

Those who caro for their clothing as what well ordered citizen should not? will not overlook to day's special entitled "Plain Attire for Men," which is accompanied with three illustrations showing what is to bo worn. Tho page in which room is made for the horso is unusually attractive. The steed and the ridor command tho interest of a steadily increasing number of persons. In this city especially equestrianism has received a remarkable stimulant in recent The sixteen pictures in the article referred to are, with few exceptions, likenesses of both animals and ownors. Thero are seven other portraits, those of Miss Brigham, of whom a memorial is to be pro Nearly every other candidate is perfectly willing to renominate Jones for lieutenant governor.

The general, however, is not paying the freight on small parcels any more. Search for reasons why Jones should not be made governor has not revealed any up to date. The prediction is abundant, however, that his nomination will be prevented by boss or brute power. Sometimes, however, that sort of power fails on a scale as large as a state. The Troy Daily Press says that "Miss Columbia, the female figure that is to overtop the Troy soldiers' monument, is not a typical Trojan beauty." It remarks: "The nrmB are the only part distinctively Trojan wonderfully white, singularly symmetrical and gracefully ourved." It adds that "the face is not beautiful, but Bostonian," and It further says that "the flat bottomed, bunchy and bunionytoes are a concession to Albany." The Press is evidently doing its best to bring about mob law in several cities.

If those Italian ironclads make their appearance in the harbor of New York it will only be necessary to extemporize a mortar fleet, load the mortars up with New York haekmen and fire away. New York hackmen as ammunition would shatter the Himalayas, disintegrate the Andes nnd pulverize the Rockies. An ordinary or an extraordinary ironclad would stand no more chance against a bombardment of New York hackmen in the form of ammunition than a breastwork of bananas would have against the onrush of a vestibule limited. Tho attention of the park commissioners at Thursday's meeting was occupied in part with railroad affairs. General Slocum reported that the tracks of that part of his Coney Island road which crosses tho circle at the lower end of Prospect park needed renovation, and ho sought tho privilege of putting down new rails.

The commissioners thought it would bo an improvement to lay them around the inside of the circle instead of across it and the general agreed. It was suggested that a similar change at Fifteenth street would also bo a good thing, but the wily strategist said that there might be a contest by and by and he believed his interest would be safer if the situation remained just as it is. More interesting was General Sloeura's intimation that when the storage battery system should be perfected he would seek leave to use electricity at these points instead of horses. The commissioners resolved to co operate with the tree planting society in a campaign against destructive insects. The bee is still buzzing in the official bonnet and Superintendent Aneurin Jones' pay was increased from 3,000 to $3,500.

"Will you look into our political doctrines? We do not ask you to adopt them. We only ask you to promise to examine them." "I will examine them. That I promise you. Mark you, I do not say I will adopt them." "We have confidence, general, in your word, and we will vote for you." This was verbatim the conversation between General Palmer and the two farmers', alliance legisla tors who united with the Democrats in electing him senator. It will be seen the alliance men did not seek to commit the general and the general was careful not to commit himself.

This shows tho fals ity of the Republican charges that he "sacrificed his principles to obtain an office." He could have obtained tho office, at any time, by such a sacrifice, but would not get it in that way. It came to him honorably. He came to it unpledged. On the contrary, the Republican members of the Illinois legis lature unanimously voted for a man named Streoter, who was a fiat money man to fiat money men, a protectionist to protectionists, a free trader to free traders, a man who would bo a Catholic in Rome, a Greek in Constantinople, a Brahman in Calcutta, a Buddhist in Canton, a cannibal on the Congo, or a leper in Honolulu, to get elected to office, so great was his alacrity to sympathize with his environment. The loss the Republicans say about that Illinois business tho better for them.

Among the things interesting which spring brings us are tho annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church. That called the New York East will begin at Patchogue on April 1. As it includes tho city of Brooklyn, a local as well as a general concern attaches to it. As no unusual and stirring question is now pending in the denomination, 'except the proposed enlargement of the representation and influence of women in ecclesiastical councils, tho distribution of pastors will be the most closely watched. In this city some of the best known Methodist ministers remain for further service.

One importation is announced. The Rev. Dr. J. O.

Wilson of the Philadelphia Tabernaelo has been transferred and will be sent to the Simpson church. A repute for zeal and eloquence precedes him. This matter of appointments is far less grave and doubtful than it used to be. Then the presiding bishop held the fortune of the minister and his family in the hollow of his episcopal hand. The clergyman was obliged to obey his superior's order without a murmur, go where he was sent and stay his year, whether he liked the station or not.

On the other hand, however much the congregation might grumble, it was idle to complain. They have changed all that. First the itinerant term was extended to two years, then to three, then to live, und it is not impossible that the time limit will be wholly removed. Long ago the assignments were determined, as now, in effect by congregations and preachers. Tho former get whom they want, nnd, while the bishop is consulted as a courteous formality, there is probably not a man on the bench who would interfere with the determination.

Mr. Tully R. Cornick, one of the principal contractors for the Northern railroad of Guatemala, makes public some facts in the career of General Barrundia, who was killed while resisting arrest on board the American steamer Acapulco, in the port of San Jose. He was minister of war at the time when President Barrios issued the edict that provoked the revolution of 1885. Tho government needed money to pay tho soldiers.

The ordinary methods of raising it having failed, Barrundia conceived an extraordinary way of getting it. Under the contract between the railroad company and the government the construction funds were doposited in the In Vtas fair, and almost fat; Whilo Sarah saj's her build wa mbro On the stylo of a woodou slat. But both the ladieB aro perfectly tight, And both of them should rejoice. For the crowd will rush in the lianal way, Pay its money and take its oiioico. A noisy noise A ChlCaCO tnrl )nt nnn nf Un, Tchtln crosaini? Fulton street one, day last week and, al thonEhtho trucks andcarts made their UBUal racket, you coalnVoaBily licnr a "Bum" drop.

VjiSTE vs. religion. 3llUlC6tlt DoAi't von thinV nnr iAtr TniniRtnr ia just too lovofy, introduoiue those new hieh church idearf? MadKo Yids: than to war vestments which don't harmonize with thefcolors of the altar carpet. PER CENT. De Flit) I don't wnnrlpr tlmt Mio Tlnhoni.fi wild, hfjir father doesn't take a particle of interest iiy nav doings.

De Wit Well, that'g strange, for he is a money lender, you know. BURE CURE. MrB. Oldbody Doctor, my hair is turning prematurely gray. Dofiivo me Bomethine to stop it.

Dr. Smarts JIadam, my adTice to you would bo to diet regular. AND THE WIND DLEW. A longskoreman Bat on tho end of a pier, With a line thrown out in the stream, And ho thought the whopping big fish ho'd catch, And ot sundry dinners did dream. He Allied all day long till the twilight appoarod, But not even an oel caught ho Apd tho cold wind whisked with a moan through his beard, On its way down toward the sea.

THE NEW VERSION. I'm going home," tho lineman sang, In accents soft and measure slow. As through the streets his footsteps rang, I'm going homo to dynamo A NEW SCANDAL. Judge Prisoner, yon are charged with boinE intoxicated upon the streets. Guilty or not guilty Resident of JerBey Your honor, I am a respectable citizen of Jersey City.

I came over to Brooklyn for tho first time yesterday, and tlio sidewalks hero wore ho uneven that, not being used to them, I staggered more or Iobs in going about town, and" Judge Sixty days for trying to oreats a sidewalk scandal 1 ONE ON ATKINSON. "Have you seen the new trousers and necktie that Archie Atkinson bought yesterday "Don't need to see them; heard them three blooks away last night." LA MAFIA. (With apologies to Tannysoa.) I como from fur Italian shores, Where warm snnlisrht carossos. The olive vine. I hide my stores In tropic wildernesses.

In troublous timoK, whon hard I'm prcssod, I sail across the ocean, And whon I land, begin with zest, To make a groat commotion. I blaokmail hero; thore, torture try; Sometimes a windpipe sever; For men may live, or men may dio, But I go on forever! IN THE STUDIO. Jubson Ah, Smoars, goiug in for animal painting, eh Smears Yes, hero'a a yelping dog I am at work on. Jubson George I can hear him. Smears That's flattering.

Jubson iTou must bo doing him in yellow ochre: yell, oh cur. See Smears, with a shriek of anguish, puts Jubson out of the eighth floor window and resumos work. ABOUT BROOKLYN PEOPLE. General Horatio C. King delivered an address on General Sherman at Manchester, N.

on Wednesday evening last, nndor the anspices of Louis Bell post, G. A. II. Upon the platform were Governor Tuttle and ex Governors Cheney, Weston, Symthe and Goodell. Mrs.

Edward L. Milhau and tlio Jlissss Milhati, 201 Henry street, will give a reception on Saturday, April 4, from i until 7 o'clock. Over 1,300 invitations have been issued. Mrs. Van Alst, of Greene avenue, has returned from Washington, D.

whore she has been spondiug the winter. Her friends will be triad to know that she has entiroly recovered her hoalth. Professor Gabriel Hartison, is of tho busiest men in the city. His odd hours are being iu veatod in the perfection of a work to represent certain aspects of dramatic history, which, with tho dotail in which ho ia so affluent, cannot fail to be interesting. His immediate enterprise is that of making arrangementB for an exhibition of his elocutionary pupils at the Criterion on April 20.

Miss Alico Shopard, who commenced hor drnmatio career with the Melpomeno society, has achieved marked success witii tho Frohman Lyceum company in her great character of Lucille Ferrant in "The Wifo throughout tlio Unitod States tho past year, having played die part over two hundred times. Mr. Goorge T. Lain is spending a spring vacation in tho woods of Hamilton county. His address for the weok is at Sacevillo.

Dr.JameB Watt of Court street, accompanied by Mrs. Watt and Master watt, are making an extended tour in the island of Cuba. They aro in excellent hoalth and enjoying their Journey. A new musical work Flower has been dedicated to Mr. and Mrs.

John H. Kitching of Hancook street by the popular composer, Mr. Waller A. Dolane. Among the passougers of the steamer Orinocco, which loft Wednesday for tlio Bermudas, was Mr.

William M. Adams of 203 Hancook street. Mr. Adams intends to mako a short stay in Bermuda and takes tho trip in order to obi. iin a complete rest and relief from business caros.

A number of his business associates saw him off and their wishes for his welfare with a magnificent basket of fruit which ho found awaiting him in tho steamer's cabin. Frank La JIanna, the president of the academy of photography, sailed for Europe yesterday, lie expects to take many views in Wales for tho benefit of Brooklyn audiences next fall. The members of tho acadomy saw hiui off. Mr. and Mrs.

James H. Hart and daughter left for Europe last Wednesday on a throe months' trip. During tho trip they will visit London, Paris, Nice, Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Florence, Venice, Vicuna, Dresden, Berlin, Hanover aud Bremen. Mr. Hart took a camera with him, which.

ho proposes to use in taking copies and sketches of tilings and places which will make tho eyes of his friends twinkle on his return. Mr. Buckley Piatt is bound to make tho benefit entertainment for St. Martha's sanitarium, tho rendering of Tennyson's at tho Academy of Music, on April 11, a success. Certainly, tho novelty of tho affair bhould commend it.

The stage work of the monodr.ima is fortunately in the hands of Mr. Henry G. Somborn. "THE OF VKiaSfJUEZ." Next Saturday ovening. at fl o'clock, Captain James Brown will unveil the painting "The Drunkards of Velasquez." which iB at present hanging iu his parlors.

Tho picture is a fine work of art and is just 130 years old. It was imported recently from Europe and is valued at 55,000. It is 8 feot long and eet high, ar.d is framed in a handsome case of gold and bronze work. Thero ore seven figures in the painting, six of which represent the drunkards and tho seventh tho god Bacchus iu tho act of crowning them with laurel wreaths. Invitations havo beeu iHsuod to prominent citizens to attend the unveiling.

I3SPKCTOBS Of PaVIXU. Commissioner Adams has appointed Thad.ieus Cunningham, George Moliu, Joseph Kor.vin, William Nolan, Cornelius Bnhen, Michael Healr, Michael Kane, Joseph Coyle, William Cnrpentor Frederick Luck and Thomas Ford as inspectors of granite paving work at a day. Forakor as a Study. Comment on the report that ex Governor Foraker is considered as a candidate for United States senator wears a look of surprise that he does not adopt other people's estimate of himself. There should be no such surprise.

Foraker's object is to get the Republican party in Ohio to take him at his own estimate of himself. If he is successful, he will not only be a candidate for Uuited States senator, but an aspirant for the presidency. His struggle is, therefore, a very interesting one to contemplate. The Eagle is not disposed to criticise For akir for not accepting judgment of incapacitation for public functions against himself. He oannot but know that John T.

Hoffman, in this slate, and W. S. Groes beck, in Ohio, two very able men, made a mistake in accepting such a judgment against themselves. They found the public ready to take them at their own adoption of the theory of their own unavailability. Hoffman died untimely and disappointed, although he had no more relationship to the Tweed frauds than was involved in the fact of being contemporaneous with them.

Groesbeck has not died, but it cannot be maintained that he has actively or actually lived, for he has just existed as an uneffaced stagnancy, and, although traditionally regarded as the ablest Democrat in Ohio, he could as well as not havo been embalmed, all these recent years, so far as all political purposes are concerned. Foraker does not ill to get proposed for everything, announced for everything, mentioned for everything, aud to commit assault and battery on every possible office with intent to fill it. He may not obtain any office, but he will secure all the comfort and con spicuity which are dear to men of his kind, in the fact of constantly or periodically becoming a topic. He is pursuing a course which better and more sensitive mon, such as Hoffman and Groesbeck, for motives far different from Foraker'B, could well have taken. It was in them to bo of service to their country.

It is in Republicanism, Foraker is convinced, to be of service to himself. Samuel J. Til den, Grover Cleveland, David B. Hill, John Kelly and John T. Agnew, much and often as they disagreed on other things, were once united on tho desirability of Hoffman's return to public life.

They arranged to send him to congress from tho district and at the time Joseph Pulitzer was chosen. Tho ex governor, however, held back, because of his extreme sensitivoness to the injustice he had received and feared would be renewed. To censure deserved or undeserved, Foraker seems to be wholly indifferent. He has no fondness for what Amos Kendall called "a state of retiracy." Little matters of lying, complicity with forgery, repudiation by the people and association with confessed criminals are charged against him, but he deems them to be only ammunition of the enemy, and ho insists that his party is thereby all the more required to take care of him. Infidelity to Sherman and McKinley is charged on him from Republican sources, but he is conscious that ho has never been unfaithful to himself, and that suffices to console him.

He reasons that in proportion as he can get himself hated, he can get himself liked, or if not liked, get himself mado tho leader of a faction or of a "wing." He argues, too, that those who take a contract to write him down are unwittingly writing him up. To a de gree, or in a sense, he is not out of the way in this conclusion. The fate of his activity in politics will be worth studying. If ho can win new or larger preferment from Ohio Republicanism, the uses of assurance, self confidence, advertisement and unabashableness in politics will be magnified. Tho needlessness of a public man succumbing to any amount of adverse fortune will be verified.

In such case, the idea that there aro any permanently disqualifying circumstances against him will be one politician will bo obliged to entertain; The futility of denunciation in polities will be illustrated an effect not undesirable in itself. On Ohio alone is at present the duty of dealing with Foraker but ho is interesting to tho whole country as a man whose energy, if crowned with success, will bo likely to work a revolutionary result in what have been thought to be the inviolable limits of every political graveyard in tho Union. Newspaper and Sin toners. In the Editor's Easy Chair in Harper's Magazine for April, George William Curtis writes about newspaper manners, "If a man is a gentleman," says Mr. Curtis, "he does not cease to bo one because hi enters a newspaper office, and it would stem to be equally true that if his work on W's paper does not prove to be that of a gentleman, it coutd not have been a gentleman who1 did the work.

A gentleman, we will suppose, does not blackguard bis neighbor, no talk incessantly about himself and his achievements, nor behave elsewhere as he v.ou!d bo ashamed to behavo in his club or in iis family. If a gentleman does not do ihesj things, of course, a gentleman does not do hem in a newspaper." Tho remarks of Mr1. Curtis aro obviously true. Whon obviousljy truo remarks aro prt. found, they are called axiomatic.

When thfy are considerably less than profound, they are called Bunsbyish. Under which categlry Mr. Curtis' obviously true remarks fall readers may not agree. It can be said, however, that whether in "tho fclub," the "family" or the newspaper a 'gentAeman" does not have to proclaim himself in that character. Tho character is self revelatory or it does not exist.

The man who c.tillB himself a "gentleman" in print is invariably the only man who calls him that any.whero. Yet there have been newspaper who have attached that appellation to tljiemselves, because nobody else would do it for them or to them, and, presumably, also, ori account of the pleasure which the distinction, evon when self conferred, brought to them by its rarity a distinction none the leps appreciated because questionably deserved. The work of this world, whether on the press cr off the press, cads, however, rfor manliness rather than for eontlenoss. Both are but manliness tho more desirablp, because its essential part i3 courage, while tho ornament of al Dr. Talmago's sketch of a dead ship on Friday night was, paradoxically speaking, full of life.

The pastor qualifies his picturesque treatment of things with a wholesome flavor of common sense. Ho admitted that "the romance of the sea is quite charming when read on shore," but that "those who have seen tho Atlantic in its uplifted wrath do not associato it with anything delightful." This is of course a truism, but no less a one is it that all the reports of the terrors of the ocean restrain nobody from braving them. The steamship lines will probably not sell one statoroom the less next summer because of the fate of the Utopia. Organization of tuo Nenr Federal Court. The President appears to have made up his mind, under the advice of his attorney general, to appoint the nine new judges of the court created by an act of the late congress without calling an extra session of the senate to confirm them.

The rule which, it is said, he will observe in making these appointments is announced by a Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune on the authority of a gentleman who is represented to be an intimate personal friend of the attorney general. "Persons, I think, will be appointed," says the informant, "who have the Republican idea, as contrasted with the Democratic idea, touching the powers and functions of the several branches of the United States government and the state governments." The contrast here referred to is so strong that it is not difficult to differentiate the two "ideas." Tho Democratic idea is derived from that clause of the constitution which declares that all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people thereof. In homely phrase it may bo thus expressed: "It is the duty of the federal government to mind its own business, and to leave the states free to mind theirs." The Republican idea seems to be that it is tho duty of the federal government to assume such powers and exercise such functions as are best calculated to put the Republican party in office and keep it there. In other words, the Democratic idea is that the limits of the powers of the foderal government are defined by the constitution of the United States, and are therefore to be strictly followed and respected, while the Republican idea is that tho proper limits of such powers are from time to time to be determined by the exigencies and necessities of the Republican party. That President Harrison has resolved to adopt the courso ascribed to him by the Ttibune correspondent's informant we do not believe.

His judicial appointments have almost invariably boon excellent, and it is not to be presumed that he will mar so good a record by a system of selection worthy only of an unscrupulous partisan executive. The people of the United States who, in respect of federal appointments generally, aro not severely critical of the motives of tho appointing power, but seem rather inclined to allow the President a very liberal margin, make an exception to this rule in tho case of the appointment of men to judicial office, They expect their judges to leave their politics behind them when they assume the ermine. It matters not to them what the political bias of the appointee may have been, provided ho is a man who will faithfully and conscientiously apply the law, regardless of the consequences to any party or political organization. When ho ascends the bench ho must be prepared to administer justice equally, impartially, scrupulously and without fear or favor. But, assuming that the President has not been misrepresented and that ho means to select judges who "will have tho Republican idea as contrasted with tho Democratic idea," is the execution of such a purpose likely to produce the results anticipated The record of tho supremo court of the United States for the last twenty five years, with very few exceptions, furnishes material which would ju tify us in returning a negative answer to this question.

During that entire period a majority of tho justices were men who had been appointed from the ranks of tho Republican party. Until Mr. Cleveland's administration the only Democratic members were Samuel Nelson and Nathan Clifford. Nevertheless this tribunal, so largely composed of Republican judges, has in nearly every case involving a construction of tho constitutional limits of federal authority, decided the question agreeably to the Democratic "idea" not because the idea was Democratic, but because it was constitutional, because it was the idea which the framers of that instrument entertained and which they designed to incorporate as a fundamental idea of the system of government which the constitution created. From the decision declaring tho civil rights act of a Republican congress null and void down to the affirmation of the right of a state to pass prohibitory liquor laws, tho supremo court rulings have tended to overthrow the assumption that the federal government can exercise doubtful powers in derogation of the sov erignty of the states.

A recent and notable exception of what is popularly known as the original package case, in which a majority of the judges held that under tho provision of the constitution authorizing congress to regulate inter state commerce that body could enact a law permitting a citizen of one state to carry liquor into another state and sell it there, in the original package, notwithstanding a state law interdicting the sale of any liquor. But this case only emphasizes tho point wo are seeking to make, for all of tho justices who dissented from the opinion ot the majority were Republicans. If the two failures whom President Cleveland appointed, Fuller and Lamar, had obeyed tho injunction of the political faith in which they were reared, the judgment of tho court would have been exactly tho reverse. Their examplo accordingly strengthens the proposition that men elevated to life positions on the bench are inclined to think aud act independently. The influences of a professional education and experience are apt to be more potent than political sympathy or partisan bias.

The study of law, the comparison of the reasonings of ingenious legal minds and tho investigation of tho principles of A.