Notes Editorial

Wliitelaw Keuls' hriile rt'oievrd a )rilal gift of $500,000 fn.m lui few ],:1pi. Sbe la ¦ ili-.-ir Ijritlc, toiatart- orfor lier t'ulht-r. A woman's MiSngt amcndmciit was lnsi In the house last Wrdm-sduy ,y a vote of (M ti :!(. A belng raqaired ti. its ]i:iSophie I'icofi'-ky. the joaúg lady bung n St. Petersburjr for lici in the Mspssiiiation of the ivht. wm pivtty ami ïeliiifd in appcnraiwc. and coeedlaf ly dl educated. Win. l{oss a poet, at MM time of' ¦ome prominente, (Bed au Bátanla; lui in New York. Ilttvinjr been Ia redoced clrmntltMM for several years keiail i i-n ven' extended obituary. Lonl Beafonsiield N said to have remMned mmpanitively nlieerful in his ill MM, ni;iint:iiiiii] Midi ierenltv of mimi tlinl In the Intervals "f th dltrelnjr attacks of astlnuatie eouhiiit; lie correclrd the proofs of bis lnui speech. lrohiliitin quertion hhíii nam in the Iowit houw of the lpgislature nd wm lot hy :i vote if 61 to 32, kckin; on e vote. A liquor Ux bill, lixinj; the i:i uu brewcd and tnalt ilquor ut ÍJIXI Hii'l on difttil I-1 liquors n tlien p:is.so(1 liy a voteoföO to :. One iI the most sensible retoei i'ver interposcl by the executiveof mr ata : Oov Jeiome apon tba act rf Mm iture mitliorizinj; what is known ai the llowell compilaüoo bilí. The sonate ihowed itelackel food judgmeiri lat Wc.iu. liii HUue over the vel,.. hul the Ihh se will do leinuiiis U be (ieorjee Washington post of the grand arniy of the republlc, pi . -i-ikiii decomtktn dy and place llowers on the grave t the f.ilber ot liis country. Severa! nieinbors ot other nutd iiriuv i artd otter national regiment I liave -ketl to be allo wed to iicenmpany the ni-t riirfleld h;is been aske.l tn .leliver ;lll Olrttioll. There tnay. io "inething Me ut lonla, :i some of tbc pajiprs nre trving t iiutke mt, bul it miirhty strHnjre ¦ tu vci hcanl an II iintll the re-poin traen ta m lo be made by the .'¦'v.TiK.r. Thsoe rtHte lntitntlon I) fT( ín r.ill y brought alxHlt b}' ome ore lieaded or jeaIoo-pU)d individual, lio bopet i help ttopg liis ovn canse by t - : i r i 1 1 1_ down sompbodv else. Tbe wlidlc nniiibcr cit pHlllflhi in Hklgn, Hareti 24, HBt; riu 1,414. rriie wbolc íiiniitMr, De. 31, 1-C iv.hl, Í'.M; Increase, 183. The state of tbe unión liavnjr a laffer nflmber f pogtofflcea thao Michigan are: l'cnivlvanm, 3,487; c York, 2,970; Ohlo, í,43( UUaaia, 1,081; liyjuia, l,,"".'i; Imliana, IJIWi Kaiisn-, I.5SS; lowa, l..")0.s: Norib (.aiuliim. ],!i:!. Tennessoi' Ims luo le, or 1,412. Tlic iota] ¦umber oi portofflces in the LTnlted State, Harch 24, 1881, 18,971. Ín W8Uiere re S9,358 lucreaae, I. Ti::. GFreat üritain Huw saiil to lx' RMttly ilisliiilinl oviT llic O])fi-ati..n ..I tlic Kus lian id ttie l'.i í r i ¦ Occan. nnl 11 ohm. iifir. inírini tu iiniíil extenslre tortiticalioiis niMt-tli.' Aincricaii liuc. wbctliir 00 the íiortlicrii ir southem frontter ot Brttlsd i'olniíiliia la nol státed. and will probably lócate r - oaraj rMBnre thera. Jusl how Rualana mav be threntenlng Britiah IntecesU we do ni for the hitii-r ia all powerfwl un (he ooea, üiid khan is no di-pulfil tcrritory wliicli cilhcr piirty niay viólate to thc njnry ol the otlicr. 'l'liat tlicii' mav 1' jcalon-y .,nra none will denv. ot Eníland by qperation of the Bussjg " '!¦ 1'aHlic, ssm.I, a ,,!,„.(,., o,, j,,,.,.,,,.,. tliat thc lnMllRnce isnot eíititlecHomnch rmlriirr ine more mvestijfaloi-a del ve into th.rante rrandi ttie ciearér t beoomes wliy democratie congrenmen dld aet more thorougblj exposé tbe nc-iil.iiiiirsdt iimt Civil Sfivi,-,. l,i;incli wlicn lln-v jiri'MMldi-ll k) look tato I. Too nmiy t tlit-in, if HO) in ictivc -c.ii)1,ü,-ity willi tbe mltlicr-, ,-- prci,,! bn ta uriMied in tlicir uiiiiiiiohs bj golden lilenec. n buoomeoq! ver Itteig Uut ll.inc...k"s aoiainatlon urn! iiic disoomtlture nf Rkodnlli hoM mii tWigjJ i'.v mm rente teub, aot wiiii Hnncook8 kmmlcd;;,., l„it hy the etllittlog of uien rhopreferred him to Kai.dali, or to :u.v one wii.mi tie latter miybt name lor the leadlnjf place on the tiokt, Randail was nepubtd foa i,, tbe -tar rinjr, aiul the muMCvof the rtng ,l(Mcrttp, hh Mflut Cinclnnatl. Ssnoftck Was the RCOnd choiCC of in.iny Himlall men There hare beenonjv twoctbinetaOoan youngerthan Rbfeeri Lincoln; Alexander Baanton, who w;i..nly M when efl by Washington mcrtttny „f the tnaaury, and Jli-nry Knox, the iirt lecretary oi" ar mder thfe eóngtltution, ui„, was 37. The earth'a ea8ward rotation, toirether witli lacrease ia rate trom tbe pules to tbe equator baa i.-ncUn,y to Arow the "i rtreaipt agaiqal tln-ir ivr-im, bnki siiilici,.,,! to produoe fMtea marked efiaM in niany parta Éf the umi,]. It s M..tifal,]e n l;ll-,. vvlH-n. tl,,. ,,.,,,wts are.-.irthy. an.l t„. ,,„-1, „( ,,„. ua„,r s Unail and n the (lirtctiuii of tin; Btiewn, tke bank affatest wMch tlie wikt strikes tli.' more forclbly bclng bigh umi teep, whJle thé other is low. The eflbci bM been obserred in umin Mmn ;„rOie and Asi, an.i on tbe nvcis IntersectJng lOW the AUsntlc border of tbe United star.