Editorial Chips And Splinters

- Tbc Advance charges the President wlth "a blonder" in appolnting Akerman Attorney General,' and illustrates the appolntee's fltoeea thusly : "Xo man regards ftgradmtepfthe pcnitentiary, no matter huw tliorotiglily reformed, as a suitable ciindidatu for the ermine. - It is iuggested tfaat "Gosef Lane" may bc the Democratie Senator from Qiegm. ISetter a Democratie defeat than the resurrecüon oisuch a relio ofautiquity. - Fisk did give McFmlaad "a pass" to Cincinnati aml back, and didn't swear at Mm in the wuy the Imagluatlve reporters pV.l it, nor offer him "a pass to h - 1." So that story's1 done for. - Whittemore proposes anotlior attempt to get a seat in the House, and the vevy intelligent electors of hls district will probably return him. They wlll all vote as the bell-wèther does. - Thirty-one Senators!, belng yet without "bonUs," are couuted as opposud to tlie San Domingo treaty. Tho Ladiei1 Repositortj, for July, has n v'arled and readable list of papers, essay, sk tch, story, verse, editorial notes, etc,, thu opening article being a biographical sketch of the late Bishop Thompson, by Rl'v'. Dr. Curry. Therc are four illustrated artlcles, besides a beauüí'ul steel landscape, '■The Lone Stream" and a portrait of W. W. Cornell, the foundcr of Cornell Dnlver sitj. The number beglns volume xxx. U.öo a year. Address Hitchcock it Walden, Ciucinuati, Ohio. A Radical journal iu Iowa says tLe Radio::! party may as well creep into a hole and theu pull it in after them, f its loudors cspect to make a livicg party based upoti a support of a LigU traiff. Evidonee taken at tho coroner's inquest on tho Great Western llailway disuster goes substantially to prove that the casualty was caused by the eudden breaking of an axle, through a flaw which could not havo bucu. dotected by ordinary meaiis.