Passing Events

Tuis is the age of ingenioüs adveitising. One journalist, instead of paying $100,000 for advertising Lis paper, jiays $50,000 for a f ast borso, and all tho papers in the world advertise horse and man and paper for nothing. A great showman buya a raüroad train and runs it himself , and it pays for itself in making him still more notorious. And now Jarrett t Palmer indulge in a brilUant stïoko of geniuo by chartering a train and speeding to the ÍPaciríc iö half thë usual time. Joyöe, tho whisky ring thief, was seen at the Missouri penitentiary last week by a reporter, who desoribes him as looking pale and wasted. He makes an effort to keep up bis old time gayety, but bis stilted talk and political quotatiolis aro noticeably missing. McDonald's heaíth has improyed since his imprisonment, he has grown plump and seems not to suffer from depression of spirits. A very is acting as a nurse in the prison hospital and is very lonesome and dejected looking. The contestants of the Stowart wlll really do seom to have gome ground to stand on in tbeir objections to the hasty probate of that document. Tho principal objection is that no citation ornotice to appear or attend tEe probate of tho bill was issued or directed to or sorved upon the heirs at law as required, nor was any such citation issued or directed to or served upon the Attornoy-general of the State of New York, or any one roprosenting the State of New York, as should have been done if their was a failure of heirsat-law. Thekg can be no doubt that the Centennial Exhibition is fast getting into real order, and as little doubt that it contains witnin itnelf tho elements of a greater succoss than has yet been achiovod by any of these colossal tournamonts of art and industry. By the áth of July the merits and the magnificence of the Exhibition will begin to be recognized for what they are, and we may expect about that time to see its influence really f elt as it has not yet been feit on the railway travel of the country. The proprietor of oue of the New Jersey watering places advertises hiraself as a novel and ontertaining kind of bigot by proolaming that " Jews are not admitted" to his house. He will hardly be troubled with any applications from the class referred to, and it is very dqubtful whether his patronage from other reputable classes wül be fncreased by his proscription. He will be compelled to discrimínate, however, very carefully should the Jews desire to annoy him. If he confines his proscription to religious grounds he is safe ; Lufc if he puts it on the ground of race he becomes liable to prosecution under the Civü Eights bill. Eeports from Cuba all agree that the insurrection in that island is gaining strength continually, in spito of the most dntormined efforts of the Spanish authorities to ciush it. The impossibility of reconquering the island begins to dawn on the Spanish mind, and the Captain-general has become somewhat alarmed at the situation. The Spanisb. Government has empowered and authorized him to draw upon the Spanish treasury for $50,000 in gold daily to meet tho ejrigencies of the army. it certainly looks as though the inhuman contest for the possession of an island which Spain cannot govern, and only holds to curse, is very nearly at an end. Events have shown bow mucb wiser and better it would have been had the Spanish Government yielded to tho advice and solicitatious of the United States years ago, and thereby saved thousands of lives and millions of treasure. A iUMí appears to have taken place in Turkish affairs, owing to the Port's offer of amnesty to the insurgents, the granting of a six weeks' armistice, and the apparent accord with the general basis agreed to by the powers. Meanwhilo the clouds continue to settle heavily in the continental horizon, and to threaten a rupture at no distant date. The hos tile tone and attitude assumed by the English Government, so much in contradiction of the Premier's declared desire for peaco, forebode no good to the British Empire. At the Berlin conference the three powers - Russia, Prussia, and Austria - appeared to regard England as out of tho field altogethor; but they have found their advance stopped by her presence, and should her policy be pursued to the extent of war she will have to stand alono against the united strength of Europe's greatest powers. France could not assist her, nor could Turkey ; the smaller powers might. !ƒ ) y