Boulanger

Evidently this man thinks he is another man of ilestiny. If the French men of destiny would only mind their business and let France alone it would bo better for the peace of the world. The coinmon people of Franco, always ready for a show of any kind, at this moment are crying "Vive Boulanger!" Prophets and croakers, even ia the American republic, seo grave dangers menacing France. Already they are predicting the fall of the republic, and a thlrd empire, under Boulanger the First. Let us not do it. Let us, on the confcrary, extend our utmost good will and our best hopes for the future to our sister republic in this hour. For nearly twenty years Franco has been able to exist a3 a republic. She has passed several grave crises and still holds her head above water. She has devoted patriots and some statesruen left still within her borders. The Boulanger danger is no greater than others the French republic has lived through. Thero Ls no reason to think she will be unable to pass this crisis too. Let us hope she may. A broad wave of smiles is slowly making its way over the country. It developed as a storm center in New York city. The equilibriuru of the temperatura was first shaken among the classic 400 who comprise the creara of the cream of America, thecentennialcommittoG. They were the first gentlemen of the land, by Gawgel They read lossons on deportment and gloves and necktics to all the earth except England. Anybody not a member of the sacred New York De Pinches and Van Tassels wasn't quite - wcll, ho wasn't quite, you know. And now the sacred coraraittee are quarreling among themselves liko pickpockets. They nro calling each othcr liars and horse thievea quite liko the commonest trash of tha earth. And the country smiles. Again it ia not to be called a trust. The rival telegraph linea throughout tha country have mutually agreed to adopt the Western Union pricea for message They aro to continue to do this one year. But tliey vow and swear by all they hold sacred it is not a consolidation. Oh, no! It 13 not eren a "combine." It is only an amicable pcace. But thia kind of swoet peace 3 sotnetimea expensive to the public. Congress before ita adjournnient appropriated $500,000 for tho settlement of the SaDioan troublos. Part of this Bum wil] be usecl to pay the expenses of the threo commissioners to Bex-lin. Their gtay will be indefinito. It is generally expected that the result of the conference will be amicable. But negotiations will very likely be tedious and slow. In nuinbers the women are Bteadilj gatain? on the men in Massachusetts. Applkiiats for postoffices are now sending along photographs of themselves along with their indorsement papers. To thia complexión have we come at last! There are persons who believe the infernal regions are in the heart of tha earth, and that natural gas is one of the products. In a house where the gas liad just been introduced the cook left immediately, declaring that she woukln't cook with heil fire. Tliere are 153,011 Mormons, all told, according to the sainta' owu figures. But a curioua fact is that numbers of young men are breaking away froin the f old. Mormonism does not appeol to the romance in a young man's soul, however favorably it may strike the old saiuts. Figures of immigration from Europe are down this year. Nine thousand fewer people came over in January and tebruary, 1889, than in the same montlis of 1888. For the eight rnonths ending with February, 1869, 225,902 emigrants from Europe landed on our shores, against 250,299 for the same time last year.