AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 940, 23 April 1880, Page 3

AMERICAN CLIPPINGS.

The business boom is being overboomol in a good many linos of trade. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser has taken pains to put together some startlingly illustrative facts, particularly 33 to the advance in iron. Common cast-iron scrap, which was almost valueless in the market a year ago, now brings from 28dols to SOdols per top. No. 1 foundry iron, selling msw at 41dnls to 43J015, has advanced 150 per cent within as many days. It is expected to go to 50dols before this mouth is over. Nails that were worth I dol SOo a year ago have advanced 203 per cent, or to Ddols. At one jump the other day they sprang from 4do!s 250 to this figure. Steel rails are worth lOdol per ton more than on the Ist January’. The rise in most other articles has not been so marked, but is still enough to cause serious embarrassment and fear amongst those immediately affected, tjnless a healthier tone begins presently to prevail in the markets, there will be the commencement of another general smash among business men, or wide spread suffering among consumers, compelled to pay even higher prices than now rule. Father Quin, the Catholic priest who renounced Romanism lbs other day, seems to be a broth of a boy’. In a recent lecture at Washington he said : “ If there be a hell upon earth it is in the priesthood. Each priest is a spy upon the other. Go into their rooms and see a library, and if we examine the books we will find money between tbe leaves, put there so that when other priests come to call on them they cannot steal all the money before the owner returns to the room if he should happen to go out. ... It is almost impossible to

come out of Komauisra without being an infidel. . . . There are bishops worth

3,U00,000d0h, which they obtain by robbing the orphans, . . . The manner in which the priests lived was conducive to corruption. By continual fasting they became the victims of intemperance, and more than ever prone to evil. Priests were but human after all, and loved a pretty girl. A good-looking priest was also iu great demand by bishops, for women liked to see a handsome man iu the pulpit, as they would contribute more liberally to the clm-ch if he asked it. The confessional, however, was the great source of evil—in fact, a perfect hotbed of corruption." Tne Kansas City Times gives the following account of the doings of Lord Luftus and forty other young English rakehellites, who came to this country to turn over a new leaf: —“ They recently entered Kansas with a flourish of trumpets and fouuded the Victoria Colony, whore an elegant saloon is now maintained by drafts upon titled fathers on the other side of the Atlantic. The spirit of boon companionship goes so far that the bar-keepers have standing orders to furnish drinks free to all visitors. The folks of the neighborhood appreciate the kindness of the young noblemen, who spend about 10,000dols a year each, and Victoria is said to bo on a never-ending, never-fagging lark. Lord Loftits is the possessor of large estates in Tipperary, and his professed object iu leaving London was to get away from wild associations. How well lie has succeeded is shown by the fact that his lordship spent HUOdols for liquors at the bars iu this city during a week’s visit last month. The colonists hunt a great deal, but most of their days are spent iu card playing and their nights in bachelor

orgies.,” The Cincinnati Gazette says : - “The Chicago Hoard of Education has adopted this rule : ‘ Hereafter the marriage of a- female teacher shall be considered as equivalent to the tendering of her resignation and the acceptance thereof.’ Now, to he consistent; Chicago should extend this rule to all branches of business and the professions. The tendency of matrimony among women who earn their own living must be sternly repressed. Col. Boh Ingersoll, in his sarcastic way, says he has noticed that people who have the smallest souls make the greatest fuss , about getting them saved.

Ouida is writing a new book. Her last .one .was about a golden-haired woman who walked among the lilies, and this will probably embody the career of a red-haired girl who slipped in the snow. , “ Kind words never die.” How bitterly does a man realise that terrible truth when ho sees all the kindest words he ever said in his life glaring at hire from his pnblished letters in a breach-of-promise suit. Young ladies addicted to bangs will be interested to learn that Winnemucca, the Indian princess who recently lectured in Denver on the destruction caused amongst the noble red men by tire water, and then got boiling drunk on the proceeds of .the entertainment, has had her locks trimmed in the prevailing style. There is a rich family of Murphys in San Francisco who were not long since presented to the Pope, and the scone has boon pourtrayed in an immense painting by Signor Grande, the Komau academician •

The two Misses Murphy, veiled in the white of tv first communion, kneel before Iris Holiness, and Mr and Mia Murphy look on and the members of the Pope’s court stand around his Holiness.

Nine cases of kleptomania have recently been before the London magistrates. One of the accused persons was the widow of a gbneral. another of a post-captain in the navy, a third of a fashionable London physician with L2OOO a-year jointure. Then a rich widow of high family, with a jointure of LIO,OOO a-year, pursued, as pioved, a course of systematic shoplifting for a year. When the case had been heard, a member of the Bar arose and handed her a folded paper ‘which contained an engagement ring. She fainted.