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Working for European Appreciation.

Mr. Blaine of Maine, as everybody knows, is spending some time in Europe. Much to his surprise, if not ohugrin, he has discovered that a leading Republican politician and candidate for the presidency of the Unites States fails to attract anything like the attention bestowed on such eminent Americans as Buffalo Bill and John L. Sullivan , and he has therefore, as it is reported, gone into regular athletic training as the only means of commanding the foreign regard he so well deserves. It appears that he has actually fitted up a private gmnasium in his apartments at the Hotel Binds Paris, and exercises with the horizontal bar and the Indian Clubs under the direction of a popular professor of athletis. A great but unappreciated statesman like Mr. Blaine appears determined to leave no stone unturned to commend himslef to the European public.

Now that the real superiourity of muscle over brains has been established, and all the colleges and universities have indurrued into thier curricula instructions in athletics and maintain their rowing clubs and baseball mines, the young men of America will be able to imitate, if not to equal, that grand monument of Boston culture, John L. Sullivan, or they may even hope to emulate the glory of Hou. Michael Kelly, the baseball king. Thus alone is honor to be won and unlimited popularity gained.