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Buffalo Bill on the Cow boy. I should greatly like to say a few words respecting a topic which I much regret to find is understood in the inverse propor-tion to which it is discussed. I refer to that unique specimen of humanit, the cowboy of today, In order to be brief I will, like a cowboy, take the bull by the horns, end lay down the axiom, once for all, and most emphatically, that a cowboy is not a blackguard; nay, more, he is in nine cases out of ten better than his fel-lows, more especially as in nine cases out of ten his fellows are the offspring of an effete civilization. He has certain attri-butes that commend him to creation. He is manly, generous and brave. He is not merely a creature of impulse, but uses the gifts given him by his Maker with a discretion which might well be copied by more of us. In putting in these words for a class of men who have only to be understood to be admired, I speak after years of study resulting in a conviction which nothing can shake.--London Globe Interview.
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THE BRITISH MAIL.
Latest News in a Nutshell Compiled Exclusively for the Sunday Inter Ocean.
Queen Victoria in Perfect Health- Duke of Edinburgh Soothes the Feelings of France.
Parliamentary Notes- Thomas Burke''s Unnatural Crime- Musical, Literary, and Dramatic.
The Queen is in perfect health, and has suffered nothing by the exertions, which must be considered great at her age, which she underwent in connection with the jubilee festivities. Since arriving in Scotland her Majesty has attended the marriage of a daughter of one of her humble Balmoral tenants, accompanied by the Princess Frederica of Hanover.
The Princess of Wales entertains the idea of paying a visit to her afflicted sister, the Duchess of Cumberland, if she can gain the permission of the doctors to see her. Her royal Highness would travel incognito, and the greatest privacy would be observed.
The Duke of Edinburgh, on arriving in the Alexandra, at Toulon, did his best to soothe the susceptibilities of those who affected to see a deliberate insult to France in the Cannes incident. After saluting the French flag he saluted that of Admiral Peyron with nineteen guns, the compliment being returned, and the British flag hoisted by all the men-of-war in the roadstead.
The Senate of Dublin University has conferred the honorary degree of LL. D. on Prince Albert Victor, or Wales.
The Kind of Belgians laid the foundationstone of the library in connection with the People's Palace, at Mile-end, London.
The Marquis of Bate anticipates spending a large sum of money on Cardiff Castle. The work will occupy 200 workmen about four years. The Marquis' income is nearly $2,000,000 a year.
Lord Tenuyson is making a tour of the Welsh coast in his yacht the Stella.
Lord Atlesbury announced at Marlborough that agricultural depression had diminished his income by [British pound]15,000 a year.
At a banquet given by the Lord Mayor to her Majesty's judges at the Mansion House, the Lord Chancellor, in responding to their toast, remarked that Western civilization had risen above the intellectual culture of the East by the recognition of the principles of justice as distinguished from those of mere intellectual superiority.
Mr. Benjamin Scott has been elected Chamberlain of the City of London for the thirteenth time.
IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT.
Mr. Albert Pell's political services to Sough Leicestershire and the Conservative party have been acknowledged by the presentation of a handsome service of plate.
It is stated that Lord Hartington, Mr. Chamberlain, and Sir Henry James have declined to allow themselves to be nominated as trustees for the new premises of the National Liberal Club.
It is rumored that Mr. Justin McCarthy and Mr. J. H. McCarthy have withdrawn themselves temporarily from the House of Commons in consequence of a misunderstanding with Mr. Parnell.
During the progress of the crimes bill in committee, Mr. Gladstone said he hoped if there was to be any regard for the Constitution, of which he was becoming more and more doubtful, that the machinery of the bill would be more nearly adjusted to its demands.
Mr. Dillon followed, condemning the clause under discussion as being directed against the National League, and as likely to produce to Ireland more misery and hatred toward England than had existed in the past.
Three English Gladstonian members- Mr. Waddy, Mr. Lawson, and Mr. [Pease?]- who had been present at some of the recent evictions in Ireland, bore personal testimony in the House of Commons to the harsh treatment which they alleged had been meted out to the tenants. Mr. A. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, declined to say a word in defense of the action of the landlord in proceeding with the evictions, but contended that the executive government had no right to withhold the aid of the forces of the crown In executing the decree of the Queen's courts. Mr. John Morley complained of the neglect of the government to press forward measures for putting a stop to such evictions as those which were now taking place in Ireland. Mr. Matthews, the Home Secretary, replied that the remedial proposals of the government were delayed by the obstruction offered to the crimes bill. Lord R Churchill, in a vigorous defense of the government, contended that if the law of eviction was unjust it should be altered, but that, meanwhile, the executive had no moral power to discriminate as to the cases in which the law should be enforced.
NOTES FROM IRELAND.
In the Exchequer Division in Dublin Lord Clanircarde's motion to stay proceedings in an action for 10,000 [British pounds] brought against him by Mr. S. S. Joyce, for libel, was dismissed with costs.
Monsignor Persico and Father Gasidi left Rome on June 24, on their mission from the Pope to Ireland. They are deputed to furnish his Holiness with a report, founded on information and observation obtained on the spot, with regard to the state of affairs in that country.
The Belfast shipbuilding yards have been opened, and a large number of the 6,000 men on strike have resumed work. The remainder will have to be kept out for a short time until matters are in such an advanced state that they can resume employment.
An extraordinary crime has been perpetrated at Galway. A young man named Thomas Burke had a dispute with his father and sister about some land. He wished that either the sister or the father should get married, so that he might receive his portion, but to this the father objected. A subsequent dispute arose and Thomas deliberately set fire to the house, intending to burn to death his father and sister, who were in it at the time. Finding that they escaped unhurt he committed suicide by throwing himself into the canal. A large number of bank notes were burned in the flames.
CONTINENTAL NEWS.
A reduced statue of Bartholdi's great work, "Liberty Enlightening the World," is to be placed on the bank of the Seine at Grenella. The estimated cost is 100.357 francs.
The negotiations between France and China are settled, and the treaty of commerce will be signed, the Chinese Government agreeing to the postponement of the appointment of Consuis in Tonquin and of the permission to import opium across the French frontier.
The French Chamber of Deputies has adopted clauses I and II of the army regulation bolt. The first declares it is the duty of every Frenchman to serve in the army. The second provides that the duration of military service shall be twenty years, and that the service shall be personal and the same for everyone.
All Paris was still talking of the supposed abduction of Senora Mercedes Campos until it became known that on the 24th uitimo she called on the Registrar of Marriages as Dover, England, with M. Mielvaque and her friends, with a view to the marriage ceremony being at once performed. This, however, could not be done until one of the parties had resided in the district for at least fifteen days. From a positive statement which she made to the Registrar, it is evident that no pressure or undue influence had been exercised upon her.
the military [?] at the opera, Paris, produced 41,063 francs, of which 28,000 francs have been granted to the sufferers by the fire at the Opera-Comique. It is believed the results of the disaster, and that the names of more than a hundred victims have been intentionally withheld.
The best informed politicians do not see what good result will be gained by France and Russia continuing to offer opposition to the Egyptian Convention, as, inasmuch as Germany, Austria, and Italy side with England, Turkey need not fear the threatened coalition against her.
An extensive paper factory at Kleff, Russia, has been completely destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at 400,000 roubies.
A pipe-maker at Metz has been fined for selling bowls shaped into a likenessof General Boulanger.
Of the 278 elections to the Hungarian Parliament, 184 are Liberals and 77 Oppositionists, while 6 belong to the Anti-Semitic and 11 to no particular party.
According to a dispatch from Pesth Hungary, an accident attended by great loss of life has occurred on the Danuba. As 230
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GRAND JURY SECRECY.
Until the Twentieth Legislature passed the act to prohibit grand jurors, witnesses and others from revealing the secrets of the grand jury rooms there was no law to punish persons who divulged such secrets. The imperative necessity for the act is in the last section of it declared to be that there is no such law. And this is about as conclusive as any other reason ever advanced to justify secret inquests. If the members of the grand jury and witnesses who swear the preserve secrecy perjure themselves. and under the existing law defining perjury would escape conviction for the felonious act, the definition ought to be amended. The fact that the perjury relates to soemthing past or present as defined, and the penalties can not be imposed when the perjury or false statement relates to something in the future, shows the absurdity of requiring jurors, bailiffs and witnesses to swear secrecy. This oath is no more than a promise, and it is not perjury under the statutory definition to violate the promise. The law recently passed makes the violation a misdemeanor instead of a felony, as perjury ought to be. There ought to be severe penalties for divulging secrets, when pending an inquest the ends of justiceare subserved by secrecy, but after the lapse of time, and the reason in the particular case for secrecy no longer obtains, there is no benefit in further concealment. Further concealment encourages malicious, prosecutions or rather shields those who have endeavored to use the grand jury for venting their spleen upon their enemies.
THERE was no divisity hedging Kalakaua. When his army, composed of fifty men, went over to the revolutionists he gave up his poweras a king without a struggle. His people pointed a gun at him and he rolled off the throne before they could fire.
THE influence of the press is to be tested in Europe. The Russian papers object to the erection of Ferdinand to the Bulgarian throne, while the English, Ausrian and German papers endorse it. If the press has any influence there will be war. At this moment it looks as if it had the influence.
THE English are slow, but they know when they have enough, even of a good thing. The Wild West show, which was "all the go" in London a few days ago, has become a nuisance to London people who want it suppressed as a nuisance. About the only way Buffalo Bill can blow new life into his drooping concern is to again issue free passes to the royal family.
THE Philadelphia Brigade insists on paying the expenses of Mrs. Pickett and her son to the battlefield of Gettysburg. Pickett's Division intended to do this, but the Philadelphia Brigade interfered, claiming the lady and her son as its guests. Here is a good place for Foraker of Ohio to plaster an injunction.
IN an interview at Chicago, Roscoe Conkling said the rule of the politicians was, "The greatest good to the greatest number," that number being No. 1 , and then he went and gazed out of the window and thought how Blaine had once alluded to him as a turkey cock.
FERDINAND of Saxe-Coburg, may not be a great man mentally but in offering to get between England and Russia at this time he has shown and unparalleled courage. The probabilities are that he will never secure the Bulgarian throne, and if he should gain it, he would be removed from it to the graveyard in less than three months.
MR. HARPER, the wrecker of the Fidelity Bank and the young Napoleon of Cincinatti, has begun to complain that other persons were the case of his ruin. Ferd Ward did the same thing when he was pulled up with a snort jerk, but he is still polishing stove legs in a penitentiary. The young Napoleons are very large men, but when in trouble they show their youth by squealing.
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Extract from London Court Journal:
Hon. W. B. Cody (Buffalo Bill) was a close companion of a man named Boone, who discovered Kentucky in 1869. Mr. Cody married a grand daughter of a distinguished gentleman known as Sitting Bullfrog. Cody was twice Governor of Chicago and was at one time mayor of the Arkansas legislature. He served in the confederate army, in the command of General Butler who so gallantly defended New Orleans against the threatened invasion of the federal General longstreet. After the war Mr. Cody went to Congress from the province of Detroit and introduced a measure for the relief of the citizens of Buffalo, which gained for him the name of Buffalo Bill. He has contributed largely to the Atlantic Monthly, a newspaper edited by Mark Twain and Uncle Tom Cabin, a man who is mainly noted for his negro dialect sketches. Mr. Cody has a ranch of many acres in Saint Louis where he keeps a large lot of Indians and ponies constantly on hand.
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STARBEAMS
The southwest calls for a university that is a university. A grammar school will not satisfy.
Slagg, the famous Yale pitcher, hails from a Jersey farm. He is now at home pitching hay.
Bill Nye gets one hundred dollars per week for his work on the New York World. This may account for the fun in the cocoanut
It is not "Buffalo Bill" in Boston. There it is proper to speak of him as "Bison Americanus Guilliamus." Culture must have its way.
Is the Frechman to be snuffed out? Professor Biliroth of Vienna, perhaps the greatest living surgeon, pronounces Pasteur's hydrophobia treatment a naseo.
General Bonlanger has subsided, but the French say his retirement only temporary and that he will be up and about in a few days and will loom larger than ever before.
"Father Time" seems to be on good terms with Emperor William. The old monarch is reported as having recovered his health and as exhibiting more vitality than his iron flated chancellor.
The man who looked into his classical dictionary for a biography of Moses, and abused the book for never having anything in it that was wanted, is not considered high authority in the bible class.
Jules Verne, author of "Around the World in Eighty Days," lives at Amiens, France. He goes to Paris for one day in every month. (He is a warm admirer of English literature, but does no read it.) He takes everything through translations loving his own language above all others.
Fred Douglas will return from Europe in September. The colored people of Washington, D.C., expect to give him a grand reception. They intend to make Africa howl. Douglas will lecture the coming season on his European trip.
Senator Evarts is improving in the use of the English language, and is becoming intelligible. The longest sentence in his late address to the alumni of Yale continued only sixty-nine words. This was a great concession to perspicacity on his part.
It is sad that it is Mrs. Langry's love of America which induced her to become an adopted citizen. Freddie Gebhardt is in San Francisco, where her application for naturalizationpapers has been [?]. A divorce for the Lily is seen in the distance.
W. D. Howells is at Saratoga taking notes. A novel of fashionable society life may be expected from his facile pen. He will find an opportunity for exercising his wit, reflection and description on both snobs and the truly refined. Both classes abound at Saratoga.
Bob Ingersoll wants a new deal as to the laws of the world. He is quoted saying, "The only new party that is wanted in this country is one to agitate the repeal of laws. The only good laws that have been passed in 500 years have been laws that repealed other laws. The statute books ought to be a wiped clear."
An eastern paper says "Mrs. Fraley, of St. Louis is astonishing the public at Long Branch by the richness and variety of her gowns, diamonds, and early grammer." There is considerable primative grammar over at St. Louis occupying costly mansions. Full pur es and unict resting heads are not infrequently found together.