The case of Michael Sullivan offers
many chances for conjecture. Just
why a man would enter a maga
zine of explosives with his pipe light
ed and kick open a box of giant powder
should be spared to tell the talc will
never be quite clear. It is true that
there are great possibilities in such a
man, but so there are in ar. earth
quake. Yet the only rebuke Provi
idencc vouchsafed Michael was a
trifling rent in a pair of pantaloons,
never very valuable and already the
worse for wear.
The Lebel rifle which sends a bullet
through a forest tree and kills the
man behind it appear, a most horrible
success of invention, and likely to add
indefinitely to the horrors of war. It
mows down the whole ranks of men.
leaving the field clear of everything
but its ghastly harvest. To this point
has the perfection of destructive
weapons arrived. And having arrived
there, the humanitarian who shudders
nt such a thought may take to himself
indefinite consolation in the fact that
through just such invention-, as these
Shall come the abolition of war.
Telegraphic Brevities.
Herbert Spencer is very ill.
fjay Gould's will leaves all his property to
his family.
The National Prison Association met in
Baltimore on the 3rd.
The Queen of Spain has accepted the resig
nation of her cabinet.
Mrs. Maybrick, who is in prison in Eng
land for murder, is dying.
There was a terrific snow storm In Kansas
on the 7th. The railroads were blockaded.
Jay Gould was buried at Lawnwood ceme
tery on the 6th. The services wen* very sim
ple.
Prince Bismarck owns $56,001) worth of
stock in the Milwaukee Street Railway Com
pany.
