By tho de.Uh of General Y. S. Hancock,
tho country losesjono of her most
dibtiuguishod military men, and ono of
her most highly honored citions. His
sickness was brief and his death sudden
and unexpected, like that of most of tho
great men who luvo passed away in tho
past six months. Death has indeed cut
n wide swathe among tho distinguished
citizons of our country of late. Grant,
Yandorbilt, Hondricksand Hancock have
all passed to their final rest in a fow short
months. Though now numborod among
tho dead, Hancock will, as tho Louisvillo
Courier-Journal Bays, livo in thojliearts
of the Southern peoplo as ono who, in tho
hour of thoir direst distress, wasjbravo
enough to bo their friend, gontlo enough
to rule without ruin, and magnanimous
enough to recognize that even tho vanquished
should liavo tho riuht to bo free.
A gentleman, recently calling at a
boarding-house, left his umbrella in tlio
hat-rack with a card on which was tho
following : " Belongs to a man who strikes
a forty-pound blow. Will bo backinfivo
minutes." When ho roturned tho umbrella
was gono; but in its place was a
scrap of paper hearing tlio words : "Taken
by a man who walks five miles an hour.
Won't bo back at all." Puck.
The Real Problem.
8t. Louis Republican. 1
Tho real problom tho world ovor is not
how to make times bettor by increasing
prices, for prices nro down to stay but
how to devour and wear out what it produces
; how to incroaso its capacity of a
consumption up to tho capacity of production.
