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body said he was a combination of Ricardo 

 and Totn Hughes somebody else said, rather 

 more happily, ' I think that lie is Adum Smith 

 and Fenelon revived and rolled into one.' * * * 

 The admirers of Mr. Mill are, therefore, not 

 unusually somewhat given to exalting admira- 

 tion into idolatry. The classes who most ad- 

 mire him are the scholarly and adventurous 

 young Radicals who have a dush of Positivism 

 in them ; tho extreme Radicals who are pre- 

 pared to go any and all lengths for the mere 

 sake of change ; and tho working-men." At 

 the general election of 1808, Mr. Mill, yielding 

 to the request of his friends, was again a can- 

 didate for the House of Commons; but he liad 

 lost many supporters by his efforts to reform 

 the municipal government of London, and, as 

 there was also a second Liberal in the field, ho 

 was defeated, and Mr. Smith, the great news- 

 vender and Tory candidate, was elected. Mr. 

 Mill's popularity, however, did not wane. 

 About a month before his death, he delivered 

 an important speech on land reform, and 

 seemed marked out to be the leader in tho 

 political strife to which that question will in- 

 evitably give rise. After the death of his wife 

 who was buried at Avignon, France, Mr. Mill 

 always resided there the greater part of the 

 year. He himself says in his autobiography : 

 " I bought a cottage as close as possible to 

 the place where she is buried, and there her 

 daughter (my fellow-sufferer and now my 

 chief comfort), and I live constantly during a 

 great portion of the year. My objects in life 

 are solely those which were hers; my pur- 

 suits and occupations those in which she 

 shared, or sympathized, and which are indis- 

 solnbly associated with her. Her memory is 

 to me a religion, and her approbation tho 

 standard by which, summing up as it does, all 

 worthiness, I endeavor to regulate my life." 

 In his private life he was a man of gentle and 

 amiable disposition, modest and somewhat shy 

 in manner, of strong affections and earnest 

 sympathies, and of the most blameless and 

 pnre life. Ho hod a strong sense of just ice. 

 and was unwilling ever to do any thing which 

 might even seem to injure or grieve another. 

 He was generous and liberal to a fault. A 

 singular instance of his liberality is given by 

 Mr. Herbert Spencer, who relates Unit when 

 at one time the demand for his works was so 

 small that he had resolved to discontinue 

 their publication, Mr. Mill came forward with 

 a proposition to bear the expense of their pub- 

 lication himself, that they might bo continued, 

 while at the same time he was aware that Mr. 

 Spencer was combating his own views. HM 

 health hnd not been good for some years, but 

 he died from acute disease after a sickness of 

 not nvirn than a week. 



MIXVK.Si >T A. The Legislature of thisSUte 

 met at St. Paul on the 7th of January, 1878. 



As large portions of tlio State are settled by 

 immigrants from Europe, belonging to different 

 nationalities, and forming, as it were, distinct 



communities, a resolution was offered in tho 

 Senate on the 24th of January, providing for 

 tho printing of the Governor's message with 

 l.iioo copies in English, 1,000 in Norwegian, 

 1,000 in German, and 1,000 in Swedish; to 

 which amendments were successively made, 

 adding 1,000 copies in Welsh and 1,000 in 

 French, when the resolution passed. 



The Legislature adjourned tine die on the 

 7th of March, having continued sitting sixty 

 days, the time allowed for the annual sessions 

 by the statute. 



Very numerous laws were enacted during 

 this session, relating to matters of gener 

 well as local or personal interest, besides bills 

 on many subjects, after long and repeated de- 

 bates, were, on the final vote, rejected, or in- 

 definitely posponed, not a few of those being 

 apparently of great public importance, as the 

 resolution to submit to the people the question 

 of a convention to revise the constitution of 

 the State ; the bill to provide for universal 

 compulsory education, and to prevent tru- 

 ancy ; the bill to fix the rate of interest ; tho 

 temperance bill; the resolution to appoint a 

 joint committee to inquire into what legisla- 

 tion was needed to prevent or restrain mo- 

 nopoly and extortion in railway transportation ; 

 the bills respectively providing for tho estab- 

 lishment of reasonable maximum rates tor tho 

 transportation of passengers, and re.irulatini; 

 the rates of freight on the different railroads 

 in the State. 



Among the acts passed a very largo propor- 

 tion relate to internal improvements in various 

 ways, but chiefly to roads and bridges, and 

 other means of facilitating communication be- 

 tween distant places by land or water. Tho 

 following are the titles of some among the acts 

 passed : Proposing an amendment to section 

 2, article 4. of the constitution, providing for 

 biennial sessions of the Legislature (instead of 

 annual, as they now are); amending the law 

 which exempts $50 of the laborer's wairei, by 

 repealing tho proviso which makes a distinc- 

 tion between married and single ; to provide a 

 more efficient method for taking depositions 

 ontof the State ; limitingthcratcof speed to six 

 miles an hour where the railroad is not fenced; 

 authorizing non-resident railroad companies to 

 extend their lines into the State ; compelling 

 railroad companies doing hn.-iiies- in the State 

 to keep a general otliee in the State; to estab- 

 lish a fund for the support of a State Inebriate 

 Asylum from a special fund to bo created by a 

 special tax upon saloon-keepers. Also, in cer- 

 tain northern counties of the State, to encour- 

 age tho planting and growing of trees in tho 

 State. 



Among the resolutions adopted to facilitate 

 navigation on the several rivers in tho State, 

 and in other waters, that regarding the harbor 

 of Duliith, at tho head of Lake Superior, soems 

 to deserve a particular mention, as that city 

 has expended considerable sums of money on 

 a dike and canal about the harbor; but her 



