On one hand, the people who are in favor of it are praising it to the skies, and speaking of the immense industries that are going to arise as soon as the bill is made law. The duty on raw sugar, according to these people, is going to encourage people to try and make the raw sugar over here, and the American farmers to grow beets to make beet sugar from. They claim that a wonderful new business is to grow out of this new industry, that is to make all farms pay and everybody happy. The importers and people who do not approve of the bill are crying aloud that clothes and woollen goods are going to be so much dearer. A picture was published of a lady and gentleman seated in a pretty room, talking the tariff over, their little girl playing beside them. Every article of furniture in the room, every garment they wore, and the basket of marketing which the lady had apparently brought in with her, had a ticket on it, showing how much more expensive each article would be if the Tariff Bill became a law. This picture, however, far from having the effect intended, of making people dislike and fear the Tariff Bill, makes thinking people approve it. When we remember that this tax is only to be laid on foreign goods that are imported, we are bound to think that if it is really true that so many necessary articles are imported which we could just as well make in this country, it is high time our industries were protected, and that the vast and wonderful resources of our own country were developed to supply our needs. So great a blow will the tariff bill be to the importing trade, that some of the foreign ministers have ventured to protest against the bill, because it will damage their country's commerce so much. Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands have been the first to protest. Germany has sent a decided hint, through her Ambassador, that she will make such a heavy duty on American goods, if the bill is passed, that she will ruin our trade in Germany as surely as we shall ruin hers in America. The most serious complaint against the bill comes from the business men. They say that business was just beginning to pick up again, and that the introduction of so disturbing a question as the Tariff, at this time, is killing business, and making it as bad as it was before election. * * * * * The Ceremonies for the dedication of the Grant Monument will be very grand. A fine naval parade has been arranged to go side by side with the land parade, and the President has promised to be present and review both parades. Boys from the public schools are to march in line. * * * * * During the last few days there have been most marvellous reports about an air-ship that is declared to have been seen in the sky. The stories come from the West.