The Week.

The article presents information on various socio-political developments related to the U.S. The newspaper "Evening Star," of Washington says that the papers of applicants for positions on the police force of that city indicate that most of them are persons of very limited education. The reason is a law, which was passed some twenty years ago restricting appointments to such places to those who had served in the army and navy of the U.S. and received an honorable discharge, the intent of which was to benefit the veterans of the war. In another development, the arrivals of immigrants at the half-dozen chief ports of the country, which always receive about 98 per cent, of the whole number, foot up 483,116 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887, against only 328,695 for the fiscal year ending with June 1886.